The design and function of leaf venation are important to plant performance, with key
implications for the distribution and productivity of ecosystems, and applications in …

Building a more predictive trait-based ecology requires mechanistic theory based on first
principles. We present a general theoretical approach to link traits and climate. We use plant …

Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are
thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still …

Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

Earth is home to a remarkable diversity of plant forms and life histories, yet comparatively
few essential trait combinations have proved evolutionarily viable in today's terrestrial …

The leaf economics spectrum (LES) represents a suite of intercorrelated leaf traits
concerning construction costs per unit leaf area, nutrient concentrations, and rates of carbon …

Trait variability in space and time allows plants to adjust to changing environmental
conditions. However, we know little about how this variability is distributed and coordinated …

Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Here we provide the 'Global Spectrum of Plant Form and Function Dataset', containing
species mean values for six vascular plant traits. Together, these traits–plant height, stem …

Trait‐based approaches have taken an increasingly dominant role in community ecology.
Although trait‐based strategy dimensions such as the leaf economic spectrum (LES) have …