Despite the disproportionate influence that propagule production, dispersal, seed‐to‐
seedling recruitment and vegetative reproduction can have on plant population and …

Functional trait‐based ecological research has been instrumental in advancing our
understanding of natural plant community dynamics. However, to date, principles of …

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 …

Phenotypic traits and their associated trade-offs have been shown to have globally
consistent effects on individual plant physiological functions,,, but how these effects scale up …

Question Are plant traits more closely correlated with mean annual temperature, or with
mean annual precipitation? Location Global. Methods We quantified the strength of the …

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 …

Ecological communities and their response to environmental gradients are increasingly
being described by various measures of trait composition. Aggregated trait averages (ie …

A large body of research shows that biodiversity loss can reduce ecosystem functioning.
However, much of the evidence for this relationship is drawn from biodiversity–ecosystem …

Terrestrial carbon (C) cycle models applied for climate projections simulate a strong
increase in net primary productivity (NPP) due to elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentration …