Plants are multifaceted organisms that have evolved numerous solutions to the problem of
establishing, growing and reproducing with limited resources. The intrinsic dimensionality of …

Agriculture since the 1950s has shown pronounced trends toward specialisation and
intensification. Intensive measures have been taken for crop protection against pests …

The promise of “trait-based” plant ecology is one of generalized prediction across
organizational and spatial scales, independent of taxonomy. This promise is a major reason …

This book addresses an important problem in ecology: how are communities assembled
from species pools? This pressing question underlies a broad array of practical problems in …

Ecosystem restoration efforts are carried out by a variety of individuals and organizations
with an equally varied set of goals, priorities, resources and time-scales. Once restoration of …

Although niche‐based and stochastic processes, including dispersal limitation and
demographic stochasticity, can each contribute to community assembly, it is difficult to …

Summary S hipley, V ile & G arnier (Science 2006; 314: 812) proposed a maximum entropy
approach to studying how species relative abundance is mediated by their traits,'community …

Traits are powerful predictors of ecosystem functions pointing to underlying physiological
and ecological processes. Plant individual performance results from the coordinated …

Striking progress has been made on conceptual and methodological aspects linking species
traits to community and ecosystem responses to environmental change. However, the first …

Question Why do plants grow where they grow? Prediction of species' occurrence and
abundance in relation to the environment is a core aim of ecology, as is understanding the …