Plant functional classifications: from general groups to specific groups based on response to disturbance

S Lavorel, S McIntyre, J Landsberg… - Trends in Ecology & …, 1997 - cell.com
Predicting the effects of anthropogenic changes in climate, atmospheric composition and
land use on vegetation patterns has been a central concern of recent ecological research …

Plant functional types: an alternative to taxonomic plant community description in biogeography?

JC Duckworth, M Kent… - Progress in Physical …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
This article critically reviews the concept of plant functional types as an alternative to the
traditional taxonomic species-based approach to plant community description in …

Plant functional types as predictors of transient responses of arctic vegetation to global change

FS Chapin III, MS Bret‐Harte… - Journal of vegetation …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The plant functional types (growth forms) traditionally recognized by arctic ecologists provide
a useful framework for predicting vegetation responses to, and effects on, ecosystem …

Can grazing response of herbaceous plants be predicted from simple vegetative traits?

S Díaz, I Noy‐Meir, M Cabido - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Range management is based on the response of plant species and
communities to grazing intensity. The identification of easily measured plant functional traits …

Grazing effects on rangeland diversity: a synthesis of contemporary models

AM Cingolani, I Noy-Meir, S Díaz - Ecological applications, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Two independent models concerning the effects of grazing on vegetation have gained wide
acceptance in the last decade: Westoby et al.'s state‐and‐transition (S–T) model, and …

Native woody vegetation in central Argentina: Classification of Chaco and Espinal forests

M Cabido, SR Zeballos, M Zak… - Applied Vegetation …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Question What are the composition and spatial patterns of native woody plant communities
in the southern Great Chaco and Espinal? Location Córdoba Province, central Argentina, an …

What drives accelerated land cover change in central Argentina? Synergistic consequences of climatic, socioeconomic, and technological factors

MR Zak, M Cabido, D Cáceres, S Díaz - Environmental management, 2008 - Springer
Synergistic combinations of climatic and land use changes have the potential to produce the
most dramatic impacts on land cover. Although this is widely accepted, empirical examples …

Vegetation response to grazing management in a Mediterranean herbaceous community: a functional group approach

M Sternberg, M Gutman, A Perevolotsky… - Journal of Applied …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
A 4‐year study was conducted in a Mediterranean herbaceous community in north‐eastern
Israel to investigate the effects of cattle grazing management on the structure and …

Map** vegetation in a heterogeneous mountain rangeland using Landsat data: an alternative method to define and classify land-cover units

AM Cingolani, D Renison, MR Zak… - Remote sensing of …, 2004 - Elsevier
Three major problems are faced when map** natural vegetation with mid-resolution
satellite images using conventional supervised classification techniques: defining the …

Functional traits of alien plants across contrasting climatic and land‐use regimes: do aliens join the locals or try harder than them?

PA Tecco, S Díaz, M Cabido, C Urcelay - Journal of Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Two main views have been put forward to explain whether coexisting alien and
resident plant species should show converging or diverging functional attributes. According …