Functional traits offer a promising avenue to improve predictions of species range shifts
under climate change, which will entail warmer and often drier conditions. Although the …

Trait-based ecology has improved our understanding of the functioning of organisms,
communities, ecosystems, and beyond. However, its predictive ability remains limited as …

Rapid evolution remains a largely unrecognized factor in models that forecast the fate of
ecosystems under scenarios of global change. In this work, we quantified the roles of …

Crop variety mixtures can provide many benefits, including pathogen suppression and
increased yield and yield stability. However, these benefits do not necessarily occur in all …

The emergence of functional ecology has changed the focus of ecological research from
investigating patterns of species diversity to understanding how species traits relate to …

Restoration is moving towards a more mechanistic approach that emphasizes restoration of
ecosystem services. Trait-based approaches provide links between species identity and …

Functional trait–based mediation of animal invasions is only now develo**, yet it is
already showing as much promise as the approach has for plant invasion biology. Here, we …

The ecological consequences of environmental change are highly dependent on the
functional contributions of the surviving community, but categorical descriptors commonly …

Global environmental change drives diversity loss and shifts in community structure. A key
challenge is to better understand the impacts on ecosystem function and to connect species …

Trait‐based approaches provide a useful framework to predict ecosystem functions under
intensifying global change. However, our current understanding of trait‐functioning …