Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities
2018
Bruelheide, Helge | Dengler, Jurgen | Purschke, Oliver | Lenoir, Jonathan, Roger Michel Henri | Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja | Hennekens, Stephan | Botta-Dukát, Zoltán | Chytrý, Milan | Field, Richard | Jansen, Florian | Kattge, Jens | Pillar, Valério, D. | Schrodt, Franziska | Mahecha, Miguel | Peet, Robert | Sandel, Brody | van Bodegom, Peter | Altman, Jan | Alvarez-Davila, Esteban | Arfin Khan, Mohammed | Attorre, Fabio | Aubin, Isabelle | Baraloto, Christopher | Barroso, Jorcely | Bauters, Marijn | Bergmeier, Erwin | Biurrun, Idoia | Bjorkman, Anne | Blonder, Benjamin | Cayuela, Luis | Cornelissen, J. Hans C. | Craven, Dylan | Dainese, Matteo | Derroire, Géraldine | de Sanctis, Michele | Díaz, Sandra | Doležal, Jiří | Farfan-Rios, William | Feldpausch, Ted | Fenton, Nicole | Garnier, Eric | Guerin, Greg | Gutiérrez, Alvaro | Haider, Sylvia | Hattab, Tarek | Henry, Greg | Hérault, Bruno | Higuchi, Pedro | Hölzel, Norbert | Homeier, Jürgen | Jentsch, Anke | Jürgens, Norbert | Kącki, Zygmunt | Karger, Dirk | Kessler, Michael | Kleyer, Michael | Knollová, Ilona | Korolyuk, Andrey | Kuhn, Ingolf | Laughlin, Daniel | Lens, Frederic | Loos, Jacqueline | Louault, Frédérique | Lyubenova, Mariyana | Malhi, Yadvinder | Marcenò, Corrado | Mencuccini, Maurizio, S | Müller, Jonas | Munzinger, Jérôme | Myers-Smith, Isla | Neill, David | Orwin, Kate | Ozinga, Wim | Peñuelas, Josep | Pérez-Haase, Aaron | Petřík, Petr | Phillips, Oliver | Pärtel, Meelis | Reich, Peter | Romermann, Christine | Rodrigues, Arthur | Sabatini, Francesco Maria | Sardans, Jordi | Schmidt, Marco | Seidler, Gunnar | Silva Espejo, Javier Eduardo | Silveira, Marcos | Smyth, Anita | Sporbert, Maria | Svenning, Jens-Christian | Tang, Zhiyao | Thomas, Raquel | Tsiripidis, Ioannis | Vassilev, Kiril | Violle, Cyrille | Virtanen, Risto | Weiher, Evan | Welk, Erik | Wesche, Karsten | Winter, Marten | Wirth, Christian | Jandt, Ute | Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden ; Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg (MLU) | Universität Bayreuth | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) | Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés - UMR CNRS 7058 (EDYSAN) ; Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Department of Botany and Zoology ; Masaryk University [Brno] (MUNI) | ALTERRA Wageningen ; ALTERRA | Masaryk University [Brno] (MUNI) | Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC) ; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte [Natal] (UFRN) | Universiteit Leiden = Leiden University | Fundación Con-Vida | Ecologie des forêts de Guyane (ECOFOG) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-AgroParisTech-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC) | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [Tucson] (EEB) ; University of Arizona | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos [Madrid] (URJC) | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (VU) | Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology, Kista Photonics Research Center (KPRC) (KTH) ; KTH Royal Institute of Technology [Stockholm] (KTH ) | AgroParisTech | Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) ; Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) | MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation (UMR MARBEC) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster (WWU) | Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) | Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich (UZH) | Landscape Ecology Group ; University of Oldenburg | Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) | Naturalis Biodiversity Center [Leiden] | Institute of Ecology ; Leuphana University | Unité Mixte de Recherche sur l'Ecosystème Prairial - UMR (UREP) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS) | Environmental Change Institute ; University of Oxford | School of Geosciences [Edinburgh] ; University of Edinburgh | Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]) | Universidad Estatal Amazonica | University of Nijmegen ; University of Nijmegen | Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CEAB-CSIC ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) | Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu ; University of Tartu | Department of Forest Resources ; University of Minnesota [Twin Cities] (UMN) ; University of Minnesota System-University of Minnesota System | Universität Regensburg (REGENSBURG) ; Universität Regensburg | Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF) | Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg (MLU) | Dept Biol Sci, Ecoinformat & Biodivers Grp ; Aarhus University [Aarhus] | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Dept Biol ; University of Oulu | University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire ; University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire | Department of Botany ; Senckenberg Natural History Museum | Synthesis Centre for Biodiversity Sciences ; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research | Universität Leipzig | Philips Research Europe - Hamburg, Sector Medical Imaging Systems ; Philips Research
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the community level trait combinations are expected to be decoupled from these trade-offs because different strategies can facilitate co-existence within communities. A key question is to what extent community-level trait composition is globally filtered and how well it is related to global versus local environmental drivers. Here, we perform a global, plot-level analysis of trait–environment relationships, using a database with more than 1.1 million vegetation plots and 26,632 plant species with trait information. Although we found a strong filtering of 17 functional traits, similar climate and soil conditions support communities differing greatly in mean trait values. The two main community trait axes that capture half of the global trait variation (plant stature and resource acquisitiveness) reflect the trade-offs at the species level but are weakly associated with climate and soil conditions at the global scale. Similarly, within-plot trait variation does not vary systematically with macro-environment. Our results indicate that, at fine spatial grain, macro-environmental drivers are much less important for functional trait composition than has been assumed from floristic analyses restricted to co-occurrence in large grid cells. Instead, trait combinations seem to be predominantly filtered by local-scale factors such as disturbance, fine-scale soil conditions, niche partitioning and biotic interactions.
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