Assessing the Effects of Land-use Change on Plant Traits, Communities and Ecosystem Functioning in Grasslands: A Standardized Methodology and Lessons from an Application to 11 European Sites
Éric Garnier1, Sandra Lavorel2, Pauline Ansquer3, Helena Castro4, Pablo Cruz3, Jiří Doležal5, Ove Eriksson6, Claire Fortunel1, Helena Freitas4, Carly Golodets7, Karl Grigulis2, Claire Jouany3, Elena Kazakou1, Jaime Kigel7, Michael Kleyer8, Veiko Lehsten8, Jan Lepš5, T. Meier8, Robin J. Pakeman9, Maria Papadimitriou10, V. P. Papanastasis10, Helen M. Quested6, Fabien Quétier2, M. Robson2, Catherine Roumet1, Graciela M. Rusch11, Christina Skarpe11, Marcelo Sternberg12, Jean‐Pierre Theau3, Anne Thébault2, Denis Vile1,13, Maria Zarovali10
1CNRS, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (UMR 5175), 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
2Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine (CNRS UMR 5553) and Station Alpine Joseph Fourier (UMS-UJF-CNRS 2925), Université Joseph Fourier BP 53, F-38042, Grenoble, Cedex 09, France.
3UMR 1248 ARCHE, Équipe ORPHEE, INRA, BP 52627, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France
4Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Coimbra, 3000 Coimbra, Portugal
5University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Botany Department, Na Sadkach 7, Ceske Budejovice 37005, Czech Republic
6Department of Botany, Stockholm University Stockholm, 106 91, Sweden.
7Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel
8Landscape Ecology Group, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany.
9The Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, UK
10Laboratory of Rangeland Ecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece;
11Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Tungasletta 2, 7485 Trondheim, Norway
12Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel.
13Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke (QC), CanadaJ1K2R1