The compadrePlant Matrix Database: an open online repository for plant demographyJournal of Ecology - Tập 103 Số 1 - Trang 202-218 - 2015
Roberto Salguero‐Gómez, Owen Jones, C. Ruth Archer, Yvonne M. Buckley, Judy Che‐Castaldo, Hal Caswell, David J. Hodgson, Alexander Scheuerlein, Dalia A. Conde, Erik Brinks, H. Buhr, Claudia Farack, Fränce Gottschalk, Alexander Hartmann, Anne Hennig, Gabriel Hoppe, Gesa Römer, Jens Runge, Tara Ruoff, Julia Wille, Stefan Zeh, Raziel Davison, Dirk Vieregg, Annette Baudisch, Res Altwegg, Fernando Colchero, Ming Dong, Hans de Kroon, Jean‐Dominique Lebreton, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Maile M. Neel, Ingrid M. Parker, Tappei Takada, Teresa Valverde, Luis A. Vélez‐Espino, Glenda M. Wardle, Miguel Franco, James W. Vaupel
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Schedules of survival, growth and reproduction are key life‐history traits. Data on how these traits vary among species and populations are fundamental to our understanding of the ecological conditions that have shaped plant evolution. Because these demographic schedules determine population growth or decline, such data ...... hiện toàn bộ
When does intraspecific trait variation contribute to functional beta‐diversity?Journal of Ecology - Tập 104 Số 2 - Trang 487-496 - 2016
Marko J. Spasojevic, Benjamin L. Turner, Jonathan A. Myers
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Intraspecific trait variation (ITV) is hypothesized to play an important role in community assembly and the maintenance of biodiversity. However, fundamental gaps remain in our understanding of how ITV... hiện toàn bộ
Evidence for scale‐ and disturbance‐dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi‐natural grasslandsJournal of Ecology - Tập 101 Số 5 - Trang 1237-1244 - 2013
Francesco de Bello, Marie Vandewalle, Triin Reitalu, Jan Lepš, Honor C. Prentice, Sandra Lavorel, Martin T. Sykes
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The mechanisms driving nonrandom assembly patterns in plant communities have long been of interest in ecological research. Competing ecological theories predict that coexisting species may either be more functionally dissimilar than expected by chance (with functional ‘divergence’ mainly reflectin...... hiện toàn bộ
Spatial scale and intraspecific trait variability mediate assembly rules in alpine grasslandsJournal of Ecology - Tập 105 Số 1 - Trang 277-287 - 2017
Loïc Chalmandrier, Tamara Münkemüller, Marie‐Pascale Colace, Julien Renaud, S. Aubert, Bradley Z. Carlson, J. Clément, Nicolas Legay, Gilles Pellet, Amélie Saillard, Sébastien Lavergne, Wilfried Thuiller
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Assembly of grassland communities has long been scrutinized through the lens of functional diversity. Studies generally point to an overwhelming influence of climate on observed patterns of functional diversity, despite experimental evidence demonstrating the importance of biotic interactions. We postulate that this is ...... hiện toàn bộ
Deconstructing precipitation variability: Rainfall event size and timing uniquely alter ecosystem dynamicsJournal of Ecology - Tập 109 Số 9 - Trang 3356-3369 - 2021
Robert J. Griffin‐Nolan, Ingrid J. Slette, Alan K. Knapp
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Water‐limited ecosystems are highly sensitive to not only precipitation amount, but also precipitation pattern, particularly variability in the size and timing of growing season rainfall events. Both rainfall event size and timing are expected to be altered by climate change, but the relative responses of dryland ecosys...... hiện toàn bộ