Perez-Harguindeguy, N. and Diaz, S. and Garnier, E. and Lavorel, S. and Poorter, H. and Jaureguiberry, P. and Bret-Harte, M. S. and Cornwell, W. K. and Craine, J. M. and Gurvich, D. E. and Urcelay, C. and Veneklaas, E. J. and Reich, P. B. and Poorter, L. and Wright, I. J. and Ray, P. and Enrico, L. and Pausas, J. G. and de Vos, A. C. and Buchmann, N. and Funes, G. and Quetier, F. and Hodgson, J. G. and Thompson, K. and Morgan, H. D. and ter Steege, H. and van der Heijden, M. G. A. and Sack, L. and Blonder, B. and Poschlod, P. and Vaieretti, M. V. and Conti, G. and Staver, A. C. and Aquino, S. and Cornelissen, J. H. C. (2013) New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, 61 (3). pp. 167-234. ISSN 0067-1924, 1444-9862
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Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels and influence ecosystem properties. Variation in plant functional traits, and trait syndromes, has proven useful for tackling many important ecological questions at a range of scales, giving rise to a demand for standardised ways to measure ecologically meaningful plant traits. This line of research has been among the most fruitful avenues for understanding ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes. It also has the potential both to build a predictive set of local, regional and global relationships between plants and environment and to quantify a wide range of natural and human-driven processes, including changes in biodiversity, the impacts of species invasions, alterations in biogeochemical processes and vegetation-atmosphere interactions. The importance of these topics dictates the urgent need for more and better data, and increases the value of standardised protocols for quantifying trait variation of different species, in particular for traits with power to predict plant-and ecosystem-level processes, and for traits that can be measured relatively easily. Updated and expanded from the widely used previous version, this handbook retains the focus on clearly presented, widely applicable, step-by-step recipes, with a minimum of text on theory, and not only includes updated methods for the traits previously covered, but also introduces many new protocols for further traits. This new handbook has a better balance between whole-plant traits, leaf traits, root and stem traits and regenerative traits, and puts particular emphasis on traits important for predicting species' effects on key ecosystem properties. We hope this new handbook becomes a standard companion in local and global efforts to learn about the responses and impacts of different plant species with respect to environmental changes in the present, past and future.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | DRY-MATTER CONTENT; LEAF LIFE-SPAN; TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST; RELATIVE GROWTH-RATE; LITTER DECOMPOSITION RATES; LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL; WOOD SPECIFIC-GRAVITY; SEED SIZE; HYDRAULIC ARCHITECTURE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; biodiversity; ecophysiology; ecosystem dynamics; ecosystem functions; environmental change; plant morphology |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences 500 Science > 580 Botanical sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften > Lehrstuhl für Ökologie und Naturschutzbiologie (Prof. Dr. Peter Poschlod) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2020 06:03 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2020 06:03 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/17430 |
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