Kleyer, Michael and Bekker, R. M. and Knevel, I. C. and Bakker, J. P. and Thompson, K. and Sonnenschein, M. and Poschlod, P. and van Groenendael, J. M. and Klimes, L. and Klimesova, J. and Klotz, S. and Rusch, G. M. and Hermy, M. and Adriaens, D. and Boedeltje, G. and Bossuyt, B. and Dannemann, A. and Endels, P. and Goetzenberger, L. and Hodgson, J. G. and Jackel, A-K. and Kuehn, I. and Kunzmann, D. and Ozinga, W. A. and Roemermann, C. and Stadler, M. and Schlegelmilch, J. and Steendam, H. J. and Tackenberg, O. and Wilmann, B. and Cornelissen, J. H. C. and Eriksson, O. and Garnier, E. and Peco, B. (2008) The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 96 (6). pp. 1266-1274. ISSN 0022-0477, 1365-2745
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1. An international group of scientists has built an open internet data base of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora (the LEDA-Traitbase) that can be used as a data source for fundamental research on plant biodiversity and coexistence, macro-ecological patterns and plant functional responses. 2. The species-trait matrix comprises referenced information under the control of an editorial board, for ca. 3000 species of the Northwest European flora, combining existing information and additional measurements. The data base currently contains data on 26 plant traits that describe three key features of plant dynamics: persistence, regeneration and dispersal. The LEDA-Traitbase is freely available at www.leda-traitbase.org. 3. We present the structure of the data base and an overview of the trait information available. 4. Synthesis. The LEDA Traitbase is useful for large-scale analyses of functional responses of communities to environmental change, effects of community trait composition on ecosystem properties and patterns of rarity and invasiveness, as well as linkages between traits as expressions of fundamental trade-offs in plants.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PLANT FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; TRADE-OFF; COMMUNITIES; DISPERSAL; MECHANISMS; CONSEQUENCES; REGENERATION; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERGENCE; ATTRIBUTES; age of first flowering; buoyancy; clonal traits; canopy height; dispersal; functional ecology; plant life span; plant functional traits; seed weight; seed number; SLA; soil seed bank |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 580 Botanical sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften > Lehrstuhl für Ökologie und Naturschutzbiologie (Prof. Dr. Peter Poschlod) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2020 06:10 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2020 06:10 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/30109 |
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