Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities
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T1 - Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities
AU - Bruelheide, Helge
AU - Dengler, Jürgen
AU - Purschke, Oliver
AU - Lenoir, Jonathan
AU - Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja
AU - Hennekens, Stephan M.
AU - Botta-Dukát, Zoltán
AU - Chytrý, Milan
AU - Field, Richard
AU - Jansen, Florian
AU - Kattge, Jens
AU - Pillar, Valério D.
AU - Schrodt, Franziska
AU - Mahecha, Miguel D.
AU - Peet, Robert K.
AU - Sandel, Brody
AU - van Bodegom, Peter
AU - Altman, Jan
AU - Alvarez-Dávila, Esteban
AU - Arfin Khan, Mohammed A.S.
AU - Attorre, Fabio
AU - Aubin, Isabelle
AU - Baraloto, Christopher
AU - Barroso, Jorcely G.
AU - Bauters, Marijn
AU - Bergmeier, Erwin
AU - Biurrun, Idoia
AU - Bjorkman, Anne D.
AU - Blonder, Benjamin
AU - Čarni, Andraž
AU - Cayuela, Luis
AU - Černý, Tomáš
AU - Cornelissen, J. Hans C.
AU - Craven, Dylan
AU - Dainese, Matteo
AU - Derroire, Géraldine
AU - De Sanctis, Michele
AU - Díaz, Sandra
AU - Doležal, Jiří
AU - Farfan-Rios, William
AU - Feldpausch, Ted R.
AU - Fenton, Nicole J.
AU - Garnier, Eric
AU - Guerin, Greg R.
AU - Gutiérrez, Alvaro G.
AU - Haider, Sylvia
AU - Hattab, Tarek
AU - Henry, Greg
AU - Hérault, Bruno
AU - Higuchi, Pedro
AU - Hölzel, Norbert
AU - Homeier, Jürgen
AU - Jentsch, Anke
AU - Jürgens, Norbert
AU - Kącki, Zygmunt
AU - Karger, Dirk N.
AU - Kessler, Michael
AU - Kleyer, Michael
AU - Knollová, Ilona
AU - Korolyuk, Andrey Y.
AU - Kühn, Ingolf
AU - Laughlin, Daniel C.
AU - Lens, Frederic
AU - Loos, Jacqueline
AU - Louault, Frédérique
AU - Lyubenova, Mariyana I.
AU - Malhi, Yadvinder
AU - Marcenò, Corrado
AU - Mencuccini, Maurizio
AU - Müller, Jonas V.
AU - Munzinger, Jérôme
AU - Myers-Smith, Isla H.
AU - Neill, David A.
AU - Niinemets, Ülo
AU - Orwin, Kate H.
AU - Ozinga, Wim A.
AU - Penuelas, Josep
AU - Pérez-Haase, Aaron
AU - Petřík, Petr
AU - Phillips, Oliver L.
AU - Pärtel, Meelis
AU - Reich, Peter B.
AU - Römermann, Christine
AU - Rodrigues, Arthur V.
AU - Sabatini, Francesco Maria
AU - Sardans, Jordi
AU - Schmidt, Marco
AU - Seidler, Gunnar
AU - Silva Espejo, Javier Eduardo
AU - Silveira, Marcos
AU - Smyth, Anita
AU - Sporbert, Maria
AU - Svenning, Jens Christian
AU - Tang, Zhiyao
AU - Thomas, Raquel
AU - Tsiripidis, Ioannis
AU - Vassilev, Kiril
AU - Violle, Cyrille
AU - Virtanen, Risto
AU - Weiher, Evan
AU - Welk, Erik
AU - Wesche, Karsten
AU - Winter, Marten
AU - Wirth, Christian
AU - Jandt, Ute
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Ecosystems Research
KW - Biogeography
KW - Community Ecology
KW - Environmental planning
KW - Sustainability Science
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U2 - 10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8
DO - 10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 30455437
VL - 2
SP - 1906
EP - 1917
JO - Nature Ecology & Evolution
JF - Nature Ecology & Evolution
SN - 2397-334X
IS - 12
ER -