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Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

Alvarez-D?vila, Esteban; Arfin Khan, Mohammed A. S.; Cornelissen, J. Hans C.; Korolyuk, Andrey Y.; K?hn, Ingolf; Laughlin, Daniel C.; Lens, Frederic; Loos, Jacqueline; Louault, Fr?d?rique; Lyubenova, Mariyana I.; Malhi, Yadvinder; Marcen?, Corrado; Mencuccini, Maurizio; M?ller, Jonas V.; Munzinger, J?r?me; Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Neill, David A.; Niinemets, ?lo; Orwin, Kate H.; Ozinga, Wim A.; Penuelas, Josep; P?rez-Haase, Aaron; Pet??k, Petr; Phillips, Oliver L.; P?rtel, Meelis; Reich, Peter B.; R?mermann, Christine; Rodrigues, Arthur V.; Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Sardans, Jordi; Schmidt, Marco; Seidler, Gunnar; Silva Espejo, Javier Eduardo; Silveira, Marcos; Smyth, Anita; Sporbert, Maria; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Tang, Zhiyao; Thomas, Raquel; Tsiripidis, Ioannis; Vassilev, Kiril; Violle, Cyrille; Virtanen, Risto; Weiher, Evan; Kessler, Michael; Kleyer, Michael; Knollov?, Ilona; J?rgens, Norbert; K?cki, Zygmunt; Karger, Dirk N.; H?lzel, Norbert; Homeier, J?rgen; Jentsch, Anke; Higuchi...

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Authors

Esteban Alvarez-D�vila

Mohammed A. S. Arfin Khan

J. Hans C. Cornelissen

Andrey Y. Korolyuk

Ingolf K�hn

Daniel C. Laughlin

Frederic Lens

Jacqueline Loos

Fr�d�rique Louault

Mariyana I. Lyubenova

Yadvinder Malhi

Corrado Marcen�

Maurizio Mencuccini

Jonas V. M�ller

J�r�me Munzinger

Isla H. Myers-Smith

David A. Neill

�lo Niinemets

Kate H. Orwin

Wim A. Ozinga

Josep Penuelas

Aaron P�rez-Haase

Petr Pet?�k

Oliver L. Phillips

Meelis P�rtel

Peter B. Reich

Christine R�mermann

Arthur V. Rodrigues

Francesco Maria Sabatini

Jordi Sardans

Marco Schmidt

Gunnar Seidler

Javier Eduardo Silva Espejo

Marcos Silveira

Anita Smyth

Maria Sporbert

Jens-Christian Svenning

Zhiyao Tang

Raquel Thomas

Ioannis Tsiripidis

Kiril Vassilev

Cyrille Violle

Risto Virtanen

Evan Weiher

Michael Kessler

Michael Kleyer

Ilona Knollov�

Norbert J�rgens

Zygmunt K?cki

Dirk N. Karger

Norbert H�lzel

J�rgen Homeier

Anke Jentsch

Pedro Higuchi

Bruno H�rault

Greg Henry

Tarek Hattab

Sylvia Haider

Alvaro G. Guti�rrez

Nicole J. Fenton

Ted R. Feldpausch

Greg R. Guerin

William Farfan-Rios

Sandra D�az

Michele De Sanctis

Ji?� Dole�al

Eric Garnier

G�raldine Derroire

Matteo Dainese

Tom� ?ern�

Luis Cayuela

Helge Bruelheide

J�rgen Dengler

Oliver Purschke

Jonathan Lenoir

Borja Jim�nez-Alfaro

Stephan M. Hennekens

Zolt�n Botta-Duk�t

Milan Chytr�

Florian Jansen

Jens Kattge

Val�rio D. Pillar

Miguel D. Mahecha

Robert K. Peet

Brody Sandel

Peter van Bodegom

Jan Altman

Esteban Alvarez Davila

Mohammed A.S. Arfin Khan

Fabio Attorre

Isabelle Aubin

Christopher Baraloto

Jorcely G. Barroso

Marijn Bauters

Erwin Bergmeier

Idoia Biurrun

Anne D. Bjorkman

Benjamin Blonder

Andra� ?arni

Luis Cayuela

Tom� ?ern�

J.Hans C. Cornelissen

Dylan Craven

Matteo Dainese

G�raldine Derroire

Michele De Sanctis

Sandra D�az

Ji?� Dole�al

William Farfan-Rios

Ted R. Feldpausch

Nicole J. Fenton

Eric Garnier

Greg R. Guerin

Alvaro G. Guti�rrez

Sylvia Haider

Tarek Hattab

Greg Henry

Bruno H�rault

Pedro Higuchi

Norbert H�lzel

J�rgen Homeier

Anke Jentsch

Norbert J�rgens

Zygmunt K?cki

Dirk N. Karger

Michael Kessler

Michael Kleyer

Ilona Knollov�



Abstract

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 remaining question is to what extent community-level trait composition is globally filtered and how well it is related to global vs. 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 which 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 or biotic interactions.

Citation

Hölzel, N., Sporbert, M., Guerin, G. R., Jentsch, A., Neill, D. A., Korolyuk, A. Y., …Knollová, I. (2018). Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(12), 1906-1917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 18, 2018
Online Publication Date Nov 19, 2018
Publication Date 2018-12
Deposit Date Aug 13, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Nature Ecology & Evolution
Electronic ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher Nature Research
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2
Issue 12
Pages 1906-1917
DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/973106
Publisher URL https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0699-8
Additional Information 105 authors in total.

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