… influence ecosystem services through their effects on underlying ecosystem processes. …
evidence on linkages between functional traits and ecosystem services across different trophic …

… Functional traits can be used to understand a wide range of ecological processes occurring
at organismal, community, and ecosystem scales. Examples are given here of how leaf, stem…

… or ecological intensification … ecosystem whose ecological processes influence ecosystem
services. We focus here on the influence of functional plant traits on four ecosystem processes …

… and understanding traits increases our understanding of ecological processes, thus … function
as well as ecosystem processes. Here, we provide an introduction to how ecological traits …

… However, effect traits may also have indirect effects on community … ecosystem processes.
In addition, an organism's fitness-relevant traits may indirectly affect ecosystem processes …

… In addition to root diameter, we propose that other plant functional traits may influence
foraging precision (Table 2). First, a precise foraging strategy may be associated with roots with …

… These conclusions provide important information for ecosystem process modelers, political
decision makers and land managers. The evaluation of plant functional traits and strategies …

… for quantifying ‘ecosystem traits’ and means to address the challenges of broadening the
applicability of functional traits to macroecology. Ecosystem traits are traits or quantitative …

… -random with respect to functional traits, thus disrupting the … illustrate how quantitative
functional traits for specific guilds … to ecosystem processes, and the response of such processes …

… trait trade-offs and environmental filtering in explaining the variability in functional traits and
ecosystem processes … -offs shape functional traits and subsequently ecosystem processes for …