… The tissue traits and architectures of plant species are important for land-plant ecology in two
ways. First, … Second, knowledge of trait costs and benefits offers the most promising path to …

… cycles in ecosystems with finite plant functional types (PFTs). … Recent advances in the study
of plant functional traits (FTs) … PFT-based scheme, it summarizes trait-based theories and …

… However, to date, principles of functional trait ecology have not been widely applied to … why
and how a functional trait approach – distinct from a traditional agronomic trait approach that …

… ES models based on plant traits and abiotic … the land use and biotic determinants of such
distributions. We demonstrate the value of this trait-based approach as compared to a pure land…

… Here we document a new database of plant functional trait information from China. In contrast
to 47 previously published studies (Zheng et al., 2007 a, b; Cai et al., 2009; Prentice et al., …

… This paper deals with the use of plant functional traits in assessing vegetation responses
to different environmental factors, such as climate, disturbance or landuse. Climate and land …

… both mean climate and plant functional traits, particularly those … plant physiology and water
transport functional traits are likely crucial to include in earth system models for capturing land…

… of plant func1 tional traits and summarizes research on the relationships between plant
functional traits … ,invasion and land use), as well as between plant functional traits and ecosystem …

… Functional traits are a critical tool for understanding … how plant functional trait distributions
and functional diversity are … have substantially greater plant and functional trait diversity than …

… Services to Land Use Change in … plant functional traits to management and ecosystem
function. In most regions a compromise had to be made as it was not possible to measure all traits …