A core challenge in global change biology is to predict how species will respond to future
environmental change and to manage these responses. To make such predictions and …

Traits have become a crucial part of ecological and evolutionary sciences, helping
researchers understand the function of an organism's morphology, physiology, growth and …

Functional traits and associated trait‐based concepts have driven rapid innovation in
ecology over recent years, with most progress based on insights from plants. However …

Most explanations for the relationship between body size and metabolism invoke physical
constraints; such explanations are evolutionarily inert, limiting their predictive capacity …

There is a wealth of information about the characteristics (traits) of organisms within
collections of taxonomic descriptions of plants and animals called a 'Flora'or 'Fauna'of a …

Sexual size dimorphism has motivated a large body of research on mammalian mating
strategies and sexual selection. Despite some contrary evidence, the narrative that larger …

The exposure assessment component of a Wildlife Ecological Risk Assessment aims to
estimate the magnitude, frequency, and duration of exposure to a chemical or environmental …

With life history traits determining the natural selection fitnesses of individuals and growth of
populations, estimates of their variation are essential to advance evolutionary understanding …

The resilience of ecosystem function under global climate change is governed by individual
species vulnerabilities and the functional groups they contribute to (eg decomposition …

Understanding variation of traits within and among species through time and across space is
central to many questions in biology. Many resources assemble species-level trait data, but …