Recent studies have shown that accounting for intraspecific trait variation (ITV) may better
address major questions in community ecology. However, a general picture of the relative …

Background Investigating the causes and consequences of intraspecific trait variation (ITV)
in plants is not novel, as it has long been recognized that such variation shapes biotic and …

Aim Intraspecific trait variation (ITV) within natural plant communities can be large,
influencing local ecological processes and dynamics. Here, we shed light on how ITV in …

Trait-based studies have become extremely common in plant ecology. Trait-based
approaches often rely on the tacit assumption that intraspecific trait variability (ITV) is …

Despite widespread focus on interspecific variation in trait‐based ecology, there is growing
evidence that intraspecific trait variability can play a fundamental role in plant community …

Intraspecific trait variation (ITV) plays a potentially important role in determining functional
community composition across environmental gradients. However, the importance of ITV …

Aim The drivers of species assembly, by limiting the possible range of functional trait values,
can lead to either convergent or divergent distributions of traits in realized assemblages …

The relative importance of intraspecific trait variation (rITV) for functional diversity (FD) in
plant communities is increasingly apparent, but the influence of abiotic factors on the …

Questions Are patterns of intra‐and inter‐specific functional trait variation consistent with
greater abiotic filtering on community assembly at high latitudes and elevations, and greater …

Intraspecific trait variation (ITV) is hypothesized to play an important role in community
assembly and the maintenance of biodiversity. However, fundamental gaps remain in our …