The relationship between stomatal traits and environmental drivers across plant
communities has important implications for ecosystem carbon and water fluxes, but it has …

Understanding the mechanisms of ecosystem services trade-offs and synergies is critical for
forest management. Plant functional traits provide an approach to identify the relationships …

In a recent issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution, van der Plas et al. 1 reported that plant
functional traits (PFTs) alone were poor predictors of ecosystem properties. They used a …

The interdependence of multiple traits allows plants to perform multiple functions. Acquiring
an accurate representation of the interdependence of plant traits could advance our …

Quantifying and predicting variation in gross primary productivity (GPP) is important for
accurate assessment of the ecosystem carbon budget under global change. Scaling traits to …

The idea of linking stressors, services providing units (SPUs), and ecosystem services (ES)
is ubiquitous in the literature, although is currently not applied in areas contaminated with …

The structure of the vegetation has a significant impact on how much runoff and sediment is
produced. Choosing the right parameters to evaluate the correlations between vegetation …

The plant economics spectrum describes the trade‐off between plant resource acquisition
and storage, and sheds light on plant responses to environmental changes. However, the …

Current conservation strategies are targeted at preserving species, without explicitly aiming
at the maintenance of ecosystem functions. In a physically highly connected world, the …

Non-marketable crops are increasingly being used as a tool to promote agroecosystem
services and sustainable agriculture. Nevertheless, crops vary greatly in the traits by which …