Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are
thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still …

Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

Earth is home to a remarkable diversity of plant forms and life histories, yet comparatively
few essential trait combinations have proved evolutionarily viable in today's terrestrial …

Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Here we provide the 'Global Spectrum of Plant Form and Function Dataset', containing
species mean values for six vascular plant traits. Together, these traits–plant height, stem …

Natural regeneration of large-seeded, late-successional trees in fragmented tropical
landscapes can be strongly limited by a lack of seed dispersal resulting in the need for more …

Urban parks and green spaces are among the few places where city dwellers can have
regular contact with nature and engage in outdoor recreation. Social media data provide …

Planting tree seedlings in small patches (islands) has been proposed as a method to
facilitate forest recovery that is less expensive than planting large areas and better simulates …

Functional traits are increasingly used to understand the ecology of plants and to predict
their responses to global changes. Unfortunately, trait data are unavailable for the majority of …

Aim To determine the relationships between the functional trait composition of forest
communities and environmental gradients across scales and biomes and the role of species …