A biome is a key community ecological and biogeographical concept and, as such, has
profited from the overall progress of community ecology, punctuated by two major …

The definition of vegetation types at different hierarchical levels, both to study the vegetation
processes and for practical cartographic representation, is still considered a critical issue in …

Question: What plant properties might define plant functional types (PFTs) for the analysis of
global vegetation responses to climate change, and what aspects of the physical …

SYNCSA is an R package for the analysis of metacommunities based on functional traits
and phylogeny of the community components. It offers tools to calculate several matrix …

Hypothesis testing in phytocoenological applications is likely to be hindered when based on
conventional statistical methods. The problem created by unrealistic assumptions can …

Question: Whereas similar ecological requirements lead to trait‐convergence assembly
patterns (TCAP) of species in communities, the interactions controlling how species …

The study of plant functional types (PFTs) has been widely emphasized when analysing
plant community changes in relation to variations in climate and disturbance regime. In this …

The use of plant functional types (PFTs) to describe patterns and processes in plant
communities has become essential to study and predict consequences of global change on …

The study of vegetation response to environmental change on a global scale cannot rely on
species because most plant species have geographically limited distributions. To allow …

In regularly burned grassland on Morro Santana, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, we investigated
differences in the floristic composition and their relation to soil properties, aspect and …