Plant functional classifications: from general groups to specific groups based on response to disturbance

S Lavorel, S McIntyre, J Landsberg… - Trends in Ecology & …, 1997 - cell.com
Predicting the effects of anthropogenic changes in climate, atmospheric composition and
land use on vegetation patterns has been a central concern of recent ecological research …

Grazing effects on soil physical properties and the consequences for pastures: a review

KL Greenwood, BM McKenzie - Australian Journal of …, 2001 - CSIRO Publishing
Grazing animals exert pressure on the ground comparable to that of agricultural machinery.
As a result, soil under pasture can be compacted. In grazing systems based on permanent …

[HTML][HTML] 植物功能性状与环境和生态系统功能

孟婷婷, 倪健, 王国宏 - 植物生态学报, 2007 - plant-ecology.com
摘要植物性状反映了植物对生长环境的响应和适应, 将环境, 植物个体和生态系统结构,
过程与功能联系起来(所谓的“植物功能性状”). 该文介绍了植物功能性状的分类体系 …

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

D Falster, R Gallagher, EH Wenk, IJ Wright, D Indiarto… - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
We introduce the AusTraits database-a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the
Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 …

Landscape filters and species traits: towards mechanistic understanding and prediction in stream ecology

NLR Poff - Journal of the north american Benthological …, 1997 - journals.uchicago.edu
A heuristic framework for understanding and predicting the distribution and categorical
abundance of species in stream communities is presented. The framework requires that …

Scaling environmental change through the community‐level: A trait‐based response‐and‐effect framework for plants

KN Suding, S Lavorel, FS Chapin Iii… - Global Change …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting ecosystem responses to global change is a major challenge in ecology. A critical
step in that challenge is to understand how changing environmental conditions influence …

Plant functional traits and environmental filters at a regional scale

S Diaz, M Cabido, F Casanoves - Journal of vegetation science, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Links between plant traits and the environment, ie sets of plant attributes consistently
associated with certain environmental conditions, are the consequence of the filtering effect …

Plant functional types and ecosystem function in relation to global change

S Díaz, M Cabido - Journal of vegetation science, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Plant functional types (PFTs) bridge the gap between plant physiology and community and
ecosystem processes, thus providing a powerful tool in climate change research. We aimed …

Plant functional traits in relation to fire in crown‐fire ecosystems

JG Pausas, RA Bradstock, DA Keith, JE Keeley - Ecology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Disturbance is a dominant factor in many ecosystems, and the disturbance regime is likely to
change over the next decades in response to land‐use changes and global warming. We …

The search for generality in studies of disturbance and ecosystem dynamics

PS White, A Jentsch - Progress in botany: Genetics physiology systematics …, 2001 - Springer
Studies of disturbance have a long tradition in vegetation ecology (Cooper 1926; Raup
1941; White 1979) and have increased lly during the last 30 years (Dayton 1971; …