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 …

Understanding the ecological consequences of biodiversity is a fundamental challenge.
Research on a key component of biodiversity, genetic diversity, has traditionally focused on …

Although the effects of variation between individuals within species are traditionally ignored
in studies of species coexistence, the magnitude of intraspecific variation in nature is forcing …

THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles
Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree …

Functional traits have been extensively used to describe, group and rank species according
to their functions. There is now growing evidence that intraspecific functional variability, as …

Climate shifts over this century are widely expected to alter the structure and functioning of
temperate plant communities. However, long-term climate experiments in natural vegetation …

Plant conservation genetics provides tools to guide conservation and restoration efforts,
measure and monitor success, and ultimately minimize extinction risk by conserving species …

A key component of biodiversity is the number and abundance of individuals (ie genotypes),
and yet such intraspecific diversity is rarely considered when investigating the effects of …

Studies of whether plant community structure and ecosystem properties depend on the
genetic diversity of component populations have been largely restricted to species …

Evolutionary community ecology is an emerging field of study that includes evolutionary
principles such as individual trait variation and plasticity of traits to provide a more …