The ecological causes of functional distinctiveness in communities

F Munoz, CA Klausmeier, P Gaüzère… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent work has shown that evaluating functional trait distinctiveness, the average trait
distance of a species to other species in a community offers promising insights into …

Refocusing the microbial rare biosphere concept through a functional lens

E Litchman, S Villéger, L Zinger, JC Auguet… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
The influential concept of the rare biosphere in microbial ecology has underscored the
importance of taxa occurring at low abundances yet potentially playing key roles in …

Bootstrapping outperforms community‐weighted approaches for estimating the shapes of phenotypic distributions

BS Maitner, AH Halbritter, RJ Telford… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating phenotypic distributions of populations and communities is central to many
questions in ecology and evolution. These distributions can be characterized by their …

The functional trait distinctiveness of plant species is scale dependent

P Gaüzère, B Blonder, P Denelle, B Fournier… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Beyond the local abundance of species, their functional trait distinctiveness is now
recognized as a key driver of community dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Yet, since the …

Forest storm resilience depends on the interplay between functional composition and climate—Insights from European‐scale simulations

J Barrere, B Reineking, M Jaunatre… - Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Tree species composition is known to influence forest productivity, but its effect on forest
resilience to disturbances such as storms remains largely unexplored. Furthermore, climate …

Beyond trait distances: Functional distinctiveness captures the outcome of plant competition

L Mahaut, C Violle, A Shihan, R Pélissier… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Functional trait distances between coexisting organisms reflect not only complementarity in
the way they use resources, but also differences in their competitive abilities. Accordingly …

Drought resilience of three coniferous species from Belgian arboreta highlights them as promising alternatives for future forests in Western Europe

M Dendoncker, C Guisset, M Jonard, A Delente… - …, 2024 - Elsevier
Searching for drought tolerant species is one of the adaptative management measures that
could be implemented to improve forest resilience in the context of more intense and …

Nonlinear effects induced by interactions among functional groups of bacteria and fungi regulate the priming effect in Malagasy soils

B Jaillard, K Razanamalala, C Violle, L Bernard - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
The priming effect (PE) occurs when fresh organic matter (FOM) supplied to soil alters the
rate of decomposition of older soil organic matter (SOM). The PE can be generated by …

Priorisation des enjeux de la biodiversité dans un contexte de planification territoriale

T Ferraille - 2024 - theses.hal.science
L'évaluation environnementale stratégique (EES) représente un cadre réglementaire
fondamental pour la planification et la limitation des impacts de l'aménagement du territoire …

[PDF][PDF] Radial growth response to climate and drought of four non-native tree species in their area of introduction in Wallonia (Belgium)

C Guisset - 2024 - dial.uclouvain.be
Climate change and increased frequency and intensity of disturbances, such as drought and
insect outbreaks, are threatening the resilience of forests worldwide. Drought is of particular …