A roadmap to define and select aquatic biological traits at different scales of analysis.

ABSTRACT: Trait-based approaches are a powerful tool, as they not only improve understanding of ecological complexity and functioning but also allow comparison across different ecosystems and biogeographical regions. They may be used to unveil ecosystem processes and assess community structures, but their great potential becomes limited when dealing with scattered trait data and historically unstandardised trait nomenclature. The lack of standardisation allows authors to use the terminology of their preference, which inevitably leads to ambiguous misunderstandings and limits comparison between different studies. There have been some attempts to organise the trait vocabulary, but even these are mostly created from the perspective of a single ecosystem, which limits their applicability. In this work,

SUBMITTER: Morim T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10746726 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature