Mapping multi-dimensional variability in water stress strategies across temperate forests.

ABSTRACT: Increasing water stress is emerging as a global phenomenon, and is anticipated to have a marked impact on forest function. The role of tree functional strategies is pivotal in regulating forest fitness and their ability to cope with water stress. However, how the functional strategies found at the tree or species level scale up to characterise forest communities and their variation across regions is not yet well-established. By combining eight water-stress-related functional traits with forest inventory data from the USA and Europe, we investigated the community-level trait coordination and the biogeographic patterns of trait associations for woody plants, and analysed the relationships between the trait associations and climate factors. We find that the trait associations at the community

SUBMITTER: Liu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11484845 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature