Functional traits predict relationship between plant abundance dynamic and long-term climate warming.

ABSTRACT: Predicting climate change impact on ecosystem structure and services is one of the most important challenges in ecology. Until now, plant species response to climate change has been described at the level of fixed plant functional types, an approach limited by its inflexibility as there is much interspecific functional variation within plant functional types. Considering a plant species as a set of functional traits greatly increases our possibilities for analysis of ecosystem functioning and carbon and nutrient fluxes associated therewith. Moreover, recently assembled large-scale databases hold comprehensive per-species data on plant functional traits, allowing a detailed functional description of many plant communities on Earth. Here, we show that plant functional traits can be used as p

SUBMITTER: Soudzilovskaia NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3831435 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature