Refining rare weed trait syndromes along arable intensification gradients.

ABSTRACT:

Question

How does the conservation (rarity) value of arable weed communities differ along intensification gradients? Which functional traits best distinguish the weed communities of more and less extensively managed fields? Can the same traits predict the rarity of individual weed species?

Location

Hungary.

Methods

Using relevé data from 60 cereal and 70 stubble fields, together with weed trait data, we characterized community responses to arable intensification using functional trait analyses based on trait-convergence and trait-divergence assembly patterns. We also examined how well the broad-scale rarity status of species predicts their occurrence along intensification gradients, and how it maps onto our functional classifications describing intensification respons

SUBMITTER: Pinke G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7166743 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature