New data of plant leaf traits from Central Europe.

ABSTRACT: Trait-based ecology is gaining ground nowadays on species-based ecology: the number of research and publication focusing on the ecological role of taxa instead of the species themselves increased significantly in the last two decades. One great advantage of this approach is that communities with different species composition due to great geographical distances (e.g., different continents) or different environmental conditions (e.g., loess, sand, and alkaline grasslands) become comparable. Obtaining trait values is, however, labour and time consuming even in the case of so-called soft traits. It is therefore reasonable and desirable for scientists to share their data as widely as possible. Demand for such data induced the publication of data papers and the establishment of databases, which

SUBMITTER: McIntosh-Buday A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9133769 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature