Unravelling Trait-Environment Relationships at Local and Regional Scales in Temperate Forests.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the trait-environment relationships has been a core ecological research topic in the face of global climate change. However, the strength of trait-environment relationships at the local and regional scales in temperate forests remains poorly known. In this study, we investigated the local and regional scale forest plots of the natural broad-leaved temperate forest in northeastern China, to assess what extent community-level trait composition depends on environmental drivers across spatial scales. We measured five key functional traits (leaf area, specific leaf area, leaf carbon content, leaf nitrogen content, and wood density) of woody plant, and quantified functional compositions of communities by calculating the "specific" community-weighted mean (CWM) traits. The sum of sq

SUBMITTER: Da R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9189410 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature