functional traits
Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits
... inferred traits as predic- tors of community and ecosystem processes has been strongly discouraged (Violle et ...for traits to be measured on individual ...measure functional traits that are ...
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Functional traits of dominant plant species of the brazilian sandy coastal plain
... among functional traits of leaves and wood of restinga species indicates selective and contrasting forces along the ...higher functional redundancy observed among vegetation types close to sea (FR = ...
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Plant functional traits associated with frost susceptibility
... plant functional trait approach. Plant functional traits are any attribute of a plant which can influence its establishment, survival and ...possess traits that reflect a conservative life ...
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Differences in functional traits of leaf blade and culm of common reed in four habitat types
... the functional traits of ...the functional traits such as the height and diameter of culm, and the density of culms and AGDW (Haslam 1969; Hong and Kim ...
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Defining the functional traits that drive bacterial decomposer community productivity
... (sum) functional traits and maximum functional traits for each carbon source are ...Cumulative functional traits are checked for significance when the variation explained by ...
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Leaf Functional Traits as Predictors of Drought Tolerance in Urban Trees
... The results from pairwise trait correlations provide predictive relationships between leaf functional traits that may be useful in-field characteristics. Especially noteworthy is the significant negative ...
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Bird functional traits affect seed dispersal patterns of China’s endangered trees across different disturbed habitats
... bird functional traits (behavioural traits: food habit, for- aging pattern, foraging frequency, and habitat speciali- sation; morphological traits: weight, body length, wing length, and tail ...
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Assessing the importance of intraspecific variability in dung beetle functional traits
... in functional indices assumes that traits are robust, in that greater variability exists between than within ...robust traits has been explored in plants, there exists little information on the ...
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Defining the functional traits that drive bacterial decomposer community productivity
... Interestingly, functional trait assays revealed that Rhodococcus ...in functional trait assays and native lignin present in lignocellulose (Vishtal and Kraslawski, ...the functional potentials ...
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WhoGEM: an admixture based prediction machine accurately predicts quantitative functional traits in plants
... ProvenancePredictor algorithm (geographical coordi- nates), and phenotypic characterization (quantitative functional traits). A multi-criteria approach is used to determine the optimal number of population ...
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Functional traits and water transport strategies in lowland tropical rainforest trees
... our functional coordination among traits, by considering only eudicot trees (26 individuals) in a second ordination analysis (Fig ...seven functional traits that defined this gradient in the ...
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Using functional traits to quantify the value of plant communities to invertebrate ecosystem service providers in arable landscapes
... of functional traits in response to these gradients that represent trade-offs in plant ecological strategy (Grime et ...ruderal traits including high specific leaf area (SLA), relative growth rate, ...
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The role of topography and plant functional traits in determining tropical reforestation success
... landscape, we show how differences in plot slope results in differential tree growth. While no relationship was found between the mean of plot-slope and tree height across all experimental plots for C. sublimis (Figure ...
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Analysis of anatomical and functional traits of xylem in Humulus lupulus L stems
... Hop is a climbing species with up to 12 m long but thin stems supporting relatively large leaf area. Sufficient supply of water to the leaves requires high transport capacity per stem cross sectional area. Unfortunately, ...
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Exploitation of Rhizobacteria for Functional Traits in Mungbean
... an interesting alternative to improve nitrogen fixation. PGPR have been applied to various crops to enhance growth, seed emergence and crop yield, but only a few isolates have been commercialized (Dey et al., 2004). In ...
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Phylogenetic perspectives on reef fish functional traits
... In parallel, phylogenetic studies have 736 examined the evolutionary patterns of a variety of traits in reef fish lineages, aligning 737 their findings to key historical and biogeographi[r] ...
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Assessing the importance of intraspecific variability in dung beetle functional traits
... Conclusion Our exploration into the sources of trait variability in a functionally important invertebrate group has demonstrated that using dung beetle mean trait values when dealing wit[r] ...
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Articles
... We introduce a new dataset of woody plants on 60 small tropical islands located in the Raja Ampat archipelago in Indonesia. The dataset includes incidence, abundance and functional trait data for 57 species. All ...
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Assessing vegetation function with imaging spectroscopy
... The hyperspectral or spectroscopic observations acquired from space thus far have pro- vided a strong foundation for the further development of satellite imaging spectrometers with global coverage. Hyperspectral missions ...
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Recruitment and dispersal limitations in a chronosequence of secondary forests in tropical Australia
... chronosequence. Plant recruitment in young secondary forests was dominated by existing species with similar functional traits, while old secondary forests showed higher species diversity and a broader range ...
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