PT Journal
AU Ollivier, M
   Baraloto, C
   Marcon, E
TI A trait database for Guianan rain forest trees permits intra- and inter-specific contrasts
SO Annals of Forest Science
JI Ann. For. Sci.
PY 2007
BP 781
EP 786
VL 64
IS 7
DE plant traits; tropical forest; French Guiana; functional groups; plasticity; ontogeny
AB We present a plant trait database covering autecology for rain forest trees of French Guiana. The database comprises more than thirty traits including autecology (e. g., habitat associations and reproductive phenology), wood structure (e. g., density and tension characteristics) and physiology at the whole plant (e. g., carbon and nitrogen isotopes) and leaf level (e. g., specific leaf area, photosynthetic capacity). The current database describes traits for about nine hundred species from three hundred genera in one hundred families. For more than sixty species, data on twelve morphological and ecophysiological traits are provided for individual plants under different environmental conditions and at different ontogenetic stages. The database is thus unique in permitting intraspecific analyses, such as the effects of ontogenetic stages or environmental conditions on trait values and their relationships.
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