TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ollivier, M.
AU  - Baraloto, C.
AU  - Marcon, E.
PY  - 2007//
TI  - A trait database for Guianan rain forest trees permits intra- and inter-specific contrasts
T2  - Ann. For. Sci.
JO  - Annals of Forest Science
SP  - 781
EP  - 786
VL  - 64
IS  - 7
PB  - EDP SCIENCES S A
KW  - plant traits
KW  - tropical forest
KW  - French Guiana
KW  - functional groups
KW  - plasticity
KW  - ontogeny
N2  - 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.
SN  - 1286-4560
N1  - ISI:000250097700011
ID  - Ollivier_etal2007
ER  -