@Article{Bruelheide_etal2018,
author="Bruelheide, H.
and Dengler, J.
and Purschke, O.
and Lenoir, J.
and Jim{\'e}nez-Alfaro, B.
and Hennekens, S.M.
and Botta-Duk{\'a}t, Z.
and Chytr{\'y}, M.
and Field, R.
and Jansen, F.
and Kattge, J.
and Pillar, V.D.
and Schrodt, F.
and Mahecha, M.D.
and Peet, R.K.
and Sandel, B.
and van Bodegom, P.
and Altman, J.
and Alvarez-D{\'a}vila, E.
and Arfin Khan, M.A.S.
and Attorre, F.
and Aubin, I.
and Baraloto, C.
and Barroso, J.G.
and Bauters, M.
and Bergmeier, E.
and Biurrun, I.
and Bjorkman, A.D.
and Blonder, B.
and {\v C}arni, A.
and Cayuela, L.
and {\v C}ern{\'y}, T.
and Cornelissen, J.H.C.
and Craven, D.
and Dainese, M.
and Derroire, G.
and De Sanctis, M.
and D{\'i}az, S.
and Dole{\v z}al, J.
and Farfan-Rios, W.
and Feldpausch, T.R.
and Fenton, N.J.
and Garnier, E.
and Guerin, G.R.
and Guti{\'e}rrez, A.G.
and Haider, S.
and Hattab, T.
and Henry, G.
and H{\'e}rault, B.
and Higuchi, P.
and H{\"o}lzel, N.
and Homeier, J.
and Jentsch, A.
and J{\"u}rgens, N.
and K{\k a}cki, Z.
and Karger, D.N.
and Kessler, M.
and Kleyer, M.
and Knollov{\'a}, I.
and Korolyuk, A.Y.
and K{\"u}hn, I.
and Laughlin, D.C.
and Lens, F.
and Loos, J.
and Louault, F.
and Lyubenova, M.I.
and Malhi, Y.
and Marcen{\`o}, C.
and Mencuccini, M.
and M{\"u}ller, J.V.
and Munzinger, J.
and Myers-Smith, I.H.
and Neill, D.A.
and Niinemets, {\"U}.
and Orwin, K.H.
and Ozinga, W.A.
and Penuelas, J.
and P{\'e}rez-Haase, A.
and Pet{\v r}{\'i}k, P.
and Phillips, O.L.
and P{\"a}rtel, M.
and Reich, P.B.
and R{\"o}mermann, C.
and Rodrigues, A.V.
and Sabatini, F.M.
and Sardans, J.
and Schmidt, M.
and Seidler, G.
and Silva Espejo, J.E.
and Silveira, M.
and Smyth, A.
and Sporbert, M.
and Svenning, J.-C.
and Tang, Z.
and Thomas, R.
and Tsiripidis, I.
and Vassilev, K.
and Violle, C.
and Virtanen, R.
and Weiher, E.
and Welk, E.
and Wesche, K.
and Winter, M.
and Wirth, C.
and Jandt, U.",
title="Global trait--environment relationships of plant communities",
journal="Nature Ecology \& Evolution",
year="2018",
volume="2",
number="12",
pages="1906--1917",
abstract="Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the community level trait combinations are expected to be decoupled from these trade-offs because different strategies can facilitate co-existence within communities. A key question is to what extent community-level trait composition is globally filtered and how well it is related to global versus local environmental drivers. Here, we perform a global, plot-level analysis of trait--environment relationships, using a database with more than 1.1 million vegetation plots and 26,632 plant species with trait information. Although we found a strong filtering of 17 functional traits, similar climate and soil conditions support communities differing greatly in mean trait values. The two main community trait axes that capture half of the global trait variation (plant stature and resource acquisitiveness) reflect the trade-offs at the species level but are weakly associated with climate and soil conditions at the global scale. Similarly, within-plot trait variation does not vary systematically with macro-environment. Our results indicate that, at fine spatial grain, macro-environmental drivers are much less important for functional trait composition than has been assumed from floristic analyses restricted to co-occurrence in large grid cells. Instead, trait combinations seem to be predominantly filtered by local-scale factors such as disturbance, fine-scale soil conditions, niche partitioning and biotic interactions.",
optnote="exported from refbase (http://php.ecofog.gf/refbase/show.php?record=844), last updated on Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:03:16 -0300",
issn="2397-334x",
doi="10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8"
}