Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities
Helge Bruelheide
1, 2
,
Jürgen Dengler
2, 3, 4
,
Oliver Purschke
1, 2
,
Jonathan Lenoir
5
,
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
1, 2, 6
,
Stephan M. Hennekens
7
,
Zoltán Botta-Dukát
8
,
Milan Chytrý
9
,
Richard Field
10
,
Florian Jansen
11
,
Jens Kattge
2, 12
,
Valério D. Pillar
13
,
Franziska Schrodt
10, 12
,
Miguel D. Mahecha
2, 12
,
Robert K. Peet
14
,
Brody Sandel
15
,
Peter Van Bodegom
16
,
Jan Altman
17
,
Esteban Álvarez-Dávila
18
,
Mohammed A. S. Arfin-Khan
19, 20
,
Fabio Attorre
21
,
I. Aubin
22
,
Christopher Baraloto
23
,
Jorcely G. Barroso
24
,
Marijn Bauters
25
,
Erwin Bergmeier
26
,
Idoia Biurrun
27
,
Anne D Bjorkman
28
,
Benjamin Blonder
29, 30
,
Andraž Čarni
31, 32
,
Luis Cayuela
33
,
Tomas Cerny
34
,
J. Hans C. Cornelissen
35
,
Dylan Craven
2, 36
,
Matteo Dainese
37
,
Géraldine Derroire
38
,
Michele De Sanctis
21
,
Sandra Díaz
39
,
Jiří Doležal
17
,
William Farfan-Rios
40, 41
,
Ted R. Feldpausch
42
,
Nicole J. Fenton
43
,
Eric Garnier
44
,
Greg R. Guerin
45
,
Alvaro Gutiérrez
46
,
Sylvia Haider
1, 2
,
Tarek Hattab
47
,
Greg Henry
48
,
Hugh F. Henry
49, 50
,
Pedro Higuchi
51
,
Norbert Hölzel
52
,
Jürgen Homeier
53
,
Anke Jentsch
20
,
Norbert Jürgens
54
,
Zygmunt Kącki
55
,
Dirk N. Karger
56, 57
,
Michael Kessler
56
,
Michael Kleyer
58
,
Ilona Knollová
9
,
Andrey Y. Korolyuk
59
,
I. Kühn
1, 2, 36
,
Daniel C. Laughlin
60, 61
,
Frederic Lens
62
,
Jacqueline Loos
63
,
Frédérique Louault
64
,
Mariyana I Lyubenova
65
,
Yadvinder Malhi
29
,
C Marcenò
27
,
Maurizio Mencuccini
66, 67
,
Jonas V. Müller
68
,
JÉRÔME MUNZINGER
69
,
I. H. Myers-Smith
70
,
David A. Neill
71
,
Ülo Niinemets
72
,
Kate H Orwin
73
,
Wim A. Ozinga
7, 74
,
Josep Peñuelas
67, 72, 75
,
Aaron Pérez-Haase
76, 77
,
Petr Petřík
17
,
Oliver L. Phillips
78
,
Meelis Pärtel
79
,
Peter B. Reich
80, 81
,
Christine Römermann
2, 82
,
Arthur V Rodrigues
83
,
Francesco Maria Sabatini
1, 2
,
Jordi Sardans
67, 75
,
MARCO SCHMIDT
84
,
Gunnar Seidler
1
,
Javier Eduardo Silva Espejo
85
,
Marcos Silveira
86
,
Anita Smyth
45
,
Maria Sporbert
1, 2
,
Jens‐Christian Svenning
28
,
Zhiyao Tang
87
,
Raquel Thomas
88
,
Ioannis Tsiripidis
89
,
Kiril Vassilev
90
,
Cyrille Violle
44
,
Risto Virtanen
2, 91, 92
,
Evan Weiher
93
,
Erik Welk
1, 2
,
KARSTEN WESCHE
2, 94, 95
,
Marten Winter
2
,
Christian Wirth
2, 12, 96
,
Ute Jandt
1, 2
2
6
15
Department of Biology, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, USA
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18
Escuela de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Ambientales – ECAPMA, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia – UNAD, Sede José Celestino Mutis, Bogotá, Colombia
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22
30
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, USA
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36
38
Cirad, UMR EcoFoG, Campus Agronomique, Kourou, French Guiana
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54
60
62
64
UCA, INRA, VetAgro Sup, UREP, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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71
Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
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72
74
88
Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana
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89
90
94
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany
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Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2018-11-19
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR: 4.357
CiteScore: 19.3
Impact factor: 14.5
ISSN: 2397334X
PubMed ID:
30455437
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Ecology
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. Although plant functional trait combinations reflect ecological trade-offs at the species level, little is known about how this translates to whole communities. Here, the authors show that global trait composition is captured by two main dimensions that are only weakly related to macro-environmental drivers.
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author = {Helge Bruelheide and Jürgen Dengler and Oliver Purschke and Jonathan Lenoir and Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and Stephan M. Hennekens and Zoltán Botta-Dukát and Milan Chytrý and Richard Field and Florian Jansen and Jens Kattge and Valério D. Pillar and Franziska Schrodt and Miguel D. Mahecha and Robert K. Peet and Brody Sandel and Peter Van Bodegom and Jan Altman and Esteban Álvarez-Dávila and Mohammed A. S. Arfin-Khan and Fabio Attorre and I. Aubin and Christopher Baraloto and Jorcely G. Barroso and Marijn Bauters and Erwin Bergmeier and Idoia Biurrun and Anne D Bjorkman and Benjamin Blonder and Andraž Čarni and Luis Cayuela and Tomas Cerny and J. Hans C. Cornelissen and Dylan Craven and Matteo Dainese and Géraldine Derroire and Michele De Sanctis and Sandra Díaz and Jiří Doležal and William Farfan-Rios and Ted R. Feldpausch and Nicole J. Fenton and Eric Garnier and Greg R. Guerin and Alvaro Gutiérrez and Sylvia Haider and Tarek Hattab and Greg Henry and Hugh F. Henry and Pedro Higuchi and others},
title = {Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities},
journal = {Nature Ecology and Evolution},
year = {2018},
volume = {2},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {nov},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8},
number = {12},
pages = {1906--1917},
doi = {10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8}
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Bruelheide, Helge, et al. “Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities.” Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol. 2, no. 12, Nov. 2018, pp. 1906-1917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8.