Multiple environmental drivers structure plant traits at the community level in a pyrogenic ecosystem
Abstract
Trait‐based approaches offer a way to predict changes in community structure along environmental gradients using measurable properties of individuals. Promoted as being generalizable across systems, trait‐based approaches benefit from information about the environmental drivers of trait variation, how they interact and how they change with scale. However, for most diverse, natural communities, it is largely unknown whether the relationships between leaf‐level traits and interacting environmental drivers (e.g. fire, water availability) are influenced by the scale of trait aggregation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Sep 02, 2015
- Source ID
- 10.1111/1365-2435.12536
Entities
People
- Gregory M. Ames
- Justin P. Wright
- Steven M. Anderson
Organizations
- Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
- Duke University