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Human‐Induced Downsizing of Animal Communities Weakens Trait Matching Between Tropical Plants and FrugivoresNARA Subscribed
Defaunation of large‐bodied animals threatens essential ecosystem functions, such as seed dispersal. However, the consequences of this human‐induced downsizing of animal communities for plant‐frugivore trait matching—the alignment between frugivory‐related plant traits (e.g., fruit size) and frugivore traits (e.g., body mass)—remain unquantified at macroecological scales. Here, we examine how human disturbance and environmenta...
Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globallyNARA Subscribed
Aim Theoretical, experimental and observational studies have shown that biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships are influenced by functional community structure through two mutually non‐exclusive mechanisms: (1) the dominance effect (which relates to the traits of the dominant species); and (2) the niche partitioning effect [which relates to functional diversity (FD)]. Although both mechanisms have been studied...
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plotsNARA Subscribed
Motivation Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or abundance of all plant species co‐occurring within delimited local areas. This allows species absences to be inferred, information seldom provided by existing global plant datasets. Although many vegetation plots...
TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open accessNARA Subscribed
Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem properties and their benefits and detriments to people. Plant trait data thus represent the basis for a vast area of research spanning from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology, to biodivers...
Tree mortality is a key factor influencing forest functions and dynamics, but our understanding of the mechanisms leading to mortality and the associated changes in tree growth rates are still limited. We compiled a new pan‐continental tree‐ring width database from sites where both dead and living trees were sampled (2970 dead and 4224 living trees from 190 sites, including 36 species), and compared early and recent growth rat...
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