Plant Functional Traits
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Plant Functional Types
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Author : T. M. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-05-13
Plant Functional Types written by T. M. Smith and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-13 with Gardening categories.
This book describes approaches and methods for grouping species with similar characteristics into functional types in ways which maximise our potential to predict accurately the responses of real vegetation with real species diversity.
Plant Functional Traits
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Author : Manoj Kumar
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2025-02-15
Plant Functional Traits written by Manoj Kumar and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-15 with Science categories.
Plant Function Traits: Linking Climate and Ecosystem Functioning, part of the Plant Biology, Sustainability and Climate Change series, presents a wholistic understanding of Plant Functional Traits. As global climate change advances, natural resources are facing increasing survival challenges, hence this book directly addresses that need, exploring the morphological, physiological, and phenological properties of a plant that can be used as a proxy to understand plant environment interactions. Users will find great illustrations throughout individual chapters, along with case studies that demonstrate applications of functional traits in classifying vegetation of a region into distinct type groups as Plant Functional Types (PFTs).Additional information includes applications in the development of new generation of Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) and an understanding of the response of vegetation to changing environments. - Presents foundational insights into multiple functional trait axes - Describes the quantification of functional traits from individuals to regions - Includes the role of functional traits in developing new vegetation models for assessing the impact of climate change on plants
Plant Functional Diversity
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Author : Eric Garnier
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-11
Plant Functional Diversity written by Eric Garnier and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-11 with Science categories.
Biological diversity, the variety of living organisms on Earth, is traditionally viewed as the diversity of taxa, and species in particular. However, other facets of diversity also need to be considered for a comprehensive understanding of evolutionary and ecological processes. This novel book demonstrates the advantages of adopting a functional approach to diversity in order to improve our understanding of the functioning of ecological systems and their components. The focus is on plants, which are major components of these systems, and for which the functional approach has led to major scientific advances over the last 20 years. Plant Functional Diversity presents the rationale for a trait-based approach to functional diversity in the context of comparative plant ecology and agroecology. It demonstrates how this approach can be used to address a number of highly debated questions in plant ecology pertaining to plant responses to their environment, controls on plant community structure, ecosystem properties, and the services these deliver to human societies. This research level text will be of particular relevance and use to graduate students and professional researchers in plant ecology, agricultural sciences and conservation biology.
Plant Functional Traits And Vegetation Strategies
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Author : Bianca Ariana Santini Gonzalez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Plant Functional Traits And Vegetation Strategies written by Bianca Ariana Santini Gonzalez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Plant Functional Traits For Improving Productivity
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Author : Narendra Kumar
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2024-05-15
Plant Functional Traits For Improving Productivity written by Narendra Kumar and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book discusses how plant functional trait selection can help researchers to understand the plant-environment relationship, identify desirable traits, modulate plant resilience according to the changing climate, optimize resource use efficiency, and enhance genetic improvement. The plant functional traits-based approach provides a framework for improving crop productivity in agricultural systems with high precision. It enables researchers to develop crop varieties with desirable traits by focusing on the fundamental characteristics influencing growth, development, and response. Climate change and environmental variability pose significant agricultural challenges. The plant functional traits-based approach can help address these challenges by selecting and breeding traits that enhance resilience and adaptability capacity of the plant. This approach also contributes to sustainable agriculture, by focusing on increased food production, and resilience in extreme environmental conditions. This book provides guidance to the researchers and breeders to develop crop varieties with desirable traits. It is also a reference book for graduate and postgraduate students studying botany and agriculture.
Plant Functional Ecology
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Author : Nianpeng He
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-07-01
Plant Functional Ecology written by Nianpeng He and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-01 with Science categories.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of plant functional traits and their critical role in understanding and predicting ecosystem functions in response to environmental changes. By bridging the gap between traditional ecological research and emerging macro-ecological technologies, this book offers an in-depth understanding of how functional traits at various levels, from organs to entire ecosystems, can be utilized to address complex ecological challenges, including global change. The chapters cover a wide range of topics essential to the field of ecology, including the development and application of plant functional traits, the scaling of traits from individual plants to communities, and the integration of these traits into advanced models and remote sensing technologies. Novel frameworks, such as plant community traits, ecosystem traits (ESTs), and plant trait networks (PTNs) are discussed, providing new ways to link species-level traits with ecosystem processes. These concepts are pivotal in expanding the application of trait-based ecology, allowing for more accurate predictions of ecosystem productivity, community assembly, and biodiversity patterns on a regional and global scale. The book also addresses the challenge of linking leaf and root traits to ecosystem functions, offering insights into how these traits can be scaled up and used to understand the adaptation strategies of plants in complex environments. Targeted at undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in ecology, this book is ideal for those seeking both fundamental and advanced knowledge of trait-based research in ecology. Offering valuable insights and practical frameworks that are essential for tackling the ecological challenges, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in the integration of macroecology, geography, and remote sensing to solve current regional ecological problems and global change.
The Extent Drivers And Consequences Of Intraspecific Variation In Plant Functional Traits
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Author : Rachel M. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Extent Drivers And Consequences Of Intraspecific Variation In Plant Functional Traits written by Rachel M. Mitchell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Growth (Plants) categories.
Classifying species and communities by their collection of functional traits (traits that indirectly or directly quantify plant fitness) rather than by species identity and richness alone is increasingly being used to identify global patterns in plant and ecosystem function, to identify abiotic filters which shape community composition, and to redefine plant strategies. Typically, studies using plant functional traits have relied on trait means or community level trait averages to quantify functional change. Recent research, however, suggests that intraspecific variation in plant functional traits is extensive, and may be of importance for a number of ecological processes. My dissertation research focuses on quantifying the extent, drivers, and consequences of intraspecific variation in plant functional traits. I conducted a study in Pacific Northwest grasslands which found that, after applications of carbon in the form of either sugar or activated carbon, perennial forbs, but not grasses, suffered significant decreases in cover and biomass. These results indicated that perennial forbs, as a functional group, were more susceptible to carbon addition; however some species of forb were less affected than others. One possible explanation for this difference was that some species exhibited greater variation in functional traits that were affected by carbon addition, and this variation may have allowed some individuals to pass unaffected through the treatment filter. To test this hypothesis, I developed a study to investigate the extent of intraspecific variation in two commonly measured plant functional traits thought to reflect growth strategy, specific leaf area (SLA) and rosette diameter, within Hypochaeris radicata, a globally distributed perennial herb. I simultaneously examined the extent of intraspecific variation in plant functional traits, and the efficacy of methods used in the literature to quantify this variation. I collected trait measurements on 241 individuals from 10 populations spanning a 480 km transect. I found significant variation in plant traits: there was a 27-fold variation in SLA, and a 34-fold variation in rosette diameter. Furthermore, the method of analysis used to quantify these traits affected the interpretation of these results, as inclusion of intraspecific variation may violate the underlying assumptions of some commonly applied statistical tests (e.g. ANOVA), and thus this variation is frequently reduced through corrective measures. Variation in plant traits can be driven by biotic, as well as abiotic factors. To determine whether and how plants shift their traits in response to biotic conditions, I measured SLA and plant height for a suite of 8 forbs in an experimental grassland. Traits were collected from individuals in one of three treatments: high forb cover, balanced grass/forb cover, or high grass cover. Using a combination of permutational analysis of variance and linear mixed models, I found that plants shifted traits in terms of both average expression and trait variation in response to the biotic community, but that the direction of the shift was highly idiosyncratic. In addition, the suite of plants shifted their overall niche breadth and niche spacing in both SLA and plant height to limit similarity in the face of high competition from dominant grasses. Based on the results of the previous experiments, I then set out to determine whether this large variation was beneficial to Hypochaeris radicata in stressful abiotic conditions, and whether the observed variation was due to plasticity or adaptation. I collected seeds from 3 populations (25 maternal lines from each) that differed in growing conditions and trait expression. Maternal lines also differed in their trait expression; using PCA, maternal lines were ranked by seed weight and rosette diameter, and lines with low, intermediate, and high trait values were selected for each treatment. Plants were grown in the greenhouse under three treatments: ambient, drought, or shade conditions. I collected trait data for SLA, rosette diameter, chlorophyll content, and leaf shape, as well as calculating relative growth rate and devotion to above- and below-ground tissues. Analyses of these data using hierarchical linear mixed models revealed that, for plant diameter, maternal line of origin contributed significantly to variation (30%), but for all other traits, population of origin and maternal line explained very little of the observed variation (
Plant Functional Traits And Ecosystem Functions In Experimental Grassland Stands
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Author : Guido Kossmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Plant Functional Traits And Ecosystem Functions In Experimental Grassland Stands written by Guido Kossmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
Geographical Changes In Vegetation And Plant Functional Types
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Author : Andrew M. Greller
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-04-18
Geographical Changes In Vegetation And Plant Functional Types written by Andrew M. Greller and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-18 with Science categories.
This book presents studies on current vegetation topics, from polar to tropical regions. It is a festschrift to mark the 70th birthday of Prof. Elgene O. Box, who has studied vegetation all over the world, both through fieldwork and modeling. It reflects a number of his interests, including basic ecological plant forms (cf ‘plant functional types’), temperate-zone forests, and evergreen versus seasonal patterns. Section 1 discusses the concept of vegetation series, while Section 2 has two global-scale chapters on plant functional traits and whether they are related more to climate or phylogeny. Section 3 has nine chapters focusing on vegetation history, regional vegetation, and how these have influenced current species organizations and distributions. Regions treated include Russia, China, the USA, Mexico and Mediterranean areas. Lastly, Section 4 addresses aspects of vegetation change and plant ecology. Every chapter in this unique book offers original ideas on the topic of vegetation, as the authors are assembled from a world-wide population of leading vegetational ecologists, whose interests range from local communities to global theoretical questions.
Plant Trait Responses To Grassland Management And Succession
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Author : Stefanie Kahmen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Plant Trait Responses To Grassland Management And Succession written by Stefanie Kahmen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Grassland plants categories.