Vegetation Functional Types and Traits at Multiple Scales

Gillison, Andrew N.

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“…While the Key is not restricted to plot size, the 40x5m transect has been found practicable in 1826 transects worldwide across all biomes in both terrestrial and aquatic (marine and freshwater) environments (Gillison 2002(Gillison , 2013(Gillison , 2016(Gillison , 2017. The relatively narrow rectangular transect and area (200 m 2 ) allows rapid positioning in most field conditions and is especially suited to 'azonal' vegetation typifying marginal shoreline and riparian habitats as well as ridgelines, forest margins and gaps that may be caused by recurrent disturbance such as treefall or logging.…”

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2018 IAVS Symposium: Bozeman, Montana, USA

Roberts¹,

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2017

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2018 IAVS Symposium: Bozeman, Montana, USA

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2017

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“…These latter traits together with a few others, also easily assessed using shoot and foliage material, are particularly responsive to environmental filters (Diaz et al, 1998; Westoby & Wright, 2006). They can show strong intercorrelations, indicating functional trade‐offs in the context of specific ecological strategies (Gillison, 2016; Pierce et al, 2013; Wright et al, 2004). Beside the leaf size/specific area, physiological and morphological traits responsive to climate filters thus include the leaf dry matter content, life span and photosynthetic pathway, regarding foliage, and the specific root length, fine root diameter or rooting depth, regarding the hypogenous organs (Lavorel et al, 2007).…”

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Above‐ and below‐ground responses to experimental climate forcing in two forb species from montane wooded pastures in Switzerland

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Mountain ecosystems are particularly threatened by ongoing climate change and the species composition of high elevation grasslands is already changing. An open research question is how these ecosystems will adapt to changes in their key environmental constraints. The responses of wooded pastures to experimental climate forcing were analysed in a transplantation experiment conducted downslope, along an elevational temperature and precipitation gradient on the lee side of Jura Mountains, Switzerland (up to +4.17°C and −35% precipitation). To improve mechanistic understanding of biodiversity and biomass decreases in response to transplantation, changes in functional traits within foliage and roots of one ubiquitous (Taraxacum officinale) and one montane (Alchemilla monticola) perennial forb species were investigated. In consequence of transplantation, the two studied species raised their temperature optimum for CO2 assimilation and net photosynthesis yield from 20 to 30°C. During cool periods, the highest rates of leaf gas exchanges were measured at the lower recipient sites. However, an opposite trend was observed during a spring drought and summer warm spell. Regarding the more integrative morpho‐anatomical traits, Alchemilla primarily acclimated to warmer temperatures at the recipient sites with increased leaf and foliage rosette size. Missing xeromorphic and/or hydraulic adjustments in foliage and roots, its susceptibility to higher vapour pressure deficits and lower soil moisture availability was thus enhanced. Taraxacum showed adjustments to both warmer temperature and lower moisture availability, including reduced leaf size, lower hydraulic diameter of xylem vessels and theoretical specific hydraulic conductivity. The anticipated shift in the environmental conditions at high elevation, with reduced coldness limitation but increasingly constraining water economy, could thus become particularly demanding for montane species of wooded pastures. It may favour perennials with large phenotypic plasticity but leads to maladjustments and loss of the species which are more specifically adapted to montane conditions. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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“…La diversidad funcional tiene distintas métricas, de manera que no todas sus evaluaciones se correlacionan con la riqueza de especies (Díaz y Cabido, 2001;Hooper et al, 2005), en cuanto a la riqueza de tipos funcionales de plantas, se ha documentado una relación casi lineal con la riqueza de especies e independiente del área de muestreo que podría permitir estimar S cuando se conoce Sg (Gillison, 2016). La evaluación de la diversidad forestal requiere del uso de indicadores que caractericen los atributos primarios de composición, estructura y función de las plantas (Franklin, 1988;Noss, 1990).…”

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“…La evaluación de la diversidad forestal requiere del uso de indicadores que caractericen los atributos primarios de composición, estructura y función de las plantas (Franklin, 1988;Noss, 1990). En este sentido, la riqueza de especies (S) evalúa la composición, la riqueza de tipos funcionales (S g ) es una métrica de la función, y la razón S/S g evalúa, indirectamente, la estructura de los bosques (Gillison, 2016).…”

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Riqueza de especies y tipos funcionales: su relación en bosques de oyamel del Monte Tláloc, Estado de México

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Rosa

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La diversidad de plantas vasculares está relacionada con la productividad y resiliencia de los bosques, por lo tanto, el desarrollo de indicadorespara su caracterización es fundamental. La riqueza de especies vasculares (S) ha mostrado ser un buen indicador de la diversidadde otros grupos biológicos. Asimismo, se ha propuesto que la riqueza de tipos funcionales de plantas (Sg), se correlaciona significativamentecon la riqueza de especies y, por lo tanto, puede ser usada como un indicador sustituto. En este trabajo se analiza la relaciónriqueza-área de muestreo (A), con bases teóricas y datos empíricos para proponer un marco teórico generalizado de las relaciones entrelos parámetros de las curvas: S-A, Sg-A y S-Sg. Se evalúa el modelo potencial y el logarítmico de las curvas de acumulación riqueza-áreade especies de plantas vasculares y tipos funcionales, estos últimos caracterizados mediante una clasificación basada en 36 atributosfuncionales en 15 sitios de muestreo de 1000 m2 en bosques de oyamel del Monte Tláloc, Estado de México. Los resultados muestranestimaciones de riqueza equiparables con las mediciones directas usando solamente un tipo de riqueza para estimar el otro. Esto puedesimplificar considerablemente la obtención de indicadores de diversidad en inventarios de plantas vasculares.

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Vegetation Functional Types and Traits at Multiple Scales

Cited by 10 publications

References 171 publications

2018 IAVS Symposium: Bozeman, Montana, USA

2018 IAVS Symposium: Bozeman, Montana, USA

Above‐ and below‐ground responses to experimental climate forcing in two forb species from montane wooded pastures in Switzerland

Riqueza de especies y tipos funcionales: su relación en bosques de oyamel del Monte Tláloc, Estado de México

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