Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11620/18:10392709

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13171" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13171</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13171" target="_blank" >10.1111/jbi.13171</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species

Original language description

Aim: Despite several recent efforts to map plant traits and to identify their climatic drivers, there are still major gaps. Global trait patterns for major functional groups, in particular, the differences between woody and herbaceous plants, have yet to be identified. Here, we take advantage of big data efforts to compile plant species occurrence and trait data to analyse the spatial patterns of assemblage means and variances of key plant traits. We tested whether these patterns and their climatic drivers are similar for woody and herbaceous plants. Location: New World (North and South America). Methods: Using the largest currently available database of plant occurrences, we provide maps of 200 x 200 km grid-cell trait means and variances for both woody and herbaceous species and identify environmental drivers related to these patterns. We focus on six plant traits: maximum plant height, specific leaf area, seed mass, wood density, leaf nitrogen concentration and leaf phosphorus concentration. Results: For woody assemblages, we found a strong climate signal for both means and variances of most of the studied traits, consistent with strong environmental filtering. In contrast, for herbaceous assemblages, spatial patterns of trait means and variances were more variable, the climate signal on trait means was often different and weaker. Main conclusion: Trait variations for woody versus herbaceous assemblages appear to reflect alternative strategies and differing environmental constraints. Given that most large-scale trait studies are based on woody species, the strikingly different biogeographic patterns of herbaceous traits suggest that a more synthetic framework is needed that addresses how suites of traits within and across broad functional groups respond to climate.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-26369S" target="_blank" >GA16-26369S: Are there limits to diversity? Towards an equilibrium theory of biodiversity</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Biogeography

ISSN

0305-0270

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

45

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

895-916

UT code for WoS article

000428849000016

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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