Clonal vs leaf-height-seed (LHS) traits: which are filtered more strongly across habitats?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/17:00486020

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12224-017-9292-1.pdf" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12224-017-9292-1.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12224-017-9292-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12224-017-9292-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Clonal vs leaf-height-seed (LHS) traits: which are filtered more strongly across habitats?

Original language description

Plant functional traits are now frequently used instead of species identity to identify how plant species co-exist in assemblages. One notion is that species inhabiting the same environment have more characteristics in common than species from different habitats, leading to different prevailing dominant traits along environmental gradients, and also to a lesser diversity of traits in habitats that impose a stronger filter on these traits. Though such patterns have been demonstrated for different environmental drivers and different traits, studies using easily available traits connected to above ground processes (i.e. traits of the leaf-height-seed, or LHS, strategy scheme) are largely overrepresented in these analyses. Here we combined data on clonal and bud bank traits, representing the ability to reproduce and spread vegetatively, with LHS trait data and examined how these traits varied in relation to the vegetational composition of 29 Central-European habitat types. Our analysis focused on determining whether clonal/bud bank or LHS traits play an important role for environmental filtering along gradients approximated by Ellenberg indicator values (EIV) across these habitats. Our results show that clonal and bud bank traits are at least as ? if not more ? important for the differentiation of the 29 habitat types. Overall, diversity and dominance of clonal and bud bank traits was more strongly correlated with gradients of light availability, temperature, moisture, soil reaction, and nutrient availability across these habitats than it was the case for traits of the leaf-height-seed scheme. Our results call for a stronger integration of belowground traits into the functional traits approach in plant ecology and for an extension of efforts to collect such data.

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/GA16-15012S" target="_blank" >GA16-15012S: Drivers of communities' temporal stability: the role of functional differences between and within species</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Folia Geobotanica

ISSN

1211-9520

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

52

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3-4

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

269-281

UT code for WoS article

000422948100002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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