Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait-based ecology
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F25%3A00638733" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/25:00638733 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/67985939:_____/25:00638733 RIV/60076658:12310/25:43909739
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70018" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70018</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70018" target="_blank" >10.1002/ecm.70018</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait-based ecology
Original language description
Trait-based ecology, a prominent research field identifying traits linked to the distribution and interactions of organisms and their impact on ecosystem functioning, has flourished in the last three decades. Yet, the field still grapples with critical challenges, broadly framed as Raunki ae ran shortfalls. Recognizing and interconnecting these limitations is vital for designing and prioritizing research objectives and mainstreaming trait-based approaches across a variety of organisms, trophic levels, and biomes. This strategic review scrutinizes eight major limitations within trait-based ecology, spanning scales from organisms to the entire biosphere. Challenges range from defining and measuring traits (SF 1), exploring intraspecific variability within and across individuals and populations (SF 2), understanding the complex relationships between trait variation and fitness (SF 3), and discerning trait variations with underlying evolutionary patterns (SF 4). This review extends to community assembly (SF 5), ecosystem functioning and multitrophic relationships (SFs 6 and 7), and global repositories and scaling (SF 8). At the core of trait-based ecology lies the ambition of scaling up processes from individuals to ecosystems by exploring the ecological strategies of organisms and connecting them to ecosystem functions across multiple trophic levels. Achieving this goal necessitates addressing key limitations embedded in the foundations of trait-based ecology. After identifying key SFs, we propose pathways for advancing trait-based ecology, fortifying its robustness, and unlocking its full potential to significantly contribute to ecological understanding and biodiversity conservation. This review underscores the significance of systematically evaluating the performance of organisms in standardized conditions, encompassing their responses to environmental variation and effects on ecosystems. This approach aims to bridge the gap between easily measurable traits, species ecological strategies, their demography, and their combined impacts on ecosystems.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecological Monographs
ISSN
0012-9615
e-ISSN
1557-7015
Volume of the periodical
95
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
e70018
UT code for WoS article
001543970600005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105005869870