Shifts in Plant Community Assembly Processes across Growth Forms along a Habitat Severity Gradient: A Test of the Plant Functional Trait Approach

Shifts in Plant Community Assembly Processes across Growth Forms along a Habitat Severity Gradient: A Test of the Plant Functional Trait Approach

Species respond to changes in their environments. A core goal in ecology is to understand the process of plant community assembly in response to a changing climate. Examining the performance of functional traits and trait-based assembly patterns across species among different growth forms is a usefu...

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Main Authors: Jinshi Xu, Yongfu Chai, Mao Wang, Han Dang, Yaoxin Guo, Yu Chen, Chenguang Zhang, Ting Li, Lixia Zhang, Ming Yue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
Subjects:
functional traits
habitat severity
community assembly
climate change
functional structure
trait-trait relationships
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2018.00180/full

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