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New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

Natalia Pérez HarguindeguyUniversidad Nacional de CórdobaSandra Dı́azAInstituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CC 495, 5000 Córdoba, ArgentinaÉric GarnierBCNRS, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (UMR 5175), 1919, Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, FranceSandra LavorelCLaboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, UMR 5553 du CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, FranceHendrik PoorterDPlant Sciences (IBG2), Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, GermanyPedro JaureguiberryAInstituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CC 495, 5000 Córdoba, ArgentinaM. Syndonia Bret‐HarteEInstitute of Arctic Biology, 311 Irving I, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000, USAWilliam K. CornwellFSystems Ecology, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Department of Ecological Science, VU University, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The NetherlandsJoseph M. CraineGDivision of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhtattan, KS 66506, USADiego E. GurvichAInstituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CC 495, 5000 Córdoba, ArgentinaCarlos UrcelayAInstituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CC 495, 5000 Córdoba, ArgentinaErik J. VeneklaasHFaculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, AustraliaPeter B. ReichIDepartment of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530 N Cleveland Avenue, St Paul, MN 55108, USALourens PoorterJCentre for Ecosystems, Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The NetherlandsIan J. WrightKDepartment of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, AustraliaPeter M. RayLDepartment of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USALucas EnricoAInstituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CC 495, 5000 Córdoba, ArgentinaJuli G. PausasMCentro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE-CSIC), IVIA Campus, Carretera Nàquera km 4.5, 46113 Montcada, Valencia, SpainArjen C. de VosFSystems Ecology, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Department of Ecological Science, VU University, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The NetherlandsNina BuchmannNInstitute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 2, LFW C56, CH-8092 Zürich, SwitzerlandGuillermo FunesAInstituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CC 495, 5000 Córdoba, ArgentinaFabien QuétierAInstituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CC 495, 5000 Córdoba, ArgentinaJohn HodgsonOPeak Science and Environment, Station House, Leadmill, Hathersage, Hope Valley S32 1BA, UKK. ThompsonPDepartment of Animal and Plant Sciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UKHuw D. MorganQNSW Department of Primary Industries, Forest Resources Research Beecroft, NSW 2119, AustraliaHans ter SteegeRNaturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, and Institute of Environmental Biology, Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The NetherlandsMarcel G. A. van der HeijdenSEcological Farming Systems, Agroscope Reckenholz Tänikon, Research Station ART, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland and Plant-Microbe Interactions, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The NetherlandsLawren SackTDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 621 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USAB. BlonderUDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USAPeter PoschlodVInstitute of Botany, Faculty of Biology and Preclinical Medicine, University of Regensburg, D-93040, Regensburg, GermanyMaría V. VaierettiAInstituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CC 495, 5000 Córdoba, ArgentinaGeorgina ContiAInstituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CC 495, 5000 Córdoba, ArgentinaA. Carla StaverWDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USASâmia AquinoXCentro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, CATIE 7170, Cartago, Turrialba 30501, Costa RicaJ. H. C. CornelissenFSystems Ecology, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Department of Ecological Science, VU University, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Аннотация

Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels and influence ecosystem properties. Variation in plant functional traits, and trait syndromes, has proven useful for tackling many important ecological questions at a range of scales, giving rise to a demand for standardised ways to measure ecologically meaningful plant traits. This line of research has been among the most fruitful avenues for understanding ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes. It also has the potential both to build a predictive set of local, regional and global relationships between plants and environment and to quantify a wide range of natural and human-driven processes, including changes in biodiversity, the impacts of species invasions, alterations in biogeochemical processes and vegetation–atmosphere interactions. The importance of these topics dictates the urgent need for more and better data, and increases the value of standardised protocols for quantifying trait variation of different species, in particular for traits with power to predict plant- and ecosystem-level processes, and for traits that can be measured relatively easily. Updated and expanded from the widely used previous version, this handbook retains the focus on clearly presented, widely applicable, step-by-step recipes, with a minimum of text on theory, and not only includes updated methods for the traits previously covered, but also introduces many new protocols for further traits. This new handbook has a better balance between whole-plant traits, leaf traits, root and stem traits and regenerative traits, and puts particular emphasis on traits important for predicting species’ effects on key ecosystem properties. We hope this new handbook becomes a standard companion in local and global efforts to learn about the responses and impacts of different plant species with respect to environmental changes in the present, past and future.

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DOI: 10.1071/bt12225

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