| Literature DB >> 30527959 |
Nianpeng He1, Congcong Liu2, Shilong Piao3, Lawren Sack4, Li Xu5, Yiqi Luo6, Jinsheng He3, Xingguo Han7, Guangsheng Zhou8, Xuhui Zhou9, Yi Lin10, Qiang Yu11, Shirong Liu12, Wei Sun13, Shuli Niu5, Shenggong Li5, Jiahui Zhang5, Guirui Yu14.
Abstract
As the range of studies on macroecology and functional traits expands, integration of traits into higher-level approaches offers new opportunities to improve clarification of larger-scale patterns and their mechanisms and predictions using models. Here, we propose a framework for quantifying 'ecosystem traits' and means to address the challenges of broadening the applicability of functional traits to macroecology. Ecosystem traits are traits or quantitative characteristics of organisms (plants, animals, and microbes) at the community level expressed as the intensity (or density) normalized per unit land area. Ecosystem traits can inter-relate and integrate data from field trait surveys, eddy-flux observation, remote sensing, and ecological models, and thereby provide new resolution of the responses and feedback at regional to global scale.Keywords: community; ecosystem; function; macroecology; scale-up; trait; transect
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Year: 2018 PMID： 30527959 DOI： 10.1016/j.tree.2018.11.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Ecol Evol ISSN： 0169-5347 Impact factor: 17.712