Assessing the reliability of predicted plant trait distributions at the global scale
Boonman, Coline C. F. (Radboud University. Department of Environmental Science)
Benítez López, Ana (Radboud University. Department of Environmental Science)
Schipper, Aafke M. (Radboud University. Department of Environmental Science)
Thuiller, Wilfried (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Anand, Madhur (University of Guelph. School of Environmental Sciences)
Cerabolini, Bruno Enrico Leone (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria. Dipartimento di Scienze Teoriche e Applicate)
Cornelissen, J. H. C. (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Department of Ecological Science)
Gonzalez-Melo, Andres (Universidad del Rosario (Bogotà, Colòmbia). Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matematicas)
Hattingh, Wesley (University of the Witwatersrand)
Higuchi, Pedro (Santa Catarina State University)
Laughlin, Daniel C. (University of Wyoming. Department of Botany)
Onipchenko, Vladimir (Moskovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet im. M.V. Lomonosova)
Peñuelas, Josep (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Poorter, Lourens (Wageningen University. Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group)
Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A. (Leiden University. Environmental Biology Department)
Huijbregts, Mark A. J. (Institute for Water and Wetland Research)
Santini, Luca (Institute for Water and Wetland Research)

Date:	2020
Abstract:	Predictions of plant traits over space and time are increasingly used to improve our understanding of plant community responses to global environmental change. A necessary step forward is to assess the reliability of global trait predictions. In this study, we predict community mean plant traits at the global scale and present a systematic evaluation of their reliability in terms of the accuracy of the models, ecological realism and various sources of uncertainty.
Grants:	European Commission 647224 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad IJCI-2017-31419 European Commission 610028
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Ensemble forecasting ; Environmental filtering ; Intraspecific trait variation ; Leaf nitrogen concentration ; Plant height ; Specific leaf area ; Trait-environment relationships ; Trait model ; Wood density
Published in:	Global ecology and biogeography, Vol. 29, Issue 6 (June 2020) , p. 1034-1051, ISSN 1466-822X

DOI: 10.1111/geb.13086
PMID: 32612452

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