Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales
Sporbert, Maria (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden)
Welk, Erik (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden)
Seidler, Gunnar (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden)
Jandt, Ute (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden)
Aćić, Svetlana (University of Belgrade. Department of Botany)
Biurrun, Idoia (Universidad del País Vasco. Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología)
Campos, Juan Antonio (Universidad del País Vasco. Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología)
Čarni, Andraž (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Jovan Hadži Institute of Biology)
Cerabolini, Bruno Enrico Leone (University of Insubria. Department of Biotechnologies and Life Sciences)
Chytrý, Milan (Masaryk University. Department of Botany and Zoology)
Ćušterevska, Renata (University in Skopje. Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics)
Dengler, Jürgen (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Alemanya))
De Sanctis, Michele (University Sapienza of Rome. Department of Environmental Biology)
Dziuba, Tetiana (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany)
Fagúndez, Jaime (Universidade da Coruña. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña)
Field, Richard (University of Nottingham. School of Geography)
Golub, Valentin (Samara Federal Research Scientific Center RAS. Institute of Ecology of Volga River Basin)
He, Tianhua (Curtin University. School of Molecular and Life Sciences)
Jansen, Florian (University of Rostock. Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Lenoir, Jonathan (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Université de Picardie Jules Verne. Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés)
Marcenò, Corrado (Masaryk University. Department of Botany and Zoology)
Martín-Forés, Irene (The University of Adelaide. School of Biological Sciences)
Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold (Department of Bioscience, Biodiversity and Conservation (Denmark))
Moretti, Marco (Swiss Federal Research Institute. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology)
Niinemets, Ülo (Estonian University of Life Sciences. Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Peñuelas, Josep (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Pérez-Haase, Aaron (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals)
Vandvik, Vigdis (University of Bergen. Department of Biological Sciences)
Vassilev, Kiril (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research. Department of Plant and Fungal Diversity and Resources)
Vynokurov, Denys (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany)
Bruelheide, Helge (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden)

Fecha:	2021
Resumen:	Aim: Plant functional traits summarize the main variability in plant form and function across taxa and biomes. We assess whether geographic range size, climatic niche size, and local abundance of plants can be predicted by sets of traits (trait syndromes) or are driven by single traits. Location: Eurasia. Methods: Species distribution maps were extracted from the Chorological Database Halle to derive information on the geographic range size and climatic niche size for 456 herbaceous, dwarf shrub and shrub species. We estimated local species abundances based on 740,113 vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive, where abundances were available as plant species cover per plot. We compiled a complete species-by-trait matrix of 20 plant functional traits from trait databases (TRY, BiolFlor and CLO-PLA). The relationships of species' geographic range size, climatic niche size and local abundance with single traits and trait syndromes were tested with multiple linear regression models. Results: Generally, traits were more strongly related to local abundances than to broad-scale species distribution patterns in geographic and climatic space (range and niche size), but both were better predicted by trait combinations than by single traits. Local abundance increased with leaf area and specific leaf area (SLA). Geographic range size and climatic niche size both increased with SLA. While range size increased with plant height, niche size decreased with leaf carbon content. Conclusion: Functional traits matter for species' abundance and distribution at both local and broad geographic scale. Local abundances are associated with different combinations of traits as compared to broad-scale distributions, pointing to filtering by different environmental and ecological factors acting at distinct spatial scales. However, traits related to the leaf economics spectrum were important for species' abundance and occurrence at both spatial scales. This finding emphasizes the general importance of resource acquisition strategies for the abundance and distribution of herbaceous, dwarf shrub and shrub species.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Chorological database Halle (CDH) ; Climatic niche ; Commonness and rarity ; European Vegetation Archive (EVA) ; Functional traits ; Geographic range ; Macroecology ; Vegetation-plot data
Publicado en:	Journal of vegetation science, Vol. 32, Issue 2 (March/April 2021) , art. e13016, ISSN 1654-1103

DOI: 10.1111/jvs.13016

15 p, 1.9 MB

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