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A test of the explanatory power of plant functional traits on the individual and population levels

SYSNO ASEP	0369306
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	A test of the explanatory power of plant functional traits on the individual and population levels
Author(s)	Lanta, V. (FI) Klimešová, Jitka (BU-J)_{RID, ORCID} Martincová, K. (CZ) Janeček, Štěpán (BU-J)_RID Doležal, Jiří (BU-J)_{RID, ORCID} Rosenthal, J. (US) Lepš, Jan (BC-A)_{RID, ORCID} Klimeš, Leoš (BU-J)
Number of authors	8
Source Title	Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. - : Elsevier - ISSN 1433-8319 Roč. 13, č. 3 (2011), 189-199
Number of pages	11 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	DE - Germany
Keywords	meadows ; abandonment ; moisture
Subject RIV	EF - Botanics
R&D Projects	GA526/09/0963 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
	GA526/06/0723 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
CEZ	AV0Z60050516 - BU-J (2005-2011)
	AV0Z50070508 - ENTU-I, BC-A (2005-2011)
UT WOS	000296000300004
DOI	10.1016/j.ppees.2011.05.003
Annotation	An important issue in plant ecology is the extent to which functional traits that explain patterns at one organizational level serve as explanatory variables at higher levels, while a related subject is the universality of relationships between traits and responses to environmental variables even at a given level. We addressed both questions experimentally by either mowing or abandoning plots within two meadows, one wet and one dry, and then measuring the performance of 42 species in terms of shoot growth and flowering (individual level) and species cover (population level), and relating these performance measures to traits. Our study found that only one trait had predictive value for responses at both the individual and population level for the environmental alteration consisting of mowing vs. abandonment The limited ability of the predictive power of traits to transcend organizational level and ecological milieu suggests that trait function is highly context dependent.
Workplace	Institute of Botany
Contact	Martina Bartošová, martina.bartosova@ibot.cas.cz, ibot@ibot.cas.cz, Tel.: 271 015 242 ; Marie Jakšová, marie.jaksova@ibot.cas.cz, Tel.: 384 721 156-8
Year of Publishing	2012

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