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Plant Functional Trait: Concept and Significance
Plant functional traits refer to physio-morpho-phenological qualities that indirectly impact fitness or performance by influencing the life history...
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Challenges and Opportunities in Scaling Up Plant Functional Trait-Based Approaches
Plant functional traits, such as leaf size, root depth, and flowering time, have become pivotal in understanding plant ecology and ecosystem...
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Trait driven or neutral: understanding the change in functional trait diversity during early plant succession using Price partitions
Habitat filtering, species interactions and neutral colonization as well as extinction dynamics govern the sequence of community assembly and...
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Integrating Marker-Assisted (MAS) and Genomic Selection (GS) for Plant Functional Trait Improvement
In plant breeding, the combination of genomic selection (GS) and marker-assisted selection (MAS) is a novel method for improving functional traits....
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Intraspecific trait variability is relevant in assessing differences in functional composition between native and alien aquatic plant communities
The loss of plant functional diversity associated with biological invasion is a main subject of invasion biology, but still understudied in case of...
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Giant root-rat engineering and livestock grazing activities regulate plant functional trait diversity of an Afroalpine vegetation community in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
Disturbances from rodent engineering and human activities profoundly impact ecosystem structure and functioning. Whilst we know that disturbances...
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High nitrogen addition induces functional trait divergence of plant community in a temperate desert steppe
PurposeNitrogen (N) deposition is well known to affect plant community assembly, but the underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood. How...
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Functional trait space and redundancy of plant communities decrease toward cold temperature at high altitudes in Southwest China
Plant communities in mountainous areas shift gradually as climatic conditions change with altitude. How trait structure in multivariate space adapts...
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Chemical Composition of Plant Leaves as a Functional Trait of the Formation of Alpine Plant Communities
AbstractContents of C, N, and P and N : P and C : N ratios in plant leaves have been studied in four alpine phytocenoses of the northwestern Caucasus...
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Implication of Plant Functional Traits in Crop Improvement
Plant functional traits are pivotal in revolutionizing crop improvement strategies, offering a robust framework to address agricultural sector...
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Plant Functional Traits for Improving Productivity
This book discusses how plant functional trait selection can help researchers to understand the plant-environment relationship, identify desirable...
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Drought intensity and duration effects on morphological root traits vary across trait type and plant functional groups: a meta-analysis
The increasing severity and frequency of drought pose serious threats to plant species worldwide. Yet, we lack a general understanding of how various...
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Plant Functional Traits in Crop Breeding: Advancement and Challenges
Plant functional traits have emerged as crucial factors in crop breeding, offering a pathway to address the multifaceted challenges facing...
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Citizen science plant observations encode global trait patterns
Global maps of plant functional traits are essential for studying the dynamics of the terrestrial biosphere, yet the spatial distribution of trait...
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Leaf trait plasticity reveals interactive effects of temporally disjunct grazing and warming on plant communities
Changes in climate and grazing intensity influence plant-community compositions and their functional structure. Yet, little is known about their...
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Plant trait networks reveal adaptation strategies in the drylands of China
BackgroundPlants accomplish multiple functions by the interrelationships between functional traits. Clarifying the complex relationships between...
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Using Plant Functional Traits to Inform Wetland Restoration
Plant functional trait frameworks have been increasingly used to understand plant community dynamics, linkages between plants and ecosystem function,...
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Integration of Plant Functional Traits in Sustainable Agriculture
Trait is defined as a characteristic measured at an individual organism’s morphological, phenological, physiological, behavioral, or cultural level...
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Intraspecific leaf trait variation of the heterophyllous amphibious plant Luronium natans: a trait-based study
Heterophylly, a type of intraspecific trait variation (ITV), is commonly observed in aquatic and amphibious plants. In this study, we focused on Luroni...
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Soil Abiotic Properties Shape Plant Functional Diversity Across Temperate Grassland Plant Communities
There is increasing awareness that plant community functional properties can be an important driver of ecosystem functioning. However, major...
