New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels and influence ecosystem properties. Variation in plant functional traits, and trait syndromes, has proven useful for tackling many important ecological questions at a range of scales, giving rise to a demand for standardised ways to measure ecologically meaningful plant traits. This line of research has been among the most fruitful avenues for understanding ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes. It also has the potential both to build a predictive set of local, regional and global…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Awards: GEO-1138881, DEB-0620652, 0452325, 0620652, 1138881, GEO-0452325
• UN
  Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
• MU
  Macquarie University
• CN
  Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
• II
  Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research

  Awards: GEO-0452325, CRN 2015, SGP-CRA2015, CRN 2015 and SGP-CRA2015
• FP
  Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica