Corrigendum to : New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide
Year: 2016
Type: erratum
Abstract: 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 relationships between plants and environment and to quantify a wide range of natural and human-driven processes, including changes in biodiversity, the impacts of species invasions, alterations in biogeochemical processes and vegetation–atmosphere interactions. The importance of these topics dictates the urgent need for more and better data, and increases the value of standardised protocols for quantifying trait variation of different species, in particular for traits with power to predict plant- and ecosystem-level processes, and for traits that can be measured relatively easily. Updated and expanded from the widely used previous version, this handbook retains the focus on clearly presented, widely applicable, step-by-step recipes, with a minimum of text on theory, and not only includes updated methods for the traits previously covered, but also introduces many new protocols for further traits. This new handbook has a better balance between whole-plant traits, leaf traits, root and stem traits and regenerative traits, and puts particular emphasis on traits important for predicting species' effects on key ecosystem properties. We hope this new handbook becomes a standard companion in local and global efforts to learn about the responses and impacts of different plant species with respect to environmental changes in the present, past and future.
Source: Australian Journal of Botany
DOI: 10.1071/bt12225_co
Authors: N. Pérez-Harguindeguy, S. Díaz, E. Garnier, S. Lavorel, H. Poorter, P. Jaureguiberry, M. S. Bret-Harte, W. K. Cornwell, J. M. Craine, D. E. Gurvich, C. Urcelay, E. J. Veneklaas, P. B. Reich, L. Poorter, I. J. Wright, P. Ray, L. Enrico, J. G. Pausas, A. C. de Vos, N. Buchmann, G. Funes, F. Quétier, J. G. Hodgson, K. Thompson, H. D. Morgan, H. ter Steege, L. Sack, B. Blonder, P. Poschlod, M. V. Vaieretti, G. Conti, A. C. Staver, S. Aquino, J. H. C. Cornelissen
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Université Joseph Fourier, ETH Zurich, Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Western Sydney University, Wageningen University & Research, Stanford University, Macquarie University, University of Sheffield, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Centre d'Investigacions sobre Desertificació, Princeton University, University of Minnesota, The University of Western Australia, Kansas State University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, University of Arizona, University of California, Los Angeles, Utrecht University, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Agroscope, University of Regensburg, Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza Catie
Language: English
Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2561479186