Nature Communications (Feb 2023)
Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe
- Stephan Kambach,
- Francesco Maria Sabatini,
- Fabio Attorre,
- Idoia Biurrun,
- Gerhard Boenisch,
- Gianmaria Bonari,
- Andraž Čarni,
- Maria Laura Carranza,
- Alessandro Chiarucci,
- Milan Chytrý,
- Jürgen Dengler,
- Emmanuel Garbolino,
- Valentin Golub,
- Behlül Güler,
- Ute Jandt,
- Jan Jansen,
- Anni Jašková,
- Borja Jiménez-Alfaro,
- Dirk Nikolaus Karger,
- Jens Kattge,
- Ilona Knollová,
- Gabriele Midolo,
- Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund,
- Remigiusz Pielech,
- Valerijus Rašomavičius,
- Solvita Rūsiņa,
- Jozef Šibík,
- Zvjezdana Stančić,
- Angela Stanisci,
- Jens-Christian Svenning,
- Sergey Yamalov,
- Niklaus E. Zimmermann,
- Helge Bruelheide
Affiliations
- Stephan Kambach
- Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Francesco Maria Sabatini
- Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Fabio Attorre
- Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome
- Idoia Biurrun
- Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
- Gerhard Boenisch
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Gianmaria Bonari
- Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- Andraž Čarni
- Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Jovan Hadži Institute of Biology, ZRC-SAZU
- Maria Laura Carranza
- Envixlab, Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise
- Alessandro Chiarucci
- BIOME Lab, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA), Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
- Milan Chytrý
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
- Jürgen Dengler
- Vegetation Ecology Research Group, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
- Emmanuel Garbolino
- Climpact Data Science (CDS), Nova Sophia – Regus Nova
- Valentin Golub
- Samara Federal Research Scientific Center, Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Behlül Güler
- Biology Education, Dokuz Eylul University
- Ute Jandt
- Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Jan Jansen
- Department of Ecology and Physiology, Faculty of Science, Radboud University
- Anni Jašková
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
- Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
- IMIB Biodiversity Research Institute (Univ.Oviedo-CSIC-Princ. Asturias), University of Oviedo
- Dirk Nikolaus Karger
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
- Jens Kattge
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Ilona Knollová
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
- Gabriele Midolo
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
- Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund
- Section for Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University
- Remigiusz Pielech
- Department of Forest Biodiversity, University of Agriculture in Krakow
- Valerijus Rašomavičius
- Institute of Botany, Nature Research Centre
- Solvita Rūsiņa
- Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Latvia
- Jozef Šibík
- Institute of Botany, Plant Science and Biodiversity Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences
- Zvjezdana Stančić
- Faculty of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Zagreb
- Angela Stanisci
- Envixlab, Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise
- Jens-Christian Svenning
- Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus University
- Sergey Yamalov
- Botanical Garden-Institute, Ufa Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Niklaus E. Zimmermann
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
- Helge Bruelheide
- Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36240-6
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 14,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
Climatic variables are useful but often weak predictors of plant functional trait variation across ecosystems. Here the authors investigate how assigning plant communities to a habitat hierarchy improves the explanatory power of climate-trait relationships at the continental scale.
