Nature Communications (Jun 2022)
Global relationships in tree functional traits
- Daniel S. Maynard,
- Lalasia Bialic-Murphy,
- Constantin M. Zohner,
- Colin Averill,
- Johan van den Hoogen,
- Haozhi Ma,
- Lidong Mo,
- Gabriel Reuben Smith,
- Alicia T. R. Acosta,
- Isabelle Aubin,
- Erika Berenguer,
- Coline C. F. Boonman,
- Jane A. Catford,
- Bruno E. L. Cerabolini,
- Arildo S. Dias,
- Andrés González-Melo,
- Peter Hietz,
- Christopher H. Lusk,
- Akira S. Mori,
- Ülo Niinemets,
- Valério D. Pillar,
- Bruno X. Pinho,
- Julieta A. Rosell,
- Frank M. Schurr,
- Serge N. Sheremetev,
- Ana Carolina da Silva,
- Ênio Sosinski,
- Peter M. van Bodegom,
- Evan Weiher,
- Gerhard Bönisch,
- Jens Kattge,
- Thomas W. Crowther
Affiliations
- Daniel S. Maynard
- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich
- Lalasia Bialic-Murphy
- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich
- Constantin M. Zohner
- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich
- Colin Averill
- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich
- Johan van den Hoogen
- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich
- Haozhi Ma
- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich
- Lidong Mo
- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich
- Gabriel Reuben Smith
- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich
- Alicia T. R. Acosta
- Department of Science, Roma Tre University
- Isabelle Aubin
- Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre
- Erika Berenguer
- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
- Coline C. F. Boonman
- Department of Aquatic Ecology & Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University
- Jane A. Catford
- Department of Geography, King’s College London
- Bruno E. L. Cerabolini
- Department of Biotechnologies and Life Sciences (DBSV), University of Insubria
- Arildo S. Dias
- Goethe University, Institute for Physical Geography
- Andrés González-Melo
- Biology Department, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Universidad del Rosario
- Peter Hietz
- Institute of Botany, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
- Christopher H. Lusk
- Environmental Research Institute, University of Waikato
- Akira S. Mori
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
- Ülo Niinemets
- Chair of Crop Science and Plant Biology, Estonian University of Life Sciences
- Valério D. Pillar
- Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
- Bruno X. Pinho
- AMAP, Univ Montpellier, INRAe, CIRAD, CNRS, IRD
- Julieta A. Rosell
- Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A.P. 70-275, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán
- Frank M. Schurr
- Institute of Landscape and Plant Ecology, University of Hohenheim
- Serge N. Sheremetev
- Komarov Botanical Institute
- Ana Carolina da Silva
- Department of Forestry, Santa Catarina State University
- Ênio Sosinski
- Embrapa Clima Temperado
- Peter M. van Bodegom
- Institute of Environmental Science, Leiden University
- Evan Weiher
- Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire
- Gerhard Bönisch
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Jens Kattge
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Thomas W. Crowther
- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30888-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Understanding patterns in woody plant trait relationships and trade-offs is challenging. Here, by applying machine learning and data imputation methods to a global database of georeferenced trait measurements, the authors unravel key relationships in tree functional traits at the global scale.
