Ecosystem Traits Linking Functional Traits to Macroecology

Nianpeng He; Congcong Liu; Shilong Piao; Lawren Sack; Li Xu; Yiqi Luo; Jinsheng He; Xingguo Han; Guangsheng Zhou; Xuhui Zhou; Yi Lin; Qiang Yu; Shirong Liu; Wei Sun; Shuli Niu; Shenggong Li; Jiahui Zhang; Guirui Yu

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2018.11.004

Ecosystem Traits Linking Functional Traits to Macroecology

Nianpeng He, Congcong Liu, Shilong Piao, Lawren Sack, Li Xu, Yiqi Luo, Jinsheng He, Xingguo Han, Guangsheng Zhou, Xuhui Zhou, Yi Lin, Qiang Yu, Shirong Liu, Wei Sun, Shuli Niu, Shenggong Li, Jiahui Zhang, Guirui Yu

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Abstract

As the range of studies on macroecology and functional traits expands, integration of traits into higher-level approaches offers new opportunities to improve clarification of larger-scale patterns and their mechanisms and predictions using models. Here, we propose a framework for quantifying ‘ecosystem traits’ and means to address the challenges of broadening the applicability of functional traits to macroecology. Ecosystem traits are traits or quantitative characteristics of organisms (plants, animals, and microbes) at the community level expressed as the intensity (or density) normalized per unit land area. Ecosystem traits can inter-relate and integrate data from field trait surveys, eddy-flux observation, remote sensing, and ecological models, and thereby provide new resolution of the responses and feedback at regional to global scale.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	200-210
Number of pages	11
Journal	Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Volume	34
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.11.004
State	Published - Mar 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

community
ecosystem
function
macroecology
scale-up
trait
transect

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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