Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Suding, Katharine N., Lavorel, Sandra, Chapin, F. S., Cornelissen, Johannes H., Diaz, Sandra Myrna, Garnier, Erik, Goldberg, Deborah, Hooper, David U., Jackson, Stephan T., Navas, Marie Laure
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc
• Subjects: Community Dynamics; Plant Functional Traits; Effects And Response Framework; Global Enviromental Change; Ecosystems; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Arctic; Bajos; Institute of Arctic Biology; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/22530

Predicting ecosystem responses to global change is a major challenge in ecology. A critical step in that challenge is to understand how changing environmental conditions influence processes across levels of ecological organization. While direct scaling from individual to ecosystem dynamics can lead...