Size matters for linking traits to ecosystem multifunctionality.
Trends Ecol Evol
; 37(9): 803-813, 2022 09.
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| ID: mdl-35810137
ABSTRACT
A priority research field addresses how to optimize diverse ecosystem services to people, including biodiversity support, regulatory, utilitarian and cultural services. This field may benefit from linking ecosystem services to the sizes of different body parts of organisms, with functional traits as the go-between. Using woody ecosystems to explore such linkages, we hypothesize that across stem diameter classes from trunk via branches to twigs, key wood and bark functional traits (especially those defining size-shape and resource economics spectra) vary both within individual trees and shrubs and across woody species, thereby together boosting ecosystem multifunctionality. While we focus on woody plants aboveground, we discuss promising extensions to belowground organs of trees and shrubs and analogs with other organisms, for example, vertebrate animals.
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Ecosistema
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Biodiversidad
Límite:
Animals
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Humans
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En
Revista:
Trends Ecol Evol
Año:
2022
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Article
País de afiliación:
China