Standing room only in one of two parallel #FunctionalTrait symposia at #ESAus2024.

🐃🌿Functional trait space expansion explains productivity gains under moderate grazing

📷 © Bai Yue

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#AlpineMeadow #FunctionalTrait #GrasslandProductivity #IntraspecificTraitVariation #LeafTrait #TibetanPlateau

Great new #functionaltrait work highlighting the need to describe functions beyond the group level. Species can have very specific functions that are crucial to shaping the environment around them and understanding this relationship is key to protecting ecosystems moving forward. #MarineEcology 🦑🧪

🐝📑 A new study investigated the role of functional relatedness in shaping the co-occurrence patterns of #bee species associated with #brinjal, a key tropical crop plant.

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#functionaltrait #agroecology #agroecosystem #ecologyresearch #pollinators

#FunctionalTrait community: Is plant carnivory (e.g., pitcher plants, Venus flytraps) a functional trait?

In this review, Hao Liu et al. synthesize existing evidence on how plant functional traits and #functionaldiversity influence key #wetland #ecosystemfunctioning, such as productivity, carbon cycling and nutrient cycling.

#functionaltrait | #restoration

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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Community-level leaf #Functionaltrait variation composition across three contrasting tree communities, Southwest China

#Climate | #Intraspecifictraitvariation | #ITV | #Commonspecies | #Phylogeneticsignal

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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Organ-specific plasticity in response to #HydrothermalChanges reveals #AdaptationStrategies of #SandyPlants

#Psammophytes | #FunctionalTrait | #PhenotypicPlasticity | #SandyLand

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A #FunctionalTrait approach reveals more than taxonomy or phylo approach - cool microbial study HT @ScottFerrenberg <a href="http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ismej2015191a.html" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ismej2015191a.html

🌿🌊Environmental influence on intraspecific trait variation in the tropical seagrass Halodule uninervis

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#EcosystemService
#FunctionalTrait
#HaloduleUninervis
#IntraspecificTraitVariation
#Seagrass