Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation
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Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation
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- Joswig, Julia S.;
- Wirth, Christian;
- Schuman, Meredith C.;
- Kattge, Jens;
- Reu, Björn;
- Wright, Ian J.;
- Sippel, Sebastian D.;
- Rüger, Nadja;
- Richter, Ronny;
- Schaepman, Michael E.;
- Van Bodegom, Peter M.;
- Cornelissen, J. H. C.;
- Díaz, Sandra;
- Hattingh, Wesley N.;
- Kramer, Koen;
- Lens, Frederic;
- Niinemets, Ülo;
- Reich, Peter B.;
- Reichstein, Markus;
- Römermann, Christine;
- Schrodt, Franziska;
- Anand, Madhur;
- Bahn, Michael;
- Byun, Chaeho;
- Campetella, Giandiego;
- Cerabolini, Bruno E. L.;
- Craine, Joseph M.;
- González Melo, Andrés;
- Gutiérrez Ilabaca, Álvaro Guillermo;
- He, Tianhua;
- Higuchi, Pedro;
- Jactel, Hervé;
- Kraft, Nathan J. B.;
- Minden, Vanessa;
- Onipchenko, Vladimir;
- Peñuelas, Josep;
- Pillar, Valério D.;
- Sosinski, Ênio;
- Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A.;
- Weiher, Evan;
- Mahecha, Miguel D.;
Abstract
Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are thus widely used in global models
of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still, we lack a global understanding of how land and climate affect plant
traits. A previous global analysis of six traits observed two main axes of variation: (1) size variation at the organ and plant level
and (2) leaf economics balancing leaf persistence against plant growth potential. The orthogonality of these two axes suggests
they are differently influenced by environmental drivers. We find that these axes persist in a global dataset of 17 traits across
more than 20,000 species. We find a dominant joint effect of climate and soil on trait variation. Additional independent climate
effects are also observed across most traits, whereas independent soil effects are almost exclusively observed for economics
traits. Variation in size traits correlates well with a latitudinal gradient related to water or energy limitation. In contrast, variation
in economics traits is better explained by interactions of climate with soil fertility. These findings have the potential to
improve our understanding of biodiversity patterns and our predictions of climate change impacts on biogeochemical cycles.
Patrocinador
TRY initiative on plant traits
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig.
European Union's Horizon 2020 project BACI 640176
University of Zurich University Research Priority Program on Global Change and Biodiversity
National Science Foundation (NSF) 20-508
NOMIS grant of Remotely Sensing Ecological Genomics
Max Planck Society via its fellowship programme
German Research Foundation (DFG) RU 1536/3-1
project Resilient Forests of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs KB-29-009-003
EU-FP7-KBBE project: BACCARA-Biodiversity and climate change, a risk analysis 226299
Australian Research Council DP170103410
European Research Council (ERC) ERC-SyG-2013-610028 IMBALANCE-P
VIDI by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research 016.161.318
II. Oldenburgischer Deichband
Wasserverbandstag e.V. NWS 10/05
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPQ) 369617/2017-2
307689/2014-0
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea government (MSIT) 2018R1C1B6005351
Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT)
CONICYT FONDECYT 11150835
1200468
Russian Science Foundation (RSF) 19-14-00038
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Nature Ecolog y & Evolution Vol 6 January 2022
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