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Towards a trait-bas...
Towards a trait-based ecology of wetland vegetation
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- Moor, Helen (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre,Stockholm University,Stockholm Univ, Stockholm Resilience Ctr, Kraftriket 2B, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Rydin, Håkan, 1953- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Växtekologi och evolution
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- Hylander, Kristoffer (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och botanik,Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, , Stockholm, Sweden
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- Nilsson, Mats (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för skogens ekologi och skötsel,Department of Forest Ecology and Management,Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, , Umeå, Sweden
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- Lindborg, Regina (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för naturgeografi,Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, , Stockholm, Sweden
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- Norberg, Jon (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre,Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, , Stockholm, Sweden
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- 2017-02-02
- 2017
- English.
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In: Journal of Ecology. - : Wiley. - 0022-0477 .- 1365-2745. ; 105:6, s. 1623-1635
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Abstract
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- 1. Functional traits mechanistically capture plant responses to environmental gradients as well as plant effects on ecosystem functioning. Yet most trait-based theory stems from terrestrial systems and extension to other habitats can provide new insights. 2. Wetlands differ from terrestrial systems in conditions (e.g. soil water saturation, anoxia, pH extremes), plant adaptations (e.g. aerenchyma, clonality, ubiquity of bryophytes) and important processes (e.g. denitrification, peat accumulation, methane emission). Wetland plant adaptations and trait (co-)variation can be situated along major plant trait trade-off axes (e.g. the resource economics spectrum), but soil saturation represents a complex stress gradient beyond a simple extension of commonly studied water availability gradients. 3. Traits that affect ecosystem functioning overlap with patterns in terrestrial systems. But wetland-specific traits that mediate plant effects on soil redox conditions, microbial communities and on water flow, as well as trait spectra of mosses, vary among wetland types. 4. Synthesis. With increasing availability of quantitative plant traits a trait-based ecology of wetlands is emerging, with the potential to advance process-based understanding and prediction. We provide an interactive cause-and-effect framework that may guide research efforts to disentangle the multiple interacting processes involved in scaling from environmental conditions to ecosystem functioning via plant communities.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Lantbruksvetenskap, skogsbruk och fiske -- Skogsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries -- Forest Science (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Ekologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- bryophytes
- carbon sequestration
- hydrological regulation
- methane emission
- nutrient retention
- peatlands
- plant economics spectrum
- plant functional traits
- trade-offs
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