A global assessment of the Raunkiæran shortfall in plants: geographic biases in our knowledge of plant traits

Brian Maitner; Rachael Gallagher; Jens-Christian Svenning; Melanie Tietje; Elizabeth H. Wenk; Wolf L. Eiserhardt

doi:10.1111/nph.18999

A global assessment of the Raunkiæran shortfall in plants: geographic biases in our knowledge of plant traits

Brian Maitner
, Rachael Gallagher
, Jens-Christian Svenning
, Melanie Tietje
, Elizabeth H. Wenk
, Wolf L. Eiserhardt

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The functional traits (measured attributes) of organisms result from interactions with their biotic and abiotic environment. Traits allow us to understand both how individuals and the communities they form will respond to environmental change and how these changes will impact ecosystem services and processes (Lavorel & Garnier, 2002). Plants constitute most of the biomass on Earth (c. 82%; Bar-On et al., 2018), and their traits are the predominant drivers of terrestrial ecosystem functioning (Migliavacca et al., 2021; Fricke et al., 2022). Thus, to a first-order approximation, understanding the traits of plants means understanding terrestrial ecosystems.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1345-1354
Number of pages	10
Journal	New Phytologist
Volume	240
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18999
Publication status	Published - Nov 2023

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