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ECOLOGY
卷 91, 期 8, 页码 2234-2241出版社
ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1890/09-1743.1
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functional ecology; Holdridge life zones; leaf percent nitrogen; maximum height; precipitation; seed mass; temperature; wood density
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- NSF
- U.S. Department of Energy [DOE-PER DE-FG02-08ER64510]
- NASA [08-BIODIV-52]
Plant geographers have sought for decades to describe and predict the geographic distribution of vegetation types on the basis of plant function and its relationship with the abiotic environment. Traditionally this has been accomplished using categorical representations such as plant functional types. Increasingly, plant functional ecologists have sought to refine categorical functional types via quantitative functional traits in order to understand the ecological implications of trade-offs in plant form and function. Fewer works have focused upon testing whether commonly measured functional traits enhance our understanding of plant biogeography broadly and the geographic distribution of vegetation types in particular. Here we combine a continental-scale forest inventory data set containing 18 111 plots with a plant functional trait data set to ask: (1) Is there a strong relationship between the abiotic environment and the distribution of functional trait values in forest inventory plots? And (2) can different Holdridge life zones be distinguished upon the basis of their functional trait distributions? The results show geographic patterns of functional trait distributions that are often strongly correlated with climate and also show that the Holdridge life zones in the study area can be differentiated using a combination of functional traits.
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