Plant Functional Traits
Linking Climate and Ecosystem Functioning
Published on 15. February 2025
370 pages
978-0-443-13368-8 (ISBN)
Description
Plant Function Traits: Linking Climate and Ecosystem Functioning, part of the Plant Biology, Sustainability and Climate Change series, presents a wholistic understanding of Plant Functional Traits. As global climate change advances, natural resources are facing increasing survival challenges, hence this book directly addresses that need, exploring the morphological, physiological, and phenological properties of a plant that can be used as a proxy to understand plant environment interactions. Users will find great illustrations throughout individual chapters, along with case studies that demonstrate applications of functional traits in classifying vegetation of a region into distinct type groups as Plant Functional Types (PFTs).Additional information includes applications in the development of new generation of Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) and an understanding of the response of vegetation to changing environments.
- Presents foundational insights into multiple functional trait axes
- Describes the quantification of functional traits from individuals to regions
- Includes the role of functional traits in developing new vegetation models for assessing the impact of climate change on plants
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Manoj Kumar | Rainer W. Bussmann | Nathan G. Swenson
Plant Functional Traits
Linking Climate and Ecosystem Functioning
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03/2025
Elsevier
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Content
1. Plant functional traits: The scientific basis and their significance in climate change impact studiesSection I: Plant functional traits: the scientific basis2. Plant functional traits: synthesis of current status and available information3. Unravelling the relationship between plant functional traits and environment4. Functional traits as determinants of plant performance5. Driving mechanism of functional trait variations in a forest ecosystem6. Belowground traits and their importance in ecological studiesSection II: Functional relationship between trait and environment7. A review of plant-environment interactions8. Significance of trait and environment relations in ecological studies9. Plant functional traits for assessing impacts of climate change10. Traits explaining occurrence and abundance of plants11. Environmental conditions influencing the distribution of plant functional traitsSection III: Ecosystem services and plant functional traits12. Plant functional traits and soil carbon dynamics13. Selection of appropriate functional traits and its application to evaluate ecosystem service14. Trait-based selection of suitable plant species to restore the degraded ecosystems15. Monitoring canopy functional traits using remote sensing16. Hyperspectral remote sensing for monitoring plant functional traits17. Monitoring and modelling of functional relationship of plant traits with environment18. Investigating the origins and effects of intraspecific trait variations19. Monitoring of plant functional traits as indicator of air quality20. Synthesizing functional trait data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation: gaps and biasesSection V: Functional traits and vegetation models21. Linking biophysical models with functional traits for ecological studies22. Representing functional traits in earth system models to understand coupled biosphere-atmosphere interactions23. Modelling the relationships between traits, climate, and life history strategies
