Allocating CSR plant functional types: the use of leaf economics and size traits to classify woody and herbaceous vascular plants

• Published in: Functional ecology Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 1002 - 1010
• Main Authors: Pierce, Simon, Brusa, Guido, Vagge, Ilda, Cerabolini, Bruno E. L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing 01.08.2013; Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: adaptive strategies; Angiosperms; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Autoecology; Biological and medical sciences; Calibration; Classification; CSR theory; Ecological economics; Flowers & plants; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Grime; Human ecology; Leaf area; life‐form; Plant ecology; plant functional type; Plant physiology; Plants; Population ecology; Principal components analysis; Species; universal adaptive strategy theory; Vegetation; Theory; CSR theory; Plant leaf; Grime; Pteridophyta; life-form; universal adaptive strategy theory; adaptive strategies; Strategy; Herbaceous plant; Spermatophyta; Morphometry; plant functional type; Adaptation
• ISSN: 0269-8463; 1365-2435
• DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12095

1. Three main directions of adaptive specialization are evident in the world flora, reflecting fundamental trade-offs between economics (conservative vs. acquisitive investment of resources) and size. The current method of ordinating plants according to these trade-offs, CSR classification, cannot b...