Plant Functional Types: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change

作者：David Hicks, Thomas M. Smith, Herman H. Shugart, F. I. Woodward · 发表于：Systematic Botany · 年份：1998 · DOI：10.2307/2419578 · 被引用次数：434 · 研究领域：Botany and Plant Ecology Studies、Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies、Pasture and Agricultural Systems

List of contributors Preface Part I: 1. What are functional types and how should we seek them? H. Gitay and I. R. Noble 2. Plant and ecosystem functional types H. H. Shugart Part II: 3. Plant functional types: towards a definition by environmental constraints F. I. Woodward and C. K. Kelly 4. Can we use plant functional types to describe and predict responses to environmental change? R. J. Hobbs 5. Functional types in non-equilibrium ecosystems B. H. Walker 6. Categorizing plant species into functional types M. Westoby and M. Leishman 7. Functional types: testing the concept in Northern England J. P. Grime, J. G. Hodgson, R. Hunt, K. Thopson, G. A. F. Hendry, B. D. Campbell, A. Jalili, S. H. Hillier, S. Diaz and M. J. W. Burke Part III: 8. Plant functional types and ecosystem change in arctic tundras G. R. Shaver, A. E. Giblin, K. J. Nadelhoffer and E. B. Rastetter 9. Functional types for predicting changes in biodiversity: a case study in Cape Fynbos W. J. Bond 10. Defining functional types for models of desertification J. F. Reynolds, R. A. Virginia and W. H. Schlesinger 11. Plant functional types in temperate semi-arid regions O. E. Sala, W. K. Lauenroth and R. A. Golluscio 12. Interactions between demographic and ecosystem processes in a semi-arid and an arid grassland: a challenge for plant functional types W. K. Lauenroth, D. P. Coffin, I. C. Burke and R. A. Virginia 13. Plant functional types in African savannas and grasslands R. J. Scholes, G. Pickett, W. N. Ellery an...