题名：Size matters for linking traits to ecosystem multifunctionality

来源：Trends in Ecology and Evolution

发表年代：2022年

作者：Chao Guo, En-Rong Yan,* J. Hans C. Cornelissen

Abstract  Apriority research field addresses how tooptimizediverse ecosystem servicesto people, including biodiversity support, regulatory, utilitarian and cultural services. This field may benefit from linking ecosystem services to the sizes of different body parts of organisms, with functional traits as the go-between. Using woody ecosystems to explore such linkages, we hypothesize that across stem diameter classes from trunk via branches to twigs, key wood and bark functional traits (especially those defining size-shape and resource economics spectra) vary both within individual trees and shrubs and across woody species, thereby together boosting ecosystem multifunctionality. While we focus on woody plants aboveground, we discuss promising extensions to belowground organs of trees and shrubs and analogs with other organisms, for example, vertebrate animals.

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