The importance of trait selection in ecology

Affiliations

• ¹ Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany. alexandra.weigelt@uni-leipzig.de.
• ² German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. alexandra.weigelt@uni-leipzig.de.
• ³ Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
• ⁴ Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁵ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
• ⁶ Sustainable Grassland Systems, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Paulinenaue, Germany.
• ⁷ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁸ Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.
• ⁹ Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station (SETE), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Moulis, France.
• ¹⁰ Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany.
• ¹¹ Functional Biogeography, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany.
• ¹² Soil Biology Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
• ¹³ Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.
• ¹⁴ Functional Forest Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Hamburg, Barsbüttel-Willinghusen, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Plant Sciences (IBG-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹⁷ CEFE, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
• ¹⁸ Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
• ¹⁹ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• ²⁰ Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
• ²¹ Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Syngenta, Bracknell, UK.
• ²² Institute of Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
• ²³ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Center for Bioenergy Innovation and Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
• ²⁴ The Root Lab, Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, USA.