TY  - JOUR
AU  - Craine, J.M.
AU  - Engelbrecht, B.
AU  - Lusk, C.H.
AU  - McDowell, N.G.
AU  - Poorter, H.
TI  - Resource limitation, tolerance,and the future of ecological plant classification
JO  - Frontiers in Functional Plant Ecology
VL  - 3
SN  - 0036-8075
CY  - Washington, DC [u.a.]
PB  - American Association for the Advancement of Scienc
M1  - PreJuSER-20812
SP  - 1-10
PY  - 2012
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - Throughout the evolutionary history of plants, drought, shade, and scarcity of nutrients have structured ecosystems and communities globally. Humans have begun to drastically alter the prevalence of these environmental factors with untold consequences for plant communities and ecosystems worldwide. Given limitations in using organ-level traits to predict ecological performance of species, recent advances using tolerances of low resource availability as plant functional traits are revealing the often hidden roles these factors have in structuring communities and are becoming central to classifying plants ecologically. For example, measuring the physiological drought tolerance of plants has increased the predictability of differences among species in their ability to survive drought as well as the distribution of species within and among ecosystems. Quantifying the shade tolerance of species has improved our understanding of local and regional species diversity and how species have sorted within and among regions. As the stresses on ecosystems continue to shift, coordinated studies of whole-plant growth centered on tolerance of low resource availability will be central in predicting future ecosystem functioning and biodiversity. This will require efforts that quantify tolerances for large numbers of species and develop bioinformatic and other techniques for comparing large number of species.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:23115561
C2  - pmc:PMC3483597
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000208837900242
DO  - DOI:10.3389/fpls.2012.00246
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/20812
ER  -