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@ARTICLE{Kunstler:280309,
      author       = {Kunstler, Georges and Falster, Daniel and Coomes, David A.
                      and Hui, Francis and Kooyman, Robert M. and Laughlin, Daniel
                      C. and Poorter, Lourens and Vanderwel, Mark and Vieilledent,
                      Ghislain and Wright, S. Joseph and Aiba, Masahiro and
                      Baraloto, Christopher and Caspersen, John and Cornelissen,
                      J. Hans C. and Gourlet-Fleury, Sylvie and Hanewinkel, Marc
                      and Herault, Bruno and Kattge, Jens and Kurokawa, Hiroko and
                      Onoda, Yusuke and Peñuelas, Josep and Poorter, Hendrik and
                      Uriarte, Maria and Richardson, Sarah and Ruiz-Benito, Paloma
                      and Sun, I-Fang and Ståhl, Göran and Swenson, Nathan G.
                      and Thompson, Jill and Westerlund, Bertil and Wirth,
                      Christian and Zavala, Miguel A. and Zeng, Hongcheng and
                      Zimmerman, Jess K. and Zimmermann, Niklaus E. and Westoby,
                      Mark},
      title        = {{P}lant functional traits have globally consistent effects
                      on competition},
      journal      = {Nature},
      volume       = {529},
      issn         = {1476-4687},
      address      = {London [u.a.]},
      publisher    = {Nature Publ. Group78092},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2016-00098},
      pages        = {204–207},
      year         = {2015},
      abstract     = {Phenotypic traits and their associated trade-offs have been
                      shown to have globally consistent effects on individual
                      plant physiological functions1, 2, 3, but how these effects
                      scale up to influence competition, a key driver of community
                      assembly in terrestrial vegetation, has remained unclear4.
                      Here we use growth data from more than 3 million trees in
                      over 140,000 plots across the world to show how three key
                      functional traits—wood density, specific leaf area and
                      maximum height—consistently influence competitive
                      interactions. Fast maximum growth of a species was
                      correlated negatively with its wood density in all biomes,
                      and positively with its specific leaf area in most biomes.
                      Low wood density was also correlated with a low ability to
                      tolerate competition and a low competitive effect on
                      neighbours, while high specific leaf area was correlated
                      with a low competitive effect. Thus, traits generate
                      trade-offs between performance with competition versus
                      performance without competition, a fundamental ingredient in
                      the classical hypothesis that the coexistence of plant
                      species is enabled via differentiation in their successional
                      strategies5. Competition within species was stronger than
                      between species, but an increase in trait dissimilarity
                      between species had little influence in weakening
                      competition. No benefit of dissimilarity was detected for
                      specific leaf area or wood density, and only a weak benefit
                      for maximum height. Our trait-based approach to modelling
                      competition makes generalization possible across the forest
                      ecosystems of the world and their highly diverse species
                      composition.},
      cin          = {IBG-2},
      ddc          = {070},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118},
      pnm          = {582 - Plant Science (POF3-582)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-582},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      UT           = {WOS:000368015700035},
      pubmed       = {pmid:26700807},
      doi          = {10.1038/nature16476},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/280309},
}