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Functional Trait Shifts

Functional Trait Shifts is a ecological construct that denotes the directional change in the distribution of morphological, physiological, or behavioral attributes within a community over time due to species turnover or plastic responses during successional stages.

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2017–2026

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Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

William K. Cornwell, David D. Ackerly · Ecological Monographs · 2009 · 1.2K citations

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Dali server: structural unification of protein families

Liisa Holm · Nucleic Acids Research · 2022 · 997 citations · Full text

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Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

Eric Allan, Peter Manning, Fabian Alt et al. · Ecology Letters · 2015 · 861 citations · Full text

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Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Anne D. Bjorkman, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Sarah C. Elmendorf et al. · Nature · 2018 · 721 citations · Full text

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Microbially Mediated Plant Functional Traits

Maren Friesen, Stephanie S. Porter, Scott C. Stark et al. · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2011 · 597 citations

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  1. NG
    Nathan G. Swenson

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    6 publications · 263 citations

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  2. MY
    Mingjian Yu

    Zhejiang University, China

    4 publications · 75 citations

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  3. FD
    Francesco de Bello

    University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czechia

    4 publications · 299 citations

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  4. RK
    Raphaël K. Didham

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    4 publications · 75 citations

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  5. MT
    Marcelo Tabarelli

    Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

    2 publications · 82 citations

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Institutions

743

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    20 h-index

    75 publications

    6.1K citations

  2. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    11 h-index

    22 publications

    2.4K citations

  3. The University of Western Australia

    Perth, Australia

    10 h-index

    27 publications

    886 citations

  4. Université de Montpellier

    Montpellier, France

    10 h-index

    23 publications

    1.5K citations

  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    10 h-index

    46 publications

    1.5K citations

  6. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    9 h-index

    21 publications

    3.5K citations

  7. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research

    Leipzig, Germany

    9 h-index

    24 publications

    3K citations

  8. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

    Panama City, Panama

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    2K citations

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  1. Journal of Vegetation Science

    JVS · 15 publications · 715 citations

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  2. Functional Ecology

    15 publications · 820 citations

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  3. Ecology

    13 publications · 813 citations

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  4. Journal of Ecology

    10 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. PLoS ONE

    11 publications · 598 citations

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