Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

QUESTION: Are plant traits more closely correlated with mean annual temperature, or with mean annual precipitation? LOCATION: Global. METHODS: We quantified the strength of the relationships between temperature and precipitation and 21 plant traits from 447,961 species‐site combinations worldwide. W...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of vegetation science 2014-09, Vol.25 (5), p.1167-1180
Hauptverfasser:	Moles, Angela T, Perkins, Sarah E, Laffan, Shawn W, Flores‐Moreno, Habacuc, Awasthy, Monica, Tindall, Marianne L, Sack, Lawren, Pitman, Andy, Kattge, Jens, Aarssen, Lonnie W, Anand, Madhur, Bahn, Michael, Blonder, Benjamin, Cavender‐Bares, Jeannine, Cornelissen, J. Hans C, Cornwell, Will K, Díaz, Sandra, Dickie, John B, Freschet, Grégoire T, Griffiths, Joshua G, Gutierrez, Alvaro G, Hemmings, Frank A, Hickler, Thomas, Hitchcock, Timothy D, Keighery, Matthew, Kleyer, Michael, Kurokawa, Hiroko, Leishman, Michelle R, Liu, Kenwin, Niinemets, Ülo, Onipchenko, Vladimir, Onoda, Yusuke, Penuelas, Josep, Pillar, Valério D, Reich, Peter B, Shiodera, Satomi, Siefert, Andrew, Sosinski, Enio E., Jr, Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A, Swaine, Emily K, Swenson, Nathan G, Bodegom, Peter M, Warman, Laura, Weiher, Evan, Wright, Ian J, Zhang, Hongxiang, Zobel, Martin, Bonser, Stephen P, Helm, Aveliina
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal and plant ecology Animal, plant and microbial ecology Annual plants atmospheric precipitation Biological and medical sciences Climate compound leaves dispersal syndrome Ecological genetics Forest ecology functional traits Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology leaf life span Moles nitrogen fixation photosynthetic pathway plant available water Plant ecology plant height plant life span Plants Precipitation seed mass SPECIAL FEATURE: VEGETATION PATTERNS AND THEIR UNDERLYING PROCESSES specific leaf area spinescence Synecology temperature Vascular plants Vegetation
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Zusammenfassung:	QUESTION: Are plant traits more closely correlated with mean annual temperature, or with mean annual precipitation? LOCATION: Global. METHODS: We quantified the strength of the relationships between temperature and precipitation and 21 plant traits from 447,961 species‐site combinations worldwide. We used meta‐analysis to provide an overall answer to our question. RESULTS: Mean annual temperature was significantly more strongly correlated with plant traits than was mean annual precipitation. CONCLUSIONS: Our study provides support for some of the assumptions of classical vegetation theory, and points to many interesting directions for future research. The relatively low R² values for precipitation might reflect the weak link between mean annual precipitation and the availability of water to plants.
ISSN:	1100-9233 1654-1103
DOI:	10.1111/jvs.12190