Stephan Kambach, Fabio Attorre, Irena Axmanová, Ariel Bergamini, Idoia Biurrun, Gianmaria Bonari, Maria Laura Carranza, Alessandro Chiarucci, Milan Chytrý, Jürgen Dengler, Emmanuel Garbolino, Valentin Golub, Thomas Hickler, Ute Jandt, Jan Jansen, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Zdeňka Lososová, Valerijus Rašomavičius, Solvita Rūsiņa, Petra Sieber, Angela Stanisci, Wilfried Thuiller, Erik Welk, Niklaus E Zimmermann, Helge Bruelheide
Terrestrial ecosystems affect climate by reflecting solar irradiation, evaporative cooling, and carbon sequestration. Yet very little is known about how plant traits affect climate regulation processes (CRPs) in different habitat types. Here, we used linear and random forest models to relate the community-weighted mean and variance values of 19 plant traits (summarized into eight trait axes) to the climate-adjusted proportion of reflected solar irradiation, evapotranspiration, and net primary productivity across 36,630 grid cells at the European extent, classified into 10 types of forest, shrubland, and grassland habitats...
February 2024: Global Change Biology