1. Conventional methods of vegetation description rarely convey the behavioural or response-based information needed to describe effectively the world's vegetation for conservation and management ...

For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal communities vary across biomes. In contrast we have only just begun exploring similar questions for ...

Predicting the dynamics of community composition and functional attributes responding to environmental changes is an essential goal in community ecology but remains a major challenge, particularly in ...