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Multi-trait GWAS using imputed high-density genotypes from whole-genome sequencing identifies genes associated with body traits in Nile tilapia
(BMC, 2021)
Background: Body traits are generally controlled by several genes in vertebrates (i.e. polygenes), which in turn
make them difficult to identify through association mapping. Increasing the power of association studies ...
Limited evidence of coupling between above and belowground functional traits in tropical dry forest seedlings
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2021)
FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles
(2021-01-19)
The cryptic lifestyle of most fungi necessitates molecular identification of the guild in environmental studies. Over the past decades, rapid development and affordability of molecular tools have tremendously improved ...
Seed germination traits can contribute better to plant community ecology
(2016-05-01)
Analyses of functional traits have become fundamental tools for understanding patterns and processes in plant community ecology. In this context, regenerative seed traits play an important, yet overlooked, role because ...
Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in the semideciduous Atlantic Forest: An ecological and morphological trait dataset for functional studies
(Biodiversity Data Journal, 2020-03-12)
Background
The semideciduous Atlantic Forest is one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world with a great diversity of spiders. Most spider-related studies in this ecosystem focused on species richness and composition; ...
Optimal strategies for sampling functional traits in species-rich forests
(Wiley, 2015-03)
1. Functional traits provide insight into a variety of ecological questions, yet theoptimal sampling method to estimate the community-level distribution of plantfunctional trait values remains a subject of debate, especially ...
Plant functional traits and phylogenetic relatedness explain variation in associations with root fungal endophytes in an extreme arid environment
(Springer, 2014-07-06)
Since root endophytes may ameliorate drought stress, understanding which plants associate with endophytes is important, especially in arid ecosystems. Here, the root endophytes were characterized of 42 plants from an arid ...
Bimodal trait distributions with large variances question the reliability of trait-based aggregate models
(Springer, 2016-12-01)
Functionally diverse communities can adjust their species composition to altered environmental conditions, which may influence food web dynamics. Trait-based aggregate models cope with this complexity by ignoring details ...
Functional traits reveal environmental constraints on amphibian community assembly in a subtropical dry forest
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2018-09)
The relationships between functional traits and environmental gradients are useful to identify different community assembly processes. In this work, we used an approach based on functional traits to analyse if changes in ...
Directional, stabilizing, and disruptive trait selection as alternative mechanisms for plant community assembly
(Ecological Society of America, 2017-03-30)
How plant functional traits (e.g., seed mass) drive species abundance within communities remains an unsolved question. Borrowing concepts from natural selection theory, we propose that trait-abundance relationships can ...