Trait-based approaches to disentangle assembly processes in ecological communities typically rely on average trait values obtained from the literature or databases. Recently, ecologists have shown growing concern in ...

Livestock grazing represents an important human disturbance for vegetation worldwide. We analysed the intraspecific differences in mean trait values between different grazing regimes (ungrazed and grazed) and explored ...

© 2021, International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC).Breeding natural enemies to generate populations with improved characteristics is an attractive idea, particularly nowadays with the increase in use of ...

It is assumed that widespread, generalist species have high phenotypic variation, but we know little about how intraspecific trait variation (ITV) relates to species abundance and niche breadth. In the temperate rainforest ...

Despite considerable progress in recent decades in dissecting the genetic causes of natural morphological variation, there is limited understanding of how variation within species ultimately contributes to species differences. ...

The acquisitive-conservative axis of plant ecological strategies results in a pattern of leaf trait covariation that captures the balance between leaf construction costs and plant growth potential. Studies evaluating trait ...