Plant Functional Types
Plant Functional Types
Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change
T. M. Smith, University of Virginia
H. H. Shugart, University of Virginia
F. I. Woodward, University of Sheffield
H. H. Shugart, University of Virginia
F. I. Woodward, University of Sheffield
May 1997
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Attempts to model the effects of global change are inhibited by a lack of information about how individual plant and animal species will respond. One way of reducing the problem is to develop models treating a smaller number of groups or 'functional types' with similar characteristics. This 1977 book describes approaches and methods for defining these functional types in ways which maximize our potential to predict accurately the responses of real vegetation with real species diversity.
- Was the first book to address the concept of functional plant groups
- Star cast of contributors from around the world
- First in a book series dealing with a major programme of research in the field of global change
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May 1997Paperback
9780521566438
388 pages
247 × 173 × 21 mm
0.79kg
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Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I:
- 1. What are functional types and how should we seek them? H. Gitay and I. R. Noble
- 2. Plant and ecosystem functional types H. H. Shugart
- Part II:
- 3. Plant functional types: towards a definition by environmental constraints F. I. Woodward and C. K. Kelly
- 4. Can we use plant functional types to describe and predict responses to environmental change? R. J. Hobbs
- 5. Functional types in non-equilibrium ecosystems B. H. Walker
- 6. Categorizing plant species into functional types M. Westoby and M. Leishman
- 7. Functional types: testing the concept in Northern England J. P. Grime, J. G. Hodgson, R. Hunt, K. Thopson, G. A. F. Hendry, B. D. Campbell, A. Jalili, S. H. Hillier, S. Diaz and M. J. W. Burke
- Part III:
- 8. Plant functional types and ecosystem change in arctic tundras G. R. Shaver, A. E. Giblin, K. J. Nadelhoffer and E. B. Rastetter
- 9. Functional types for predicting changes in biodiversity: a case study in Cape Fynbos W. J. Bond
- 10. Defining functional types for models of desertification J. F. Reynolds, R. A. Virginia and W. H. Schlesinger
- 11. Plant functional types in temperate semi-arid regions O. E. Sala, W. K. Lauenroth and R. A. Golluscio
- 12. Interactions between demographic and ecosystem processes in a semi-arid and an arid grassland: a challenge for plant functional types W. K. Lauenroth, D. P. Coffin, I. C. Burke and R. A. Virginia
- 13. Plant functional types in African savannas and grasslands R. J. Scholes, G. Pickett, W. N. Ellery and A. C. Blackmore
- Part IV:
- 14. Using plant functional types in a global vegetation model W. Cramer
- 15. The use of plant functional type classifications to model the global land cover and simulate the interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere R. Leemans
- Part V:
- 16. Examining the consequences of classifying species into functional types: a simulation model analysis T. M. Smith
- 17. Ecosystem function of biodiversity: the basis of the viewpoint H. A. Mooney
- 18. Defining plant functional types: the end view F. I. Woodward, T. M. Smith and H. H. Shugart
- Index.
