Plant trait networks: Shifting of whole phenotypes with aridity and functional richness

Plant trait networks: Shifting of whole phenotypes with aridity and functional richness

Camila Medeiros, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses her article: Simplification of woody plant trait networks among communities along a climatic aridity gradient Motivation Plants are enormously diverse across regions, even within specific ecosystems, and zooming in on individual plants, one finds great diversity among their traits. Variation of all kinds of traits can play…