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Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change

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Paperback | 14 July 1997

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When predicting the effects of changing climate and carbon dioxide on plants at the global scale there is a major stumbling block--we have very little information, in many cases none, about how plants will respond in the future. In order to circumvent this problem, and until more information on species accumulates, we reduce the diversity of species to a diversity of functions and structures. The structures may be trees, shrubs, herbs and grasses. The functions may be types of photosynthetic processes, the capacity to minimize water loss and varying the timing of growth. This book describes approaches and methods for defining these functional types in ways that maximize our potential to predict accurately the responses of real vegetation with real species diversity. This book will be useful to those interested in botany, ecology, and environmental science.

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"...an excellent introduction to the concept and use of PFT's and a valuable overview of the state of plant ecology in the 1990's." David A. Wedin, Ecoscience "The strengths of the book are the consistently good quality of the chapters, its continuity of themes and its variety of perspectives...it is excellent for anyone interested in tundra or particularly arid and semiarid ecosystems... I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in functional plant ecology and vegetation response to global change." David Hooper, The Quarterly Review of Biology "Rooted in game theory and treating plants as strategists and gamblers, Plant Functional Types, an undergraduate textbook, considers shape and form as functions of differential energy allocation during the lifetime of plants. The Achilles heel of each strategy is made poignant by looking at the effects of global climate change on species' survival and community composition. A fine example of how to integrate theoretical and applied biology." New Scientist "...the depth and breadth of coverage are impressive...This book is an important addition to a growing library of knowledge related to global change." Thomas R. Crowe, Ecoscience

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Preface
What are functional types and how should we seek them?
Plant and ecosystem functional types
Plant functional types: towards a definition by environmental constraints
Can we use plant functional types to describe and predict responses to environmental change?
Functional types in non-equilibrium ecosystems
Categorizing plant species into functional types
Functional types: testing the concept in Northern England
Plant functional types and ecosystem change in arctic tundras
Predicting the impact of global change on biodiversity: a case study in Cape
Defining functional types for models of desertification
Plant functional types in temperate arid regions
Interactions between demographic and ecosystem processes: a challenge for functional types
Plant functional types in African savannas and grasslands
Using plant functional types in a global vegetation model
The use of plant functional type classifications to model the global land cover and simulate the interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere
Examining the consequences of classifying species into functional types: a simulation model analysis
Ecosystem function of biodiversity - the basis of the viewpoint
Defining plant functional types - the end view
References
Index
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