Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

T. Moles, Angela; Perkins‐Kirkpatrick, Sarah; W. Laffan, Shawn; Flores‐Moreno, Habacuc; Awasthy, Mohan; L. Tindall, Marianne; Sack, Lawren; J. Pitman, A.; Kattge, Jens; W. Aarssen, Lonnie; Anand, Madhur; Bahn, Michael; Blonder, Benjamin; Cavender‐Bares, Jeannine; Hans C. Cornelissen, J.; K. Cornwell, William; Dı́az, Sandra; Dickie, John; T. Freschet, Grégoire; G. Griffiths, Joshua; G. Gutiérrez, Álvaro; A. Hemmings, Frank; Hickler, Thomas; Hitchcock, Timothy; Keighery, Matthew; Kleyer, Michael; Kurokawa, Hiroko; R. Leishman, Michelle; Liu, Kenwin; Niinemets, Ülo; Г. Онипченко, В.; Onoda, Yusuke; Peñuelas, Josep; D. Pillar, Valério; B. Reich, Peter; Shiodera, Satomi; Siefert, Andrew; Sosinski, Ênio; A. Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda; K. Swaine, Emily; G. Swenson, Nathan; M. van Bodegom, Peter; Warman, Laura; Weiher, Evan; J. Wright, Ian; Zhang, Hongxiang; Zobel, Martin; P. Bonser, Stephen

doi:10.1111/jvs.12190

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Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

Published in Journal of Vegetation Science • May 15, 2014

Authors:

Angela T. Moles

Sarah Perkins‐Kirkpatrick

Shawn W. Laffan

Abstract

Abstract Question Are plant traits more closely correlated with mean annual temperature, or with mean annual precipitation? Location Global. Methods We quantified the strength of the relationships between temperature and precipitation and 21 plant traits from 447,961 species‐site combinations worldw...

Subject

Precipitation

Mean radiant temperature

Vegetation (pathology)

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