Plant Functional Types: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change

Abstract

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.