The interspecific relationship between functional traits and tree seedling performance can
be inconsistent, potentially due to site-to-site or microsite variation in environmental …

Understanding the mechanisms that promote the coexistence of hundreds of species over
small areas in tropical forest remains a challenge. Many tropical tree species are presumed …

Trait‐based approaches have been extensively used in community ecology to provide a
mechanistic understanding of the drivers of community assembly. However, a foundational …

The seedling stage is generally the most important bottleneck for the successful
regeneration of trees in forests. The traits of seedlings, particularly biomass allocation and …

The interspecific trade‐off between growth versus mortality rates of tree species is thought to
be driven by functional biology and to contribute to species ecological niche differentiation …

Plant traits from different organs are thought to be coordinated to achieve main vital
functions. However, evidence on how the coordination of traits affect plant vital rates (eg …

Questions Community structure is the outcome of individual‐level interactions. Recent work
has shown that disaggregating trait information from the species to the individual level can …

Abstract Background and Aims In habitat mosaics, plant populations face environmental
heterogeneity over short geographical distances. Such steep environmental gradients can …

The functional trait values that constitute a whole‐plant phenotype interact with the
environment to determine demographic rates. Current approaches often fail to explicitly …

A coordinated response to environmental drivers amongst individual functional traits is
central to the plant strategy concept. However, whether the trait co-ordination observed at …