Plant reproductive traits have often evolved to optimize plant fitness under different
environmental conditions, and their relationships with vegetative functional traits reflect more …

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 …

Plants growing in forests at different succession stages in diverse habitats may adopt
various life strategies from the perspective of plant functional traits. However, species …

Understanding the variation of functional traits of plant species along forest successional
gradients may provides useful insights into community assemblages. However, species …

Most of the previous studies on functional traits focus exclusively on either seedlings or
trees. Little knowledge exists on the relationships between community level functional traits …

In forest succession, the ecological strategies of the dominant species that are based on
functional traits are important in the determination of both the mechanisms and the potential …

Functional traits, properties of organisms correlated with ecological performance, play a
central role in plant community assembly and functioning. To some extents, functional traits …

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

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 …

Trait-based approaches to calculate ecological strategy is important for understanding forest
succession dynamics. However, the functional traits and ecological strategy change during …