Trait‐based ecology (TBE) has proven useful in the terrestrial realm and beyond for
collapsing ecological complexity into traits that can be compared and generalized across …

Ecological communities are subjected to multiple anthropogenic stressors at both global and
local scales that are increasing in number and magnitude. Stressors can interact in complex …

While trait‐based approaches have been effectively leveraged by plant ecologists to
advance our understanding of community responses to major global challenges, such as …

Seaweeds are important primary producers in marine ecosystems and often play keystone
and significant structural roles in their communities. After almost a century of research …

In order to assess how emerging science and new tools can be applied to study multiple
stressors on a large (ecosystem) scale and to facilitate greater integration of approaches …

The factors regulating soil animal communities are poorly understood. Current theory favors
niche complementarity and facilitation over competition as the primary forms of non‐trophic …

Coral reefs are highly productive ecosystems that typically exist in nutrient-poor waters,
stimulating considerable research on the sources of nutrients that may support this …

Marine habitat formers such as seaweeds and corals are lynchpins of coastal ecosystems,
but their functional diversity and how it varies with scale and context remains poorly studied …

Functional groups are widely used to reduce complexity and generalize across ecological
communities. These models assume that shared traits among species correspond to some …

With marine heat waves increasing in intensity and frequency due to climate change, it is
important to understand how thermal disturbances will alter coral reef ecosystems since …