The importance of trait selection in ecology – Nature

Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

Alexandra Weigelt, Karl Andraczek & Fons van der Plas

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Alexandra Weigelt, Helge Bruelheide, Jens Kattge & Francesco Maria Sabatini

Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Liesje Mommer, Fons van der Plas & Jasper van Ruijven

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

Colleen M. Iversen

Sustainable Grassland Systems, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Paulinenaue, Germany

Joana Bergmann

Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Helge Bruelheide & Francesco Maria Sabatini

Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station (SETE), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Moulis, France

Grégoire T. Freschet

Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany

Nathaly R. Guerrero-Ramírez

Functional Biogeography, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Jens Kattge

Soil Biology Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Thom W. Kuyper

Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA

Daniel C. Laughlin

Functional Forest Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Hamburg, Barsbüttel-Willinghusen, Germany

Ina C. Meier

Plant Sciences (IBG-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

Hendrik Poorter

Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

Hendrik Poorter

CEFE, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France

Catherine Roumet

Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum–University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Francesco Maria Sabatini

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Marina Semchenko & Christopher J. Sweeney

Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Marina Semchenko

Jealott’s Hill International Research Centre, Syngenta, Bracknell, UK

Christopher J. Sweeney

Institute of Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Center for Bioenergy Innovation and Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

Larry M. York

The Root Lab, Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, USA

M. Luke McCormack