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Scaling functional traits to ecosystem processes: Towards a mechanistic understanding in peat mosses

Mazziotta, A., Granath, G., Rydin, H., Bengtsson, F. & Norberg, J.

2018 - Journal / article

1. The role of trait trade -offs and environmental filtering in explaining the variability in functional traits and ecosystem processes has received considerable attention for vascular plants but less so for bryophytes. Thus, we do not know whether the same forces also shape the phenotypic variability of bryophytes. Here, we assess how environmental gradients and trade -offs shape functional traits and subse -quently ecosystem...

Analytically tractable climate–carbon cycle feedbacks under 21st century anthropogenic forcing

Lade, S. J., Donges, J. F., Fetzer, I., Anderies, J. M., Beer, C., Cornell, S. E., Gasser, T., Norberg, J., Richardson, K., Rockström, J., and Steffen, W.

2018 - Journal / article

Changes to climate–carbon cycle feedbacks may significantly affect the Earth system’s response to greenhouse gas emissions. These feedbacks are usually analysed from numerical output of complex and arguably opaque Earth system models. Here, we construct a stylised global climate–carbon cycle model, test its output against comprehensive Earth system models, and investigate the strengths of its climate–carbon cycle feedbacks ...

Strategies for sustainable management of renewable resources during environmental change

Lindkvist E., Ekeberg, Ö., Norberg, J.

2017 - Journal / article

As a consequence of global environmental change, management strategies that can deal with unexpected change in resource dynamics are becoming increasingly important. In this paper we undertake a novel approach to studying resource growth problems using a computational form of adaptive management to find optimal strategies for prevalent natural resource management dilemmas. We scrutinize adaptive management, or learning-by-doin...

Towards a trait-based ecology of wetland vegetation

Moor, H., Rydin, H., Hylander, K., Nilsson, M.B., Lindborg, R., Norberg, J.

2017 - Journal / article

1. Functional traits mechanistically capture plant responses to environmental gradients as well as plant effects on ecosystem functioning. Yet most trait-based theory stems from terrestrial systems and extension to other habitats can provide new insights. 2. Wetlands differ from terrestrial systems in conditions (e.g. soil water saturation, anoxia, pH extremes), plant adaptations (e.g. aerenchyma, clonality, ubiquity of bryo...