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2026-07-06 |
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Title
| Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics [* Cross-Reference *] |
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Other Identifier
| https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0655-x
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Author
| Franklin, Oskar (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet)International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitetORCID0000-0002-0376-4140
Harrison, Sandy P. (University of Reading)University of ReadingORCID0000-0001-5687-1903
Dewar, Roderick (ANU Research School of Biology, Helsingin Yliopisto)
Farrior, Caroline E. (The University of Texas at Austin)
Brännström, Åke (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Umeå Universitet)
Dieckmann, Ulf (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
Pietsch, Stephan (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg)
Falster, Daniel (UNSW Sydney)UNSW SydneyORCID0000-0002-9814-092X
Cramer, Wolfgang (Aix Marseille Université)Aix Marseille UniversitéORCID0000-0002-9205-5812
Loreau, Michel (CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Wang, Han (Tsinghua University)Tsinghua UniversityORCID0000-0003-2482-1818
Mäkelä, Annikki (Helsingin Yliopisto)
Rebel, Karin T. (Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development)
Meron, Ehud (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Schymanski, Stanislaus J. (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)Luxembourg Institute of Science and TechnologyORCID0000-0002-0950-2942
Rovenskaya, Elena (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg)
Stocker, Benjamin D. (ETH Zürich, Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF-CERCA))ETH Zürich, Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF-CERCA)ORCID0000-0003-2697-9096
Zaehle, Sönke (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)Max Planck Institute for BiogeochemistryORCID0000-0001-5602-7956
Manzoni, Stefano (Stockholms universitet, Bolin Centre for Climate Research)Stockholms universitet, Bolin Centre for Climate ResearchORCID0000-0002-5960-5712
van Oijen, Marcel (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology)UK Centre for Ecology & HydrologyORCID0000-0003-4028-3626
Wright, Ian J. (Macquarie University)Macquarie UniversityORCID0000-0001-8338-9143
Ciais, Philippe (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesORCID0000-0001-8560-4943
van Bodegom, Peter M. (Universiteit Leiden)Universiteit LeidenORCID0000-0003-0771-4500
Peñuelas, Josep (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF-CERCA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF-CERCA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasORCID0000-0002-7215-0150
Hofhansl, Florian (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg)International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, LaxenburgORCID0000-0003-0073-0946
Terrer, Cesar (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryORCID0000-0002-5479-3486
Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A. (Universiteit Leiden)Universiteit LeidenORCID0000-0003-4659-2585
Midgley, Guy (Stellenbosch University)Stellenbosch UniversityORCID0000-0001-8264-0869
Prentice, I. Colin (Tsinghua University, Macquarie University, Imperial College London) |
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Description
| Plants and vegetation play a critical—but largely unpredictable—role in global environmental changes due to the multitude of contributing processes at widely different spatial and temporal scales. In this Perspective, we explore approaches to master this complexity and improve our ability to predict vegetation dynamics by explicitly taking account of principles that constrain plant and ecosystem behaviour: natural selection, self-organization and entropy maximization. These ideas are increasingly being used in vegetation models, but we argue that their full potential has yet to be realized. We demonstrate the power of natural selection-based optimality principles to predict photosynthetic and carbon allocation responses to multiple environmental drivers, as well as how individual plasticity leads to the predictable self-organization of forest canopies. We show how models of natural selection acting on a few key traits can generate realistic plant communities and how entropy maximization can identify the most probable outcomes of community dynamics in space- and time-varying environments. Finally, we present a roadmap indicating how these principles could be combined in a new generation of models with stronger theoretical foundations and an improved capacity to predict complex vegetation responses to environmental change. (2020-05-01)
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Subject
| Earth and Environmental Sciences |
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Keyword
| play a critical
largely unpredictable
role in global
temporal scales
multitude of contributing |
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Funding Information
| Seventh Framework Programme: 181115 |
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Deposit Date
| 2020-05-01 |
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Data Type
| Review |
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Data Source
| Nature Plants; eISSN: 20550278, vol. 6, n° 5, pp. 444-453 |