Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why
C. E. Timothy Paine, Lucy Amissah, Harald Auge, Christopher Baraloto, Martín Baruffol, Nils Bourland, Helge Bruelheide, Kasso Daïnou, Roland C. de Gouvenain, Jean‐Louis Doucet, Susan J. Doust, Paul V. A. Fine, Claire Fortunel, Josephine Haase, Karen D. Holl, Hervé Jactel, Xuefei Li, Kaoru Kitajima, Julia Koricheva, Cristina Martínez‐Garza, Christian Messier, Alain Paquette, Christopher D Philipson, Daniel Piotto, Lourens Poorter, Juan M. Posada, Catherine Potvin, Kalle Rainio, Sabrina E. Russo, Mariacarmen Ruiz‐Jaen, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen, Campbell O. Webb, S. Joseph Wright, Rakan A. Zahawi, Andy Hector (2015). Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why. Journal of Ecology, 103(4), pp. 978-989, DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12401.
