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Key information from FDOS• Global distribution of plant communities as described by
quantitative traits [and their association with phylogenetic composition??]– Canopy height– LES (N, pigments, LMA)– Other nutrients (e.g., rock-derived nutrients)– Leaf and canopy water content– Foliar Carbon fractions (NSC vs SC)– Phenology of dynamic canopy variables to capture seasonal response cycles
• Changes in plant communities in response to environmental change. (Large scale spatial changes in continuous distributions of PFT composition and associated ecosystem processes.)
• Growth responses to climate variability, extreme events and secular change
Relationship to other biodiversity information systems
• Basis for exploring, understanding and extrapolating distribution of species as constructed from ground observations of taxa
• Conservation planning and priority setting• Species invasions• Agriculture and silvicultural diversity?
Relationship to earth system science – improved (biophysical) estimates of…
• Carbon stocks and fluxes• Ecohydrology and associated water
provisioning• Environmental biogeochemistry – N and P
cycling and budgets, pollution fate and impacts
• Surface energy balance