Zakharova, Liubov

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","108703"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Ecological Modelling"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","407"],["dc.contributor.author","Zakharova, L."],["dc.contributor.author","Meyer, K. M."],["dc.contributor.author","Seifan, M."],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-08T07:28:14Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-08T07:28:14Z"],["dc.date.issued","2019"],["dc.description.abstract","Trait-based approaches are an alternative to species-based approaches for functionally linking individual organisms with community structure and dynamics. In the trait-based approach, rather than focusing on the species identity of the organism, the focus is on the organism traits, which represent their physiological, morphological, or life-history characteristics. Although used in ecological research for several decades, this approach only emerged in ecological modelling about twenty years ago. We review this rise of trait-based models and trace the occasional transfer of trait-based modelling concepts between terrestrial plant ecology, animal and microbial ecology, and aquatic ecology, discuss terminology of trait-based approaches and evaluate future implementation of trait-based models, including cross-discipline exchange. Trait-based models have a variety of purposes, such as predicting changes in community patterns under climate and land-use change, understand underlying mechanisms for community assemblies, planning and assessing conservation management, or studying invasion processes. In modelling, trait-based approaches can reduce technical challenges such as computational limitations, scaling problems, and data scarcity. However, we note inconsistencies in the current usage of terms in trait-based approaches and these inconsistencies must be resolved if trait-based concepts are to be easily exchanged between disciplines. Specifically, future trait-based models may further benefit from incorporating intraspecific trait variability and addressing more complex species interactions. We also recommend expanding the combination of trait-based approaches with individual-based modelling to simplify the parameterization of models, to capture plant-plant interactions at the individual level, and to explain community dynamics under global change."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.05.008"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/69445"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.relation.issn","0304-3800"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Abteilung Ökosystemmodellierung"],["dc.subject.gro","Functional traits"],["dc.subject.gro","Functional types"],["dc.subject.gro","Model types"],["dc.subject.gro","Trait-based approach"],["dc.subject.gro","Trait-based model"],["dc.subject.gro","Individual-based modelling"],["dc.title","Trait-based modelling in ecology: A review of two decades of research"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]