Relationships Between Traits and Environmental Variables Across All Forests (IMAGE)

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Relationships Between Traits and Environmental Variables Across All Forests

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Relationships between the community-weighted moments of individual traits and all environmental variables across all forests. (A) Radar plots showing all Q:22 trait moment-environment correlations. Each symbol represents a different trait moment, and its position along the radial axis indicates the strength of correlation between that moment and a given environmental variable. The solid black line represents zero correlation, the region inside (outside) this line represents negative (positive) correlations. Gray shading represents nonsignificant correlations. Filled shapes highlight the environmental variables that are most strongly correlated with each of the four trait moments. (B) Mean magnitudes (absolute values) of all significant correlations between all trait moments and each environmental variable. Environmental variables are abbreviated as follows: absolute value of latitude (jLatj), elevation (Elev),mean annual temperature/precipitation (MAT/MAP), isothermality (ISO), temperature diurnal range (TDR), temperature annual range (TAR), temperature/precipitation seasonality (TS/PS), climate water deficit (CWD), vapor air pressure (VAP), vapor pressure deficit (VPD), potential evapotranspiration (PET), wind velocity (Wind), and solar radiation (SR).

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Wieczynski <em>et al</em>, <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em> Dec 2018, 201813723; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1813723116

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