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Vegetation ecology meets ecosystem science: Permanent grasslands as a functional biogeography case study

Philippe Choler
Eric Garnier
Guilhem Debarros
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Claudy C. Jolivet
Sandra Lavorel
Jessy Loranger
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Alexis Mikolajczak
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Jean Olivier
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The effect of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning has been widely acknowledged, and the importance of the functional roles of species, as well as their diversity, in the control of ecosystem processes has been emphasised recently. However, bridging biodiversity and ecosystem science to address issues at a biogeographic scale is still in its infancy. Bridging this gap is the primary goal of the emerging field of functional biogeography. While the rise of Big Data has catalysed functional biogeography studies in recent years, comprehensive evidence remains scarce. Here, we present the rationale and the first results of a country-wide initiative focused on the C-3 permanent grasslands. We aimed to collate, integrate and process large databases of vegetation releves, plant traits and environmental layers to provide a country-wide assessment of ecosystem properties and services which can be used to improve regional models of climate and land use changes. We outline the theoretical background, data availability, and ecoinformatics challenges associated with the approach and its feasibility. We provide a case study of upscaling of leaf drymatter content averaged at ecosystemlevel and country-wide predictions of forage digestibility. Our framework sets milestones for further hypothesis testing in functional biogeography and earth system modelling. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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hal-01445170 , version 1 (24-01-2017)

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Cyrille Violle, Philippe Choler, Benjamin Borgy, Eric Garnier, Bernard Amiaud, et al.. Vegetation ecology meets ecosystem science: Permanent grasslands as a functional biogeography case study. Science of the Total Environment, 2015, 534 (15 november 2015), pp.43--51. ⟨10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.141⟩. ⟨hal-01445170⟩
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