Community-weighted mean traits but not functional diversity determine the changes in soil properties during wetland drying on the Tibetan Plateau

Li, Wei; Epstein, Howard E.; Wen, Zhongming; Zhao, Jie; Jin, Jingwei; Jing, Guanghua; Cheng, Jimin; Du, Guozhen

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-137-2017

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-137-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-137-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

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06 Feb 2017

Research article |

| 06 Feb 2017

Community-weighted mean traits but not functional diversity determine the changes in soil properties during wetland drying on the Tibetan Plateau

Wei Li, Howard E. Epstein, Zhongming Wen, Jie Zhao, Jingwei Jin, Guanghua Jing, Jimin Cheng, and Guozhen Du

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RC1: 'Comments', miaojun ma, 06 Dec 2016
- AC1: 'List of responses to the comments- SE-2016-149', wei li, 08 Dec 2016
RC2: 'Reviewer comments on se-2016-149', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Dec 2016
- AC2: 'List of responses to the comments- SE-2016-149', wei li, 08 Dec 2016

Short summary

This is an interesting piece of work and makes a nice contribution to the knowledge on how aboveground vegetation can control belowground soil properties through functional traits and functional diversity. Functional traits are the center of recent attempts to unify key ecological theories on species coexistence and assembly in communities. The results presented are valuable for understanding the relationship between species traits, functional diversity, and soil properties.