serpentine {Select}

Functional trait data for species in serpentine grassland

Description

A dataset containing two traits for species in a serpentine grassland. The variables are as follows:

Usage

data(serpentine)

Format

dataframe of 48 species and 2 traits

Details

• species. species name

• wue. average water use efficiency, rate of carbon assimilation per unit of water used

• rootdepth. average rooting depth in soil

Source

Funk, J.L. & Wolf, A.A. 2016. Testing the trait based community framework: Do functional traits predict competitive outcomes? Ecology 97:2206-2211.