Representing plant diversity in land models: An evolutionary approach to make “Functional Types” more functional

Anderegg, Leander D. L.; Griffith, Daniel M.; Cavender‐Bares, Jeannine; Riley, William J.; Berry, Joseph A.; Dawson, Todd E.; Still, Christopher J.

doi:10.1111/gcb.16040

Title: Representing plant diversity in land models: An evolutionary approach to make “Functional Types” more functional

Journal Article · 26 January 2022 · Global Change Biology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16040 · OSTI ID:1961812

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Univ. of California, Santa Barbara and Berkeley, CA (United States); Carnegie Inst. of Science, Stanford, CA (United States)
US Geological Survey, Moffett Field, CA (United States). Western Geographic Science Center; NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA (United States); Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Carnegie Inst. of Science, Stanford, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)

Plants are critical mediators of terrestrial mass and energy fluxes, and their structural and functional traits have profound impacts on local and global climate, biogeochemistry, biodiversity, and hydrology. Yet, Earth System Models (ESMs), our most powerful tools for predicting the effects of humans on the coupled biosphere-atmosphere system, simplify the incredible diversity of land plants into a handful of coarse categories of "Plant Functional Types" (PFTs) that often fail to capture ecological dynamics such as biome distributions. The inclusion of more realistic functional diversity is a recognized goal for ESMs, yet there is currently no consistent, widely accepted way to add diversity to models, that is, to determine what new PFTs to add and with what data to constrain their parameters. Here we review approaches to representing plant diversity in ESMs and draw on recent ecological and evolutionary findings to present an evolution-based functional type approach for further disaggregating functional diversity. Specifically, the prevalence of niche conservatism, or the tendency of closely related taxa to retain similar ecological and functional attributes through evolutionary time, reveals that evolutionary relatedness is a powerful framework for summarizing functional similarities and differences among plant types. We advocate that Plant Functional Types based on dominant evolutionary lineages ("Lineage Functional Types") will provide an ecologically defensible, tractable, and scalable framework for representing plant diversity in next-generation ESMs, with the potential to improve parameterization, process representation, and model benchmarking. We highlight how the importance of evolutionary history for plant function can unify the work of disparate fields to improve predictive modeling of the Earth system.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: ASCEND Biology Integration Institute; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1961812

Journal Information:: Global Change Biology, Journal Name: Global Change Biology Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 28; ISSN 1354-1013

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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