Data and R code for Tansley review New Phytologist 2021: "An integrated framework of plant form and function: The belowground perspective"

The files in this archive are related to the paper of Weigelt, Mommer, Andraczek et al. (2021) An integrated framework of plant form and function: The belowground perspective. Tansley Review New Phytologist. The paper developed and tested a new conceptual framework of plant form and function linking above and belowground traits of 2510 species. We found that an integrated, whole-plant trait space required as much as four axes. The two main axes represented the fast-slow ‘conservation’ gradient on which leaf and fine-root traits were well aligned, and the ‘collaboration’ gradient in roots. The two additional axes were separate, orthogonal plant size axes for height and rooting depth.