Publication Date:
2012-07-18
Description:
Fluctuations in biodiversity are not just collateral damages in the face of global environmental change, according to Sandra Díaz, a professor of community and ecosystems ecology at Córdoba National University in Argentina and a senior principal researcher of the Argentine National Research Council. Díaz explores how the chemical and physical traits of plants—such as size, texture, and nutrient content of leaves, wood density, palatability to herbivores, and canopy architecture—influence a plant’s response to the environment and play an active role in the planet’s constant evolution in response to environmental change.pnas;109/29/11469/UNFIG01F1unfig01Sandra M. Díaz.Díaz has uncovered the important variables driving ecosystem functions...
Keywords:
PNAS Profiles
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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