Functional types

Important background on plant functional types

• Grime JP, Hodgson JG, Hunt R. 1988. Comparative Plant Ecology: a Functional Approach to Common British Species

  pp. ix + 742, Unwin Hyman, London, Reprinted 1996. Second edition: pp. ix + 752, Castlepoint Press, 2007. Cited by 4026 (2023)

• Grime JP, Hodgson JG, Hunt R. 1990. The Abridged Comparative Plant Ecology

  pp. ix + 399, Unwin Hyman, London. Cited by 128 (2023)

  Sources from this website

• Understand J P Grime's C-S-R plant functional types
  Find out how the C-S-R system is constructed and what it can do; download a PowerPoint tutorial here.

• How to allocate C-S-R plant functional types in Europe - a soft approach to a hard problem
  Download a .pdf version of the 1999 Oikos paper here. Warning: this is copyright material for personal and private study only.

• How to allocate C-S-R plant functional types in biomes world-wide
  Download a .pdf version of the 2017 Functional Ecology paper here. Warning: this is copyright material for personal and private study only.

• Allocate C-S-R functional types for yourself
  Go forward here to all the necessary information and techniques from the 1999 Oikos paper.

• Redescribe your vegetation samples in terms of C-S-R functional types
  Go forward here to find all the necessary information and techniques.