Jonathan and colleagues publish a paper in Ecosphere titled “Metabolomic and morphological trait diversity display contrasting patterns in temperate forest tree communities”. Thanks to Jon Henn and Marko Spasojevic for leading this project!
Figure: Species morphological and metabolomic traits separate them in multivariate functional space. Each point represents a species and the site where it is found is indicated by point color. Point positions are the first two axis scores from a principal components analysis (PCA) including all traits. In (A), the text color of trait labels indicates whether traits are metabolomic (dark blue) or morphological (black). In (B), the size of the point is proportional to the relative abundance of that species in the forest plot and labels indicate species names for some species. Percentage numbers on each axis represent the proportion of the total variation related to each axis. All trait values were scaled and centered prior to analysis. See Table 1 for identification of site abbreviations.