The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 265171 (project FunDivEUROPE) and no. PCOFUND-GA-2010-267243 (Plant Fellows), The Leverhulme Trust (no. IN-2013-004), the University of Stirling, the COST Action FP1304 “PROFOUND” and the project FUNDIVER (MINECO, Spain
; no. CGL2015-69186-C2-2-R). PRB was also supported by a Juan de la Cierva (FJCI-2014-19921) and TALENTO Fellow (Comunidad de Madrid, 2016-T2/AMB-1665). We thank Dr. Jon Lefcheck, Dr. Tom Hanson, Dr. Yoan Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Dr. Enrique Valencia and Joaquin Calatayud for the help with the SEM analyses, The Leverhulme Research Network for the insightful comments over preliminary results and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on this manuscript. We thank the MAGRAMA for access to the Spanish NFI, the Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut for access to the German NFI, the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) for making permanent sample plot data available, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences for making the Swedish NFI data available and Hugues Lecomte for access to the Walloon NFI. The study has been supported by the TRY initiative on plant traits (http://www.try-db.org). The TRY initiative and database are hosted, developed and maintained by J. Kattge and G. Bönisch (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany). TRY is/has been supported by DIVERSITAS, IGBP, the Global Land Project, the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through its program QUEST (Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System), the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB) and GIS “Climat, Environnement et Société” France.
Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom; Grupo de Ecología y Restauración Forestal, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain; Department of Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; CREAF, Campus de Bellaterra (UAB) Edifici C, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain; Universidad Autònoma Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain; Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, United Kingdom; Forest Research Institute Baden-Wurttemberg, Freiburg, Germany; Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Vantaa, Finland; Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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