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Optimizing ecosystem services involves linking them to organism body part sizes via functional traits. Wood and bark traits vary across stem diameters, enhancing ecosystem multifunctionality in woody plants.

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  • Ecosystem Services

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  • Optimizing diverse ecosystem services (biodiversity support, regulatory, utilitarian, cultural) is a key research area.
  • Linking ecosystem services to organism body part sizes, using functional traits as intermediaries, can advance this field.
  • Woody ecosystems offer a model system to investigate these trait-service relationships.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the hypothesis that functional traits vary across stem diameter classes (trunk, branches, twigs) within and among woody species.
  • To determine if this variation in wood and bark traits contributes to ecosystem multifunctionality.
  • To explore potential extensions of this framework to belowground organs and other organisms.

Main Methods:

  • Investigated functional traits of wood and bark across different stem diameter classes in woody plants.
  • Analyzed trait variation within individual trees/shrubs and across different woody species.
  • Related trait variation to ecosystem multifunctionality.

Main Results:

  • Key wood and bark functional traits demonstrated variation across stem diameter classes, from trunk to twigs.
  • This variation was observed both within individual woody plants and across species.
  • The findings support the hypothesis that trait variation contributes to ecosystem multifunctionality.

Conclusions:

  • Functional traits of wood and bark vary predictably with stem size in woody ecosystems.
  • This trait variation is a significant driver of ecosystem multifunctionality.
  • The framework can be extended to belowground structures and other taxa, offering a unified approach to ecosystem service optimization.