Special issue: Understanding species and community response to environmental change - a functional trait perspective

The December 2011 issue of Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment includes a guest editorial and nine papers dealing with the mechanisms behind functional changes and their outcome to ecosystem functions. Together they may stimulate thought about the use and importance of functional traits across various scales. The special issue was edited by Dr. Camilla Wellstein, Prof Boris Schröder, Prof Björn Reineking and Dr. Niklaus E. Zimmermann.