Publications by authors named "Alyssa Wellman Houde"
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- Factors driving freshwater salinization syndrome (FSS) include inputs of salt ions, erosion rates, hydrologic cycles, rising water temperatures, and ecosystem recovery potential.
- These factors operate in distinct stages that lead to failures in critical ecosystem functions, such as providing clean drinking water, supporting agriculture, and maintaining biodiversity.
- Future research should focus on diagnosing, predicting, and addressing FSS using the identified state factors and their stages.
Traits are important for understanding how plant communities assemble and function, providing a common currency for studying ecological processes across species, locations, and habitat types. However, the majority of studies relating species traits to community assembly rely upon vegetative traits of mature plants. Seed traits, which are understudied relative to whole-plant traits, are key to understanding assembly of plant communities.
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