Figure 7
Figure 7. A variety of methods generate traits-based predictions of ecological response to global change. Approaches vary in the scale and resolution of trait data inputs and predictive outputs (see Fig 1). To date, trait-based studies focused on global change prediction have been limited (<3% of 822 papers). Here we highlight some of the studies that explicitly predict future ecological outcomes based on trait-based interactions, and types of environmental filtering they consider. Size of the grey triangle represents the relative abundance of each study type within 22 predictive global change papers; trait-based distribution models are most common, while spatially explicit trait-based process models are least common. * Analyses are not spatially explicit. 1Eckloff et al. 2015,2Ozkundakci et al. 2016, 3Cattano et al. 2018, 4Jacob et al. 2011,5Fordham et al. 2012, 6Whitney et al. 2017, 7Edmunds et al. 2014.