Future directions
The creation of trait databases (e.g. TRY, BiolFlor, FRED) and the use
of trait based approaches have enhanced the ecologists’ ability to
investigate the importance of plant traits in numerous ecological
processes and increasing information added to these databases will help
improve the accuracy of our model in the future. Further information on
novel pathogen attack of invaders will also help improve the model and
make headway on answering further questions (see Fig. 3 and Table 3).