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).