Australia-NZ Network for Vegetation Function and Futures

植物塑造了我们的景观，并推动了从地方到全球范围的生态系统进程。植物的数量功能性状差异很大。关于功能变异的全球数据集正在出现，澳大利亚和新西兰处于领先地位。将在澳大利亚和新西兰支持建立一个网络，并与其他地方建立强有力的联系。它将针对七个雄心勃勃但可实现的研究发展。每一个都需要不同学科之间的深入对话。在所有七个方面建立网络将建立更广泛的联系，跨越古生物学、生态系统功能、植被结构、全球变化、生态生理学、生物发生学、基因组学、生态信息学和进化理论。

Plants shape our landscapes and drive ecosystem processes from local to global scale. Plant species vary widely in quantitative functional traits. Global datasets about functional variation are emerging, with Australian and NZ leadership. A network would be supported in both Australia and NZ and with strong links elsewhere. It would target seven ambitious but achievable research developments. Each of them demands intensive conversation between separate disciplines. Networking across all seven strands will create a broader linkage, spanning across palaeobiology, ecosystem function, vegetation structure, global change, ecophysiology, phylogeny, genomics, ecoinformatics and evolutionary theory.