Giant root-rat engineering and livestock grazing activities regulate plant functional trait diversity of an afroalpine vegetation community in the bale mountains, ethiopia

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• What: The authors evaluated the changes in functional trait diversity and composition of Afroalpine plant communities along gradients of engineering disturbances of a subterranean endemic rodent, the giant root-rat (Tachyoryctes macrocephalus Rüppell 1842), and human activities in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia. For this study, the authors selected six traits to identify the main dimensions of variation in leaf and growth traits, which are known to have ecological functions related to resource use and acquisition, growth, survival and reproduction, and determined their association to root-rat engineering (fresh burrow density, old burrow density and presence . . .
  

   

  

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