The large abiotic gradient studied within RESPECT will offer unique opportunities to foster process understanding of the relationships between abiotic drivers, traits and ecosystem functionality. By evaluating the relevance of trait variation and biotic processes for the resistance of ecosystem functioning with the REF and LSMs, including using time series of extreme events, remote sensing and area-wide scenarios for climate and land-use change we will derive predictions including their uncertainties on how these highly diverse tropical ecosystems will respond to future global change which will allow us to gain insights about the importance of traits and functions for sustainable ecosystem management. We will use three complementary approaches to project trait-target function relationships for different scenarios of global change. 1) Space-for-time apprach using the plot scale mainly done in the Syn-B projects, 2) Extremes-for-Time done on both the plot and area-wide scale mainly by Syn-A1 and future scenarios base on the plot dan area-wide scale coordinated by Syn-A2 with contributions of the other Syn-projects:
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