Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime

Jason D. Fridley; Xiaojuan Liu; Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy; F. Stuart Chapin; Mick Crawley; Gerlinde De Deyn; Sandra Díaz; James B. Grace; Peter Grubb; Susan Harrison; Sandra Lavorel; Zhimin Liu; Simon Pierce; Bernhard Schmid; Carly Stevens; David A. Wardle; Mark Westoby

doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14177

Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime

Jason D. Fridley, Xiaojuan Liu, Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy, F. Stuart Chapin, Mick Crawley, Gerlinde De Deyn, Sandra Díaz, James B. Grace, Peter Grubb, Susan Harrison, Sandra Lavorel, Zhimin Liu, Simon Pierce, Bernhard Schmid, Carly Stevens, David A. Wardle, Mark Westoby

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Abstract

Perhaps as much as any other scientist in the 20th century, J.P. Grime transformed the study of plant ecology and helped shepherd the field toward international prominence as a nexus of ideas related to global environmental change. Editors at the Journal of Ecology asked a group of senior plant ecologists to comment on Grime's scientific legacy. This commentary piece includes individual responses of 14 scientists from around the world attesting to Grime's foundational role in plant functional ecology, including his knack for sparking controversy, his unique approach to theory formulation involving clever experiments and standardized trait measurements of large numbers of species, and the continued impact of his work on ecological science and policy.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1814-1831
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Ecology
Volume	111
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14177
State	Published - Sep 2023
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Grime's triangle
grasslands
history of ecology
plant functional traits
plant strategy theory

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Ecology
Plant Science

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Fridley, J. D., Liu, X., Pérez-Harguindeguy, N., Chapin, F. S., Crawley, M., De Deyn, G., Díaz, S., Grace, J. B., Grubb, P., Harrison, S., Lavorel, S., Liu, Z., Pierce, S., Schmid, B., Stevens, C., Wardle, D. A., & Westoby, M. (2023). Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime. Journal of Ecology, 111(9), 1814-1831. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14177

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