Plant Funtional Types: their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change
Edited by T.M. Smith, H.H. Shugart, and F.I. Woodward (1997). IGBP Book Series No.1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Part one

1. What are functional types and how should we seek them
   H. Gitay and I.R. Noble
2. Plant and ecosystem function types
   H.H. Shugart

Part two

3. Plant functional types: towards a definition by environmental constraints
   F. I. Woodward and C.K. Kelly
4. Can we use plant functional types to describe and predict responses to environmental change?
   R.J. Hobbs
5. Functional types in non-equilibrium ecosystems
   B.H. Walker
6. Categorizing plant species into functional types
   M. Westoby and M. Leishman
7. Functional types: testing the concept in Northern England
   J.P. Grime, J.G. Hodgson, R. Hunt, K. Thompson, G.A.F. Hendry, B.D. Campbell, A. Jalili, S.H. Hillier, S. Diaz and M.J.W. Burke

Part three

8. Plant functional types and ecosystem change in arctic tundras
   G.R. Shaver, A.E. Giblin, K.J. Nadelhoffer and E.B. Rastetter
9. Functional types for predicting changes in biodiversity: a case study in Cape fynbos
   W.J. Bond
10. Defining functional types for models of desertification
    J.F. Reynolds, R.A. Virginia and W.H. Schlesinger
11. Plant functional types in temperate semi-arid regions
    O.E. Sala, W.K. Lauenroth and R.A. Golluscio
12. Interactions between demographic and ecosystem processes in a semi-arid and an arid grassland: a challenge for plant functional types
    W.K. Lauenroth, D.P. Coffin, I.C. Burke and R.A. Virginia
13. Plant functional types in African savannas and grasslands
    R.J. Scholes, G. Pickett, W.N. Ellery and A.C. Blackmore

Part four

14. Using plant functional types in a global vegetation model
    W. Cramer
15. The use of plant functional type classifications to model global land cover and simulate the interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere
    R. Leemans

Part five

16. Examining the consequences of classifying species into functional types: a simulation model analysis
    T.M. Smith
17. Ecosystem function of biodiversity: the basis of the viewpoint
    H.A. Mooney
18. Defining plant functional types: the end view
    F.I. Woodward, T.M. Smith and H.H. Shugart