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Walter Durka

Researcher at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

Publications -  187
Citations -  11395

Walter Durka is an academic researcher from Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Genetic diversity. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 177 publications receiving 9350 citations. Previous affiliations of Walter Durka include German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research & University of Bayreuth.

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TRY - a global database of plant traits

Jens Kattge, +136 more
TL;DR: TRY as discussed by the authors is a global database of plant traits, including morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and their organs, which can be used for a wide range of research from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology to biogeography.
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TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

Jens Kattge, +754 more
TL;DR: The extent of the trait data compiled in TRY is evaluated and emerging patterns of data coverage and representativeness are analyzed to conclude that reducing data gaps and biases in the TRY database remains a key challenge and requires a coordinated approach to data mobilization and trait measurements.
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The niche of higher plants: evidence for phylogenetic conservatism.

TL;DR: N niche conservatism among extant plant species may reflect the opportunities of their ancestors during their diversification, and could be correlated with the palaeoenvironmental conditions during the radiation of the phylogenetic lineages.
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Effects of forest decline on uptake and leaching of deposited nitrate determined from 15 N and 18 O measurements

TL;DR: In this article, the isotope ratios of nitrate in spring waters from eight forested watersheds, ranging from apparently healthy spruce plantations to those in decline owing to acidification, were analyzed.