Acknowledgements
We would like to thank our fellow Plant Functional Traits Course 2020
participants for being great colleagues who pulled together during a
challenging time and still created a fun field course experience. We
would also like to thank Tasha-Leigh J. Gauthier, Laura H. Jessup,
Jocelyn Navarro, Maria Elisa Pierfederici and Eugenia Sánchez for
valuable discussions as we developed the initial draft of the
manuscript.
We are grateful for the financial support provided by the Norwegian
Research Council to develop the Plant Functional Trait Courses (project
274831 RECITE and 287784 EXPERTS under the INTPART program), and also
support from the National Science Foundation (awards ABI-1565118 and
HDR-1934790). SLM would also like to thank the Natural Environment
Research Council Award NE/L002612/1 for supporting attendance of the
2020 Plant Functional Trait Course. JvO was supported by the Independent
Research Fund of Denmark, project 7027-00133B. JCL is supported by the
project 287784 EXPERTS of the Norwegian Research Council.