Ecometrics: The traits that bind the past and present together - ERONEN - 2010 - Integrative Zoology - Wiley Online Library

Ecometrics: The traits that bind the past and present together - ERONEN - 2010 - Integrative Zoology - Wiley Online Library: "We outline here an approach for understanding the biology of climate change, one that integrates data at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Taxon-free trait analysis, or “ecometrics,” is based on the idea that the distribution in a community of ecomorphological traits such as tooth structure, limb proportions, body mass, leaf shape, incubation temperature, claw shape, any aspect of anatomy or physiology can be measured across some subset of the organisms in a community. Regardless of temporal or spatial scale, traits are the means by which organisms interact with their environment, biotic and abiotic."