Plant functional types and natural land cover types

Tree Pfts:

• Tropical PFTs (trop)

1. tropical broad-leaved evergreen;

2. tropical broad-leaved raingreen;

• Temperate PFTs (tem)

3. temperate needle-leaved evergreen;

4. temperate broad-leaved evergreen;

5. temperate broad-leaved summer green;

• Boreal PFTs (bor)

6. boreal summer green;

7. boreal needle-leaved evergreen;

• Grass PFTs:

8. C3 herbaceous;

9. C4 herbaceous.

The plant functional types are related to the natural vegetation types (biomes) according the flowchart below.

Natural land cover type (biome) classification from area shares of individual Plant Functional Types (PFT)s (expresses as foliage projected cover, FPC) and mean annual temperature (Tmean). Subscripts of FPC refer to individual PFTs (1: tropical broadleaved evergreen, 2: tropical broadleaved raingreen, 3: temperate needleleaved evergreen, 4: temperate broadleaved evergreen, 5: temperate broadleaved summergreen, 6: boreal summergreen, 7: boreal needleleaved evergreen, 8: C3 herbaceous, 9: C4 herbaceous), tropical PFTs (“trop”) are PFTs 1 and 2, temperate PFTs (“temp”) are PFTs 3-5, boreal PFTS (“bor”) are PFTs 6 and 7, tree PFTs (“tree”) are PFTs 1-7, grass PFTs are PFTs 8 and 9.