Trait-based plant ecology a flawed tool in climate studies? The leaf traits of wild olive that pattern with climate are not those routinely measured

• Jalal Kassout,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Equipe bio-Agrodiversité, Laboratoire Botanique Appliquée, Faculté des Sciences, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Tétouan, Morocco, Associated International Laboratory EVOLEA, INEE-CNRS- CNRST, Montpellier, France, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Equipe Dynamique de la Biodiversité, Anthropo-Ecologie, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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• Jean-Frederic Terral,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Associated International Laboratory EVOLEA, INEE-CNRS- CNRST, Montpellier, France, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Equipe Dynamique de la Biodiversité, Anthropo-Ecologie, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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• John G. Hodgson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Unit of Comparative Plant Ecology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Mohammed Ater

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mohammed.ater@gmail.com

  Affiliations Equipe bio-Agrodiversité, Laboratoire Botanique Appliquée, Faculté des Sciences, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Tétouan, Morocco, Associated International Laboratory EVOLEA, INEE-CNRS- CNRST, Montpellier, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2637-8215

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