BG Biogeosciences BG Biogeosciences 1726-4189 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/bg-11-4357-2014 Progress in DGVMs: a comment on "Impacts of trait variation through observed trait–climate relationships on performance of an Earth system model: a conceptual analysis" by Verheijen et al. (2013) Higgins S. I. ¹ Langan L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4765-9510 ² Scheiter S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5449-841X ³ 1 Department of Botany, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand 2 Institut für Physische Geographie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 3 Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum (LOEWE BiK-F), Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 19 08 2014 11 16 4357 4360 Copyright: © 2014 S. I. Higgins et al. 2014 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/11/4357/2014/bg-11-4357-2014.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/11/4357/2014/bg-11-4357-2014.pdf

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