Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe

The 2019-2020 BiodivERsA joint call for research proposals, under the BiodivClim ERA-Net COFUND program, and with the funding organisations Swiss National Science Foundation SNF (project: FeedBaCks, 193907), Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR-20-EBI5-0001-05), the German Research Foundation (DFG BR 1698/21-1, DFG HI 1538/16-1), and the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (SS70010002) funded this research and the position of S.K. and G.M. The BasqueGovernment (IT1487-22) supported the work of I.B. The Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS P1-0236) supported the work of A.Č. The University of Latvia (grant nr. AAP2016/B041//Zd2016/AZ03) sup- ported the work of S.R. Financial support within the Rita-Levi Mon- talcini (2019) programme, funded by the Italian Ministry of University, supported the work of F.M.S. The Slovak Research and Development Agency (grant nr. APVV 16-0431) supported the work of J.Š. The VIL- LUM FONDEN (grant 16549) funded the VILLUM Investigator project “Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World” which supported the work of J.C.S. J.C.S. also considers this work a contribution to Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), funded by Danish National Research Foundation (grant DNRF173). S.K. acknowl- edges financial support from the Open Access Publication Fund of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the iDiv Open Science Publication Fund.