The global spectrum of plant form and function

Wild boar rooting intensity determines shifts in understorey composition and functional traits

(2015) S. Burrascano et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Leaf economics and hydraulic traits are decoupled in five species-rich tropical-subtropical forests

(2015) Le Li et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Testing models for the leaf economics spectrum with leaf and whole-plant traits inArabidopsis thaliana

(2015) Benjamin Blonder et al.   AoB Plants

Seasonal Variation in the Capacity for Plant Trait Measures to Predict Grassland Carbon and Water Fluxes

(2014) Georg Everwand et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Are leaf functional traits ‘invariant’ with plant size and what is ‘invariance’ anyway?

(2014) Charles A. Price et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Then-dimensional hypervolume

(2014) Benjamin Blonder et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Linking functional traits and demographic rates in a subtropical tree community: the importance of size dependency

(2014) Yoshiko Iida et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages

(2014) William K. Cornwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Introducing wood anatomical and dendrochronological aspects of herbaceous plants: applications of the Xylem Database to vegetation science

(2014) Ulf Büntgen et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A worldwide analysis of within-canopy variations in leaf structural, chemical and physiological traits across plant functional types

(2014) Ülo Niinemets et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

How well do seed production traits correlate with leaf traits, whole-plant traits and plant ecological strategies?

(2014) Simon Pierce et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

A fully traits-based approach to modeling global vegetation distribution

(2014) P. M. van Bodegom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

(2014) P. M. Brando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Emergent Global Patterns of Ecosystem Structure and Function from a Mechanistic General Ecosystem Model

(2014) Michael B. J. Harfoot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

No evidence for local adaptation in an invasive alien plant: field and greenhouse experiments tracing a colonization sequence

(2013) Anna T. Pahl et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Shrub biomass estimation in the semiarid Chaco forest: a contribution to the quantification of an underrated carbon stock

(2013) Georgina Conti et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Allocating CSR plant functional types: the use of leaf economics and size traits to classify woody and herbaceous vascular plants

(2013) Simon Pierce et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Contrasting effects of plant inter- and intraspecific variation on community-level trait measures along an environmental gradient

(2013) Emilie Kichenin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Plant functional diversity and carbon storage - an empirical test in semi-arid forest ecosystems

(2013) Georgina Conti et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant functional group identity and diversity determine biotic resistance to invasion by an exotic grass

(2013) Chaeho Byun et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Assessing the causes and scales of the leaf economics spectrum using venation networks inPopulus tremuloides

(2013) Benjamin Blonder et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Trait-based classification and manipulation of plant functional groups for biodiversity-ecosystem function experiments

(2013) Ellen L. Fry et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Nutrient input from hemiparasitic litter favors plant species with a fast-growth strategy

(2013) Andreas Demey et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Combined use of leaf size and economics traits allows direct comparison of hydrophyte and terrestrial herbaceous adaptive strategies

(2012) Simon Pierce et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Leaf morphology shift linked to climate change

(2012) G. R. Guerin et al.   Biology Letters

Limited effects of simulated acidic deposition on seedling survivorship and root morphology of endemic plant taxa of the Athabasca Sand Dunes in well-watered greenhouse trials

(2012) Amanda L. Guy et al.   Botany

Functional trade-offs increase species diversity in experimental plant communities

(2012) Eyal Ben-Hur et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within local species pools across varying environmental conditions?

(2012) Justin P. Wright et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A global analysis of trait variation and evolution in climbing plants

(2012) Rachael V. Gallagher et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

(2012) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Inter-specific and intra-specific trait variation along short environmental gradients in an old-growth temperate forest

(2012) Sébastien Auger et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Successional stages of primary temperate rainforests of Chiloé Island, Chile

(2012) Alvaro G. Gutiérrez et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Plant trait–environment relationships in salt marshes: Deviations from predictions by ecological concepts

(2012) Vanessa Minden et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Community traitscape of foliar nitrogen isotopes reveals N availability patterns in a tallgrass prairie

(2012) Joseph M. Craine et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Patterns of plant trait–environment relationships along a forest succession chronosequence

(2011) Giandiego Campetella et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Multi-trait interactions, not phylogeny, fine-tune leaf size reduction with increasing altitude

(2011) Rubén Milla et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Leaf nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations of woody plants differ in responses to climate, soil and plant growth form

(2011) Yahan Chen et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

(2011) Yusuke Onoda et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phytophagy on phylogenetically isolated trees: why hosts should escape their relatives

(2011) Benjamin Yguel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The role of UV-B radiation in the invasion of Hieracium pilosella—A comparison of German and New Zealand plants

(2011) Michael Beckmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

ACCESSORY COSTS OF SEED PRODUCTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF ANGIOSPERMS

(2011) Janice M. Lord et al.   EVOLUTION

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Floral, climatic and soil pH controls on leaf ash content in China's terrestrial plants

(2011) Wenxuan Han et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climatic constraints on trait-based forest assembly

(2011) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass

(2011) Fiona J. Thomson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional structure of an arid steppe plant community reveals similarities with Grime's C-S-R theory

(2011) Cédric Frenette-Dussault et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Testing the effect-response framework: key response and effect traits determining above-ground biomass of salt marshes

(2011) Vanessa Minden et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Dispersal traits determine plant response to habitat connectivity in an urban landscape

(2011) Andrea Schleicher et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Functional consequences of climate change-induced plant species loss in a tallgrass prairie

(2011) Joseph M. Craine et al.   OECOLOGIA

Assessing Natural Resource Use by Forest-Reliant Communities in Madagascar Using Functional Diversity and Functional Redundancy Metrics

(2011) Kerry A. Brown et al.   PLoS One

Using plant functional traits to guide restoration: A case study in California coastal grassland

(2011) B. Sandel et al.   Ecosphere

Physiological drought tolerance and the structuring of tallgrass prairie assemblages

(2011) Sally S. Tucker et al.   Ecosphere

Angiosperm wood structure: Global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relation to wood density and potential conductivity

(2010) Amy E. Zanne et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Venation networks and the origin of the leaf economics spectrum

(2010) Benjamin Blonder et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Differentiation of leaf water flux and drought tolerance traits in hemiepiphytic and non-hemiepiphytic Ficus tree species

(2010) Guang-You Hao et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Plant functional type classifications in tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: leaf habit versus taxonomic approaches

(2010) Jennifer S. Powers et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

SEEDS AND SEED BANKS

(2010) K. THOMPSON   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF LEAF FORM: ASSESSING THE RELATIVE ROLES OF SELECTIVE PRESSURES AND PHYLOGENETIC CONSTRAINTS

(2010) THOMAS J. GIVNISH   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evidence of a universal scaling relationship for leaf CO2 drawdown along an aridity gradient

(2010) I. Colin Prentice et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Regeneration niche differentiates functional strategies of desert woody plant species

(2010) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   OECOLOGIA

Co-limitation of photosynthetic capacity by nitrogen and phosphorus in West Africa woodlands

(2010) TOMAS FERREIRA DOMINGUES et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Can CSR classification be generally applied outside Britain?

(2010) Bruno E. L. Cerabolini et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

The tolerance-fecundity trade-off and the maintenance of diversity in seed size

(2010) H. C. Muller-Landau   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant Strategies in Relation to Resource Supply in Mesic to Wet Environments: Does Theory Mirror Nature?

(2009) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Conservation priority of Italian Alpine habitats: a floristic approach based on potential distribution of vascular plant species

(2009) Luca Bragazza   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin

(2009) S. Paula et al.   ECOLOGY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A multi-trait test of the leaf-height-seed plant strategy scheme with 133 species from a pine forest flora

(2009) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global-scale terrestrial biosphere models

(2009) JENS KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Faster returns on ‘leaf economics’ and different biogeochemical niche in invasive compared with native plant species

(2009) JOSEP PENUELAS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Leaf Trait Diversification and Design in Seven Rare Taxa of the Hawaiian Plantago Radiation

(2009) Stephanie Dunbar‐Co et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Global patterns in plant height

(2009) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora

(2009) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional traits of alien plants across contrasting climatic and land-use regimes: do aliens join the locals or try harder than them?

(2009) Paula A. Tecco et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability

(2009) Joseph M. Craine et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf phosphorus influences the photosynthesis–nitrogen relation: a cross-biome analysis of 314 species

(2009) Peter B. Reich et al.   OECOLOGIA

Angiosperm leaf vein evolution was physiologically and environmentally transformative

(2009) C. K. Boyce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Shifts in seed size across experimental nitrogen enrichment and plant density gradients

(2008) Peter Manning et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Scaling of xylem vessels and veins within the leaves of oak species

(2008) D. A. Coomes et al.   Biology Letters

Combining plant and animal traits to assess community functional responses to disturbance

(2008) Marco Moretti et al.   ECOGRAPHY

LEAF HERBIVORY AND DECOMPOSABILITY IN A MALAYSIAN TROPICAL RAIN FOREST

(2008) Hiroko Kurokawa et al.   ECOLOGY

SEPARATING THE EFFECTS OF PARTIAL SUBMERGENCE AND SOIL OXYGEN DEMAND ON PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

(2008) Peter M. van Bodegom et al.   ECOLOGY

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plants

(2008) Peter B. Reich et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Relating leaf photosynthetic rate to whole-plant growth: drought and shade effects on seedlings of fourQuercusspecies

(2008) José L. Quero et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

(2008) Helene C. Muller-Landau et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Variation in longevity and traits of leaves among co-occurring understorey plants in a tropical montane forest

(2008) Satomi Shiodera et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Leaf traits show different relationships with shade tolerance in moist versus dry tropical forests

(2008) Lourens Poorter   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The rapid light response of leaf hydraulic conductance: new evidence from two experimental methods

(2008) CHRISTINE SCOFFONI et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE

On the number of principal components: A test of dimensionality based on measurements of similarity between matrices

(2007) Stéphane Dray   COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS