Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

Crown plasticity enables trees to optimize canopy packing in mixed-species forests

(2015) Tommaso Jucker et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

(2015) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tropical tree diversity enhances light capture through crown plasticity and spatial and temporal niche differences

(2014) Jurgis Sapijanskas et al.   ECOLOGY

Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

(2014) Robert Bagchi et al.   NATURE

Functional trait differences and the outcome of community assembly: an experimental test with vernal pool annual plants

(2014) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   OIKOS

Trait-mediated assembly processes predict successional changes in community diversity of tropical forests

(2014) J. R. Lasky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extension of Nakagawa & Schielzeth'sR2GLMMto random slopes models

(2014) Paul C.D. Johnson   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Phenology effects on invasion success: insights from coupling field experiments to coexistence theory

(2013) Oscar Godoy et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

(2013) Peter B. Adler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Slow-growing species cope best with drought: evidence from long-term measurements in a tropical semi-deciduous moist forest of Central Africa

(2013) Dakis-Yaoba Ouédraogo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Trait-mediated effects of environmental filtering on tree community dynamics

(2013) Jesse R. Lasky et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional traits predict relationship between plant abundance dynamic and long-term climate warming

(2013) N. A. Soudzilovskaia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

(2013) R. Condit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

(2012) J. HilleRisLambers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Australian Tropical and Subtropical Rain Forest Community Assembly: Phylogeny, Functional Biogeography, and Environmental Gradients

(2012) Robert Kooyman et al.   BIOTROPICA

Functional traits explain light and size response of growth rates in tropical tree species

(2012) Nadja Rüger et al.   ECOLOGY

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Forest stand structure, composition, and dynamics in 34 sites over Japan

(2011) Masae I. Ishihara et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

(2011) Yusuke Onoda et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Environmental filtering of dense-wooded species controls above-ground biomass stored in African moist forests

(2011) Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional traits shape ontogenetic growth trajectories of rain forest tree species

(2011) Bruno Hérault et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

CliMond: global high-resolution historical and future scenario climate surfaces for bioclimatic modelling

(2011) Darren J. Kriticos et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

A review of light interception in plant stands from leaf to canopy in different plant functional types and in species with varying shade tolerance

(2010) Ülo Niinemets   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Leaf habit and woodiness regulate different leaf economy traits at a given nutrient supply

(2010) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

(2010) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Growth responses of neotropical trees to logging gaps

(2010) Bruno Herault et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Higher Allocation to Low Cost Chemical Defenses in Invasive Species of Hawaii

(2010) Josep Peñuelas et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Substantial nutrient resorption from leaves, stems and roots in a subarctic flora: what is the link with other resource economics traits?

(2010) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

(2010) Holger Schielzeth   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

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

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

(2009) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Leaf traits capture the effects of land use changes and climate on litter decomposability of grasslands across Europe

(2009) Claire Fortunel et al.   ECOLOGY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Architectural differences associated with adult stature and wood density in 30 temperate tree species

(2009) Masahiro Aiba et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

Are competitive effect and response two sides of the same coin, or fundamentally different?

(2009) Ping Wang 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

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

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

Relative climatic, edaphic and management controls of plant functional trait signatures

(2009) Robin J. Pakeman et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

LEAF HERBIVORY AND DECOMPOSABILITY IN A MALAYSIAN TROPICAL RAIN FOREST

(2008) Hiroko Kurokawa 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

Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use

(2008) Robin J. Pakeman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Changes in Ca, Fe, Mg, Mo, Na, and S content in a Mediterranean shrubland under warming and drought

(2008) J. Sardans et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

(2008) Lourens Poorter   NEW PHYTOLOGIST