Do plant traits retrieved from a database accurately predict on-site measurements?

Multivariate identification of plant functional response and effect traits in an agricultural landscape

(2011) Robin J. Pakeman   ECOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

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

On the importance of intraspecific variability for the quantification of functional diversity

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   OIKOS

Plant resource-use strategies: the importance of phenotypic plasticity in response to a productivity gradient for two subalpine species

(2010) Fabrice Grassein et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Genetic variation in plant morphology contributes to the species-level structure of grassland communities

(2010) Raj Whitlock et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A multi-trait approach reveals the structure and the relative importance of intra- vs. interspecific variability in plant traits

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

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

Quantifying relationships between traits and explicitly measured gradients of stress and disturbance in early successional plant communities

(2010) Grégory Sonnier et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Genotypic and environmental variation in specific leaf area in a widespread Alpine plant after transplantation to different altitudes

(2010) J. F. Scheepens et al.   OECOLOGIA

Classifying the fire-response traits of plants: How reliable are species-level classifications?

(2009) LYNDSEY MARIE VIVIAN et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

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

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

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

Variation in leaf functional trait values within and across individuals and species: an example from a Costa Rican dry forest

(2009) Catherine M. Hulshof et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Functional trait variation and sampling strategies in species-rich plant communities

(2009) Christopher Baraloto et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Little evidence for limiting similarity in a long-term study of a roadside plant community

(2009) Ken Thompson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

CLO-PLA: the database of clonal and bud bank traits of Central European flora

(2009) Jitka Klimešová 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

Differential effects of functional traits on aboveground biomass in semi-natural grasslands

(2009) Jens Schumacher et al.   OIKOS

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

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

Are traits measured on pot grown plants representative of those in natural communities?

(2007) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE