The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly

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

Trait-based climate change predictions of plant community structure in arid steppes

(2013) Cédric Frenette-Dussault et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evidence for a ‘plant community economics spectrum’ driven by nutrient and water limitations in a Mediterranean rangeland of southern France

(2013) Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Leaf venation: structure, function, development, evolution, ecology and applications in the past, present and future

(2013) Lawren Sack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A predictive model of community assembly that incorporates intraspecific trait variation

(2012) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species

(2012) Claire Fortunel et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Which plant traits determine abundance under long-term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity?

(2012) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Selecting traits that explain species-environment relationships: a generalized linear mixed model approach

(2012) Tahira Jamil et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?

(2012) Michael Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Rules of the seed size game: contests between large-seeded and small-seeded species

(2012) Karin Lönnberg et al.   OIKOS

Resource limitation, tolerance, and the future of ecological plant classification

(2012) Joseph M. Craine et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The role of functional traits in species distributions revealed through a hierarchical model

(2011) Laura J. Pollock et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Can entropy maximization use functional traits to explain species abundances? A comprehensive evaluation

(2011) Cory Merow et al.   ECOLOGY

Climatic constraints on trait-based forest assembly

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

Quantifying trait selection driving community assembly: a test in herbaceous plant communities under contrasted land use regimes

(2011) Grégory Sonnier et al.   OIKOS

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

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

A strong test of a maximum entropy model of trait-based community assembly

(2010) Bill Shipley et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional explanations for variation in bark thickness in tropical rain forest trees

(2010) Charles Eliot Timothy Paine et al.   FUNCTIONAL 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

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

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

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

A community-level test of the leaf-height-seed ecology strategy scheme in relation to grazing conditions

(2009) Carly Golodets et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

TESTING THE SPECIES TRAITS–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS: THE FOURTH-CORNER PROBLEM REVISITED

(2008) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

How does climate warming affect plant-pollinator interactions?

(2008) Stein Joar Hegland et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

On the identification of the most suitable traits for plant functional trait analyses

(2008) Markus Bernhardt-Römermann et al.   OIKOS

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

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