Higher photosynthetic capacity and different functional trait scaling relationships in erect bryophytes compared with prostrate species

Functional trait scaling relationships across 13 temperate mosses growing in wintertime

(2014) Zhe Wang et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Photosynthetic responses of two pleurocarpous mosses to low-level nitrogen addition: a study in an old-growth fir forest

(2014) Xin Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY

Bryophyte photosynthesis in sunflecks: greater relative induction rate than in tracheophytes

(2014) Jiří Kubásek et al.   JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Contrasting leaf trait scaling relationships in tropical and temperate wet forest species

(2013) Shuang Xiang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Understanding ecological variation across species: area-based vs mass-based expression of leaf traits

(2013) Mark Westoby et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The role of mosses in carbon uptake and partitioning in arctic vegetation

(2013) Lorna E. Street et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Photosynthetically relevant foliar traits correlating better on a mass vs an area basis: of ecophysiological relevance or just a case of mathematical imperatives and statistical quicksand?

(2013) Jon Lloyd et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Trait correlation networks: a whole-plant perspective on the recently criticized leaf economic spectrum

(2013) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Life strategies in bryophytes – a prime example for the evolution of functional types

(2013) Harald Kürschner et al.   NOVA HEDWIGIA

Global Leaf Trait Relationships: Mass, Area, and the Leaf Economics Spectrum

(2013) J. L. D. Osnas et al.   SCIENCE

Functional Diversity of Photosynthetic Light Use of 16 Vascular Epiphyte Species Under Fluctuating Irradiance in the Canopy of a Giant Virola michelii (Myristicaceae) Tree in the Tropical Lowland Forest of French Guyana

(2012) Uwe Rascher et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Species traits and their non-additive interactions control the water economy of bryophyte cushions

(2011) Pascale Michel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Mosses influence phosphorus cycling in rich fens by driving redox conditions in shallow soils

(2011) Katherine F. Crowley et al.   OECOLOGIA

The Bryosphere: An Integral and Influential Component of the Earth’s Biosphere

(2010) Zoë Lindo et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Acclimation of photosynthetic characteristics of the moss Pleurozium schreberi to among-habitat and within-canopy light gradients

(2010) M. Tobias et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Divergent patterns of photosynthetic phosphorus-use efficiency versus nitrogen-use efficiency of tree leaves along nutrient-availability gradients

(2009) Amane Hidaka et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How does moss photosynthesis relate to leaf and canopy structure? Trait relationships for 10 Hawaiian species of contrasting light habitats

(2009) Mashuri Waite et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The role of Rubisco and cell walls in the interspecific variation in photosynthetic capacity

(2009) Kouki Hikosaka et al.   OECOLOGIA

Do bryophyte shoot systems function like vascular plant leaves or canopies? Functional trait relationships in Sphagnum mosses (Sphagnaceae)

(2008) S. K. Rice et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Photosynthetic response to dynamic changes of light and air humidity in two moss species from the Tibetan Plateau

(2008) Xiaoyong Cui et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH