Phosphorus limitation, soil-borne pathogens and the coexistence of plant species in hyperdiverse forests and shrublands

Divergent functioning of Proteaceae species: the South AmericanEmbothrium coccineumdisplays a combination of adaptive traits to survive in high-phosphorus soils

(2014) Mabel Delgado et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

(2014) Robert Bagchi et al.   NATURE

Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients

(2014) E. Laliberte et al.   SCIENCE

The response of microbial biomass and hydrolytic enzymes to a decade of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium addition in a lowland tropical rain forest

(2013) Benjamin L. Turner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

A direct test of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation to net primary productivity in a lowland tropical wet forest

(2013) S. Alvarez-Clare et al.   ECOLOGY

How specialised must natural enemies be to facilitate coexistence among plants?

(2013) Brian E. Sedio et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Pyrosequencing of environmental soil samples reveals biodiversity of thePhytophthoraresident community in chestnut forests

(2013) Andrea Vannini et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Foliar nutrient concentrations and resorption efficiency in plants of contrasting nutrient-acquisition strategies along a 2-million-year dune chronosequence

(2013) Patrick Hayes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Direct estimation of mass flow and diffusion of nitrogen compounds in solution and soil

(2013) Olusegun Ayodeji Oyewole et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Low levels of ribosomal RNA partly account for the very high photosynthetic phosphorus-use efficiency of Proteaceae species

(2013) RONAN SULPICE et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Species-Specific Traits plus Stabilizing Processes Best Explain Coexistence in Biodiverse Fire-Prone Plant Communities

(2013) Jürgen Groeneveld et al.   PLoS One

Fossil evidence for a hyperdiverse sclerophyll flora under a non–Mediterranean-type climate

(2013) J. M. Kale Sniderman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How does pedogenesis drive plant diversity?

(2013) Etienne Laliberté et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Enemies Maintain Hyperdiverse Tropical Forests

(2012) John Terborgh   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Precipitation, soils, NPP, and biodiversity: resurrection of Albrecht's curve

(2012) Michael A. Huston   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Evolutionary tools for phytosanitary risk analysis: phylogenetic signal as a predictor of host range of plant pests and pathogens

(2012) Gregory S. Gilbert et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Fine root dynamics along an elevational gradient in tropical Amazonian and Andean forests

(2012) C. A. J. Girardin et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Analysis of a negative plant-soil feedback in a subtropical monsoon forest

(2012) Yu Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Experimental assessment of nutrient limitation along a 2-million-year dune chronosequence in the south-western Australia biodiversity hotspot

(2012) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant species richness: the world records

(2012) J. Bastow Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Predicting fine root lifespan from plant functional traits in temperate trees

(2012) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Nutrient limitation in rainforests and cloud forests along a 3,000-m elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes

(2012) Joshua B. Fisher et al.   OECOLOGIA

Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

(2011) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Evaluating the impacts of multiple generalist fungal pathogens on temperate tree seedling survival

(2011) Michelle H. Hersh et al.   ECOLOGY

Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan-tropical analysis

(2011) Cory C. Cleveland et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Stable soil organic matter: A comparison of C:N:P:S ratios in Australian and other world soils

(2011) C.A. Kirkby et al.   GEODERMA

Tropical tree seedling growth responses to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium addition

(2011) Louis S. Santiago et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Mechanisms of monodominance in diverse tropical tree-dominated systems

(2011) Kelvin S.-H. Peh et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A molecular method to assess Phytophthora diversity in environmental samples

(2011) Silvia Scibetta et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Two novel and potentially endemic species of Phytophthora associated with episodic dieback of Kwongan vegetation in the south-west of Western Australia

(2011) A. J. Rea et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

Soil Does Not Explain Monodominance in a Central African Tropical Forest

(2011) Kelvin S. -H. Peh et al.   PLoS One

The Nitrogen Paradox in Tropical Forest Ecosystems

(2010) Lars O. Hedin et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Soil fertility and fine root dynamics in response to 4 years of nutrient (N, P, K) fertilization in a lowland tropical moist forest, Panama

(2010) JOSEPH B. YAVITT et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Local richness along gradients in the Siskiyou herb flora: R. H. Whittaker revisited

(2010) James B. Grace et al.   ECOLOGY

Testing the Janzen-Connell mechanism: pathogens cause overcompensating density dependence in a tropical tree

(2010) Robert Bagchi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Conspecific plant-soil feedbacks reduce survivorship and growth of tropical tree seedlings

(2010) Sarah McCarthy-Neumann et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

Asymmetric Density Dependence Shapes Species Abundances in a Tropical Tree Community

(2010) L. S. Comita et al.   SCIENCE

Phosphorus nutrition of mycorrhizal trees

(2010) C. PLASSARD et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

Mycorrhizal associations and other means of nutrition of vascular plants: understanding the global diversity of host plants by resolving conflicting information and developing reliable means of diagnosis

(2009) Mark C. Brundrett   PLANT AND SOIL

OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes

(2009) Stephen D. Hopper   PLANT AND SOIL

Re-evaluation ofPhytophthoraSpecies Isolated During 30 Years of Vegetation Health Surveys in Western Australia Using Molecular Techniques

(2009) Treena I. Burgess et al.   PLANT DISEASE

TOLERANCE OF SOIL PATHOGENS CO-VARIES WITH SHADE TOLERANCE ACROSS SPECIES OF TROPICAL TREE SEEDLINGS

(2008) Sarah McCarthy-Neumann et al.   ECOLOGY

Phytophthora ramorum: a pathogen with a remarkably wide host range causing sudden oak death on oaks and ramorum blight on woody ornamentals

(2008) NIKLAUS J. GRÜNWALD et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Dual mycorrhizal colonization of forest-dominating tropical trees and the mycorrhizal status of non-dominant tree and liana species

(2008) K. L. McGuire et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Irreconcilable Differences: Fine-Root Life Spans and Soil Carbon Persistence

(2008) A. E. Strand et al.   SCIENCE

The biogeochemical heterogeneity of tropical forests

(2008) A TOWNSEND et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Plant nutrient-acquisition strategies change with soil age

(2008) H LAMBERS et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION