Relationships between leaf morphological traits, nutrient concentrations and isotopic signatures for Mediterranean woody plant species and communities

Is leaf dry matter content a better predictor of soil fertility than specific leaf area?

(2011) J. G. Hodgson et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages

(2011) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Species- and community-level patterns in fine root traits along a 120 000-year soil chronosequence in temperate rain forest

(2011) Robert J. Holdaway et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Oak trees and soil interactions in Mediterranean forests: a positive feedback model

(2011) Cristina Aponte et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem

(2011) Burak K Pekin et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A link between plant traits and abundance: evidence from coastal California woody plants

(2010) William K. Cornwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seedling growth and morphology of three oak species along field resource gradients and seed mass variation: a seedling age-dependent response

(2010) Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

Solving the conundrum of plant species coexistence: water in space and time matters most

(2010) Josep Peñuelas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Coordinated variation in leaf and root traits across multiple spatial scales in Chinese semi-arid and arid ecosystems

(2010) Guofang Liu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Important foliar traits depend on species-grouping: analysis of a remnant temperate forest at the Keerqin Sandy Lands, China

(2010) Fu-Sheng Chen et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant mineral nutrition in ancient landscapes: high plant species diversity on infertile soils is linked to functional diversity for nutritional strategies

(2010) Hans Lambers et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Relating plant species and functional diversity to community δ13C in NE Spain pastures

(2009) Francesco de Bello et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Plant traits link hypothesis about resource-use and response to herbivory

(2009) G.M. Rusch et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Contrasts Among Mycorrhizal Plant Guilds in Foliar Nitrogen Concentration and δ15N Along Productivity Gradients of a Boreal Forest

(2009) J. M. Kranabetter et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Impacts of increased fire frequency and aridity on eucalypt forest structure, biomass and composition in southwest Australia

(2009) Burak K. Pekin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability

(2009) Joseph M. Craine et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Morphological traits and water use strategies in seedlings of Mediterranean coexisting species

(2009) E. I. Hernández et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Dynamics of understorey herbaceous plant diversity following shrub clearing of cork oak forests: A five-year study

(2008) I.M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Testing the correlations between leaf life span and leaf structural reinforcement in 13 species of European Mediterranean woody plants

(2008) S. Mediavilla et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Leaf longevity and drought: avoidance of the costs and risks of early leaf abscission as inferred from the leaf carbon isotopic composition

(2008) Alfonso Escudero et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Human and non-human determinants of forest composition in southern Spain: evidence of shifts towards cork oak dominance as a result of management over the past century

(2008) Itziar R. Urbieta et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY