Early subtropical forest growth is driven by community mean trait values and functional diversity rather than the abiotic environment

Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why

(2015) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Linking Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Uncertainties and the Necessary Next Steps

(2014) Patricia Balvanera et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Site and neighborhood effects on growth of tree saplings in subtropical plantations (China)

(2014) Ying Li et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Leaf morphology of 40 evergreen and deciduous broadleaved subtropical tree species and relationships to functional ecophysiological traits

(2014) W. Kröber et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Linking Xylem Hydraulic Conductivity and Vulnerability to the Leaf Economics Spectrum—A Cross-Species Study of 39 Evergreen and Deciduous Broadleaved Subtropical Tree Species

(2014) Wenzel Kröber et al.   PLoS One

Transpiration and stomatal control: a cross-species study of leaf traits in 39 evergreen and deciduous broadleaved subtropical tree species

(2014) Wenzel Kröber et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Airborne LiDAR derived canopy height model reveals a significant difference in radiata pine (Pinus radiata D. Don) heights based on slope and aspect of sites

(2014) Hanieh Saremi et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Ants have a negative rather than a positive effect on extrafloral nectaried Crotalaria pallida performance

(2013) Marcela Fernandes Pereira et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Field observed relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning during secondary succession in a tropical lowland rainforest

(2013) Wensheng Bu et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Conservation of an Ant-plant Mutualism in Native Forests and Ecologically-managed Tree Monocultures

(2013) Mônica F. Kersch-Becker et al.   BIOTROPICA

Establishment success in a forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning experiment in subtropical China (BEF-China)

(2013) Xuefei Yang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

An experimental framework to identify community functional components driving ecosystem processes and services delivery

(2013) André T. C. Dias et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Human impacts drive a global topographic signature in tree cover

(2013) Brody Sandel et al.   Nature Communications

Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

(2013) Helge Bruelheide et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Functional traits explain light and size response of growth rates in tropical tree species

(2012) Nadja Rüger et al.   ECOLOGY

How do evergreen and deciduous species respond to shade?—Tolerance and plasticity of subtropical tree and shrub species of South-East China

(2012) Martin Böhnke et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

A climate change-induced threat to the ecological resilience of a subtropical monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forest in Southern China

(2012) Guoyi Zhou et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Site- and species-specific responses of forest growth to climate across the European continent

(2012) Flurin Babst et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant diversity and generation of ecosystem services at the landscape scale: expert knowledge assessment

(2012) Sandra Quijas et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

(2012) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of soil chemistry on tropical forest biomass and productivity at different elevations in the equatorial Andes

(2012) Malte Unger et al.   OECOLOGIA

Architecture of Iberian canopy tree species in relation to wood density, shade tolerance and climate

(2012) Lourens Poorter et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

(2012) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLoS One

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Integration of vessel traits, wood density, and height in angiosperm shrubs and trees

(2011) Hugo I. Martínez-Cabrera et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Horizontal, but not vertical canopy structure is related to stand functional diversity in a subtropical slope forest

(2011) Anne C. Lang et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Quantifying the hydrological responses to climate change in an intact forested small watershed in Southern China

(2011) Guoyi Zhou et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta-analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control

(2011) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Interspecific variation in functional traits, not climatic differences among species ranges, determines demographic rates across 44 temperate and Mediterranean tree species

(2010) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

An experimental test of well-described vegetation patterns across slope aspects using woodland herb transplants and manipulated abiotic drivers

(2010) Robert J. Warren II   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Belowground nitrogen partitioning in experimental grassland plant communities of varying species richness

(2009) Stefanie von Felten et al.   ECOLOGY

Aboveground overyielding in grassland mixtures is associated with reduced biomass partitioning to belowground organs

(2009) Holger Bessler et al.   ECOLOGY

A greater range of shade-tolerance niches in nutrient-rich forests: an explanation for positive richness-productivity relationships?

(2009) David A. Coomes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation

(2008) D. A. Fornara et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Partitioning the effects of biodiversity and environmental heterogeneity for productivity and mortality in a tropical tree plantation

(2008) Chrystal Healy et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY