Taking a closer look: disentangling effects of functional diversity on ecosystem functions with a trait-based model across hierarchy and time

Canopy space filling and tree crown morphology in mixed-species stands compared with monocultures

(2014) Hans Pretzsch   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Causal networks clarify productivity-richness interrelations, bivariate plots do not

(2014) James B. Grace et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Tree Species Traits but Not Diversity Mitigate Stem Breakage in a Subtropical Forest following a Rare and Extreme Ice Storm

(2014) Karin Nadrowski et al.   PLoS One

The relationship between tree species richness, canopy space exploration and productivity in a temperate broad-leaf mixed forest

(2013) Dominik Seidel et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests

(2013) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

Plant functional effects on ecosystem services

(2013) Sandra Lavorel   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Single-trait functional indices outperform multi-trait indices in linking environmental gradients and ecosystem services in a complex landscape

(2013) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Many ways to die - partitioning tree mortality dynamics in a near-natural mixed deciduous forest

(2013) Frederic Holzwarth et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Disentangling Biodiversity and Climatic Determinants of Wood Production

(2013) Montserrat Vilà et al.   PLoS One

Biodiversity Promotes Tree Growth during Succession in Subtropical Forest

(2013) Martin Barrufol et al.   PLoS One

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Implementing storm damage in a dynamic vegetation model for regional applications in Sweden

(2012) Fredrik Lagergren et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Robustness and uncertainty in terrestrial ecosystem carbon response to CMIP5 climate change projections

(2012) A Ahlström et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta-analysis

(2012) Yu Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

(2012) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLoS One

Functional and phylogenetic diversity as predictors of biodiversity–ecosystem-function relationships

(2011) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY

Tree species richness promotes productivity in temperate forests through strong complementarity between species

(2011) Xavier Morin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Projecting the future distribution of European potential natural vegetation zones with a generalized, tree species-based dynamic vegetation model

(2011) Thomas Hickler et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

(2010) Markus Fischer et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

A user's guide to functional diversity indices

(2010) D. Schleuter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

(2010) Helge Bruelheide et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

An ecosystem approach to biodiversity effects: Carbon pools in a tropical tree plantation

(2010) Catherine Potvin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests

(2010) Alain Paquette et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Influence of four major plant traits on average height, leaf-area cover, net primary productivity, and biomass density in single-species forests: a theoretical investigation

(2010) Daniel S. Falster et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE

Is forest diversity driving ecosystem function and service?

(2010) Karin Nadrowski et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Functional role of forest diversity: Pros and cons of synthetic stands and across-site comparisons in established forests

(2008) Christoph Leuschner et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Clustered disturbances lead to bias in large-scale estimates based on forest sample plots

(2008) Jeremy I. Fisher et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity enhances individual performance but does not affect survivorship in tropical trees

(2008) Catherine Potvin 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

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks

(2008) Sebastiaan Luyssaert et al.   NATURE

Terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics and climate feedbacks

(2008) Martin Heimann et al.   NATURE