Botanic gardens are an untapped resource for studying the functional ecology of tropical plants

Why Functional Traits Do Not Predict Tree Demographic Rates

(2018) Jie Yang et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation

(2017) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address below-ground challenges in plant ecology

(2017) Colleen M. Iversen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Amazon plant diversity revealed by a taxonomically verified species list

(2017) Domingos Cardoso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global climatic drivers of leaf size

(2017) Ian J. Wright et al.   SCIENCE

Integrated view ofVibrio choleraein the Americas

(2017) Daryl Domman et al.   SCIENCE

Most ‘global’ reviews of species’ responses to climate change are not truly global

(2016) Kenneth J. Feeley et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Thermal trouble in the tropics

(2016) T. M. Perez et al.   SCIENCE

Resilience of Amazon forests emerges from plant trait diversity

(2016) Boris Sakschewski et al.   Nature Climate Change

Differential impacts from an extreme cold spell on subtropical vs. tropical specialist bees in southern Florida

(2016) Jason Downing et al.   Ecosphere

Leaf and stem economics spectra drive diversity of functional plant traits in a dynamic global vegetation model

(2015) Boris Sakschewski et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Thermophilization of adult and juvenile tree communities in the northern tropical Andes

(2015) Alvaro Duque et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

(2015) J. W. Ferry Slik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Accelerating extinction risk from climate change

(2015) M. C. Urban   SCIENCE

Leaf trait variation captures climate differences but differs with species irrespective of functional group

(2014) Guohong Wang et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

(2014) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Root diameter variations explained by anatomy and phylogeny of 50 tropical and temperate tree species

(2014) J. Gu et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

(2013) C. B. Sides et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The taxonomic name resolution service: an online tool for automated standardization of plant names

(2013) Brad Boyle et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

The distribution of below-ground traits is explained by intrinsic species differences and intraspecific plasticity in response to root neighbours

(2013) Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands

(2013) Nicolas Gross et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Functional traits predict relationship between plant abundance dynamic and long-term climate warming

(2013) N. A. Soudzilovskaia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

The leaf-area shrinkage effect can bias paleoclimate and ecology research

(2012) Benjamin Blonder et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Climatic niche shift predicts thermal trait response in one but not both introductions of the Puerto Rican lizardAnolis cristatellusto Miami, Florida, USA

(2012) Jason J. Kolbe et al.   Ecology and Evolution

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Functional structure of an arid steppe plant community reveals similarities with Grime's C-S-R theory

(2011) Cédric Frenette-Dussault et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

and D do not replace FST

(2011) MICHAEL C. WHITLOCK   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Species-richness patterns of the living collections of the world's botanic gardens: a matter of socio-economics?

(2010) Janice Golding et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Venation networks and the origin of the leaf economics spectrum

(2010) Benjamin Blonder et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant functional type classifications in tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: leaf habit versus taxonomic approaches

(2010) Jennifer S. Powers et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The role of climate and plant functional trade-offs in shaping global biome and biodiversity patterns

(2010) Björn Reu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Upslope migration of Andean trees

(2010) Kenneth J. Feeley et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evidence of a universal scaling relationship for leaf CO2 drawdown along an aridity gradient

(2010) I. Colin Prentice et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ephemeral root modules in Fraxinus mandshurica

(2010) Mengxue Xia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Regeneration niche differentiates functional strategies of desert woody plant species

(2010) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   OECOLOGIA

Dissecting Tropical Plant Diversity with Forest Plots and a Molecular Toolkit

(2009) Christopher W. Dick et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global-scale terrestrial biosphere models

(2009) JENS KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global patterns in plant height

(2009) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

(2009) O. L. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

Plant science research in botanic gardens

(2009) Peter R. Crane et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Botanic gardens and the conservation of tree species

(2009) Sara F. Oldfield   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Potential of invasive and native solitary specialist bee pollinators to help restore the rare cowhorn orchid ( Cyrtopodium punctatum ) in Florida

(2008) Robert W. Pemberton et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE