Contrasting drivers of community‐level trait variation for vascular plants, lichens and bryophytes across an elevational gradient

Within-species patterns challenge our understanding of the leaf economics spectrum

(2018) Leander D. L. Anderegg et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Rapid resurrection of chlorolichens in humid air: specific thallus mass drives rehydration and reactivation kinetics

(2018) Nathan H. Phinney et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

BryForTrait - A life-history trait database of forest bryophytes

(2018) Markus Bernhardt-Römermann et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Contrasting patterns of leaf trait variation among and within species during tropical dry forest succession in Costa Rica

(2018) Géraldine Derroire et al.   Scientific Reports

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

(2018) Anne D. Bjorkman et al.   NATURE

Functional traits prolonging photosynthetically active periods in epiphytic cephalolichens during desiccation

(2017) Yngvar Gauslaa et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Plant functional traits and environmental conditions shape community assembly and ecosystem functioning during restoration

(2017) Chad R. Zirbel et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Linking functional diversity and ecosystem processes: A framework for using functional diversity metrics to predict the ecosystem impact of functionally unique species

(2017) Sara E. Kuebbing et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally

(2017) Jordan R. Mayor et al.   NATURE

Peeking beneath the hood of the leaf economics spectrum

(2017) Peter B. Reich et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Functional ecology of cryptogams: scaling from bryophyte, lichen, and soil crust traits to ecosystem processes

(2017) Kirsten K. Deane-Coe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Coordinated responses of soil communities to elevation in three subarctic vegetation types

(2017) G. F. Ciska Veen et al.   OIKOS

The status of non-vascular plants in trait-based ecosystem function studies

(2017) Philippe St. Martin et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Functional diversity and composition of bryophyte water-related traits in Azorean native vegetation

(2017) Débora S. G. Henriques et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Plant Functional Traits: Soil and Ecosystem Services

(2017) Michel-Pierre Faucon et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

How lichens impact on terrestrial community and ecosystem properties

(2016) Johan Asplund et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

(2016) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

(2016) Marco Moretti et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Increased snow accumulation reduces survival and growth in dominant mat-forming arctic-alpine lichens

(2016) Massimo BIDUSSI et al.   LICHENOLOGIST

Intraspecific variation in epiphyte functional traits reveals limited effects of microclimate on community assembly in temperate deciduous oak canopies

(2016) Jessica R. Coyle   OIKOS

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant responses to climatic extremes: within-species variation equals among-species variation

(2015) Andrey V. Malyshev et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Linkage of plant trait space to successional age and species richness in boreal forest understorey vegetation

(2015) Bright B. Kumordzi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A trail map for trait-based studies

(2015) Jonathan M. Levine   NATURE

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

Functional traits in agriculture: agrobiodiversity and ecosystem services

(2015) Stephen A. Wood et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Within-species variability is the main driver of community-level responses of traits of epiphytes across a long-term chronosequence

(2014) Johan Asplund et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Estimating impacts of lichens and bryophytes on global biogeochemical cycles

(2014) Philipp Porada et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Rain, dew, and humid air as drivers of morphology, function and spatial distribution in epiphytic lichens

(2014) Yngvar GAUSLAA   LICHENOLOGIST

Linking small-scale topography with microclimate, plant species diversity and intra-specific trait variation in an alpine landscape

(2014) Øystein H. Opedal et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Experiment, monitoring, and gradient methods used to infer climate change effects on plant communities yield consistent patterns

(2014) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

LIAS light – Towards the ten thousand species milestone

(2014) Gerhard Rambold et al.   MycoKeys

Community and Ecosystem Responses to Elevational Gradients: Processes, Mechanisms, and Insights for Global Change

(2013) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

(2013) Peter B. Adler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Convergent effects of elevation on functional leaf traits within and among species

(2013) Quentin D. Read et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Contrasting effects of plant inter- and intraspecific variation on community-level trait measures along an environmental gradient

(2013) Emilie Kichenin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Plant functional effects on ecosystem services

(2013) Sandra Lavorel   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species richness of limestone grasslands increases with trait overlap: evidence from within- and between-species functional diversity partitioning

(2013) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Contribution of cryptogamic covers to the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen

(2012) Wolfgang Elbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

The resilience and functional role of moss in boreal and arctic ecosystems

(2012) M. R. Turetsky et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Lichen Specific Thallus Mass and Secondary Compounds Change across a Retrogressive Fire-Driven Chronosequence

(2012) Johan Asplund et al.   PLoS One

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

(2012) David Mouillot et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Effects of neighboring vascular plants on the abundance of bryophytes in different vegetation types

(2012) Annika K. Jägerbrand et al.   Polar Science

Interspecific and intraspecific variations in water storage in epiphytic old forest foliose lichens

(2011) Yngvar Gauslaa et al.   Botany

Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

(2011) Jan Lepš et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

(2011) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Arctic warming on two continents has consistent negative effects on lichen diversity and mixed effects on bryophyte diversity

(2011) Simone I. Lang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The importance of colony structure versus shoot morphology for the water balance of 22 subarctic bryophyte species

(2011) Tatiana G. Elumeeva et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Within- and Across-Species Responses of Plant Traits and Litter Decomposition to Elevation across Contrasting Vegetation Types in Subarctic Tundra

(2011) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   PLoS One

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Bryosphere: An Integral and Influential Component of the Earth’s Biosphere

(2010) Zoë Lindo et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Leaf pH as a plant trait: species-driven rather than soil-driven variation

(2010) Johannes H. C. Cornelissen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A multi-trait approach reveals the structure and the relative importance of intra- vs. interspecific variability in plant traits

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Introduction: Elevation gradients in the tropics: laboratories for ecosystem ecology and global change research

(2010) Y. MALHI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

(2010) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Isotopic analysis of cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation associated with subarctic lichen and bryophyte species

(2010) Konstantin S. Gavazov et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Acclimation of photosynthetic characteristics of the moss Pleurozium schreberi to among-habitat and within-canopy light gradients

(2010) M. Tobias et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

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

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

Altitudinal variation in leaf mass per unit area, leaf tissue density and foliar nitrogen and phosphorus content along an Amazon-Andes gradient in Peru

(2009) Martine J. van de Weg et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Possible functional roles of cortical depsides and medullary depsidones in the foliose lichen Hypogymnia physodes

(2008) Knut Asbjørn Solhaug et al.   FLORA

Size-dependent growth of two old-growth associated macrolichen species

(2008) Yngvar Gauslaa et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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