Light and warming drive forest understorey community development in different environments

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Agricultural land-use history does not reduce woodland understory herb establishment

(2019) Carrie A. Barker et al.   OECOLOGIA

Out with OLD growth, in with ecological continNEWity: new perspectives on forest conservation

(2019) R Troy McMullin et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs

(2019) Jennifer Firn et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

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Intraspecific trait variation and the leaf economics spectrum across resource gradients and levels of organization

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Land use legacies on forest understory vegetation and soils in the Mediterranean region: Should we use historical maps or in situ land use remnants?

(2018) Juliet Abadie et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Plant and soil microbe responses to light, warming and nitrogen addition in a temperate forest

(2018) Shiyu Ma et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies

(2018) Michael P. Perring et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

High dispersal ability is related to fast life-history strategies

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Modelling understorey dynamics in temperate forests under global change–Challenges and perspectives

(2018) D. Landuyt et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Temperature accelerates the rate fields become forests

(2018) Jason D. Fridley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Characterizing the contribution of plasticity and genetic differentiation to community-level trait responses to environmental change

(2018) Geneviève Lajoie et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Formation of forest gaps accelerates C, N and P release from foliar litter during 4 years of decomposition in an alpine forest

(2018) Xiangyin Ni et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Understanding context dependency in the response of forest understorey plant communities to nitrogen deposition

(2018) Michael P. Perring et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

(2018) Anne D. Bjorkman et al.   NATURE

Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

(2018) Manuel J. Steinbauer et al.   NATURE

Context-Dependency of Agricultural Legacies in Temperate Forest Soils

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Plant traits inform predictions of tundra responses to global change

(2018) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Transplants, Open Top Chambers (OTCs) and Gradient Studies Ask Different Questions in Climate Change Effects Studies

(2018) Yan Yang et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Intraspecific Trait Variation and Phenotypic Plasticity Mediate Alpine Plant Species Response to Climate Change

(2018) Jonathan J. Henn et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Forest micro-environment develops through time: Changes in physical and structural heterogeneity follow abandonment from two forms of agriculture

(2017) Marion A. Holmes et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Leaf dry matter content is better at predicting above-ground net primary production than specific leaf area

(2017) Simon Mark Smart et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Changes in the nature of environmental limitation in two forest herbs during two decades of forest succession

(2017) Lander Baeten et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

How tree species identity and diversity affect light transmittance to the understory in mature temperate forests

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Biotic and abiotic drivers of intraspecific trait variation within plant populations of three herbaceous plant species along a latitudinal gradient

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Does greater specific leaf area plasticity help plants to maintain a high performance when shaded?

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

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Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

(2016) Kris Verheyen et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Can trait patterns along gradients predict plant community responses to climate change?

(2016) John Guittar et al.   ECOLOGY

Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity

(2016) Andrew Gonzalez et al.   ECOLOGY

Legacy Effects of Human Land Use: Ecosystems as Time-Lagged Systems

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Trait variations of ground flora species disentangle the effects of global change and altered land-use in Swedish forests during 20 years

(2016) Per-Ola Hedwall et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global environmental change effects on ecosystems: the importance of land-use legacies

(2016) Michael P. Perring et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Intraspecific trait variation drives functional responses of old-field plant communities to nutrient enrichment

(2016) Andrew Siefert et al.   OECOLOGIA

Nitrogen fertilization interacts with light to increase Rubus spp. cover in a temperate forest

(2016) Christopher A. Walter et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey plant life

(2016) Fernando Valladares et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Do community-weighted mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies?

(2016) Robert Muscarella et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Assisted migration within species range ignores biotic interactions and lacks evidence

(2016) Anna Bucharova   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

(2016) C. N. Waters et al.   SCIENCE

Twenty-five-year response of the herbaceous layer of a temperate hardwood forest to elevated nitrogen deposition

(2016) Frank S. Gilliam et al.   Ecosphere

Colonization credit of post-agricultural forest patches in NE Germany remains 130–230years after reforestation

(2015) Tobias Naaf et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Understanding context dependence in the contribution of intraspecific variation to community trait–environment matching

(2015) Geneviève Lajoie et al.   ECOLOGY

Convergent ecosystem responses to 23-year ambient and manipulated warming link advancing snowmelt and shrub encroachment to transient and long-term climate-soil carbon feedback

(2015) John Harte et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Intraspecific trait variation across scales: implications for understanding global change responses

(2015) Emily V. Moran et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales

(2015) Markus Bernhardt-Römermann et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of canopy composition and disturbance type on understorey plant assembly in boreal forests

(2015) Arnaud Fourrier et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Herbs are different: clonal and bud bank traits can matter more than leaf-height-seed traits

(2015) Jitka Klimešová et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

(2015) W. Steffen et al.   SCIENCE

Predicting communities from functional traits

(2015) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

(2015) Brian J. McGill et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Light accelerates plant responses to warming

(2015) Pieter De Frenne et al.   Nature Plants

Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes

(2014) Kiona Ogle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disentangling dispersal from phylogeny in the colonization capacity of forest understorey plants

(2014) Lander Baeten et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Interactions between climate change and land use change on biodiversity: attribution problems, risks, and opportunities

(2014) Tom H. Oliver et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Easy Leaf Area: Automated Digital Image Analysis for Rapid and Accurate Measurement of Leaf Area

(2014) Hsien Ming Easlon et al.   Applications in Plant Sciences

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Strong legacy of agricultural land use on soils and understory plant communities in longleaf pine woodlands

(2013) Lars A. Brudvig et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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(2013) Thomas Dirnböck et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A general modelling framework for resource-ratio and CSR theories of plant community dynamics

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(2012) Tobias Naaf et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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(2012) Gorik Verstraeten et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

A predictive model of community assembly that incorporates intraspecific trait variation

(2012) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Life-history traits explain rapid colonization of young post-agricultural forests by understory herbs

(2012) Jörg Brunet et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The influence of time, soil characteristics, and land-use history on soil phosphorus legacies: a global meta-analysis

(2012) Graham K. MacDonald et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Canopy gap size influences niche partitioning of the ground-layer plant community in a northern temperate forest

(2012) Christel C. Kern et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Incorporating intraspecific variation in tests of trait-based community assembly

(2012) Andrew Siefert   OECOLOGIA

Success Rates for Reintroductions of Eight Perennial Plant Species after 15 Years

(2012) Brian Drayton et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Effect of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium availability on mother plant size, seed production and germination ability of Rumex crispus

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(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass

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Functional traits and local environment predict vegetation responses to disturbance: a pan-European multi-site experiment

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Four decades of post-agricultural forest development have caused major redistributions of soil phosphorus fractions

(2011) An De Schrijver et al.   OECOLOGIA

When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

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Heating up the forest: open-top chamber warming manipulation of arthropod communities at Harvard and Duke Forests

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Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis

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Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

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Coordinated approaches to quantify long-term ecosystem dynamics in response to global change

(2010) YIQI LUO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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Plasticity in response to phosphorus and light availability in four forest herbs

(2010) Lander Baeten et al.   OECOLOGIA

From Reintroduction to Assisted Colonization: Moving along the Conservation Translocation Spectrum

(2010) Philip J. Seddon   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

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(2009) Cathy M. Mabry et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

The use of open-top chambers in forests for evaluating warming effects on herbaceous understorey plants

(2009) Pieter De Frenne et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change

(2009) Melinda D. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

The response of understory herbaceous plants to nitrogen fertilization in forests of different land-use history

(2009) Jennifer M. Fraterrigo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A multi-trait test of the leaf-height-seed plant strategy scheme with 133 species from a pine forest flora

(2009) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Competition for Light Causes Plant Biodiversity Loss After Eutrophication

(2009) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Principal response curves technique for the analysis of multivariate biomonitoring time series

(2008) Paul J. van den Brink et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

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

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

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