Light availability and land‐use history drive biodiversity and functional changes in forest herb layer communities

Excess Nitrogen in Temperate Forest Ecosystems Decreases Herbaceous Layer Diversity and Shifts Control from Soil to Canopy Structure

(2019) Frank Gilliam   Forests

The functional role of temperate forest understorey vegetation in a changing world

(2019) Dries Landuyt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Seasonal drivers of understorey temperature buffering in temperate deciduous forests across Europe

(2019) Florian Zellweger et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

Legacy effects of land-use modulate tree growth responses to climate extremes

(2018) Katharina Mausolf et al.   OECOLOGIA

Observer and relocation errors matter in resurveys of historical vegetation plots

(2018) Kris Verheyen et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

(2018) Anne D. Bjorkman et al.   NATURE

Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features

(2018) Caterina Penone et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Do drivers of forestry vehicles also drive herb layer changes (1970-2015) in a temperate forest with contrasting habitat and management conditions?

(2018) Déborah Closset-Kopp et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Litter quality, land-use history, and nitrogen deposition effects on topsoil conditions across European temperate deciduous forests

(2018) Sybryn L. Maes et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Phosphorus and nitrogen co-limitation of forest ground vegetation under elevated anthropogenic nitrogen deposition

(2017) Per-Ola Hedwall et al.   OECOLOGIA

Resurveying historical vegetation data - opportunities and challenges

(2016) Jutta Kapfer et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

(2016) Kris Verheyen et al.   BIOSCIENCE

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

(2016) Matthias Bürgi et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

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

(2016) Frank S. Gilliam et al.   Ecosphere

Vegetation resurvey is robust to plot location uncertainty

(2015) Martin Kopecký et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A global analysis of soil acidification caused by nitrogen addition

(2015) Dashuan Tian et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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

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

Light accelerates plant responses to warming

(2015) Pieter De Frenne et al.   Nature Plants

On the combination of species cover values from different vegetation layers

(2014) Hagen S. Fischer   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Trait–environment relationships remain strong despite 50 years of trait compositional change in temperate forests

(2014) Kathryn L. Amatangelo et al.   ECOLOGY

Does Forest Continuity Enhance the Resilience of Trees to Environmental Change?

(2014) Goddert von Oheimb et al.   PLoS One

Predicting current and future spatial community patterns of plant functional traits

(2013) Anne Dubuis et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Specific leaf area responses to environmental gradients through space and time

(2013) John M. Dwyer et al.   ECOLOGY

Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

(2013) I. Harris et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature

(2013) Pieter De Frenne et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

(2013) P. De Frenne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Aridity in Vojvodina, Serbia

(2013) Ivana Hrnjak et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities

(2012) M. Dornelas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatiotemporal distribution of aridity indices based on temperature and precipitation in the extra-Carpathian regions of Romania

(2012) Adina-Eliza Croitoru et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Resource limitation, tolerance, and the future of ecological plant classification

(2012) Joseph M. Craine et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests

(2011) Kris Verheyen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

What does species richness tell us about functional trait diversity? Predictions and evidence for responses of species and functional trait diversity to land-use change

(2010) M. M. Mayfield et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Invasive forbs differ functionally from native graminoids, but are similar to native forbs

(2010) Deborah Scharfy et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Changes in species richness and composition in European acidic grasslands over the past 70 years: the contribution of cumulative atmospheric nitrogen deposition

(2009) CECILIA DUPRÈ et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Diverging effects of overstorey conversion scenarios on the understorey vegetation in a former coppice-with-standards forest

(2008) Hans Van Calster et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

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