Plant functional trait response to environmental drivers across European temperate forest understorey communities

Ecological indicator values reveal missing predictors of species distributions

(2019) Daniel Scherrer et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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Responses of competitive understorey species to spatial environmental gradients inaccurately explain temporal changes

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

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Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species

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Climate, but not trait, effects on plant-soil feedback depend on mycorrhizal type in temperate forests

(2018) Jonathan A. Bennett et al.   Ecosphere

Functional trait variation of forest understorey plant communities across Europe

(2018) Thomas Vanneste et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

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Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

(2018) Anne D. Bjorkman et al.   NATURE

Mechanisms of seed mass variation along resource gradients

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Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

(2018) Helge Bruelheide et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

Intraspecific variability and reaction norms of forest understorey plant species traits

(2017) Julia I. Burton et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Nitrogen deposition and climate change have increased vascular plant species richness and altered the composition of grazed subalpine grasslands

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Climate variability and community stability in Mediterranean shrublands: the role of functional diversity and soil environment

(2017) Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A worldview of root traits: the influence of ancestry, growth form, climate and mycorrhizal association on the functional trait variation of fine-root tissues in seed plants

(2017) Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2017) Bram K. Sercu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Do large-seeded herbs have a small range size? The seed mass-distribution range trade-off hypothesis

(2017) Judit Sonkoly et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Facilitation between woody and herbaceous plants that associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in temperate European forests

(2017) Stavros D. Veresoglou et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

(2016) Kris Verheyen et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Spore mass and morphometry of some fern species

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Initial site conditions and interactions between multiple drivers determine herb-layer changes over five decades in temperate forests

(2016) Tobias Naaf et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Beyond plant-soil feedbacks: mechanisms driving plant community shifts due to land-use legacies in post-agricultural forests

(2016) Eduardo de la Peña et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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Incorporation of plant traits in a land surface model helps explain the global biogeographical distribution of major forest functional types

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Soil-climate interactions explain variation in foliar, stem, root and reproductive traits across temperate forests

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Does tree canopy closure moderate the effect of climate warming on plant species composition of temperate Himalayan oak forest?

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(2016) Etienne Laliberté   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey plant life

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Spatial Variability of Soil Moisture in a Forest Catchment: Temporal Trend and Contributors

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Functional characterizations of Ellenberg indicator values - a review on ecophysiological determinants

(2015) Maik Bartelheimer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Functional trait variation along environmental gradients in temperate and Mediterranean trees

(2015) Albert Vilà-Cabrera et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Spatio-temporal soil moisture patterns – A meta-analysis using plot to catchment scale data

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Contrasting Effects of Intraspecific Trait Variation on Trait-Based Niches and Performance of Legumes in Plant Mixtures

(2015) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLoS One

Light accelerates plant responses to warming

(2015) Pieter De Frenne et al.   Nature Plants

Applying trait-based models to achieve functional targets for theory-driven ecological restoration

(2014) Daniel C. Laughlin   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The relationship of stand structure with canopy transmittance: Simple models and practical methods for managing understory light conditions in eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.)-dominated forests

(2014) William C. Parker   FORESTRY CHRONICLE

Mycorrhizal traits and plant communities: perspectives for integration

(2014) Mari Moora   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

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

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

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Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on soil microbial communities in oak forests persist for more than 100 years

(2014) A. Fichtner et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

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

Predicting current and future spatial community patterns of plant functional traits

(2013) Anne Dubuis et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Mycorrhizas in the Central European flora: relationships with plant life history traits and ecology

(2013) Stefan Hempel et al.   ECOLOGY

Estimating light climate in forest with the convex densiometer: operator effect, geometry and relation to diffuse light

(2013) Olivier Baudry et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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Are trait-based species rankings consistent across data sets and spatial scales?

(2013) Elena Kazakou et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Space can substitute for time in predicting climate-change effects on biodiversity

(2013) Jessica L. Blois et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Functional trait metrics are sensitive to the completeness of the species' trait data?

(2013) Robin J. Pakeman   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Tree litter and forest understorey vegetation: a conceptual framework to understand the effects of tree litter on a perennial geophyte, Anemone nemorosa

(2012) Marie Baltzinger et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The response of forest plant regeneration to temperature variation along a latitudinal gradient

(2012) Pieter De Frenne et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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(2012) Henrique Miguel Pereira et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

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Temperature effects on forest herbs assessed by warming and transplant experiments along a latitudinal gradient

(2011) PIETER De FRENNE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2011) Fiona J. Thomson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Kris Verheyen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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Too good to be true: pitfalls of using mean Ellenberg indicator values in vegetation analyses

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

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(2010) Samuel F. Bartels et al.   ECOLOGY

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(2010) Lander Baeten et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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(2008) Thomas P. Rooney   PLANT ECOLOGY