C 4 photosynthesis and the economic spectra of leaf and root traits independently influence growth rates in grasses

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

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

Seedling root responses to soil moisture and the identification of a belowground trait spectrum across three growth forms

(2016) Julie E. Larson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The evolutionary ecology of C4plants

(2014) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation

(2012) Lindsay A. Turnbull et al.   ECOLOGY

Root and leaf functional trait relations in Poaceae species: implications of differing resource-acquisition strategies

(2012) F. Fort et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Predicting fine root lifespan from plant functional traits in temperate trees

(2012) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Anatomical enablers and the evolution of C4photosynthesis in grasses

(2012) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The C4 plant lineages of planet Earth

(2011) R. F. Sage et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins

(2011)   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Partitioning the Components of Relative Growth Rate: How Important Is Plant Size Variation?

(2010) Mark Rees et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Photosynthesis at an extreme end of the leaf trait spectrum: how does it relate to high leaf dry mass per area and associated structural parameters?

(2010) Foteini Hassiotou et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Drought limitation of photosynthesis differs between C3 and C4 grass species in a comparative experiment

(2010) S. H. TAYLOR et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Ecophysiological traits in C3 and C4 grasses: a phylogenetically controlled screening experiment

(2009) Samuel H. Taylor et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Morphological traits and water use strategies in seedlings of Mediterranean coexisting species

(2009) E. I. Hernández et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plants

(2008) Peter B. Reich et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS