How to Improve the Predictions of Plant Functional Traits on Ecosystem Functioning?

Optimal Community Assembly Related to Leaf Economic- Hydraulic-Anatomical Traits

(2020) Congcong Liu et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

(2020) Fons van der Plas et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs

(2020) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Influences of Disturbance Histories and Soil Properties on Aboveground Biomass through Plant Functional Traits in a Tropical Rainforest

(2019) Wensheng Bu et al.   Forests

Trait-based community assembly of submersed macrophytes subjected to nutrient enrichment in freshwater lakes: Do traits at the individual level matter?

(2019) Hui Fu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Trait multi-functionality in plant stress response

(2019) Lawren Sack et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Variation in leaf chlorophyll concentration from tropical to cold-temperate forests: Association with gross primary productivity

(2018) Ying Li et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Ecosystem Traits Linking Functional Traits to Macroecology

(2018) Nianpeng He et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Individual-level trait diversity predicts phytoplankton community properties better than species richness or evenness

(2017) Simone Fontana et al.   ISME Journal

Interspecific and intraspecific variation in specific root length drives aboveground biodiversity effects in young experimental forest stands

(2017) Wensheng Bu et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Plant Functional Traits: Soil and Ecosystem Services

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

Interspecific and intraspecific variation in specific root length drives aboveground biodiversity effects in young experimental forest stands

(2017) Wensheng Bu et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality

(2017) Nicolas Gross et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Linking individual-level functional traits to tree growth in a subtropical forest

(2016) Xiaojuan Liu et al.   ECOLOGY

Dynamic range boxes- a robust nonparametric approach to quantify size and overlap ofn-dimensional hypervolumes

(2016) Robert R. Junker et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A new probabilistic method for quantifyingn-dimensional ecological niches and niche overlap

(2015) Heidi K. Swanson et al.   ECOLOGY

From plant functional types to plant functional traits

(2015) Yanzheng Yang et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Latitudinal variation of leaf stomatal traits from species to community level in forests: linkage with ecosystem productivity

(2015) Ruili Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

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

Plant trait responses to the environment and effects on ecosystem properties

(2012) Patrick Lienin et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

The role of roots in the resource economics spectrum

(2012) Liesje Mommer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Key canopy traits drive forest productivity

(2012) P. B. Reich   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   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

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Growth and wood density predict tree mortality in Amazon forests

(2008) Kuo-Jung Chao et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Winter cover crops for local ecosystems: linking plant traits and ecosystem function

(2008) Brook J Wilke et al.   JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

Anatomical traits associated with absorption and mycorrhizal colonization are linked to root branch order in twenty-three Chinese temperate tree species

(2008) Dali Guo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Canopy nitrogen, carbon assimilation, and albedo in temperate and boreal forests: Functional relations and potential climate feedbacks

(2008) S. V. Ollinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA