Resolving whole‐plant economics from leaf, stem and root traits of 1467 Amazonian tree species

Past human disturbances and soil fertility both influence the distribution of light‐demanding tree species in a central African tropical forest

(2020) Jason Vleminckx et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Convergent evolution of tree hydraulic traits in Amazonian habitats: implications for community assemblage and vulnerability to drought

(2020) Clarissa Gouveia Fontes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Independent evolutionary changes in fine‐root traits among main clades during the diversification of seed plants

(2020) Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Aridity drives coordinated trait shifts but not decreased trait variance across the geographic range of eight Australian trees

(2020) Leander D. L. Anderegg et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants

(2020) Joana Bergmann et al.   Science Advances

Limiting similarity shapes the functional and phylogenetic structure of root neighborhoods in a subtropical forest

(2020) Wenqi Luo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

V.PhyloMaker: an R package that can generate very large phylogenies for vascular plants

(2019) Yi Jin et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Nonlinearity of root trait relationships and the root economics spectrum

(2019) Deliang Kong et al.   Nature Communications

Robustness of trait connections across environmental gradients and growth forms

(2019) Habacuc Flores‐Moreno et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Linking Aboveground Traits to Root Traits and Local Environment: Implications of the Plant Economics Spectrum

(2019) Yong Shen et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Disentangling good from bad practices in the selection of spatial or phylogenetic eigenvectors

(2018) David Bauman et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Beyond the fast-slow continuum: demographic dimensions structuring a tropical tree community

(2018) Nadja Rüger et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

On the development of a predictive functional trait approach for studying terrestrial arthropods

(2018) Pierre-Marc Brousseau et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Can traits predict individual growth performance? A test in a hyperdiverse tropical forest

(2018) Lourens Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Coordination and trade-offs among hydraulic safety, efficiency and drought avoidance traits in Amazonian rainforest canopy tree species

(2018) Louis S. Santiago et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Divergent Secondary Metabolites and Habitat Filtering Both Contribute to Tree Species Coexistence in the Peruvian Amazon

(2018) Jason Vleminckx et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Optimizing the choice of a spatial weighting matrix in eigenvector-based methods

(2018) David Bauman et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

(2018) Anne D. Bjorkman et al.   NATURE

Trait‐based ecology of terrestrial arthropods

(2018) Mark K. L. Wong et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Climate shapes and shifts functional biodiversity in forests worldwide

(2018) Daniel J. Wieczynski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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

Fourth-corner correlation is a score test statistic in a log-linear trait–environment model that is useful in permutation testing

(2017) Cajo J. F. ter Braak   ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL STATISTICS

Plant community structure and nitrogen inputs modulate the climate signal on leaf traits

(2017) Benjamin Borgy et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address below-ground challenges in plant ecology

(2017) Colleen M. Iversen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root Branching Is a Leading Root Trait of the Plant Economics Spectrum in Temperate Trees

(2017) Rebecca Liese et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Habitat Endemism in White-sand Forests: Insights into the Mechanisms of Lineage Diversification and Community Assembly of the Neotropical Flora

(2016) Paul V. A. Fine et al.   BIOTROPICA

Functional trait differences influence neighbourhood interactions in a hyperdiverse Amazonian forest

(2016) Claire Fortunel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Leaf traits of African woody savanna species across climate and soil fertility gradients: evidence for conservative versus acquisitive resource-use strategies

(2016) Benjamin J. Wigley et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum: Commentary on Kramer-Walteret al. (2016)

(2016) Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum

(2016) Kris R. Kramer-Walter et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seedling growth responses to phosphorus reflect adult distribution patterns of tropical trees

(2016) Paul-Camilo Zalamea et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Towards a multidimensional root trait framework: a tree root review

(2016) Monique Weemstra et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology

(2016) Etienne Laliberté   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The nutrient absorption-transportation hypothesis: optimizing structural traits in absorptive roots

(2016) Deliang Kong et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography

(2015) Franziska Schrodt et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A plant economics spectrum in Mediterranean forests along environmental gradients: is there coordination among leaf, stem and root traits?

(2015) Enrique G. de la Riva et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

A trail map for trait-based studies

(2015) Jonathan M. Levine   NATURE

Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes

(2015) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A quantitative analysis of phenotypic variations of Metrosideros polymorpha within and across populations along environmental gradients on Mauna Loa, Hawaii

(2015) Yuki Tsujii et al.   OECOLOGIA

Predicting communities from functional traits

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

Generating spatially constrained null models for irregularly spaced data using Moran spectral randomization methods

(2015) Helene H. Wagner et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Fine root morphology is phylogenetically structured, but nitrogen is related to the plant economics spectrum in temperate trees

(2014) Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Radial changes in wood specific gravity of tropical trees: inter- and intraspecific variation during secondary succession

(2014) Benjamin T. Plourde et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   NATURE

Environmental factors predict community functional composition in Amazonian forests

(2013) Claire Fortunel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Wood specific gravity and anatomy of branches and roots in 113 Amazonian rainforest tree species across environmental gradients

(2013) Claire Fortunel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid Simultaneous Estimation of Aboveground Biomass and Tree Diversity Across Neotropical Forests: A Comparison of Field Inventory Methods

(2012) Christopher Baraloto et al.   BIOTROPICA

Functional traits explain light and size response of growth rates in tropical tree species

(2012) Nadja Rüger et al.   ECOLOGY

Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species

(2012) Claire Fortunel et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities

(2012) Christopher Baraloto et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic niche conservatism: what are the underlying evolutionary and ecological causes?

(2012) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Development of regional future climate change scenarios in South America using the Eta CPTEC/HadCM3 climate change projections: climatology and regional analyses for the Amazon, São Francisco and the Paraná River basins

(2011) Jose A. Marengo et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Disentangling stand and environmental correlates of aboveground biomass in Amazonian forests

(2011) CHRISTOPHER BARALOTO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climatic constraints on trait-based forest assembly

(2011) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional traits shape ontogenetic growth trajectories of rain forest tree species

(2011) Bruno Hérault et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional explanations for variation in bark thickness in tropical rain forest trees

(2010) Charles Eliot Timothy Paine et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Leaf traits capture the effects of land use changes and climate on litter decomposability of grasslands across Europe

(2009) Claire Fortunel et al.   ECOLOGY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?

(2009) WILLIAM K. CORNWELL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora

(2009) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems

(2009) Alain F. Zuur et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE