Nutrient cycling drives plant community trait assembly and ecosystem functioning in a tropical mountain biodiversity hotspot

A research framework for projecting ecosystem change in highly diverse tropical mountain ecosystems

(2021) Jörg Bendix et al.   OECOLOGIA

Global root traits (GRooT) database

(2020) Nathaly R. Guerrero‐Ramírez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Topography as a factor driving small‐scale variation in tree fine root traits and root functional diversity in a species‐rich tropical montane forest

(2020) Kerstin Pierick et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Temporal Trends of Phosphorus Cycling in a Tropical Montane Forest in Ecuador During 14 Years

(2019) Wolfgang Wilcke et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Rapid nitrogen fixation by canopy microbiome in tropical forest determined by both phosphorus and molybdenum

(2019) Daniel E. Stanton et al.   ECOLOGY

Nitrogen deposition maintains a positive effect on terrestrial carbon sequestration in the twenty‐first century despite growing phosphorus limitation at regional scales

(2019) Katrin Fleischer et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Individual-Based Modeling of Amazon Forests Suggests That Climate Controls Productivity While Traits Control Demography

(2019) Sophie Fauset et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Amazon forest response to CO2 fertilization dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition

(2019) Katrin Fleischer et al.   Nature Geoscience

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

(2019) Jens Kattge et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Gap models and their individual-based relatives in the assessment of the consequences of global change

(2018) Herman H Shugart et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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

Functional traits determine tree growth and ecosystem productivity of a tropical montane forest: Insights from a long-term nutrient manipulation experiment

(2017) Selene Báez et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities

(2017) Rosie A. Fisher et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate-biomes, pedo-biomes or pyro-biomes: which world view explains the tropical forest-savanna boundary in South America?

(2017) Liam Langan et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental filtering by pH and soil nutrients drives community assembly in fungi at fine spatial scales

(2017) Sydney I. Glassman et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Defaunation effects on plant recruitment depend on size matching and size trade-offs in seed-dispersal networks

(2017) Isabel Donoso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Using phylogeny and functional traits for assessing community assembly along environmental gradients: A deterministic process driven by elevation

(2017) Jinshi Xu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Leaf and root litter decomposition is discontinued at high altitude tropical montane rainforests contributing to carbon sequestration

(2017) Franca Marian et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Resilience of Amazon forests emerges from plant trait diversity

(2016) Boris Sakschewski et al.   Nature Climate Change

Effects of Warming and Drought on the Vegetation and Plant Diversity in the Amazon Basin

(2015) Ingrid Olivares et al.   BOTANICAL REVIEW

Leaf and stem economics spectra drive diversity of functional plant traits in a dynamic global vegetation model

(2015) Boris Sakschewski et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

Future productivity and carbon storage limited by terrestrial nutrient availability

(2015) William R. Wieder et al.   Nature Geoscience

Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) C. Bello et al.   Science Advances

Modelling CO2 Impacts on Forest Productivity

(2015) Thomas Hickler et al.   Current Forestry Reports

Free-living nitrogen fixation responds to elevated nutrient inputs in tropical montane forest floor and canopy soils of southern Ecuador

(2014) Amanda L. Matson et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Is tropical montane forest heterogeneity promoted by a resource-driven feedback cycle? Evidence from nutrient relations, herbivory and litter decomposition along a topographical gradient

(2014) Florian A. Werner et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Cultured arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and native soil inocula improve seedling development of two pioneer trees in the Andean region

(2014) Narcisa Urgiles et al.   NEW FORESTS

Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2Enrichment studies

(2014) Sönke Zaehle et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Arbuscular mycorrhiza and nitrogen: implications for individual plants through to ecosystems

(2014) Angela Hodge et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

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

Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance

(2014) M. Fernández-Martínez et al.   Nature Climate Change

The relationship of leaf photosynthetic traits - V cmax and J max - to leaf nitrogen, leaf phosphorus, and specific leaf area: a meta-analysis and modeling study

(2014) Anthony P. Walker et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Half-saturation constants in functional responses

(2014) Christian Mulder et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

The nitrogen cycle of tropical montane forest in Ecuador turns inorganic under environmental change

(2013) Wolfgang Wilcke et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Extraradical arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae in an organic tropical montane forest soil

(2013) Tessa Camenzind et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Nutrient limitation in rainforests and cloud forests along a 3,000-m elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes

(2012) Joshua B. Fisher et al.   OECOLOGIA

Tropical Andean Forests Are Highly Susceptible to Nutrient Inputs—Rapid Effects of Experimental N and P Addition to an Ecuadorian Montane Forest

(2012) Jürgen Homeier et al.   PLoS One

Modeling carbon allocation in trees: a search for principles

(2012) O. Franklin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Organic nutrient uptake by mycorrhizal fungi enhances ecosystem carbon storage: a model-based assessment

(2011) Kate H. Orwin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nitrogen availability links forest productivity, soil nitrous oxide and nitric oxide fluxes of a tropical montane forest in southern Ecuador

(2011) Katrin Wolf et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Trait-based community assembly of understory palms along a soil nutrient gradient in a lower montane tropical forest

(2011) Kelly M. Andersen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional traits of individual trees reveal ecological constraints on community assembly in tropical rain forests

(2011) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   OIKOS

Stable N isotope composition of nitrate reflects N transformations during the passage of water through a montane rain forest in Ecuador

(2010) Martin Thilo Schwarz et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Response of the N and P cycles of an old-growth montane forest in Ecuador to experimental low-level N and P amendments

(2010) H. Wullaert et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

ForCent model development and testing using the Enriched Background Isotope Study experiment

(2010) William J. Parton et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Variability of indices of macronutrient availability in soils at different spatial scales along an elevation transect in tropical moist forests (NE Ecuador)

(2010) Malte Unger et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Ecological differentiation in xylem cavitation resistance is associated with stem and leaf structural traits

(2010) LARS MARKESTEIJN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Application of mycorrhizal roots improves growth of tropical tree seedlings in the nursery: a step towards reforestation with native species in the Andes of Ecuador

(2009) Narcisa Urgiles et al.   NEW FORESTS

The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species

(2009) Lourens Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Microbial communities and their relevance for ecosystem models: Decomposition as a case study

(2009) Krista L. McGuire et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil properties and tree growth along an altitudinal transect in Ecuadorian tropical montane forest

(2008) Wolfgang Wilcke et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Mycorrhizal phosphate uptake pathway in tomato is phosphorus-repressible and transcriptionally regulated

(2008) Réka Nagy et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Plant nutrient-acquisition strategies change with soil age

(2008) H LAMBERS et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Representation of vegetation dynamics in the modelling of terrestrial ecosystems: comparing two contrasting approaches within European climate space

(2003) Benjamin Smith et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY