Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology

Functional traits of the world’s late Quaternary large-bodied avian and mammalian herbivores

(2021) Erick J. Lundgren et al.   Scientific Data

The role of plant secondary metabolites in shaping regional and local plant community assembly

(2021) María‐José Endara et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Genetic variation, environment and demography intersect to shape Arabidopsis defense metabolite variation across Europe

(2021) Ella Katz et al.   eLife

Tree species richness differentially affects the chemical composition of leaves, roots and root exudates in four subtropical tree species

(2021) Alexander Weinhold et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Different “metabolomic niches” of the highly diverse tree species of the French Guiana rainforests

(2020) Albert Gargallo-Garriga et al.   Scientific Reports

Ecometabolomics for a Better Understanding of Plant Responses and Acclimation to Abiotic Factors Linked to Global Change

(2020) Jordi Sardans et al.   Metabolites

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

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

Herbivores as drivers of negative density dependence in tropical forest saplings

(2019) Dale L. Forrister et al.   SCIENCE

SIRIUS 4: a rapid tool for turning tandem mass spectra into metabolite structure information

(2019) Kai Dührkop et al.   NATURE METHODS

Forecasting a bright future for ecology

(2019) Michael Dietze et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs

(2019) Jennifer Firn et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Plant species richness elicits changes in the metabolome of grassland species via soil biotic legacy

(2019) Christian Ristok et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Multidimensional ecological analyses demonstrate how interactions between functional traits shape fitness and life history strategies

(2019) Nuria Pistón et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The landscape of natural product diversity and their pharmacological relevance from a focus on the Dictionary of Natural Products®

(2019) François Chassagne et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt?

(2019) Franziska Schrodt et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Structure and Function of Major Plant Metabolite Modifications

(2019) Shouchuang Wang et al.   Molecular Plant

MolNetEnhancer: Enhanced Molecular Networks by Integrating Metabolome Mining and Annotation Tools

(2019) Madeleine Ernst et al.   Metabolites

Effects of climate warming on Sphagnum photosynthesis in peatlands depend on peat moisture and species‐specific anatomical traits

(2019) Vincent E. J. Jassey et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Taxonomically Informed Scoring Enhances Confidence in Natural Products Annotation

(2019) Adriano Rutz et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Chemical Diversity and Classification of Secondary Metabolites in Nine Bryophyte Species

(2019) Peters et al.   Metabolites

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

(2019) Jens Kattge et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A systemic overreaction to years versus decades of warming in a subarctic grassland ecosystem

(2019) Tom W. N. Walker et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Shifts in the dynamics of productivity signal ecosystem state transitions at the biome-scale

(2018) Zhongmin Hu et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Current Challenges in Plant Eco-Metabolomics

(2018) Kristian Peters et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Trait differentiation and adaptation of plants along elevation gradients

(2018) Aud H. Halbritter et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Response of Plant Secondary Metabolites to Environmental Factors

(2018) et al.   MOLECULES

Why Functional Traits Do Not Predict Tree Demographic Rates

(2018) Jie Yang et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Propagating annotations of molecular networks using in silico fragmentation

(2018) Ricardo R. da Silva et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A protocol for high-throughput, untargeted forest community metabolomics using mass spectrometry molecular networks

(2018) Brian E. Sedio et al.   Applications in Plant Sciences

Origin and maintenance of chemical diversity in a species-rich tropical tree lineage

(2018) Diego Salazar et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome

(2018) Mohammad Bahram et al.   NATURE

Tracking of Host Defenses and Phylogeny During the Radiation of Neotropical Inga-Feeding Sawflies (Hymenoptera; Argidae)

(2018) María-José Endara et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Shedding Light on Chemically Mediated Tri-Trophic Interactions: A 1H-NMR Network Approach to Identify Compound Structural Features and Associated Biological Activity

(2018) Lora A. Richards et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Trait‐based ecology of terrestrial arthropods

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

Comparative foliar metabolomics of a tropical and a temperate forest community

(2018) Brian E. Sedio et al.   ECOLOGY

Plastic and genetic responses of a common sedge to warming have contrasting effects on carbon cycle processes

(2018) Tom W. N. Walker et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Environmental gradients and the evolution of tri-trophic interactions

(2018) Alan Kergunteuil et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Sphagnum Species Modulate their Phenolic Profiles and Mycorrhizal Colonization of Surrounding Andromeda polifolia along Peatland Microhabitats

(2018) Geneviève Chiapusio et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

JAZ repressors of metabolic defense promote growth and reproductive fitness inArabidopsis

(2018) Qiang Guo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant defences mediate interactions between herbivory and the direct foliar uptake of atmospheric reactive nitrogen

(2018) Stuart A. Campbell et al.   Nature Communications

Eco-Metabolomics and Metabolic Modeling: Making the Leap From Model Systems in the Lab to Native Populations in the Field

(2018) Matthias Nagler et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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

A tutorial in small molecule identification via electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry: The practical art of structural elucidation

(2017) Thomas De Vijlder et al.   MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS

Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality

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

Integration of Molecular Networking and In-Silico MS/MS Fragmentation for Natural Products Dereplication

(2016) Pierre-Marie Allard et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

The Layers of Plant Responses to Insect Herbivores

(2016) Meredith C. Schuman et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

(2016) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Root signals that mediate mutualistic interactions in the rhizosphere

(2016) Sergio Rasmann et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Natural Products as Sources of New Drugs from 1981 to 2014

(2016) David J. Newman et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS

Untargeted Metabolomics Strategies—Challenges and Emerging Directions

(2016) Alexandra C. Schrimpe-Rutledge et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY

Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking

(2016) Mingxun Wang et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Topic modeling for untargeted substructure exploration in metabolomics

(2016) Justin Johan Jozias van der Hooft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ClassyFire: automated chemical classification with a comprehensive, computable taxonomy

(2016) Yannick Djoumbou Feunang et al.   Journal of Cheminformatics

Quantitative and qualitative shifts in defensive metabolites define chemical defense investment during leaf development inInga, a genus of tropical trees

(2016) Natasha L. Wiggins et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The Impact of Competition and Allelopathy on the Trade-Off between Plant Defense and Growth in Two Contrasting Tree Species

(2016) Catherine Fernandez et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

How does plant chemical diversity contribute to biodiversity at higher trophic levels?

(2016) Meredith C Schuman et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Estimating species diversity and distribution in the era of Big Data: to what extent can we trust public databases?

(2015) Carla Maldonado et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

Warming differentially influences the effects of drought on stoichiometry and metabolomics in shoots and roots

(2015) Albert Gargallo-Garriga et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

On the factors that promote the diversity of herbivorous insects and plants in tropical forests

(2015) Judith X. Becerra   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Illuminating the dark matter in metabolomics: Fig. 1.

(2015) Ricardo R. da Silva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High elevationPlantago lanceolataplants are less resistant to herbivory than their low elevation conspecifics: is it just temperature?

(2014) Loïc Pellissier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

New Synthesis: Parallels Between Biodiversity and Chemodiversity

(2014) Monika Hilker   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Specific leaf area responses to environmental gradients through space and time

(2013) John M. Dwyer et al.   ECOLOGY

Intraspecific trait variability mediates the response of subalpine grassland communities to extreme drought events

(2013) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies

(2013) P. B. Adler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MetaboLights—an open-access general-purpose repository for metabolomics studies and associated meta-data

(2012) Kenneth Haug et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Strong relationship between elemental stoichiometry and metabolome in plants

(2012) A. Rivas-Ubach et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effect of a temperature gradient on Sphagnum fallax and its associated living microbial communities: a study under controlled conditions

(2011) Vincent E.J. Jassey et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Ecological metabolomics: overview of current developments and future challenges

(2011) Jordi Sardans et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

The ecosystem and evolutionary contexts of allelopathy

(2011) Inderjit et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Thorough Study of Reactivity of Various Compound Classes toward the Folin−Ciocalteu Reagent

(2010) Jace D. Everette et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Jasmonate and ppHsystemin Regulate Key Malonylation Steps in the Biosynthesis of 17-Hydroxygeranyllinalool Diterpene Glycosides, an Abundant and Effective Direct Defense against Herbivores in Nicotiana attenuata

(2010) S. Heiling et al.   PLANT CELL

Metabolomics Unravel Contrasting Effects of Biodiversity on the Performance of Individual Plant Species

(2010) Christian Scherling et al.   PLoS One

Environmental metabolomics: a critical review and future perspectives

(2009) Jacob G. Bundy et al.   Metabolomics

The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga

(2009) T. A. Kursar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

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

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS