Functional community ecology meets restoration ecology: Assessing the restoration success of alluvial floodplain meadows with functional traits

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

(2015) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Applying trait-based models to achieve functional targets for theory-driven ecological restoration

(2014) Daniel C. Laughlin   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Do newcomers stick to the rules of the residents? Designing trait-based community assembly tests

(2014) Eva Breitschwerdt et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Establishment of rare flood meadow species by plant material transfer: Experimental tests of threshold amounts and the effect of sowing position

(2013) Ralf Schmiede et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Functional diversity analysis helps to identify filters affecting community assembly after fen restoration by top-soil removal and hay transfer

(2013) Petter Hedberg et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

An experimental framework to identify community functional components driving ecosystem processes and services delivery

(2013) André T. C. Dias et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional responses of plant communities to management, landscape and historical factors in semi-natural grasslands

(2013) M. Vandewalle et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

D3: The Dispersal and Diaspore Database – Baseline data and statistics on seed dispersal

(2013) Christina Hintze et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Pollinator habitat enhancement: Benefits to other ecosystem services

(2012) Stephen D. Wratten et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

SYNCSA--R tool for analysis of metacommunities based on functional traits and phylogeny of the community components

(2012) V. J. Debastiani et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Using functional diversity as an indicator of restoration success of a cut-over bog

(2012) A. D’Astous et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Leaf Trait-Environment Relationships in a Subtropical Broadleaved Forest in South-East China

(2012) Wenzel Kröber et al.   PLoS One

Large-Scale Restoration of Dry Grasslands on Ex-Arable Land Using a Regional Seed Mixture: Establishment of Target Species

(2012) Karel Prach et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Enhancing plant biodiversity in species-poor grassland through plant material transfer - the impact of sward disturbance

(2011) Ralf Schmiede et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Sowing of low and high diversity seed mixtures in ecological restoration of surface mined-land

(2011) Anita Kirmer et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Habitat loss of floodplain meadows in north Germany since the 1950s

(2011) Benjamin Krause et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Grassland restoration on former croplands in Europe: an assessment of applicability of techniques and costs

(2011) Péter Török et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Nine years of vegetation development in a postmining site: effects of spontaneous and assisted site recovery

(2011) Annett Baasch et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Can long-term floodplain meadow recreation replicate species composition and functional characteristics of target grasslands?

(2011) Ben A. Woodcock et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Using plant functional traits to guide restoration: A case study in California coastal grassland

(2011) B. Sandel et al.   Ecosphere

Species introduction in restoration projects – Evaluation of different techniques for the establishment of semi-natural grasslands in Central and Northwestern Europe

(2010) Kathrin Kiehl et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Convergence and divergence in plant community trajectories as a framework for monitoring wetland restoration progress

(2010) Jeffrey W. Matthews et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The impact of flooding and drought on seeds of Cnidium dubium, Gratiola officinalis, and Juncus atratus, three endangered perennial river corridor plants of Central European lowlands

(2008) Katja Geissler et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Do restored calcareous grasslands on former arable fields resemble ancient targets? The effect of time, methods and environment on outcomes

(2008) Kate C. Fagan et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY