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

Environmental Filtering and Positive Plant Litter Feedback Simultaneously Explain Correlations Between Leaf Traits and Soil Fertility

(2015) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates

(2015) Vincent Maire et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

From pots to plots: hierarchical trait-based prediction of plant performance in a mesic grassland

(2015) Thomas Schroeder-Georgi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A conifer-angiosperm divergence in the growth vs. shade tolerance trade-off underlies the dynamics of a New Zealand warm-temperate rain forest

(2015) Christopher H. Lusk et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Soil fertility induces coordinated responses of multiple independent functional traits

(2015) Melissa M. Jager et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Integrated plant phenotypic responses to contrasting above- and below-ground resources: key roles of specific leaf area and root mass fraction

(2015) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes

(2015) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Disentangling drivers of tree population size distributions

(2014) Duane A. Peltzer et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Below-ground opportunities in vegetation science

(2014) Scott D. Wilson   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Leading dimensions in absorptive root trait variation across 96 subtropical forest species

(2014) Deliang Kong et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phosphorus limitation, soil-borne pathogens and the coexistence of plant species in hyperdiverse forests and shrublands

(2014) Etienne Laliberté et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Reduced Root Cortical Cell File Number Improves Drought Tolerance in Maize

(2014) J. G. Chimungu et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

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

Variation of first-order root traits across climatic gradients and evolutionary trends in geological time

(2013) Weile Chen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evidence for a ‘plant community economics spectrum’ driven by nutrient and water limitations in a Mediterranean rangeland of southern France

(2013) Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Plasticity in above- and belowground resource acquisition traits in response to single and multiple environmental factors in three tree species

(2013) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Root and leaf functional trait relations in Poaceae species: implications of differing resource-acquisition strategies

(2012) F. Fort et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Climatic constraints on trait-based forest assembly

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

Environmental filtering of dense-wooded species controls above-ground biomass stored in African moist forests

(2011) Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species- and community-level patterns in fine root traits along a 120 000-year soil chronosequence in temperate rain forest

(2011) Robert J. Holdaway et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

smatr 3- an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines

(2011) David I. Warton et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III

(2009)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

SIZE-CORRECTION AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS FOR INTERSPECIFIC COMPARATIVE STUDIES

(2009) Liam J. Revell   EVOLUTION

A multi-trait test of the leaf-height-seed plant strategy scheme with 133 species from a pine forest flora

(2009) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Seedling root morphology and biomass allocation of 62 tropical tree species in relation to drought- and shade-tolerance

(2009) Lars Markesteijn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Improving the Scale and Precision of Hypotheses to Explain Root Foraging Ability

(2008) S. W. Kembel et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Are traits measured on pot grown plants representative of those in natural communities?

(2007) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE