The importance of functional diversity in the stability of Mediterranean shrubland communities after the impact of extreme climatic events

Climatic events inducing die-off in Mediterranean shrublands: are species’ responses related to their functional traits?

(2016) Francisco Lloret et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Disentangling the relative importance of species occurrence, abundance and intraspecific variability in community assembly: a trait-based approach at the whole-plant level in Mediterranean forests

(2015) Enrique G. de la Riva et al.   OIKOS

Plant functional traits as determinants of population stability

(2014) Maria Májeková et al.   ECOLOGY

Long-term expansion of juniper populations in managed landscapes: patterns in space and time

(2014) Cristina García et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Leaf and stem physiological responses to summer and winter extremes of woody species across temperate ecosystems

(2014) Elena Granda et al.   OIKOS

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

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

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

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

Plant functional traits improve diversity-based predictions of temporal stability of grassland productivity

(2013) H. Wayne Polley et al.   OIKOS

Summer heat and drought extremes trigger unexpected changes in productivity of a temperate annual/biannual plant community

(2012) Freja E. Dreesen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Tradeoffs between functional strategies for resource-use and drought-survival in Mediterranean rangeland species

(2012) Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

(2012) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant competition and facilitation after extreme drought episodes in Mediterranean shrubland: does damage to vegetation cover trigger replacement by juniper woodland?

(2012) Francisco Lloret et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Mistletoe effects on Scots pine decline following drought events: insights from within-tree spatial patterns, growth and carbohydrates

(2012) G. Sanguesa-Barreda et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Spatio-temporal heterogeneity effects on seedling growth and establishment in four Quercus species

(2011) Victoria González-Rodríguez et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Stochastic trajectories of succession initiated by extreme climatic events

(2011) J. Kreyling et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Extreme climatic events and vegetation: the role of stabilizing processes

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate extremes initiate ecosystem-regulating functions while maintaining productivity

(2011) Anke Jentsch et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intensity, duration, and frequency of precipitation extremes under 21st-century warming scenarios

(2011) Shih-Chieh Kao et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Community-level seedling dynamics in Mediterranean forests: uncoupling between the canopy and the seedling layers

(2011) Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Individual-based trait analyses reveal assembly patterns in tree sapling communities

(2011) Marcos B. Carlucci et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low-growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   OIKOS

Resilience of Mediterranean shrubland to a severe drought episode: the role of seed bank and seedling emergence

(2011) M. del Cacho et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Contrasting changes in taxonomic vs. functional diversity of tropical fish communities after habitat degradation

(2010) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Seedling growth and morphology of three oak species along field resource gradients and seed mass variation: a seedling age-dependent response

(2010) Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Diversity enhances community recovery, but not resistance, after drought

(2009) Jasper Van Ruijven et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The architecture of mutualistic networks minimizes competition and increases biodiversity

(2009) Ugo Bastolla et al.   NATURE

Morphological traits and water use strategies in seedlings of Mediterranean coexisting species

(2009) E. I. Hernández et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Seedling Traits Determine Drought Tolerance of Tropical Tree Species

(2008) Lourens Poorter et al.   BIOTROPICA

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of Extreme Weather Events on Plant Productivity and Tissue Die-Back are Modified by Community Composition

(2008) Juergen Kreyling et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Relationship between post-fire regeneration and leaf economics spectrum in Mediterranean woody species

(2008) S. Saura-Mas et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY