Wood traits related to size and life history of trees in a Panamanian rainforest

Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees

(2016) Marco D. Visser et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites

(2015) Susan G. Letcher et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Explaining biomass growth of tropical canopy trees: the importance of sapwood

(2015) Masha T. van der Sande et al.   OECOLOGIA

Universal hydraulics of the flowering plants: vessel diameter scales with stem length across angiosperm lineages, habits and climates

(2014) Mark E. Olson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The importance of hydraulic conductivity and wood density to growth performance in eight tree species from a tropical semi-dry climate

(2014) Stefanie Hoeber et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Linking size-dependent growth and mortality with architectural traits across 145 co-occurring tropical tree species

(2013) Yoshiko Iida et al.   ECOLOGY

Strong radial variation in wood density follows a uniform pattern in two neotropical rain forests

(2013) Peter Hietz et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Vascular performance of woody plants in a temperate rain forest: lianas suffer higher levels of freeze-thaw embolism than associated trees

(2013) Mylthon Jiménez-Castillo et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Radial variation of vessel lumen diameter in relation to stem increment in 30 hardwood species

(2013) Ryouta Tsuchiya et al.   IAWA JOURNAL

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

(2013) Amy E. Zanne et al.   NATURE

Wood specific gravity and anatomy of branches and roots in 113 Amazonian rainforest tree species across environmental gradients

(2013) Claire Fortunel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Changes in wood density, wood anatomy and hydraulic properties of the xylem along the root-to-shoot flow path in tropical rainforest trees

(2013) B. Schuldt et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

How wood evolves: a new synthesis

(2012) Sherwin Carlquist   Botany

Functional traits explain light and size response of growth rates in tropical tree species

(2012) Nadja Rüger et al.   ECOLOGY

Hydraulic conductivity traits predict growth rates and adult stature of 40 Asian tropical tree species better than wood density

(2012) Ze-Xin Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Vessel diameter-stem diameter scaling across woody angiosperms and the ecological causes of xylem vessel diameter variation

(2012) Mark E. Olson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Integration of vessel traits, wood density, and height in angiosperm shrubs and trees

(2011) Hugo I. Martínez-Cabrera et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Functional traits shape ontogenetic growth trajectories of rain forest tree species

(2011) Bruno Hérault et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Constraints on physiological function associated with branch architecture and wood density in tropical forest trees

(2011) F. C. Meinzer et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Angiosperm wood structure: Global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relation to wood density and potential conductivity

(2010) Amy E. Zanne et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Interspecific variation in functional traits, not climatic differences among species ranges, determines demographic rates across 44 temperate and Mediterranean tree species

(2010) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

(2010) Oliver L. Phillips et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The relationship between wood density and mortality in a global tropical forest data set

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Wood density and its radial variation in six canopy tree species differing in shade-tolerance in western Thailand

(2009) Charles A. Nock et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Stem hydraulics mediates leaf water status, carbon gain, nutrient use efficiencies and plant growth rates across dipterocarp species

(2009) Jiao-Lin Zhang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Interspecific relationships among growth, mortality and xylem traits of woody species from New Zealand

(2009) Sabrina E. Russo et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

Xylem function of arid-land shrubs from California, USA: an ecological and evolutionary analysis

(2009) U. G. HACKE et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Xylem hydraulic physiology: The functional backbone of terrestrial plant productivity

(2009) Timothy J. Brodribb   PLANT SCIENCE

Plant DNA barcodes and a community phylogeny of a tropical forest dynamics plot in Panama

(2009) W. J. Kress et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

Comparative community physiology: nonconvergence in water relations among three semi-arid shrub communities

(2008) Anna L. Jacobsen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Contrasting patterns of diameter and biomass increment across tree functional groups in Amazonian forests

(2008) Helen C. Keeling et al.   OECOLOGIA

Coordination of leaf and stem water transport properties in tropical forest trees

(2008) Frederick C. Meinzer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Are radial changes in vascular anatomy mechanically induced or an ageing process? Evidence from observations on buttressed tree root systems

(2008) Karen K. Christensen-Dalsgaard et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION