The more things change, the more they stay the same? When is trait variability important for stability of ecosystem function in a changing environment

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in dynamic landscapes

(2016) Ulrich Brose et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multiple environmental drivers structure plant traits at the community level in a pyrogenic ecosystem

(2015) Gregory M. Ames et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The ubiquity of phenotypic plasticity in plants: a synthesis

(2015) Kattia Palacio-López et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Intraspecific Trait Variation Driven by Plasticity and Ontogeny in Hypochaeris radicata

(2014) Rachel M. Mitchell et al.   PLoS One

Genotype-by-Environment Interaction and Plasticity: Exploring Genomic Responses of Plants to the Abiotic Environment

(2013) David L. Des Marais et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Allocating CSR plant functional types: the use of leaf economics and size traits to classify woody and herbaceous vascular plants

(2013) Simon Pierce et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The evolution of quantitative traits in complex environments

(2013) J T Anderson et al.   HEREDITY

Leaf traits and litter flammability: evidence for non-additive mixture effects in a temperate forest

(2013) Rita M. Q. de Magalhães et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within local species pools across varying environmental conditions?

(2012) Justin P. Wright et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Phenotypic Plasticity and Population Differentiation in an Ongoing Species Invasion

(2012) Silvia Matesanz et al.   PLoS One

Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

(2011) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation

(2010) Brody Sandel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A Quantitative Survey of Local Adaptation and Fitness Trade‐Offs

(2009) Joe Hereford   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

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

The burning characteristics of southeastern oaks: Discriminating fire facilitators from fire impeders

(2008) Jeffrey M. Kane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Whole Body Mechanics of Stealthy Walking in Cats

(2008) Kristin L. Bishop et al.   PLoS One