Can functional traits predict plant community response to global change?

Ecohydrological controls on grass and shrub above-ground net primary productivity in a seasonally dry climate

(2015) Anthony J. Parolari et al.   Ecohydrology

Temporal variation overshadows the response of leaf litter microbial communities to simulated global change

(2015) Kristin L Matulich et al.   ISME Journal

IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION NO. 2 - CLIMATE CHANGE INDUCED VEGETATION SHIFTS IN THE NEW WORLD

(2014) L Hufnagel   APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Altered water and nitrogen input shifts succession in a southern California coastal sage community

(2014) Sarah Kimball et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Intra-annual rainfall regime shifts competitive interactions between coastal sage scrub and invasive grasses

(2014) Leah J. Goldstein et al.   ECOLOGY

Wood production response to climate change will depend critically on forest composition and structure

(2014) David A. Coomes et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Foliar functional traits that predict plant biomass response to warming

(2014) Elise S. Gornish et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

(2014) C. Violle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phenotypic Selection Favors Missing Trait Combinations in Coexisting Annual Plants

(2013) Sarah Kimball et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Exotic plant invasions under enhanced rainfall are constrained by soil nutrients and competition

(2013) Anu Eskelinen et al.   ECOLOGY

Subordinate plant species enhance community resistance against drought in semi-natural grasslands

(2013) Pierre Mariotte et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Increases in flood magnitudes in California under warming climates

(2013) Tapash Das et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Functional diversity: a tool for answering challenging ecological questions

(2013) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Biological nitrogen fixation: rates, patterns and ecological controls in terrestrial ecosystems

(2013) P. M. Vitousek et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Plant Functional Group Composition Modifies the Effects of Precipitation Change on Grassland Ecosystem Function

(2013) Ellen L. Fry et al.   PLoS One

Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

(2013) Sandra Díaz et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Species, Functional Groups, and Thresholds in Ecological Resilience

(2012) SHANA M. SUNDSTROM et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Temporal variability in California grasslands: Soil type and species functional traits mediate response to precipitation

(2012) B. M. Fernandez-Going et al.   ECOLOGY

Microbial abundance and composition influence litter decomposition response to environmental change

(2012) Steven D. Allison et al.   ECOLOGY

Do alien plant species profit more from high resource supply than natives? A trait-based analysis

(2012) Alejandro Ordonez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ecological effects of experimental drought and prescribed fire in a southern California coastal grassland

(2012) D.L. Potts et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

(2012) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Which plant traits determine abundance under long-term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity?

(2012) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Shifting species interactions in terrestrial dryland ecosystems under altered water availability and climate change

(2011) Kevin E. McCluney et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Nitrogen deposition effects on Mediterranean-type ecosystems: An ecological assessment

(2011) Raúl Ochoa-Hueso et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Plasticity and evolution in drought avoidance and escape in the annual plant Brassica rapa

(2011) Steven J. Franks   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Functional consequences of climate change-induced plant species loss in a tallgrass prairie

(2011) Joseph M. Craine et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Nitrogen critical loads and management alternatives for N-impacted ecosystems in California

(2010) M.E. Fenn et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

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

(2010) Brody Sandel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ecological contingency in the effects of climatic warming on forest herb communities

(2010) S. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

(2010) Mark Vellend   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities

(2009) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Using functional traits to predict grassland ecosystem change: a mathematical test of the response-and-effect trait approach

(2009) KATJA KLUMPP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contemporary climate change in the Sonoran Desert favors cold-adapted species

(2009) SARAH KIMBALL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Native and exotic invasive plants have fundamentally similar carbon capture strategies

(2009) Michelle R. Leishman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Combined effects of precipitation and nitrogen deposition on native and invasive winter annual production in California deserts

(2009) Leela E. Rao et al.   OECOLOGIA

Historical change in coastal sage scrub in southern California, USA in relation to fire frequency and air pollution

(2008) Matt V. Talluto et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Evolutionary tradeoffs can select against nitrogen fixation and thereby maintain nitrogen limitation

(2008) D. N. L. Menge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid shifts in plant distribution with recent climate change

(2008) A. E. Kelly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA