Soil fertility and species traits, but not diversity, drive productivity and biomass stocks in a Guyanese tropical rainforest

Abiotic and biotic drivers of biomass change in a Neotropical forest

(2017) Masha T. van der Sande et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

(2017) Martin J. P. Sullivan et al.   Scientific Reports

Conservative species drive biomass productivity in tropical dry forests

(2016) Jamir A. Prado-Junior et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Medium-term dynamics of tree species composition in response to silvicultural intervention intensities in a tropical rain forest

(2015) Angela Luciana de Avila et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests

(2015) Ervan Rutishauser et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The role of environmental filters and functional traits in predicting the root biomass and productivity in savannas and tropical seasonal forests

(2015) Priscilla P. Loiola et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) L. Poorter et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Nutrient resorption is associated with leaf vein density and growth performance of dipterocarp tree species

(2015) Jiao-Lin Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2015) R. J. W. Brienen et al.   NATURE

Interactions among nitrogen fixation and soil phosphorus acquisition strategies in lowland tropical rain forests

(2014) Megan K. Nasto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Methods to estimate aboveground wood productivity from long-term forest inventory plots

(2014) Joey Talbot 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

Does functional trait diversity predict above-ground biomass and productivity of tropical forests? Testing three alternative hypotheses

(2014) Bryan Finegan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Aggregated and complementary: symmetric proliferation, overyielding, and mass effects explain fine-root biomass in soil patches in a diverse temperate deciduous forest landscape

(2014) Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Leaf traits within communities: Context may affect the mapping of traits to function

(2013) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant functional diversity and carbon storage - an empirical test in semi-arid forest ecosystems

(2013) Georgina Conti et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

(2013) Ryan A. Chisholm et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Litter quality versus soil microbial community controls over decomposition: a quantitative analysis

(2013) Cory C. Cleveland et al.   OECOLOGIA

Disentangling Biodiversity and Climatic Determinants of Wood Production

(2013) Montserrat Vilà et al.   PLoS One

Functional trait metrics are sensitive to the completeness of the species' trait data?

(2013) Robin J. Pakeman   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Disentangling stand and environmental correlates of aboveground biomass in Amazonian forests

(2011) CHRISTOPHER BARALOTO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

An ecosystem approach to biodiversity effects: Carbon pools in a tropical tree plantation

(2010) Catherine Potvin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Influence of four major plant traits on average height, leaf-area cover, net primary productivity, and biomass density in single-species forests: a theoretical investigation

(2010) Daniel S. Falster et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

(2010) C. Beer et al.   SCIENCE

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis applies to tropical forests, but disturbance contributes little to tree diversity

(2009) Frans Bongers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Relationships of Wood-, Gas- and Water Fractions of Tree Stems to Performance and Life History Variation in Tropical Trees

(2008) Lourens Poorter   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Beyond reduced-impact logging: Silvicultural treatments to increase growth rates of tropical trees

(2008) M. Peña-Claros et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Comprehensive assessment of carbon productivity, allocation and storage in three Amazonian forests

(2008) YADVINDER MALHI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY