Functional traits determine tree growth and ecosystem productivity of a tropical montane forest: Insights from a long-term nutrient manipulation experiment

Plasticity in seedling morphology, biomass allocation and physiology among ten temperate tree species in response to shade is related to shade tolerance and not leaf habit

(2017) D. J. Chmura et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Old-growth Neotropical forests are shifting in species and trait composition

(2016) Masha T. van der Sande et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

(2016) W. Stanley Harpole et al.   NATURE

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Geographic, environmental and biotic sources of variation in the nutrient relations of tropical montane forests

(2015) James W. Dalling et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

(2015) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

Nutrient limitation of eco-physiological processes in tropical trees

(2015) Louis S. Santiago   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Elevated carbon dioxide is predicted to promote coexistence among competing species in a trait-based model

(2015) Ashehad A. Ali et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Is tropical montane forest heterogeneity promoted by a resource-driven feedback cycle? Evidence from nutrient relations, herbivory and litter decomposition along a topographical gradient

(2014) Florian A. Werner et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Nitrogen and phosphorus additions impact arbuscular mycorrhizal abundance and molecular diversity in a tropical montane forest

(2014) Tessa Camenzind et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A direct test of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation to net primary productivity in a lowland tropical wet forest

(2013) S. Alvarez-Clare et al.   ECOLOGY

The nitrogen cycle of tropical montane forest in Ecuador turns inorganic under environmental change

(2013) Wolfgang Wilcke et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Species-specific responses of foliar nutrients to long-term nitrogen and phosphorus additions in a lowland tropical forest

(2013) Jordan R. Mayor et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Sandra Díaz et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Does habitat specialization by seedlings contribute to the high diversity of a lowland rain forest?

(2012) Margaret R. Metz   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Tropical Andean Forests Are Highly Susceptible to Nutrient Inputs—Rapid Effects of Experimental N and P Addition to an Ecuadorian Montane Forest

(2012) Jürgen Homeier et al.   PLoS One

Tropical tree growth is correlated with soil phosphorus, potassium, and calcium, though not for legumes

(2011) Thomas W. Baribault et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

(2011) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Seedling growth responses to soil resources in the understory of a wet tropical forest

(2011) Ellen K Holste et al.   ECOLOGY

Nitrogen availability links forest productivity, soil nitrous oxide and nitric oxide fluxes of a tropical montane forest in southern Ecuador

(2011) Katrin Wolf et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Tropical tree seedling growth responses to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium addition

(2011) Louis S. Santiago et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A brief guide to model selection, multimodel inference and model averaging in behavioural ecology using Akaike’s information criterion

(2010) Matthew R. E. Symonds et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Can we predict carbon stocks in tropical ecosystems from tree diversity? Comparing species and functional diversity in a plantation and a natural forest

(2010) Maria C. Ruiz-Jaen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Variability of indices of macronutrient availability in soils at different spatial scales along an elevation transect in tropical moist forests (NE Ecuador)

(2010) Malte Unger et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Tree Diversity, Forest Structure and Productivity along Altitudinal and Topographical Gradients in a Species-Rich Ecuadorian Montane Rain Forest

(2009) Jürgen Homeier et al.   BIOTROPICA

Early effect of elevated nitrogen input on above-ground net primary production of a lower montane rain forest, Panama

(2009) Markus Adamek et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL 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

Global distribution of atmospheric phosphorus sources, concentrations and deposition rates, and anthropogenic impacts

(2008) Natalie Mahowald et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Amazonian biomass burning-derived acid and nutrient deposition in the north Andean montane forest of Ecuador

(2008) Jens Boy et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

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

Soil properties and tree growth along an altitudinal transect in Ecuadorian tropical montane forest

(2008) Wolfgang Wilcke et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

High variation in foliage and leaf litter chemistry among 45 tree species of a neotropical rainforest community

(2008) Stephan Hättenschwiler et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST