Climate- and successional-related changes in functional composition of European forests are strongly driven by tree mortality

Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

(2016) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Tree diversity, tree height and environmental harshness in eastern and western North America

(2016) Christian O. Marks et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

(2016) James S. Clark et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Anthropogenic-driven rapid shifts in tree distribution lead to increased dominance of broadleaf species

(2016) Jordi Vayreda et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global environmental change effects on ecosystems: the importance of land-use legacies

(2016) Michael P. Perring et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Functional diversity underlies demographic responses to environmental variation in European forests

(2016) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Meta-analysis reveals that hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns of drought-induced tree mortality across the globe

(2016) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

(2016) Fons van der Plas et al.   Nature Communications

Linking changes in community composition and function under climate change

(2015) Karel Mokany et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Effects of climate, species interactions, and dispersal on decadal colonization and extinction rates of Iberian tree species

(2015) Raúl García-Valdés et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Coppice abandonment and its implications for species diversity in forest vegetation

(2015) Jana Müllerová et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Reviving extinct Mediterranean forest communities may improve ecosystem potential in a warmer future

(2015) Paul D Henne et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

(2015) Dorothea Frank et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Modes of functional biodiversity control on tree productivity across the European continent

(2015) Sophia Ratcliffe et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Forest resilience and tipping points at different spatio-temporal scales: approaches and challenges

(2015) Christopher P. O. Reyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Half-century evidence from western Canada shows forest dynamics are primarily driven by competition followed by climate

(2015) Jian Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Twentieth-century shifts in forest structure in California: Denser forests, smaller trees, and increased dominance of oaks

(2015) Patrick J. McIntyre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

(2015) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models

(2015) W. R. L. Anderegg et al.   SCIENCE

piecewiseSEM: Piecewise structural equation modelling inr for ecology, evolution, and systematics

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

(2015) Nathan G. McDowell et al.   Nature Climate Change

Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise

(2015) N. G. McDowell et al.   Nature Climate Change

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

(2015) Craig D. Allen et al.   Ecosphere

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

(2015) Amy C. Bennett et al.   Nature Plants

Climatic Stress during Stand Development Alters the Sign and Magnitude of Age-Related Growth Responses in a Subtropical Mountain Pine

(2015) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   PLoS One

Shifts in trait means and variances in North American tree assemblages: species richness patterns are loosely related to the functional space

(2014) Irena Šímová et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Stand Structure and Recent Climate Change Constrain Stand Basal Area Change in European Forests: A Comparison Across Boreal, Temperate, and Mediterranean Biomes

(2014) P. Ruiz-Benito et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Competition for light and water play contrasting roles in driving diversity-productivity relationships in Iberian forests

(2014) Tommaso Jucker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A fully traits-based approach to modeling global vegetation distribution

(2014) P. M. van Bodegom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tree diversity does not always improve resistance of forest ecosystems to drought

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

Trait-mediated assembly processes predict successional changes in community diversity of tropical forests

(2014) J. R. Lasky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Linking plant and ecosystem functional biogeography

(2014) M. Reichstein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Predicting current and future spatial community patterns of plant functional traits

(2013) Anne Dubuis et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Evidence of current impact of climate change on life: a walk from genes to the biosphere

(2013) Josep Peñuelas et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Competition-interaction landscapes for the joint response of forests to climate change

(2013) James S. Clark et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Interspecific differences in tree growth and mortality responses to environmental drivers determine potential species distributional limits in Iberian forests

(2013) Marta Benito-Garzón et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests

(2013) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Large-scale recruitment limitation in Mediterranean pines: the role ofQuercus ilexand forest successional advance as key regional drivers

(2013) Jofre Carnicer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Patterns and drivers of regeneration of tree species in forests of peninsular Spain

(2013) Jordi Vayreda et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Inferring shifts in tree species distribution using asymmetric distribution curves: a case study in the Iberian mountains

(2013) Morgane Urli et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Patterns and Drivers of Tree Mortality in Iberian Forests: Climatic Effects Are Modified by Competition

(2013) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   PLoS One

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Contrasting trait syndromes in angiosperms and conifers are associated with different responses of tree growth to temperature on a large scale

(2013) Jofre Carnicer et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Large-scale assessment of regeneration and diversity in Mediterranean planted pine forests along ecological gradients

(2012) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Elegance versus Speed: Examining the Competition between Conifer and Angiosperm Trees

(2012) Timothy J. Brodribb et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress

(2012) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   Nature Climate Change

Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change

(2011) Kai Zhu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Disentangling the relative importance of climate, size and competition on tree growth in Iberian forests: implications for forest management under global change

(2011) LORENA GÓMEZ-APARICIO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Recent climate changes interact with stand structure and management to determine changes in tree carbon stocks in Spanish forests

(2011) Jordi Vayreda et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Extreme climatic events and vegetation: the role of stabilizing processes

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Structural and climatic determinants of demographic rates of Scots pine forests across the Iberian Peninsula

(2010) Albert Vilà-Cabrera et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Drought-Induced Multifactor Decline of Scots Pine in the Pyrenees and Potential Vegetation Change by the Expansion of Co-occurring Oak Species

(2010) L. Galiano et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

A New Global 0.5° Gridded Dataset (1901–2006) of a Multiscalar Drought Index: Comparison with Current Drought Index Datasets Based on the Palmer Drought Severity Index

(2010) S. M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

(2010) Holger Schielzeth   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Confirmatory path analysis in a generalized multilevel context

(2009) Bill Shipley   ECOLOGY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global patterns in plant height

(2009) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate change mitigation: A spatial analysis of global land suitability for clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation

(2008) Robert J. Zomer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Recruitment patterns following a severe drought: long-term compositional shifts in Patagonian forests

(2008) María L. Suarez et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

Human and non-human determinants of forest composition in southern Spain: evidence of shifts towards cork oak dominance as a result of management over the past century

(2008) Itziar R. Urbieta et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY