Grass strategies and grassland community responses to environmental drivers: a review

What functional strategies drive drought survival and recovery of perennial species from upland grassland?

(2015) Marine Zwicke et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates

(2015) Vincent Maire et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis

(2014) Jürgen Dengler et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Changes in trait divergence and convergence along a productivity gradient in wet meadows

(2014) Marta Carboni et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Contribution of above- and below-ground plant traits to the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities

(2014) N. Legay et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Applying trait-based models to achieve functional targets for theory-driven ecological restoration

(2014) Daniel C. Laughlin   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Quantifying multimodal trait distributions improves trait-based predictions of species abundances and functional diversity

(2014) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Selection for niche differentiation in plant communities increases biodiversity effects

(2014) Debra Zuppinger-Dingley et al.   NATURE

Is there a species spectrum within the world-wide leaf economics spectrum? Major variations in leaf functional traits in the Mediterranean sclerophyllQuercus ilex

(2014) Ülo Niinemets   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The soil microbial community predicts the importance of plant traits in plant-soil feedback

(2014) Po-Ju Ke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Do belowground vertical niche differences between deep- and shallow-rooted species enhance resource uptake and drought resistance in grassland mixtures?

(2014) N. J. Hoekstra et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients

(2014) E. Laliberte et al.   SCIENCE

Game theory and plant ecology

(2013) Gordon G. McNickle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Balancing the costs of carbon gain and water transport: testing a new theoretical framework for plant functional ecology

(2013) I. Colin Prentice et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional differences between alien and native species: do biotic interactions determine the functional structure of highly invaded grasslands?

(2013) Nicolas Gross et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The functional assembly of experimental grasslands in relation to fertility and resource heterogeneity

(2013) Jodi N. Price et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Hierarchy of root functional trait values and plasticity drive early-stage competition for water and phosphorus among grasses

(2013) Florian Fort et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Mechanisms underlying global temperature-related patterns in leaf longevity

(2013) Kihachiro Kikuzawa et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Origin and history of grasslands in Central Europe - a review

(2013) M. Hejcman et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Ecosystem function enhanced by combining four functional types of plant species in intensively managed grassland mixtures: a 3-year continental-scale field experiment

(2013) John A. Finn et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services

(2013) Karl Grigulis et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

(2013) Maud Bernard-Verdier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evidence for scale- and disturbance-dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi-natural grasslands

(2013) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands

(2013) Nicolas Gross et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional and phylogenetic community assembly linked to changes in species diversity in a long-term resource manipulation experiment

(2013) Pille Gerhold et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Contrasting effects of productivity and disturbance on plant functional diversity at local and metacommunity scales

(2013) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant functional traits improve diversity-based predictions of temporal stability of grassland productivity

(2013) H. Wayne Polley et al.   OIKOS

Root trait responses of six temperate grassland species to intensive mowing and NPK fertilisation: a field study in a temperate grassland

(2013) Christoph Leuschner et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Disentangling Coordination among Functional Traits Using an Individual-Centred Model: Impact on Plant Performance at Intra- and Inter-Specific Levels

(2013) Vincent Maire et al.   PLoS One

Advances in modeling trait-based plant community assembly

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The roles of livestock in developing countries

(2012) M. Herrero et al.   Animal

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

(2012) J. HilleRisLambers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Gemini: A grassland model simulating the role of plant traits for community dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Parameterization and evaluation

(2012) Jean-François Soussana et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Plasticity of plant form and function sustains productivity and dominance along environment and competition gradients. A modeling experiment with Gemini

(2012) Vincent Maire et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A predictive model of community assembly that incorporates intraspecific trait variation

(2012) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant functional traits and nutrient gradients on grassland

(2012) J. Schellberg et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Forage production and nutritive value ofDactylis glomerataandTrifolium subterraneummixtures under different shading treatments

(2012) A. P. Kyriazopoulos et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

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

Root and leaf functional trait relations in Poaceae species: implications of differing resource-acquisition strategies

(2012) F. Fort et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Improving the prediction of plant species distribution and community composition by adding edaphic to topo-climatic variables

(2012) Anne Dubuis et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Habitat filtering and niche differentiation jointly explain species relative abundance within grassland communities along fertility and disturbance gradients

(2012) Vincent Maire et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Coordination of Leaf Photosynthesis Links C and N Fluxes in C3 Plant Species

(2012) Vincent Maire et al.   PLoS One

Shade tolerance: when growing tall is not an option

(2012) Charlotte M.M. Gommers et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience

(2012) Joseph M. Craine et al.   Nature Climate Change

Plant root distributions and nitrogen uptake predicted by a hypothesis of optimal root foraging

(2012) Ross E. McMurtrie et al.   Ecology and Evolution

A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review

(2011) Eric Garnier et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Can entropy maximization use functional traits to explain species abundances? A comprehensive evaluation

(2011) Cory Merow et al.   ECOLOGY

Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages

(2011) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

(2011) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Impacts of species interactions on grass community productivity under contrasting management regimes

(2011) Laíse da Silveira Pontes et al.   OECOLOGIA

The role of plant traits and their plasticity in the response of pasture grasses to nutrients and cutting frequency

(2010) Laíse da Silveira Pontes et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plant resource-use strategies: the importance of phenotypic plasticity in response to a productivity gradient for two subalpine species

(2010) Fabrice Grassein et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

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

Links between global taxonomic diversity, ecological diversity and the expansion of vertebrates on land

(2010) S. Sahney et al.   Biology Letters

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A review of light interception in plant stands from leaf to canopy in different plant functional types and in species with varying shade tolerance

(2010) Ülo Niinemets   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

When does local spatial structure hinder competitive coexistence and reverse competitive hierarchies?

(2010) David J. Murrell   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A multi-trait approach reveals the structure and the relative importance of intra- vs. interspecific variability in plant traits

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Reconciling the optimal and empirical approaches to modelling stomatal conductance

(2010) BELINDA E. MEDLYN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

(2010) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant traits, species pools and the prediction of relative abundance in plant communities: a maximum entropy approach

(2010) Grégory Sonnier et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions

(2010) James D. Bever et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Dynamics of grass–clover mixtures—An analysis of the response to management with the PROductive GRASsland Simulator (PROGRASS)

(2009) P. Lazzarotto et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Trade-off between root nitrogen acquisition and shoot nitrogen utilization across 13 co-occurring pasture grass species

(2009) Vincent Maire et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Linking individual response to biotic interactions with community structure: a trait-based framework

(2009) Nicolas Gross et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Defining and measuring ecological specialization

(2009) Vincent Devictor et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

(2009) C. Violle et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

(2009) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Relationship between tree canopy height and the production of pasture species in a silvopastoral system based on alder trees

(2008) Naba R. Devkota et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

A General Model for the Scaling of Offspring Size and Adult Size

(2008) Daniel S. Falster et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Modelling above-ground herbage mass for a wide range of grassland community types

(2008) M. Duru et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

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

Shade avoidance

(2008) Keara A. Franklin   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Which plant traits promote growth in the low-light regimes of vegetation gaps?

(2008) L. Seidlova et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetic analysis of community assembly and structure over space and time

(2008) Brent C. Emerson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture

(2007) P. Smith et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES