Interspecific integration of trait dimensions at local scales: the plant phenotype as an integrated network

Trait variation and integration across scales: is the leaf economic spectrum present at local scales?

(2016) Julie Messier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Weak coordination between leaf structure and function among closely related tomato species

(2016) Christopher D. Muir et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology

(2016) Bill Shipley et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional traits, convergent evolution, and periodic tables of niches

(2015) Kirk O. Winemiller et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evolution of the leaf economics spectrum in herbs: Evidence from environmental divergences in leaf physiology acrossHelianthus(Asteraceae)

(2015) Chase M. Mason et al.   EVOLUTION

Leaf and stem economics spectra drive diversity of functional plant traits in a dynamic global vegetation model

(2015) Boris Sakschewski et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The limits to leaf and root plasticity: what is so special about specific root length?

(2015) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Vegetation ecology meets ecosystem science: Permanent grasslands as a functional biogeography case study

(2015) Cyrille Violle et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The effects of grazing on foliar trait diversity and niche differentiation in Tibetan alpine meadows

(2015) Kechang Niu et al.   Ecosphere

Are leaf functional traits ‘invariant’ with plant size and what is ‘invariance’ anyway?

(2014) Charles A. Price et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Then-dimensional hypervolume

(2014) Benjamin Blonder et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Leaf life span and the leaf economic spectrum in the context of whole plant architecture

(2014) Erika J. Edwards 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

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

Conservative leaf economic traits correlate with fast growth of genotypes of a foundation riparian species near the thermal maximum extent of its geographic range

(2013) Kevin C. Grady et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intra-specific and inter-specific variation in specific leaf area reveal the importance of abiotic and biotic drivers of species diversity across elevation and latitude

(2013) Catherine M. Hulshof et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Deviation from symmetrically self-similar branching in trees predicts altered hydraulics, mechanics, light interception and metabolic scaling

(2013) Duncan D. Smith et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Trait correlation networks: a whole-plant perspective on the recently criticized leaf economic spectrum

(2013) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A common genetic basis to the origin of the leaf economics spectrum and metabolic scaling allometry

(2012) François Vasseur et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within local species pools across varying environmental conditions?

(2012) Justin P. Wright et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species

(2012) Claire Fortunel et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Is leaf dry matter content a better predictor of soil fertility than specific leaf area?

(2011) J. G. Hodgson et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Within- and among-species variation in specific leaf area drive community assembly in a tropical cloud forest

(2011) Wenxing Long et al.   OECOLOGIA

Independent Evolution of Leaf and Root Traits within and among Temperate Grassland Plant Communities

(2011) Steven W. Kembel et al.   PLoS One

The evolution of the worldwide leaf economics spectrum

(2011) Lisa A. Donovan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The age and diversification of the angiosperms re-revisited

(2010) Charles D. Bell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Universal foliage-stem scaling across environments and species in dicot trees: plasticity, biomechanics and Corner’s Rules

(2009) Mark E. Olson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A multi-trait test of the leaf-height-seed plant strategy scheme with 133 species from a pine forest flora

(2009) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora

(2009) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

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

Patterns in root trait variation among 25 co-existing North American forest species

(2009) L. H. Comas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Multiplicative by nature: Why logarithmic transformation is necessary in allometry

(2008) Andrew J. Kerkhoff et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Leaf hydraulic conductivity and photosynthesis are genetically correlated in an annual grass

(2008) Hafiz Maherali et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Safety and efficiency conflicts in hydraulic architecture: scaling from tissues to trees

(2008) JOHN S. SPERRY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Why are evergreen leaves so contrary about shade?

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