Root traits are more than analogues of leaf traits: the case for diaspore mass

A worldview of root traits: the influence of ancestry, growth form, climate and mycorrhizal association on the functional trait variation of fine-root tissues in seed plants

(2017) Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant-soil feedbacks and mycorrhizal type influence temperate forest population dynamics

(2017) Jonathan A. Bennett et al.   SCIENCE

Complex trait relationships between leaves and absorptive roots: Coordination in tissue N concentration but divergence in morphology

(2017) Ruili Wang et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum: Commentary on Kramer-Walteret al. (2016)

(2016) Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A synthesis of empirical plant dispersal kernels

(2016) James M. Bullock et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum

(2016) Kris R. Kramer-Walter et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Towards a multidimensional root trait framework: a tree root review

(2016) Monique Weemstra et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology

(2016) Etienne Laliberté   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The interplay between soil structure, roots, and microbiota as a determinant of plant-soil feedback

(2016) Joana Bergmann et al.   Ecology and Evolution

On the need for phylogenetic ‘corrections’ in functional trait-based approaches

(2015) Francesco de Bello et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

From pots to plots: hierarchical trait-based prediction of plant performance in a mesic grassland

(2015) Thomas Schroeder-Georgi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes

(2015) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Species coexistence in a changing world

(2015) Fernando Valladares et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intraspecific trait variability matters

(2014) Cecile H. Albert   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Mycorrhizal traits and plant communities: perspectives for integration

(2014) Mari Moora   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Is there an association between root architecture and mycorrhizal growth response?

(2014) Hafiz Maherali   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Patterns in root traits of woody species hosting arbuscular and ectomycorrhizas: implications for the evolution of belowground strategies

(2014) Louise H. Comas et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Root traits and microbial community interactions in relation to phosphorus availability and acquisition, with particular reference to Brassica

(2014) Paul J. Hunter et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Mycorrhizas in the Central European flora: relationships with plant life history traits and ecology

(2013) Stefan Hempel et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant functional effects on ecosystem services

(2013) Sandra Lavorel   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A functional trait-based approach to understand community assembly and diversity–productivity relationships over 7 years in experimental grasslands

(2013) Christiane Roscher et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Advances in modeling trait-based plant community assembly

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

Mycorrhiza-induced resistance: more than the sum of its parts?

(2013) Duncan D. Cameron et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

A new variable selection approach using Random Forests

(2012) A. Hapfelmeier et al.   COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS

Plant root traits affecting the resistance of soils to concentrated flow erosion

(2012) Melanie Burylo et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

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

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A review of supervised machine learning algorithms and their applications to ecological data

(2012) C. Crisci et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Daphne: a dated phylogeny of a large European flora for phylogenetically informed ecological analyses

(2012) Walter Durka et al.   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

A new variable importance measure for random forests with missing data

(2012) Alexander Hapfelmeier et al.   STATISTICS AND COMPUTING

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

(2012) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Gradient forests: calculating importance gradients on physical predictors

(2011) Nick Ellis et al.   ECOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass

(2011) Fiona J. Thomson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

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

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

Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

(2010) Markus Fischer et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The behaviour of random forest permutation-based variable importance measures under predictor correlation

(2010) Kristin K Nicodemus et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Successful invaders co-opt pollinators of native flora and accumulate insect pollinators with increasing residence time

(2010) Petr Pyšek et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern

(2010) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

Performance comparison of machine learning algorithms and number of independent components used in fMRI decoding of belief vs. disbelief

(2010) P.K. Douglas et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Coordinated variation in leaf and root traits across multiple spatial scales in Chinese semi-arid and arid ecosystems

(2010) Guofang Liu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Predicting species distribution and abundance responses to climate change: why it is essential to include biotic interactions across trophic levels

(2010) W. H. Van der Putten et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Conservatism and diversification of plant functional traits: Evolutionary rates versus phylogenetic signal

(2009) D. Ackerly   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

JANZEN-CONNELL EFFECTS ARE WIDESPREAD AND STRONG ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN DIVERSITY IN GRASSLANDS

(2008) Jana S. Petermann et al.   ECOLOGY

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

(2008) Helene C. Muller-Landau et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY