Root traits across environmental gradients in Mediterranean woody communities: are they aligned along the root economics spectrum?

Root traits are related to plant water-use among rangeland Mediterranean species

(2017) Florian Fort et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Adaptive root foraging strategies along a boreal-temperate forest gradient

(2017) Ivika Ostonen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address below-ground challenges in plant ecology

(2017) Colleen M. Iversen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mean root trait more than root trait diversity determines drought resilience in native and cultivated Mediterranean grass mixtures

(2016) Karim Barkaoui et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

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

Functional responses of Mediterranean plant communities to soil resource heterogeneity: a mycorrhizal trait-based approach

(2016) Carmen M. Navarro-Fernández et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Root structure-function relationships in 74 species: evidence of a root economics spectrum related to carbon economy

(2016) Catherine Roumet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Root functional parameters along a land-use gradient: evidence of a community-level economics spectrum

(2015) Iván Prieto et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A plant economics spectrum in Mediterranean forests along environmental gradients: is there coordination among leaf, stem and root traits?

(2015) Enrique G. de la Riva et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Disentangling the relative importance of species occurrence, abundance and intraspecific variability in community assembly: a trait-based approach at the whole-plant level in Mediterranean forests

(2015) Enrique G. de la Riva et al.   OIKOS

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

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

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Leading dimensions in absorptive root trait variation across 96 subtropical forest species

(2014) Deliang Kong et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phosphorus limitation, soil-borne pathogens and the coexistence of plant species in hyperdiverse forests and shrublands

(2014) Etienne Laliberté et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought changes the structure and elemental composition of very fine roots in seedlings of ten woody tree species. Implications for a drier climate

(2014) Manuel Olmo et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

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

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

SYNDROME-DRIVEN DIVERSIFICATION IN A MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEM

(2013) Miguel Verdú et al.   EVOLUTION

Variation of first-order root traits across climatic gradients and evolutionary trends in geological time

(2013) Weile Chen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evidence for a ‘plant community economics spectrum’ driven by nutrient and water limitations in a Mediterranean rangeland of southern France

(2013) Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do plant traits retrieved from a database accurately predict on-site measurements?

(2013) Verena Cordlandwehr et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Linking root traits to plant physiology and growth in Fraxinus angustifolia Vahl. seedlings under soil compaction conditions

(2012) David Alameda et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Biogeographic constraints on the world-wide leaf economics spectrum

(2012) J. Mason Heberling et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

Predicting fine root lifespan from plant functional traits in temperate trees

(2012) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Relationships between leaf morphological traits, nutrient concentrations and isotopic signatures for Mediterranean woody plant species and communities

(2012) María T. Domínguez et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

(2011) Jan Lepš et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Species- and community-level patterns in fine root traits along a 120 000-year soil chronosequence in temperate rain forest

(2011) Robert J. Holdaway et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Calcium delivery and storage in plant leaves: exploring the link with water flow

(2011) M. Gilliham et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem

(2011) Burak K Pekin et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Using log-log scaling slope analysis for determining the contributions to variability in biological variables such as leaf mass per area: why it works, when it works and how it can be extended

(2011) Michael Renton et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

smatr 3- an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines

(2011) David I. Warton et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

The importance of spatial scale for trait-abundance relations

(2010) Karel Mokany et al.   OIKOS

Effects of soil compaction and light on growth of Quercus pyrenaica Willd. (Fagaceae) seedlings

(2010) María Dolores Bejarano et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

(2009) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Evidence of a general 2/3-power law of scaling leaf nitrogen to phosphorus among major plant groups and biomes

(2009) P. B. Reich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY