New aspects of grassland recovery in old-fields revealed by trait-based analyses of perennial-crop-mediated succession

Micro-topographic heterogeneity increases plant diversity in old stages of restored grasslands

(2015) Balázs Deák et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Testing the ability of functional diversity indices to detect trait convergence and divergence using individual-based simulation

(2015) Zoltán Botta-Dukát et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

SOIL SEED BANKS IN LOESS GRASSLANDS AND THEIR ROLE IN GRASSLAND RECOVERY

(2014) K Tóth   APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Sustaining recovered grasslands is not likely without proper management: vegetation changes after cessation of mowing

(2014) András Kelemen et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Fine-scale vertical position as an indicator of vegetation in alkali grasslands – Case study based on remotely sensed data

(2014) Balázs Deák et al.   FLORA

Secondary succession in sandy old-fields: a promising example of spontaneous grassland recovery

(2013) Ágnes-Júlia Albert et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Allocating CSR plant functional types: the use of leaf economics and size traits to classify woody and herbaceous vascular plants

(2013) Simon Pierce et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes

(2013) Oliver Purschke et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

D3: The Dispersal and Diaspore Database – Baseline data and statistics on seed dispersal

(2013) Christina Hintze et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Mechanisms shaping plant biomass and species richness: plant strategies and litter effect in alkali and loess grasslands

(2012) András Kelemen 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

Mechanisms of ecological succession: insights from plant functional strategies

(2012) Valérie Raevel et al.   OIKOS

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

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

(2011) Jan Lepš et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Impacts of Land Abandonment on Vegetation: Successional Pathways in European Habitats

(2011) Bernard Prévosto et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Four opportunities for studies of ecological succession

(2011) Karel Prach et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

The Association of Dispersal and Persistence Traits of Plants with Different Stages of Succession in Central European Man-Made Habitats

(2010) Vít Latzel et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Lucerne-dominated fields recover native grass diversity without intensive management actions

(2010) Péter Török et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development

(2010) Lawrence R. Walker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

CLO-PLA: the database of clonal and bud bank traits of Central European flora

(2009) Jitka Klimešová et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

(2009) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Differential effects of functional traits on aboveground biomass in semi-natural grasslands

(2009) Jens Schumacher et al.   OIKOS

Temporal changes of an alfalfa succession and related soil physical properties on the Loess Plateau, China

(2009) Dong Li She et al.   PESQUISA AGROPECUARIA BRASILEIRA

Suites of plant traits in species from different stages of a Mediterranean secondary succession

(2009) M.-L. Navas et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

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

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

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Changes in life history trait composition during undisturbed old-field succession

(2008) Michaela Dölle et al.   FLORA

A mechanistic simulation model of seed dispersal by animals

(2008) Heidrun Will et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

What's new about old fields? Land abandonment and ecosystem assembly

(2008) V CRAMER et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Weed inhibition by sowing legume species in early succession of abandoned fields on Loess Plateau, China

(2007) Jin-Hua Li et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY