Functional dominance rather than taxonomic diversity and functional diversity mainly affects community aboveground biomass in the Inner Mongolia grassland

Functional identity is the main driver of diversity effects in young tree communities

(2016) Cornelia M. Tobner et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

(2016) James B. Grace et al.   NATURE

Functional composition rather than species richness determines root characteristics of experimental grasslands grown at different light and nutrient availability

(2016) Alrun Siebenkäs et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Resource Availability Alters Biodiversity Effects in Experimental Grass-Forb Mixtures

(2016) Alrun Siebenkäs et al.   PLoS One

Explaining maximum variation in productivity requires phylogenetic diversity and single functional traits

(2015) Jiajia Liu et al.   ECOLOGY

Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies

(2015) Patrick Venail et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Historical landscape dynamics of Inner Mongolia: patterns, drivers, and impacts

(2015) Jianguo Wu et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Plant Functional Diversity Can Be Independent of Species Diversity: Observations Based on the Impact of 4-Yrs of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Additions in an Alpine Meadow

(2015) Wei Li et al.   PLoS One

Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

(2015) L. H. Fraser et al.   SCIENCE

Explaining forest productivity using tree functional traits and phylogenetic information: two sides of the same coin over evolutionary scale?

(2015) Alain Paquette et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Plant functional traits as determinants of population stability

(2014) Maria Májeková et al.   ECOLOGY

Height and clonality traits determine plant community responses to fertilization

(2014) Timothy L. Dickson et al.   ECOLOGY

Carbon storage in tropical forests correlates with taxonomic diversity and functional dominance on a global scale

(2014) Kyle C. Cavanaugh et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Does functional trait diversity predict above-ground biomass and productivity of tropical forests? Testing three alternative hypotheses

(2014) Bryan Finegan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Alpha, Beta and Gamma Diversity Differ in Response to Precipitation in the Inner Mongolia Grassland

(2014) Qing Zhang et al.   PLoS One

Functional traits composition predict macrophytes community productivity along a water depth gradient in a freshwater lake

(2014) Hui Fu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Functional diversity in root and above-ground traits in a fertile grassland shows a detrimental effect on productivity

(2013) Pierre Chanteloup et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Trait-based classification and manipulation of plant functional groups for biodiversity-ecosystem function experiments

(2013) Ellen L. Fry et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The importance of rare species: a trait-based assessment of rare species contributions to functional diversity and possible ecosystem function in tall-grass prairies

(2013) Meha Jain et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability

(2012) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant functional traits and nutrient gradients on grassland

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

Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

(2012) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLoS One

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Relative role of contemporary environment versus history in shaping diversity patterns of China's woody plants

(2011) Zhiheng Wang et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Functional and phylogenetic diversity as predictors of biodiversity–ecosystem-function relationships

(2011) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY

Explaining grassland biomass - the contribution of climate, species and functional diversity depends on fertilization and mowing frequency

(2011) Markus Bernhardt-Römermann et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

A regional-scale consideration of the effects of species richness on above-ground biomass in temperate natural grasslands of China

(2011) Guohong Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

FDiversity: a software package for the integrated analysis of functional diversity

(2010) Fernando Casanoves et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Diversity effects in early- and mid-successional species pools along a nitrogen gradient

(2009) Luca Wacker et al.   ECOLOGY

Two-phase functional redundancy in plant communities along a grazing gradient in Mongolian rangelands

(2009) Takehiro Sasaki et al.   ECOLOGY

Global patterns in plant height

(2009) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY