Fast seedling root growth leads to competitive superiority of invasive plants

Responses of common and rare aliens and natives to nutrient availability and fluctuations

(2017) Yanjie Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Testing the trait-based community framework: Do functional traits predict competitive outcomes?

(2016) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   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

Belowground carbon trade among tall trees in a temperate forest

(2016) T. Klein et al.   SCIENCE

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants

(2015) Mark van Kleunen et al.   NATURE

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

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

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

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

Resource competition in plant invasions: emerging patterns and research needs

(2014) Margherita Gioria et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Plant ecology's guilty little secret: understanding the dynamics of plant competition

(2013) Clare J. Trinder et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Mechanisms of plant competition for nutrients, water and light

(2013) Joseph M. Craine et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Root and shoot competition: a meta-analysis

(2013) Lars Pødenphant Kiaer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Modelling root–soil interactions using three–dimensional models of root growth, architecture and function

(2013) Vanessa M. Dunbabin et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

How to study deep roots—and why it matters

(2013) Jean-Luc Maeght et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Diel patterns of autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration among phenological stages

(2012) K. Savage et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Do alien plant species profit more from high resource supply than natives? A trait-based analysis

(2012) Alejandro Ordonez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Predicting fine root lifespan from plant functional traits in temperate trees

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

Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward

(2012) Daniel Simberloff et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Interactive effects of nutrient heterogeneity and competition: implications for root foraging theory?

(2011) Liesje Mommer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Three-Dimensional Root Phenotyping with a Novel Imaging and Software Platform

(2011) R. T. Clark et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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

A meta-analysis of trait differences between invasive and non-invasive plant species

(2009) Mark van Kleunen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Are competitive effect and response two sides of the same coin, or fundamentally different?

(2009) Ping Wang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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

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

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

Competition, traits and resource depletion in plant communities

(2009) Cyrille Violle et al.   OECOLOGIA

Plant root growth, architecture and function

(2009) Angela Hodge et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

3D reconstruction and dynamic modeling of root architecture in situ and its application to crop phosphorus research

(2009) Suqin Fang et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Biological invasions

(2008) Jonathan M. Levine   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Superiority in competition for light: A crucial attribute defining the impact of the invasive alien tree Schinus molle (Anacardiaceae) in South African savanna

(2007) D.M. Iponga et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS