Trait selection and community weighting are key to understanding ecosystem responses to changing precipitation regimes

Soil fertility and species traits, but not diversity, drive productivity and biomass stocks in a Guyanese tropical rainforest

(2017) Masha T. van der Sande et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Variation of stomatal traits from cold temperate to tropical forests and association with water use efficiency

(2017) Congcong Liu et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Plant community structure and nitrogen inputs modulate the climate signal on leaf traits

(2017) Benjamin Borgy et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Integrating plant ecological responses to climate extremes from individual to ecosystem levels

(2017) Andrew J. Felton et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Aridity increases below-ground niche breadth in grass communities

(2017) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Different clades and traits yield similar grassland functional responses

(2017) Elisabeth J. Forrestel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

(2017) Henry D. Adams et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Can trait patterns along gradients predict plant community responses to climate change?

(2016) John Guittar et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant community assembly in Mediterranean grasslands: understanding the interplay between grazing and spatio-temporal water availability

(2016) Cristina Rota et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation-productivity relationships: implications for climate change

(2016) Alan K. Knapp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf economics and hydraulic traits are decoupled in five species-rich tropical-subtropical forests

(2015) Le Li et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Drought tolerance as predicted by leaf water potential at turgor loss point varies strongly across species within an Amazonian forest

(2015) Isabelle Maréchaux et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2015) Iván Prieto et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

A safety vs efficiency trade-off identified in the hydraulic pathway of grass leaves is decoupled from photosynthesis, stomatal conductance and precipitation

(2015) Troy W. Ocheltree et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands

(2015) Alan K. Knapp et al.   OECOLOGIA

Predicting plant vulnerability to drought in biodiverse regions using functional traits

(2015) Robert Paul Skelton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Leaf hydraulic vulnerability to drought is linked to site water availability across a broad range of species and climates

(2014) Chris J. Blackman et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

(2014) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

Going Back to Basics: Importance of Ecophysiology when Choosing Functional Traits for Studying Communities and Ecosystems

(2013) Bruno H. P. Rosado et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Stability of tallgrass prairie during a 19-year increase in growing season precipitation

(2012) Scott L. Collins et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Trade-offs between leaf hydraulic capacity and drought vulnerability: morpho-anatomical bases, carbon costs and ecological consequences

(2012) Andrea Nardini et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Key canopy traits drive forest productivity

(2012) P. B. Reich   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rapid determination of comparative drought tolerance traits: using an osmometer to predict turgor loss point

(2012) Megan K. Bartlett et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models

(2012) Aiguo Dai   Nature Climate Change

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

(2011) Yusuke Onoda et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

The ecological role of climate extremes: current understanding and future prospects

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications

(2011) Daniel J. Peppe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf hydraulic vulnerability influences species’ bioclimatic limits in a diverse group of woody angiosperms

(2011) Chris J. Blackman et al.   OECOLOGIA

Changes in precipitation with climate change

(2010) KE Trenberth   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Coordinated approaches to quantify long-term ecosystem dynamics in response to global change

(2010) YIQI LUO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Leaf hydraulic vulnerability is related to conduit dimensions and drought resistance across a diverse range of woody angiosperms

(2010) Christopher J. Blackman et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The blind men and the elephant: the impact of context and scale in evaluating conflicts between plant hydraulic safety and efficiency

(2010) Frederick C. Meinzer et al.   OECOLOGIA

A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change

(2009) Melinda D. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Using functional traits to predict grassland ecosystem change: a mathematical test of the response-and-effect trait approach

(2009) KATJA KLUMPP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Environmental and developmental controls on specific leaf area are little modified by leaf allometry

(2008) R. Milla et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Tolerance to low leaf water status of tropical tree seedlings is related to drought performance and distribution

(2008) Thomas A. Kursar et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST