High land-use intensity exacerbates shifts in grassland vegetation composition after severe experimental drought

Using change-point models to estimate empirical critical loads for nitrogen in mountain ecosystems

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Effects of extreme drought on specific leaf area of grassland species: A meta-analysis of experimental studies in temperate and sub-Mediterranean systems

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Changes in nutrient concentrations of leaves and roots in response to global change factors

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Assessing community and ecosystem sensitivity to climate change - toward a more comparative approach

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

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Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years

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The effect of timing of growing season drought on flowering of a dominant C4 grass

(2016) John D. Dietrich et al.   OECOLOGIA

Drought timing differentially affects above- and belowground productivity in a mesic grassland

(2016) Elsie M. Denton et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Elevated CO2maintains grassland net carbon uptake under a future heat and drought extreme

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(2016) Jason D. Fridley et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

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Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments

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Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

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Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

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Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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Designing resilient and sustainable grasslands for a drier future: Adaptive strategies, functional traits and biotic interactions

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

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Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

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Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

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Grassland Resistance and Resilience after Drought Depends on Management Intensity and Species Richness

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An ecological perspective on extreme climatic events: a synthetic definition and framework to guide future research

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Stability of above-ground and below-ground processes to extreme drought in model grassland ecosystems: Interactions with plant species diversity and soil nitrogen availability

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Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: a meta-analysis of experimental manipulation

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

(2009) Melinda D. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Reappraisal of drying and wetting effects on C and N mineralization and fluxes in soils

(2008) WERNER BORKEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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(2008) Andreas Stampfli et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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