Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies

Overstorey dynamics controls plant diversity in age-class temperate forests

(2017) Karol Ujházy et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Woodland ectomycorrhizal fungi benefit from large-scale reduction in nitrogen deposition in the Netherlands

(2017) Arco J. van Strien et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Predicting habitat affinities of plant species using commonly measured functional traits

(2017) Bill Shipley et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Resurveying historical vegetation data - opportunities and challenges

(2016) Jutta Kapfer et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

(2016) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

(2016) Kris Verheyen et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Legacy Effects of Human Land Use: Ecosystems as Time-Lagged Systems

(2016) Matthias Bürgi et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Historical forest management in Romania is imposing strong legacies on contemporary forests and their management

(2016) Catalina Munteanu et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Initial site conditions and interactions between multiple drivers determine herb-layer changes over five decades in temperate forests

(2016) Tobias Naaf et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Carbon accrual rates, vegetation and nutrient dynamics in a regularly burned coppice woodland in Germany

(2016) Nils Borchard et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Trait variations of ground flora species disentangle the effects of global change and altered land-use in Swedish forests during 20 years

(2016) Per-Ola Hedwall et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global environmental change effects on ecosystems: the importance of land-use legacies

(2016) Michael P. Perring et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ontogenetic responses of four plant species to additive and interactive effects of land-use history, canopy structure and herbivory

(2016) Philip G. Hahn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States

(2016) Samuel M. Simkin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological constraints increase the climatic debt in forests

(2016) Romain Bertrand et al.   Nature Communications

Twenty-five-year response of the herbaceous layer of a temperate hardwood forest to elevated nitrogen deposition

(2016) Frank S. Gilliam et al.   Ecosphere

How well is current plant trait composition predicted by modern and historical forest spatial configuration?

(2015) Adam Kimberley et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Strong negative impacts of whole tree harvesting in pine stands on poor, sandy soils: A long-term nutrient budget modelling approach

(2015) P. Vangansbeke et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Antecedent moisture and temperature conditions modulate the response of ecosystem respiration to elevated CO2and warming

(2015) Edmund M. Ryan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales

(2015) Markus Bernhardt-Römermann et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

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

(2015) L. H. Fraser et al.   SCIENCE

Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes

(2015) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Light accelerates plant responses to warming

(2015) Pieter De Frenne et al.   Nature Plants

Trait–environment relationships remain strong despite 50 years of trait compositional change in temperate forests

(2014) Kathryn L. Amatangelo et al.   ECOLOGY

Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes

(2014) Kiona Ogle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Traits of plant communities in fragmented forests: the relative influence of habitat spatial configuration and local abiotic conditions

(2014) Adam Kimberley et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Quantifying the impact of an extreme climate event on species diversity in fragmented temperate forests: the effect of the October 1987 storm on British broadleaved woodlands

(2014) Simon M. Smart et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Disentangling the drivers of understorey species richness in eutrophic forest patches

(2014) Cord Peppler-Lisbach et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

Long-term colonization ecology of forest-dwelling species in a fragmented rural landscape - dispersal versus establishment

(2014) Kertu Lõhmus et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Classifying silvicultural systems (coppices vs. high forests) in Mediterranean oak forests by Airborne Laser Scanning data

(2014) Francesca Bottalico et al.   European Journal of Remote Sensing

Forest herb layer response to long-term light deficit along a forest developmental series

(2013) J. Plue et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Specific leaf area responses to environmental gradients through space and time

(2013) John M. Dwyer et al.   ECOLOGY

Experimental restoration of coppice-with-standards: Response of understorey vegetation from the conservation perspective

(2013) Ondřej Vild et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Landownership is an unexplored determinant of forest understory plant composition in Northern France

(2013) Laurent Bergès et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A meta-analysis of the effect of forest management for timber on understory plant species diversity in temperate forests

(2013) Marlyse C. Duguid et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest floor vegetation response to nitrogen deposition in Europe

(2013) Thomas Dirnböck et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

(2013) I. Harris et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Are trait-based species rankings consistent across data sets and spatial scales?

(2013) Elena Kazakou et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The mycorrhizal-associated nutrient economy: a new framework for predicting carbon-nutrient couplings in temperate forests

(2013) Richard P. Phillips et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The influence of 3-years of warming and N-deposition on ecosystem dynamics is small compared to past land use in subalpine meadows

(2013) Richard A. Gill   PLANT AND SOIL

Tree-Rings Mirror Management Legacy: Dramatic Response of Standard Oaks to Past Coppicing in Central Europe

(2013) Jan Altman et al.   PLoS One

Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

(2013) P. De Frenne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Clarity or confusion? – Problems in attributing large-scale ecological changes to anthropogenic drivers

(2012) S.M. Smart et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Changes in diversity of the mountain beech forest herb layer as a function of the forest management method

(2012) Tomasz Durak   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Non-random extinctions dominate plant community changes in abandoned coppices

(2012) Martin Kopecký et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Soil carbon pools in Swiss forests show legacy effects from historic forest litter raking

(2012) Urs Gimmi et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities

(2012) M. Dornelas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Community assembly responses to warming and increased precipitation in an early successional forest

(2012) Christine R. Rollinson et al.   Ecosphere

Advancing the Integration of History and Ecology for Conservation

(2011) PÉTER SZABÓ et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The roles of environmental filtering and colonization in the fine-scale spatial patterning of ground-layer plant communities in north temperate deciduous forests

(2011) Julia I. Burton et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests

(2011) Kris Verheyen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Assessment of potential bioenergy from coppice forests trough the integration of remote sensing and field surveys

(2010) B. Lasserre et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Half a century of succession in a temperate oakwood: from species-rich community to mesic forest

(2010) Radim Hédl et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis

(2010) R. Bobbink et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Unexpected understorey community development after 30 years in ancient and post-agricultural forests

(2010) Lander Baeten et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

(2010) Mark Vellend   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Herb layer changes (1954-2000) related to the conversion of coppice-with-standards forest and soil acidification

(2009) Lander Baeten et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

(2009) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

(2009) Melinda D. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities

(2009) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Driving forces of stability and change in woodland structure: A case-study from the Czech lowlands

(2009) Péter Szabó   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Changes in species richness and composition in European acidic grasslands over the past 70 years: the contribution of cumulative atmospheric nitrogen deposition

(2009) CECILIA DUPRÈ et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global patterns in plant height

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

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

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Allocation strategies and seed traits are hardly affected by nitrogen supply in 18 species differing in successional status

(2009) Claire Fortunel et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Taxonomic homogenization of woodland plant communities over 70 years

(2009) S. A. Keith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Competition for Light Causes Plant Biodiversity Loss After Eutrophication

(2009) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

Testing the assumptions of chronosequences in succession

(2008) Edward A. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diverging effects of overstorey conversion scenarios on the understorey vegetation in a former coppice-with-standards forest

(2008) Hans Van Calster et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

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

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