Leaf and stem economics spectra drive diversity of functional plant traits in a dynamic global vegetation model

Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees

(2014) Timothy R. Baker et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Highly local environmental variability promotes intrapopulation divergence of quantitative traits: an example from tropical rain forest trees

(2013) Louise Brousseau et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Assess ecosystem resilience: Linking response and effect traits to environmental variability

(2013) M. Sterk et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

(2013) Peter B. Adler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Contribution of permafrost soils to the global carbon budget

(2013) Sibyll Schaphoff et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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

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

Functional traits and their plasticity predict tropical trees regeneration niche even among species with intermediate light requirements

(2013) Marilyne Laurans et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Sensitivity of tropical carbon to climate change constrained by carbon dioxide variability

(2013) Peter M. Cox et al.   NATURE

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Climate change, phenology, and phenological control of vegetation feedbacks to the climate system

(2012) Andrew D. Richardson et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change

(2012) Akira S. Mori et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Functional traits explain light and size response of growth rates in tropical tree species

(2012) Nadja Rüger et al.   ECOLOGY

Global nutrient limitation in terrestrial vegetation

(2012) Joshua B. Fisher et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Successional stages of primary temperate rainforests of Chiloé Island, Chile

(2012) Alvaro G. Gutiérrez et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Persistent effects of a severe drought on Amazonian forest canopy

(2012) S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tree species richness promotes productivity in temperate forests through strong complementarity between species

(2011) Xavier Morin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Toward dynamic global vegetation models for simulating vegetation–climate interactions and feedbacks: recent developments, limitations, and future challenges

(2011) Anne Quillet et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Wood density explains architectural differentiation across 145 co-occurring tropical tree species

(2011) Yoshiko Iida et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The drought of 2010 in the context of historical droughts in the Amazon region

(2011) Jose A. Marengo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Going beyond limitations of plant functional types when predicting global ecosystem-atmosphere fluxes: exploring the merits of traits-based approaches

(2011) P. M. Van Bodegom et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global quantification of contrasting leaf life span strategies for deciduous and evergreen species in response to environmental conditions

(2011) A. E. E. van Ommen Kloeke et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

(2011) S. S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

(2011) M. Hirota et al.   SCIENCE

Worldwide correlations of mechanical properties and green wood density

(2010) Karl J. Niklas et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A structured and dynamic framework to advance traits-based theory and prediction in ecology

(2010) Colleen T. Webb et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The role of climate and plant functional trade-offs in shaping global biome and biodiversity patterns

(2010) Björn Reu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Tissue-level leaf toughness, but not lamina thickness, predicts sapling leaf lifespan and shade tolerance of tropical tree species

(2010) Kaoru Kitajima et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Estimating the risk of Amazonian forest dieback

(2010) Anja Rammig et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The relationship between wood density and mortality in a global tropical forest data set

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ecological differentiation in xylem cavitation resistance is associated with stem and leaf structural traits

(2010) LARS MARKESTEIJN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Plant Strategies in Relation to Resource Supply in Mesic to Wet Environments: Does Theory Mirror Nature?

(2009) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The Role of Wood Mass Density and Mechanical Constraints in the Economy of Tree Architecture

(2009) Niels P. R. Anten et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Biodiversity in a complex world: consolidation and progress in functional biodiversity research

(2009) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A multi-trait test of the leaf-height-seed plant strategy scheme with 133 species from a pine forest flora

(2009) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global-scale terrestrial biosphere models

(2009) JENS KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Faster returns on ‘leaf economics’ and different biogeochemical niche in invasive compared with native plant species

(2009) JOSEP PENUELAS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Above-ground forest biomass is not consistently related to wood density in tropical forests

(2009) James C. Stegen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Seedling root morphology and biomass allocation of 62 tropical tree species in relation to drought- and shade-tolerance

(2009) Lars Markesteijn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Discriminating trait-convergence and trait-divergence assembly patterns in ecological community gradients

(2009) Valério D. Pillar et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf phosphorus influences the photosynthesis–nitrogen relation: a cross-biome analysis of 314 species

(2009) Peter B. Reich et al.   OECOLOGIA

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

(2009) Y. Malhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

(2009) O. L. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

Emerging horizons in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research

(2009) Julia Reiss et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

‘Tipping points’ for the Amazon forest

(2009) Carlos Afonso Nobre et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

LEAF HERBIVORY AND DECOMPOSABILITY IN A MALAYSIAN TROPICAL RAIN FOREST

(2008) Hiroko Kurokawa et al.   ECOLOGY

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plants

(2008) Peter B. Reich et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

(2008) S. SITCH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Growth and wood density predict tree mortality in Amazon forests

(2008) Kuo-Jung Chao et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Variation in longevity and traits of leaves among co-occurring understorey plants in a tropical montane forest

(2008) Satomi Shiodera et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE