A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Using Assembly Theory to Explain Changes in a Weed Flora in Response to Agricultural Intensification

(2010) J. Storkey et al.   WEED SCIENCE

Litter quality and decomposability of species from a Mediterranean succession depend on leaf traits but not on nitrogen supply

(2009) Elena Kazakou et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Fifty years of change in an area of intensive agriculture: plant trait responses to habitat modification and conservation, Bedfordshire, England

(2009) Kevin J. Walker et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Plant traits related to competition: how do they shape the functional diversity of communities?

(2009) M. Navas et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Management applicability of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis across Mongolian rangeland ecosystems

(2009) Takehiro Sasaki et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Convergence in plant traits between species within grassland communities simplifies their monitoring

(2009) Pauline Ansquer et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

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

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

Leaf traits capture the effects of land use changes and climate on litter decomposability of grasslands across Europe

(2009) Claire Fortunel et al.   ECOLOGY

Two-phase functional redundancy in plant communities along a grazing gradient in Mongolian rangelands

(2009) Takehiro Sasaki et al.   ECOLOGY

Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin

(2009) S. Paula et al.   ECOLOGY

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic diversity metrics for ecological communities: integrating species richness, abundance and evolutionary history

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Global patterns in plant height

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

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

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

A functional analysis of large-scale temporal shifts from 1970 to 2000 in weed assemblages of sunflower crops in France

(2009) G. Fried et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Explaining patterns of primary production from individual level traits

(2009) E. Leoni et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

(2009) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Ecophysiological and bioclimatic foundations for a global plant functional classification

(2009) Sandy P. Harrison et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Are species shade and drought tolerance reflected in leaf-level structural and functional differentiation in Northern Hemisphere temperate woody flora?

(2009) Lea Hallik et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Grazing responses in herbs in relation to herbivore selectivity and plant traits in an alpine ecosystem

(2009) Marianne Evju et al.   OECOLOGIA

Competition, traits and resource depletion in plant communities

(2009) Cyrille Violle et al.   OECOLOGIA

Fine root decomposition rates do not mirror those of leaf litter among temperate tree species

(2009) Sarah E. Hobbie et al.   OECOLOGIA

Differential effects of functional traits on aboveground biomass in semi-natural grasslands

(2009) Jens Schumacher et al.   OIKOS

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

Desirable plant root traits for protecting natural and engineered slopes against landslides

(2009) Alexia Stokes et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Suites of plant traits in species from different stages of a Mediterranean secondary succession

(2009) M.-L. Navas et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

A new hypothesis for the functional role of diversity in mediating resource pools and weed–crop competition in agroecosystems

(2009) R G SMITH et al.   WEED RESEARCH

The role of plant leaf attributes in linking land use to ecosystem function in temperate grassy vegetation

(2008) S. McIntyre   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Effects of grassland management on plant functional trait composition

(2008) S KAHMEN et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Environmental and management factors determining weed species composition and diversity in France

(2008) Guillaume Fried et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Mixing plant species in cropping systems: concepts, tools and models. A review

(2008) E. Malézieux et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Functional traits as indicators of fodder provision over a short time scale in species-rich grasslands

(2008) Pauline Ansquer et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Functional approaches for assessing plant and invertebrate abundance patterns in arable systems

(2008) C. Hawes et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Definition of plant functional groups for informing implementation scenarios in resource-limited multi-species recovery planning

(2008) Robert Kooyman et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Seed supply, drought, and grazing determine spatio-temporal patterns of recruitment for native and introduced invasive pines in grasslands

(2008) Nadine Boulant et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

On the biogeography of seed mass in Germany - distribution patterns and environmental correlates

(2008) Susanne Tautenhahn et al.   ECOGRAPHY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn 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

Global meta-analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?

(2008) James T. Weedon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa

(2008) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Including multiple differing stakeholder values into vulnerability assessments of socio-ecological systems

(2008) J DECHAZAL et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Unexpectedly high 20th century floristic losses in a rural landscape in northern France

(2008) H. Van Calster et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use

(2008) Robin J. Pakeman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany 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

Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

(2008) Helene C. Muller-Landau et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evolutionary coordination between offspring size at independence and adult size

(2008) Mark Westoby et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The scaling of seed size

(2008) D. Lawrence Venable et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The need of data harmonization to derive robust empirical relationships between soil conditions and vegetation

(2008) Ruud P. Bartholomeus et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Towards a cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences: progress, visions and challenges

(2008) Lincoln D. Stein   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Plant response traits mediate the effects of subalpine grasslands on soil moisture

(2008) N. Gross et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Using multiple trait associations to define hydraulic functional types in plant communities of south-western Australia

(2008) Patrick J. Mitchell et al.   OECOLOGIA

On the identification of the most suitable traits for plant functional trait analyses

(2008) Markus Bernhardt-Römermann et al.   OIKOS

Time - size tradeoffs: a phylogenetic comparative study of flowering time, plant height and seed mass in a north-temperate flora

(2008) Kjell Bolmgren et al.   OIKOS

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

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

Microbial Biogeography: From Taxonomy to Traits

(2008) J. L. Green et al.   SCIENCE

Advancing ecological research with ontologies

(2008) Joshua S. Madin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Is xylem cavitation resistance a relevant criterion for screening drought resistance among Prunus species?

(2007) Hervé Cochard et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Are traits measured on pot grown plants representative of those in natural communities?

(2007) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE