Plant traits and ecosystem effects of clonality: a new research agenda

Clonal growth and plant species abundance

(2014) Tomáš Herben et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Global relationship of wood and leaf litter decomposability: the role of functional traits within and across plant organs

(2014) Katherina A. Pietsch et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Geographic and Habitat Origin Influence Biomass Production and Storage Translocation in the Clonal Plant Aegopodium podagraria

(2014) Tina D′Hertefeldt et al.   PLoS One

Clonality-Climate Relationships along Latitudinal Gradient across China: Adaptation of Clonality to Environments

(2014) Duo Ye et al.   PLoS One

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Winter climate change, plant traits and nutrient and carbon cycling in cold biomes

(2013) Johannes H. C. Cornelissen et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Fine-scale spatial patterns in grassland communities depend on species clonal dispersal ability and interactions with neighbours

(2013) M.-L. Benot et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The phenology-substrate-match hypothesis explains decomposition rates of evergreen and deciduous oak leaves

(2013) Ian S. Pearse et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Linking litter decomposition of above- and below-ground organs to plant-soil feedbacks worldwide

(2013) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seasonal differences in tree species' influence on soil microbial communities

(2013) Carolin Thoms et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

(2013) Sandra Díaz et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Trampling, defoliation and physiological integration affect growth, morphological and mechanical properties of a root-suckering clonal tree

(2012) Liang Xu et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Highly consistent effects of plant litter identity and functional traits on decomposition across a latitudinal gradient

(2012) Marika Makkonen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Interactions of the indigenous evergreen shrub Sabina vulgaris with coexisting species in the Mu Us sandland

(2012) L. Ning et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

United we stand, divided we fall: a meta-analysis of experiments on clonal integration and its relationship to invasiveness

(2012) Yao-Bin Song et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of soil nutrient heterogeneity on intraspecific competition in the invasive, clonal plant Alternanthera philoxeroides

(2011) Jian Zhou et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Length of the Spacer Rather than its Plasticity Relates to Species Distribution in Various Natural Habitats

(2011) Marek Sammul   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

(2011) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Evolutionary and organismic constraints on the relationship between spacer length and environmental conditions in clonal plants

(2011) Jitka Klimešová et al.   OIKOS

How internode length, position and presence of leaves affect survival and growth of Alternanthera philoxeroides after fragmentation?

(2010) Bi-Cheng Dong et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Carex sempervirens tussocks induce spatial heterogeneity in litter decomposition, but not in soil properties, in a subalpine grassland in the Central Alps

(2010) Fei-Hai Yu et al.   FLORA

Do Clonal and Bud Bank Traits Vary in Correspondence with Soil Properties and Resource Acquisition Strategies? Patterns in Alpine Communities in the Scandian Mountains

(2010) Graciela M. Rusch et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Effects of clonal integration on species composition and biomass of sand dune communities

(2010) F.-H. Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Physiological integration in an introduced, invasive plant increases its spread into experimental communities and modifies their structure

(2009) Fei-Hai Yu et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Environmental Constraints Influence Clonal Traits of Herbaceous Plant Communities in an Alpine Massif

(2009) André Evette et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Niche assembly of epiphytic bryophyte communities in the Guianas: a regional approach

(2009) Sylvia Mota de Oliveira et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

CLO-PLA: the database of clonal and bud bank traits of Central European flora

(2009) Jitka Klimešová et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Linking clonal growth patterns and ecophysiology allows the prediction of meadow-scale dynamics of seagrass beds

(2009) Jan E. Vermaat   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

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

(2008) William K. Cornwell 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