Can a trait-based multi-taxa approach improve our assessment of forest management impact on biodiversity?

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Physical disturbance enhances ecological networks for heathland biota: A multiple taxa experiment

(2013) Scott M. Pedley et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Habitat connectivity shapes urban arthropod communities: the key role of green roofs

(2013) S. Braaker et al.   ECOLOGY

Linking plant and insect traits to understand multitrophic community structure in arid steppes

(2013) Cédric Frenette-Dussault et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Herbivory mediated by coupling between biomechanical traits of plants and grasshoppers

(2013) Sébastien Ibanez et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Linking traits between plants and invertebrate herbivores to track functional effects of land-use changes

(2013) Marco Moretti et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

(2013) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Habitat functionality for the ecosystem service of pest control: reproduction and feeding sites of pests and natural enemies

(2012) Felix J. J. A. Bianchi et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

A history of hubris – Cautionary lessons in ecologically sustainable forest management

(2012) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Improved testing of species traits–environment relationships in the fourth-corner problem

(2012) Cajo J. F. ter Braak et al.   ECOLOGY

Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?

(2012) Michael Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Optimizing size thresholds in a plant–pollinator interaction web: towards a mechanistic understanding of ecological networks

(2012) Sébastien Ibanez   OECOLOGIA

A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

(2012) David Mouillot et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Understanding species and community response to environmental change – A functional trait perspective

(2011) Camilla Wellstein et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Effects of litter removal on arthropod communities in pine plantations

(2011) Holly K. Ober et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

How functional is functional? Ecological groupings in terrestrial animal ecology: towards an animal functional type approach

(2011) Niels Blaum et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Using life-history traits to explain bird population responses to changing weather variability

(2011) A Cormont et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Plant adaptive responses during primary succession are associated with functional adaptations in ground beetles on deglaciated terrain

(2011) M. Gobbi et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

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

Common ancestry or environmental trait filters: cross-continental comparisons of trait-habitat relationships in tropical anuran amphibian assemblages

(2011) Raffael Ernst et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Trophic links between functional groups of arable plants and beetles are stable at a national scale

(2011) David R. Brooks et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

CWM and Rao’s quadratic diversity: a unified framework for functional ecology

(2011) Carlo Ricotta et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms

(2010) Marie Vandewalle et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Biodiversity Differences between Managed and Unmanaged Forests: Meta-Analysis of Species Richness in Europe

(2010) YOAN PAILLET et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Predicting the post-fire responses of animal assemblages: testing a trait-based approach using spiders

(2010) Peter R. Langlands et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

A generic structure for plant trait databases

(2010) Jens Kattge et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A biodiversity monitoring framework for practical conservation of grasslands and shrublands

(2009) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Evaluation of carabid beetles as indicators of forest change in Canada

(2009) Timothy T. Work et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Forest management is driving the eastern North American boreal forest outside its natural range of variability

(2009) Dominic Cyr et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Plant and spider communities benefit differently from the presence of planted hedgerows in highway verges

(2008) Isabelle Le Viol et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Linking bird, carabid beetle and butterfly life-history traits to habitat fragmentation in mosaic landscapes

(2008) Luc Barbaro et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Combining plant and animal traits to assess community functional responses to disturbance

(2008) Marco Moretti et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Indices for monitoring biodiversity change: Are some more effective than others?

(2008) Eric G. Lamb et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

TESTING THE SPECIES TRAITS–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS: THE FOURTH-CORNER PROBLEM REVISITED

(2008) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

Challenging urban species diversity: contrasting phylogenetic patterns across plant functional groups in Germany

(2008) Sonja Knapp et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa

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

Taxonomical vs. functional responses of bee communities to fire in two contrasting climatic regions

(2008) Marco Moretti et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Review: Ecological networks - beyond food webs

(2008) Thomas C. Ings et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Effects of Predator Hunting Mode on Grassland Ecosystem Function

(2008) Oswald J. Schmitz   SCIENCE

ECOLOGY: Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System

(2008) R. J. Scholes et al.   SCIENCE

Advancing ecological research with ontologies

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