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

Testing metabolic theory with models of tree growth that include light competition

(2012) Nadja Rüger et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Hydraulic conductivity traits predict growth rates and adult stature of 40 Asian tropical tree species better than wood density

(2012) Ze-Xin Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

What Makes a Leaf Tough? Patterns of Correlated Evolution between Leaf Toughness Traits and Demographic Rates among 197 Shade-Tolerant Woody Species in a Neotropical Forest

(2011) Jared W. Westbrook et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Functional traits shape ontogenetic growth trajectories of rain forest tree species

(2011) Bruno Hérault et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Determinants of mortality across a tropical lowland rainforest community

(2011) Nadja Rüger et al.   OIKOS

Growth Strategies of Tropical Tree Species: Disentangling Light and Size Effects

(2011) Nadja Rüger et al.   PLoS One

Functional traits determine trade-offs and niches in a tropical forest community

(2011) F. Sterck et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists

(2011) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

PERSPECTIVE: Rethinking the value of high wood density

(2010) Markku Larjavaara et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Growth responses of neotropical trees to logging gaps

(2010) Bruno Herault et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Influence of four major plant traits on average height, leaf-area cover, net primary productivity, and biomass density in single-species forests: a theoretical investigation

(2010) Daniel S. Falster et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

The tolerance-fecundity trade-off and the maintenance of diversity in seed size

(2010) H. C. Muller-Landau   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species

(2009) Lourens Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant DNA barcodes and a community phylogeny of a tropical forest dynamics plot in Panama

(2009) W. J. Kress et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A modeling framework for inferring tree growth and allocation from physiological, morphological and allometric traits

(2009) Kiona Ogle et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Effects of stem anatomical and structural traits on responses to stem damage: an experimental study in the Bolivian Amazon

(2008) Claudia Romero et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

GROWTH RATES, SEED SIZE, AND PHYSIOLOGY: DO SMALL-SEEDED SPECIES REALLY GROW FASTER

(2008) Lindsay A. Turnbull et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

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

Predictive Models of Forest Dynamics

(2008) D. Purves et al.   SCIENCE