What functional strategies drive drought survival and recovery of perennial species from upland grassland?

Seasonal Trends in Nonstructural Carbohydrates in Cool- and Warm-season Grasses

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The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

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Designing resilient and sustainable grasslands for a drier future: Adaptive strategies, functional traits and biotic interactions

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Towards understanding vacuolar antioxidant mechanisms: a role for fructans?

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Root traits contributing to plant productivity under drought

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Drought-mediated stem and below-ground bud dynamics in restored grasslands

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Tradeoffs between functional strategies for resource-use and drought-survival in Mediterranean rangeland species

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Carbon dynamics in trees: feast or famine?

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Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience

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The timing of leaf fall affects cold acclimation by interactions with air temperature through water and carbohydrate contents

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Water use efficiency and drought survival in Mediterranean perennial forage grasses

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Mechanistic causes of tree drought mortality: recent results, unresolved questions and future research needs

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Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta-analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control

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Functional consequences of climate change-induced plant species loss in a tallgrass prairie

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Effect of species, root branching order and season on the root traits of 13 perennial grass species

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Mechanisms Linking Drought, Hydraulics, Carbon Metabolism, and Vegetation Mortality

(2011) N. G. McDowell   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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

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Effect of abandonment and plant classification on carbohydrate reserves of meadow plants

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Fructan and its relationship to abiotic stress tolerance in plants

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Diversity enhances community recovery, but not resistance, after drought

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Morphological traits and water use strategies in seedlings of Mediterranean coexisting species

(2009) E. I. Hernández et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Plant traits and functional types to characterise drought survival of pluri-specific perennial herbaceous swards in Mediterranean areas

(2008) Florence Volaire   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Plant fructans in stress environments: emerging concepts and future prospects

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Use of expression analysis to dissect alterations in carbohydrate metabolism in wheat leaves during drought stress

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