Fine root morphology is phylogenetically structured, but nitrogen is related to the plant economics spectrum in temperate trees

Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages

(2014) William K. Cornwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Leading dimensions in absorptive root trait variation across 96 subtropical forest species

(2014) Deliang Kong et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root diameter variations explained by anatomy and phylogeny of 50 tropical and temperate tree species

(2014) J. Gu et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Variation of first-order root traits across climatic gradients and evolutionary trends in geological time

(2013) Weile Chen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The distribution of below-ground traits is explained by intrinsic species differences and intraspecific plasticity in response to root neighbours

(2013) Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plasticity in above- and belowground resource acquisition traits in response to single and multiple environmental factors in three tree species

(2013) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species

(2012) Claire Fortunel et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Evolutionary Patterns and Biogeochemical Significance of Angiosperm Root Traits

(2012) L. H. Comas et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Molecular data and ecological niche modelling reveal a highly dynamic evolutionary history of the East Asian Tertiary relict Cercidiphyllum (Cercidiphyllaceae)

(2012) Xin-Shuai Qi et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Predicting fine root lifespan from plant functional traits in temperate trees

(2012) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cenozoic climate change shaped the evolutionary ecophysiology of the Cupressaceae conifers

(2012) J. Pittermann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

(2012) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Multi-trait interactions, not phylogeny, fine-tune leaf size reduction with increasing altitude

(2011) Rubén Milla et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plant traits and decomposition: are the relationships for roots comparable to those for leaves?

(2011) Marine Birouste et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in plant roots are not random assemblages

(2011) John Davison et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Species- and community-level patterns in fine root traits along a 120 000-year soil chronosequence in temperate rain forest

(2011) Robert J. Holdaway et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Consequences of climate change on the tree of life in Europe

(2011) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   NATURE

Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications

(2011) Daniel J. Peppe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Independent Evolution of Leaf and Root Traits within and among Temperate Grassland Plant Communities

(2011) Steven W. Kembel et al.   PLoS One

Reciprocal Rewards Stabilize Cooperation in the Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

(2011) E. T. Kiers et al.   SCIENCE

The evolution of the worldwide leaf economics spectrum

(2011) Lisa A. Donovan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

adephylo: new tools for investigating the phylogenetic signal in biological traits

(2010) Thibaut Jombart et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Appraising the roles of nutrient availability, global change, and functional traits during the angiosperm rise to dominance

(2010) Kevin E. Mueller et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Putting phylogeny into the analysis of biological traits: A methodological approach

(2010) Thibaut Jombart et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The hidden cost of transpiration

(2010) David J. Beerling et al.   NATURE

Ephemeral root modules in Fraxinus mandshurica

(2010) Mengxue Xia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Wood anatomy and wood density in shrubs: Responses to varying aridity along transcontinental transects

(2009) Hugo I. Martínez-Cabrera et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Tree species fine-root demography parallels habitat specialization across a sandhill soil resource gradient

(2009) Javier F. Espeleta et al.   ECOLOGY

SIZE-CORRECTION AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS FOR INTERSPECIFIC COMPARATIVE STUDIES

(2009) Liam J. Revell   EVOLUTION

A multi-trait test of the leaf-height-seed plant strategy scheme with 133 species from a pine forest flora

(2009) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Ancestral xerophobia: a hypothesis on the whole plant ecophysiology of early angiosperms

(2009) T. S FEILD et al.   Geobiology

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

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

The leaf size/number trade-off in herbaceous angiosperms

(2009) T. Whitman et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

(2009) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NATURE

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

Patterns in root trait variation among 25 co-existing North American forest species

(2009) L. H. Comas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2009) Sarah E. Hobbie et al.   OECOLOGIA

Mycorrhizal associations and other means of nutrition of vascular plants: understanding the global diversity of host plants by resolving conflicting information and developing reliable means of diagnosis

(2009) Mark C. Brundrett   PLANT AND SOIL

Angiosperm leaf vein evolution was physiologically and environmentally transformative

(2009) C. K. Boyce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of root endosymbiosis with bacteria: how novel are nodules?

(2009) Katharina Markmann et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The relationship between stem and branch wood specific gravity and the ability of each measure to predict leaf area

(2008) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Relative importance of climate vs local factors in shaping the regional patterns of forest plant richness across northeast China

(2008) Xiangping Wang et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plants

(2008) Peter B. Reich et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Controls on long-term root and leaf litter decomposition in neotropical forests

(2008) DANIELA F. CUSACK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Anatomical traits associated with absorption and mycorrhizal colonization are linked to root branch order in twenty-three Chinese temperate tree species

(2008) Dali Guo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Coordination between leaf and stem traits related to leaf carbon gain and hydraulics across 32 drought-tolerant angiosperms

(2008) Atsushi Ishida et al.   OECOLOGIA

A phylogenetic perspective on the distribution of plant diversity

(2008) M. J. Donoghue   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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