Ecosystem multifunctionality of coastal marshes is determined by key plant traits

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

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

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

Tidal marsh plant responses to elevated CO2, nitrogen fertilization, and sea level rise

(2013) J. Adam Langley et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Plant trait responses to the environment and effects on ecosystem properties

(2012) Patrick Lienin et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Plant trait–environment relationships in salt marshes: Deviations from predictions by ecological concepts

(2012) Vanessa Minden et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Plant leaf economics and reproductive investment are responsive to gradients of land use intensity

(2011) Patrick Lienin et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Is leaf dry matter content a better predictor of soil fertility than specific leaf area?

(2011) J. G. Hodgson et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2

(2011) Elizabeth Mcleod et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

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

How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale-up to trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services

(2011) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Testing the effect-response framework: key response and effect traits determining above-ground biomass of salt marshes

(2011) Vanessa Minden et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

(2011) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

An intraspecific application of the leaf-height-seed ecology strategy scheme to forest herbs along a latitudinal gradient

(2010) Pieter De Frenne et al.   ECOGRAPHY

On the specification of structural equation models for ecological systems

(2010) James B. Grace et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

(2010) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Patterns of wetland plant species richness across estuarine gradients of Chesapeake Bay

(2009) Peter J. Sharpe et al.   WETLANDS

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Salinity tolerance in halophytes*

(2008) Timothy J. Flowers et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Effects of competition on root–shoot allocation in Plantago lanceolata L.: adaptive plasticity or ontogenetic drift?

(2008) Frank Berendse et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY