Seed and seedling traits affecting critical life stage transitions and recruitment outcomes in dryland grasses

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Are functional traits good predictors of species performance in restoration plantings in tropical abandoned pastures?

(2013) Cristina Martínez-Garza et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Does Seeding After Wildfires in Rangelands Reduce Erosion or Invasive Species?

(2013) David A. Pyke et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Agglomerating seeds to enhance native seedling emergence and growth

(2012) Matthew D. Madsen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Which plant traits determine abundance under long-term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity?

(2012) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review

(2011) Eric Garnier et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Seasonal priority effects: implications for invasion and restoration in a semi-arid system

(2011) Claire E. Wainwright et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Demographic processes limiting seedling recruitment in arid grassland restoration

(2011) Jeremy J. James et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

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

Controlling for non-independence in comparative analysis of patterns across populations within species

(2011) G. N. Stone et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Prediction of germination rates of weed species: Relationships between germination speed parameters and species traits

(2010) Antoine Gardarin et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

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

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Interspecific variation in functional traits, not climatic differences among species ranges, determines demographic rates across 44 temperate and Mediterranean tree species

(2010) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A link between plant traits and abundance: evidence from coastal California woody plants

(2010) William K. Cornwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seed survival in soil: interacting effects of predation, dormancy and the soil microbial community

(2010) James W. Dalling et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Regeneration niche differentiates functional strategies of desert woody plant species

(2010) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of seed depth and soil aggregates on the emergence of weeds with contrasting seed traits

(2010) A GARDARIN et al.   WEED RESEARCH

Germination, survival, and growth of grass and forb seedlings: Effects of soil moisture variability

(2009) Philip A. Fay et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

Restoring rainforest species by direct seeding: Tree seedling establishment and growth performance on degraded land in the wet tropics of Australia

(2008) Susan J. Doust et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Spatial patterns of recruitment in Mediterranean plant species: linking the fate of seeds, seedlings and saplings in heterogeneous landscapes at different scales

(2008) Lorena Gómez-Aparicio   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Proxy global assessment of land degradation

(2008) Z. G. Bai et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance

(2008) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Does drought control emergence and survival of grass seedlings in semi-arid rangelands?

(2007) P.A. Cipriotti et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS