Plant functional diversity and carbon storage - an empirical test in semi-arid forest ecosystems

Competition depends more on the functional structure of plant community than on standing biomass

(2012) M. Navas et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

(2012) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLoS One

A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

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

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

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

(2011) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long-term natural experiment

(2011) David A. Wardle et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional diversity indices reveal the impacts of land use intensification on plant community assembly

(2011) Robin J. Pakeman   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Trait assembly in plant assemblages and its modulation by productivity and disturbance

(2011) Robin J. Pakeman et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional redundancy in a clipping experiment on grassland plant communities

(2011) Fernando Joner et al.   OIKOS

Functional Structure of Biological Communities Predicts Ecosystem Multifunctionality

(2011) David Mouillot et al.   PLoS One

An ecosystem approach to biodiversity effects: Carbon pools in a tropical tree plantation

(2010) Catherine Potvin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL 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

Ecosystem properties determined by plant functional group identity

(2010) Jennie R. McLaren et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Can we predict carbon stocks in tropical ecosystems from tree diversity? Comparing species and functional diversity in a plantation and a natural forest

(2010) Maria C. Ruiz-Jaen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf dry matter content as a predictor of grassland litter decomposition: a test of the ‘mass ratio hypothesis’

(2010) Robin J. Pakeman et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Is forest diversity driving ecosystem function and service?

(2010) Karin Nadrowski et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

FDiversity: a software package for the integrated analysis of functional diversity

(2010) Fernando Casanoves et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Structural equation modelling reveals plant-community drivers of carbon storage in boreal forest ecosystems

(2009) M. Jonsson et al.   Biology Letters

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Mycorrhizal community resilience in response to experimental plant functional type removals in a woody ecosystem

(2009) Carlos Urcelay et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global patterns in plant height

(2009) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Vegetation composition promotes carbon and nitrogen storage in model grassland communities of contrasting soil fertility

(2009) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Differential effects of functional traits on aboveground biomass in semi-natural grasslands

(2009) Jens Schumacher et al.   OIKOS

Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit

(2009) Sandra Díaz et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Functional role of forest diversity: Pros and cons of synthetic stands and across-site comparisons in established forests

(2008) Christoph Leuschner et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

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

Biodiversity enhances individual performance but does not affect survivorship in tropical trees

(2008) Catherine Potvin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant diversity positively affects short-term soil carbon storage in experimental grasslands

(2008) SIBYLLE STEINBEISS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Context dependent effects of plant species and functional group loss on vegetation invasibility across an island area gradient

(2008) David A. Wardle et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant functional types do not predict biomass responses to removal and fertilization in Alaskan tussock tundra

(2008) M. Syndonia Bret-Harte et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation

(2008) D. A. Fornara et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY