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

Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages

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

Ecological and evolutionary lability of plant traits affecting carbon and nutrient cycling

(2014) Lisa A. Donovan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biogeographic variation in evergreen conifer needle longevity and impacts on boreal forest carbon cycle projections

(2014) P. B. Reich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phenological cues drive an apparent trade-off between freezing tolerance and growth in the family Salicaceae

(2013) Jessica A. Savage et al.   ECOLOGY

Resource limitation in a competitive context determines complex plant responses to experimental resource additions

(2013) Caroline E. Farrior et al.   ECOLOGY

Balancing the costs of carbon gain and water transport: testing a new theoretical framework for plant functional ecology

(2013) I. Colin Prentice et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The whole-plant compensation point as a measure of juvenile tree light requirements

(2013) Christopher H. Lusk et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Mechanisms underlying global temperature-related patterns in leaf longevity

(2013) Kihachiro Kikuzawa et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services

(2013) Karl Grigulis et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Linking litter decomposition of above- and below-ground organs to plant-soil feedbacks worldwide

(2013) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How do leaf veins influence the worldwide leaf economic spectrum? Review and synthesis

(2013) Lawren Sack et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Understanding ecological variation across species: area-based vs mass-based expression of leaf traits

(2013) Mark Westoby et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf venation: structure, function, development, evolution, ecology and applications in the past, present and future

(2013) Lawren Sack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Interspecific vs intraspecific patterns in leaf nitrogen of forest trees across nitrogen availability gradients

(2013) Ray Dybzinski et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The mycorrhizal-associated nutrient economy: a new framework for predicting carbon-nutrient couplings in temperate forests

(2013) Richard P. Phillips et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Pedogenesis, nutrient dynamics, and ecosystem development: the legacy of T.W. Walker and J.K. Syers

(2013) Benjamin L. Turner et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity

(2013) F. Isbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies

(2013) P. B. Adler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Leaf Trait Relationships: Mass, Area, and the Leaf Economics Spectrum

(2013) J. L. D. Osnas et al.   SCIENCE

Phosphorus nutrition of phosphorus-sensitive Australian native plants: threats to plant communities in a global biodiversity hotspot

(2013) H. Lambers et al.   Conservation Physiology

Roles of climate and functional traits in controlling toothed vs. untoothed leaf margins

(2012) Dana L. Royer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Integrating ecology and phylogenetics: the footprint of history in modern-day communities1

(2012) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY

Shocks to the system: community assembly of the oak savanna in a 40-year fire frequency experiment

(2012) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY

Habitat specialization and the role of trait lability in structuring diverse willow (genusSalix) communities

(2012) Jessica A. Savage et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

(2012) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

The determinants of leaf turgor loss point and prediction of drought tolerance of species and biomes: a global meta-analysis

(2012) Megan K. Bartlett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities

(2012) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A predictive model of community assembly that incorporates intraspecific trait variation

(2012) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment

(2012) Scott C. Stark et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A species-level model for metabolic scaling in trees I. Exploring boundaries to scaling space within and across species

(2012) John S. Sperry et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Correlations among leaf traits provide a significant constraint on the estimate of global gross primary production

(2012) Y. P. Wang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

(2012) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Experimental assessment of nutrient limitation along a 2-million-year dune chronosequence in the south-western Australia biodiversity hotspot

(2012) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Reconciling leaf physiological traits and canopy flux data: Use of the TRY and FLUXNET databases in the Community Land Model version 4

(2012) Gordon B. Bonan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

No globally consistent effect of ectomycorrhizal status on foliar traits

(2012) Nina Koele et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Foundation species influence trait-based community assembly

(2012) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The role of roots in the resource economics spectrum

(2012) Liesje Mommer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Predicting fine root lifespan from plant functional traits in temperate trees

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

Key canopy traits drive forest productivity

(2012) P. B. Reich   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

(2012) P. B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

Organic nitrogen uptake by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a boreal forest

(2012) Matthew D. Whiteside et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Patterns of root respiration rates and morphological traits in 13 tree species in a tropical forest

(2012) N. Makita et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Hydraulic differences along the water transport system of South American Nothofagus species: do leaves protect the stem functionality?

(2012) S. J. Bucci et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Evolutionarily Stable Strategy Carbon Allocation to Foliage, Wood, and Fine Roots in Trees Competing for Light and Nitrogen: An Analytically Tractable, Individual-Based Model and Quantitative Comparisons to Data

(2011) Ray Dybzinski et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Ontogeny, understorey light interception and simulated carbon gain of juvenile rainforest evergreens differing in shade tolerance

(2011) Christopher H. Lusk et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

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

Seedling growth responses to soil resources in the understory of a wet tropical forest

(2011) Ellen K Holste et al.   ECOLOGY

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

(2011) Yusuke Onoda et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Organic nutrient uptake by mycorrhizal fungi enhances ecosystem carbon storage: a model-based assessment

(2011) Kate H. Orwin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

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

The evolution and functional significance of leaf shape in the angiosperms

(2011) Adrienne B. Nicotra et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Going beyond limitations of plant functional types when predicting global ecosystem-atmosphere fluxes: exploring the merits of traits-based approaches

(2011) P. M. Van Bodegom et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global quantification of contrasting leaf life span strategies for deciduous and evergreen species in response to environmental conditions

(2011) A. E. E. van Ommen Kloeke et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climatic constraints on trait-based forest assembly

(2011) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Nitrification is linked to dominant leaf traits rather than functional diversity

(2011) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF 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

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

Lifetime return on investment increases with leaf lifespan among 10 Australian woodland species

(2011) Daniel S. Falster et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Xylem traits mediate a trade-off between resistance to freeze-thaw-induced embolism and photosynthetic capacity in overwintering evergreens

(2011) Brendan Choat et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Leaf hydraulic vulnerability influences species’ bioclimatic limits in a diverse group of woody angiosperms

(2011) Chris J. Blackman et al.   OECOLOGIA

Fossil evidence for Cretaceous escalation in angiosperm leaf vein evolution

(2011) T. S. Feild et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Constraints on physiological function associated with branch architecture and wood density in tropical forest trees

(2011) F. C. Meinzer et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Coordination between water-transport efficiency and photosynthetic capacity in canopy tree species at different growth irradiances

(2011) P. I. Campanello et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The evolution of the worldwide leaf economics spectrum

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

Global-scale latitudinal patterns of plant fine-root nitrogen and phosphorus

(2011) Z.Y. Yuan et al.   Nature Communications

Angiosperm wood structure: Global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relation to wood density and potential conductivity

(2010) Amy E. Zanne et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Angiosperms Helped Put the Rain in the Rainforests: The Impact of Plant Physiological Evolution on Tropical Biodiversity1

(2010) C. Kevin Boyce et al.   ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen–phosphorus interactions

(2010) Peter M. Vitousek et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Effects of root diameter and root nitrogen concentration on in situ root respiration among different seasons and tree species

(2010) Dima Chen et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Untangling positive and negative biotic interactions: views from above and below ground in a forest ecosystem

(2010) Rebecca A. Montgomery et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant geography upon the basis of functional traits: an example from eastern North American trees

(2010) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Reconciling the optimal and empirical approaches to modelling stomatal conductance

(2010) BELINDA E. MEDLYN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Conspecific plant-soil feedbacks reduce survivorship and growth of tropical tree seedlings

(2010) Sarah McCarthy-Neumann et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Conspecific and heterospecific plant-soil feedbacks influence survivorship and growth of temperate tree seedlings

(2010) Sarah McCarthy-Neumann 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

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

Linkages of plant traits to soil properties and the functioning of temperate grassland

(2010) Kate H. Orwin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Moving water well: comparing hydraulic efficiency in twigs and trunks of coniferous, ring-porous, and diffuse-porous saplings from temperate and tropical forests

(2010) Katherine McCulloh et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf hydraulic vulnerability is related to conduit dimensions and drought resistance across a diverse range of woody angiosperms

(2010) Christopher J. Blackman et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Coordinated variation in leaf and root traits across multiple spatial scales in Chinese semi-arid and arid ecosystems

(2010) Guofang Liu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evidence of a universal scaling relationship for leaf CO2 drawdown along an aridity gradient

(2010) I. Colin Prentice et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tissue-level leaf toughness, but not lamina thickness, predicts sapling leaf lifespan and shade tolerance of tropical tree species

(2010) Kaoru Kitajima et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The blind men and the elephant: the impact of context and scale in evaluating conflicts between plant hydraulic safety and efficiency

(2010) Frederick C. Meinzer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Plant mineral nutrition in ancient landscapes: high plant species diversity on infertile soils is linked to functional diversity for nutritional strategies

(2010) Hans Lambers et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Co-limitation of photosynthetic capacity by nitrogen and phosphorus in West Africa woodlands

(2010) TOMAS FERREIRA DOMINGUES et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Ecological differentiation in xylem cavitation resistance is associated with stem and leaf structural traits

(2010) LARS MARKESTEIJN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Hydraulic trade-offs and space filling enable better predictions of vascular structure and function in plants

(2010) V. M. Savage et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Substantial nitrogen acquisition by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from organic material has implications for N cycling

(2010) A. Hodge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

(2009) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Leaf traits capture the effects of land use changes and climate on litter decomposability of grasslands across Europe

(2009) Claire Fortunel et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Leaf hydraulic evolution led a surge in leaf photosynthetic capacity during early angiosperm diversification

(2009) Tim J. Brodribb et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Xylem hydraulic safety margins in woody plants: coordination of stomatal control of xylem tension with hydraulic capacitance

(2009) Frederick C. Meinzer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Interspecific relationships among growth, mortality and xylem traits of woody species from New Zealand

(2009) Sabrina E. Russo et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global-scale terrestrial biosphere models

(2009) JENS KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant litter chemistry and mycorrhizal roots promote a nitrogen feedback in a temperate forest

(2009) Nina Wurzburger et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

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

Leaf phosphorus influences the photosynthesis–nitrogen relation: a cross-biome analysis of 314 species

(2009) Peter B. Reich et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

(2009) Sarah E. Hobbie et al.   OECOLOGIA

Angiosperm leaf vein evolution was physiologically and environmentally transformative

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

Is Shade Beneficial for Mediterranean Shrubs Experiencing Periods of Extreme Drought and Late-winter Frosts?

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

NITROGEN EFFECTS ON DECOMPOSITION: A FIVE-YEAR EXPERIMENT IN EIGHT TEMPERATE SITES

(2008) Sarah E. Hobbie   ECOLOGY

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

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Peter B. Reich 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

Tolerance to low leaf water status of tropical tree seedlings is related to drought performance and distribution

(2008) Thomas A. Kursar et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands

(2008) Christopher M. Clark et al.   NATURE

Testing the Holy Grail framework: using functional traits to predict ecosystem change

(2008) Katharine N. Suding et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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 of leaf and stem water transport properties in tropical forest trees

(2008) Frederick C. Meinzer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Safety and efficiency conflicts in hydraulic architecture: scaling from tissues to trees

(2008) JOHN S. SPERRY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Canopy nitrogen, carbon assimilation, and albedo in temperate and boreal forests: Functional relations and potential climate feedbacks

(2008) S. V. Ollinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Global Stoichiometry of Litter Nitrogen Mineralization

(2008) S. Manzoni et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Plant nutrient-acquisition strategies change with soil age

(2008) H LAMBERS et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION