Trait-based classification and manipulation of plant functional groups for biodiversity-ecosystem function experiments

Plant Functional Group Composition Modifies the Effects of Precipitation Change on Grassland Ecosystem Function

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

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

Trait assembly of woody plants in communities across sub-alpine gradients: Identifying the role of limiting similarity

(2012) Bangguo Yan et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

(2011) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Experimental warming and clipping altered litter carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a tallgrass prairie

(2010) Xiaoli Cheng et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation: concepts and a glossary

(2010) Richard Harrington et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

A multi-trait approach reveals the structure and the relative importance of intra- vs. interspecific variability in plant traits

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do biotic interactions modulate ecosystem functioning along stress gradients? Insights from semi-arid plant and biological soil crust communities

(2010) F. T. Maestre et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Productivity, Respiration, and Light-Response Parameters of World Grassland and Agroecosystems Derived From Flux-Tower Measurements

(2010) Tagir G. Gilmanov et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

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

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

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

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

Biodiversity in a complex world: consolidation and progress in functional biodiversity research

(2009) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Using functional traits to predict grassland ecosystem change: a mathematical test of the response-and-effect trait approach

(2009) KATJA KLUMPP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Modified TWINSPAN classification in which the hierarchy respects cluster heterogeneity

(2009) Jan Roleček et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation

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

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Advancing realism in biodiversity research

(2008) S NAEEM   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION