From a conceptual framework to an operational approach for managing grassland functional diversity to obtain targeted ecosystem services: Case studies from French mountains

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 Preference for Ammonium versus Nitrate: A Neglected Determinant of Ecosystem Functioning?

(2012) S. Boudsocq et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Global warming potential of French grassland-based dairy livestock systems under climate change

(2012) Anne-Isabelle Graux et al.   Regional Environmental Change

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

Plant traits and decomposition: are the relationships for roots comparable to those for leaves?

(2011) Marine Birouste et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Quantifying species trait-functioning relationships for ecosystem management

(2011) L.H. Comas et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functional diversity of species-rich managed grasslands in response to fertility, defoliation and temperature

(2011) Michel Duru et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Science into practice - how can fundamental science contribute to better management of grasslands for invertebrates?

(2011) NICK A. LITTLEWOOD et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Flowering phenology and height growth pattern are associated with maximum plant height, relative growth rate and stem tissue mass density in herbaceous grassland species

(2011) Shucun Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Impacts of species interactions on grass community productivity under contrasting management regimes

(2011) Laíse da Silveira Pontes et al.   OECOLOGIA

Pattern-oriented modelling: a 'multi-scope' for predictive systems ecology

(2011) V. Grimm et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Provision of contrasting ecosystem services by soil communities from different agricultural fields

(2011) Erik Verbruggen et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant and microbial strategies to improve the phosphorus efficiency of agriculture

(2011) Alan E. Richardson et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Linking functional diversity and social actor strategies in a framework for interdisciplinary analysis of nature's benefits to society

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

Comparison of methods for assessing the impact of different disturbances and nutrient conditions upon functional characteristics of grassland communities

(2010) M. Duru et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

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

A structured and dynamic framework to advance traits-based theory and prediction in ecology

(2010) Colleen T. Webb et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies

(2010) A. G. Power   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of plant species richness and evenness on soil microbial community diversity and function

(2010) Eric G. Lamb et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Leaf Traits as Functional Descriptors of the Intensity of Continuous Grazing in Native Grasslands in the South of Brazil

(2010) Pablo Cruz et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Ecosystem services in grassland associated with biotic and abiotic soil parameters

(2010) Nick van Eekeren et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

How understanding aboveground–belowground linkages can assist restoration ecology

(2010) Paul Kardol et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A simplified method for characterising agronomic services provided by species-rich grasslands

(2010) Michel Duru et al.   Crop & Pasture Science

Nitrogen rhizodeposition of legumes. A review

(2009) Joëlle Fustec et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Convergence in plant traits between species within grassland communities simplifies their monitoring

(2009) Pauline Ansquer et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

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

(2009) Claire Fortunel et al.   ECOLOGY

Ecological mechanisms associated with the positive diversity–productivity relationship in an N-limited grassland

(2009) D. A. Fornara et al.   ECOLOGY

Community niche predicts the functioning of denitrifying bacterial assemblages

(2009) Joana F. Salles et al.   ECOLOGY

Shifts betweenNitrospira- andNitrobacter-like nitrite oxidizers underlie the response of soil potential nitrite oxidation to changes in tillage practices

(2009) E. Attard et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Plant presence and species combination, but not diversity, influence denitrifier activity and the composition ofnirK-type denitrifier communities in grassland soil

(2009) Christina Bremer et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Grazing triggers soil carbon loss by altering plant roots and their control on soil microbial community

(2009) Katja Klumpp et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Competition, traits and resource depletion in plant communities

(2009) Cyrille Violle et al.   OECOLOGIA

Rhizosphere: biophysics, biogeochemistry and ecological relevance

(2009) Philippe Hinsinger et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Improving the Scale and Precision of Hypotheses to Explain Root Foraging Ability

(2008) S. W. Kembel et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

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

Plant traits and functional types to characterise drought survival of pluri-specific perennial herbaceous swards in Mediterranean areas

(2008) Florence Volaire   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

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

Embracing Variability in the Application of Plant-Soil Interactions to the Restoration of Communities and Ecosystems

(2008) Valerie T. Eviner et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Eco-efficient approaches to land management: a case for increased integration of crop and animal production systems

(2007) R.J Wilkins   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES