New insights into leaf and fine-root trait relationships: implications of resource acquisition among 23 xerophytic woody species

Are leaf functional traits ‘invariant’ with plant size and what is ‘invariance’ anyway?

(2014) Charles A. Price et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Opposite metabolic responses of shoots and roots to drought

(2014) Albert Gargallo-Garriga et al.   Scientific Reports

Leaf and fine root carbon stocks and turnover are coupled across Arctic ecosystems

(2013) Victoria L. Sloan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Variation of first-order root traits across climatic gradients and evolutionary trends in geological time

(2013) Weile Chen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

(2013) Mark Westoby et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Trait correlation networks: a whole-plant perspective on the recently criticized leaf economic spectrum

(2013) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Plasticity in above- and belowground resource acquisition traits in response to single and multiple environmental factors in three tree species

(2013) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Intraspecific variation in root and leaf traits and leaf-root trait linkages in eight aspen demes (Populus tremula and P. tremuloides)

(2013) Peter Hajek et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species

(2012) Claire Fortunel et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Root and leaf functional trait relations in Poaceae species: implications of differing resource-acquisition strategies

(2012) F. Fort et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

The role of roots in the resource economics spectrum

(2012) Liesje Mommer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Independent Evolution of Leaf and Root Traits within and among Temperate Grassland Plant Communities

(2011) Steven W. Kembel et al.   PLoS One

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

Linking root morphology, longevity and function to root branch order: a case study in three shrubs

(2010) Gang Huang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Nitrogen and phosphorus allocation in leaves, twigs, and fine roots across 49 temperate, subtropical and tropical tree species: a hierarchical pattern

(2009) Ang Li et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Underground ecology in a Patagonian steppe: Root traits permit identification of graminoid species and classification into functional types

(2009) P.E. Leva et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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

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

Stoichiometry and Nutrition of Plant Growth in Natural Communities

(2008) Göran I. Ågren   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The effects of water availability on root growth and morphology in an Amazon rainforest

(2008) Daniel B. Metcalfe et al.   PLANT AND SOIL