Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size‐related traits across the tundra biome

Within-species patterns challenge our understanding of the leaf economics spectrum

(2018) Leander D. L. Anderegg et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Accelerated Nutrient Cycling and Increased Light Competition Will Lead to 21st Century Shrub Expansion in North American Arctic Tundra

(2018) Zelalem A. Mekonnen et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

(2018) Anne D. Bjorkman et al.   NATURE

Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

(2018) Anne D. Bjorkman et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address below-ground challenges in plant ecology

(2017) Colleen M. Iversen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Different clades and traits yield similar grassland functional responses

(2017) Elisabeth J. Forrestel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why species tell more about traits than traits about species: predictive analysis

(2016) James S. Clark   ECOLOGY

Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope signals for an entire alpine flora, based on herbarium samples

(2016) Christian Körner et al.   Alpine Botany

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How many dimensions are needed to accurately assess functional diversity? A pragmatic approach for assessing the quality of functional spaces

(2015) Eva Maire et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global patterns of plant root colonization intensity by mycorrhizal fungi explained by climate and soil chemistry

(2015) Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Estimating themissing species bias in plant trait measurements

(2015) Brody Sandel et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Extrapolating multi-decadal plant community changes based on medium-term experiments can be risky: evidence from high-latitude tundra

(2015) Patrick Saccone et al.   OIKOS

Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes

(2015) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Community and species-specific responses to simulated global change in two subarctic-alpine plant communities

(2015) Chelsea J. Little et al.   Ecosphere

Definition of sampling units begets conclusions in ecology: the case of habitats for plant communities

(2015) Martin A. Mörsdorf et al.   PeerJ

Plant functional types in Earth system models: past experiences and future directions for application of dynamic vegetation models in high-latitude ecosystems

(2014) Stan D. Wullschleger et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Evergreen shrubs dominate responses to experimental summer warming and fertilization in Canadian mesic low arctic tundra

(2014) Tara J. Zamin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The unseen iceberg: plant roots in arctic tundra

(2014) Colleen M. Iversen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Linking plant and ecosystem functional biogeography

(2014) M. Reichstein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Spatial and temporal functional changes in alpine summit vegetation are driven by increases in shrubs and graminoids

(2014) Susanna Venn et al.   AoB Plants

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Winter climate change, plant traits and nutrient and carbon cycling in cold biomes

(2013) Johannes H. C. Cornelissen et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Ellen L. Fry et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Warming effects and plant trait control on the early-decomposition in alpine snowbeds

(2013) Michele Carbognani et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Functional traits predict relationship between plant abundance dynamic and long-term climate warming

(2013) N. A. Soudzilovskaia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phenological tracking enables positive species responses to climate change

(2012) Elsa E. Cleland et al.   ECOLOGY

Improving plant functional groups for dynamic models of biodiversity: at the crossroads between functional and community ecology

(2012) Isabelle Boulangeat et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming

(2012) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

(2011) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

(2011) Isla H Myers-Smith et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Processes and impacts of Arctic amplification: A research synthesis

(2011) Mark C. Serreze et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Nitrification is linked to dominant leaf traits rather than functional diversity

(2011) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biomass compensation and plant responses to 7 years of plant functional group removals

(2011) Jennie R. McLaren et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Advances, challenges and a developing synthesis of ecological community assembly theory

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

The role of mosses in ecosystem succession and function in Alaska’s boreal forestThis article is one of a selection of papers from The Dynamics of Change in Alaska’s Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming.

(2010) Merritt R. Turetsky et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Taller and larger: shifts in Arctic tundra leaf traits after 16 years of experimental warming

(2010) J. M. G. HUDSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A link between plant traits and abundance: evidence from coastal California woody plants

(2010) William K. Cornwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecosystem properties determined by plant functional group identity

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

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

(2009) C. Violle et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Temporal dynamics of marginal steppic vegetation over a 26-year period of substantial environmental change

(2009) Silvia Matesanz et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Ecophysiological and bioclimatic foundations for a global plant functional classification

(2009) Sandy P. Harrison et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

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

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

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

Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

(2008) J. N. Galloway et al.   SCIENCE