Summer dormancy, drought survival and functional resource acquisition strategies in California perennial grasses

What functional strategies drive drought survival and recovery of perennial species from upland grassland?

(2015) Marine Zwicke et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Root anatomical phenes predict root penetration ability and biomechanical properties in maize (Zea Mays)

(2015) Joseph G. Chimungu et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California

(2015) Noah S. Diffenbaugh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Designing resilient and sustainable grasslands for a drier future: Adaptive strategies, functional traits and biotic interactions

(2013) Florence Volaire et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Hierarchy of root functional trait values and plasticity drive early-stage competition for water and phosphorus among grasses

(2013) Florian Fort et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Tradeoffs between functional strategies for resource-use and drought-survival in Mediterranean rangeland species

(2012) Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Determinants of perennial and annual grass distribution in Mediterranean-climate California

(2012) Jeffrey Clary   PLANT ECOLOGY

A modelling analysis to identify plant traits for enhanced water-use efficiency of pasture

(2012) T. A. White et al.   Crop & Pasture Science

Climate change and the invasion of California by grasses

(2011) Brody Sandel et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The ecological role of climate extremes: current understanding and future prospects

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

California perennial grasses are physiologically distinct from both Mediterranean annual and perennial grasses

(2011) Kurt J. Vaughn et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Native Perennial Grasses Show Evolutionary Response to Bromus tectorum (Cheatgrass) Invasion

(2011) Erin M. Goergen et al.   PLoS One

Ecotypic variation of summer dormancy relaxation associated with rainfall gradient in the geophytic grass Poa bulbosa

(2010) Micha Ofir et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

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

Morphological traits and water use strategies in seedlings of Mediterranean coexisting species

(2009) E. I. Hernández et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Spatio-Temporal Relationship between Water Depletion and Root Distribution Patterns of Centaurea solstitialis and Two Native Perennials

(2009) Stephen L. Young et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Measurement of summer dormancy in temperate perennial pasture grasses

(2008) M. R. Norton et al.  

Climate change scenarios for the California region

(2008) Daniel R. Cayan et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE