Multidimensional ecological analyses demonstrate how interactions between functional traits shape fitness and life history strategies

Delivering the promises of trait-based approaches to the needs of demographic approaches, and vice versa

(2018) Roberto Salguero-Gómez et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Clonal vs leaf-height-seed (LHS) traits: which are filtered more strongly across habitats?

(2017) Anna E.-Vojtkó et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

A trait-based approach to understand the consequences of specific plant interactions for community structure

(2017) Christian Schöb et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Rugged fitness landscapes and Darwinian demons in trait-based ecology

(2017) Daniel C. Laughlin   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees

(2016) Marco D. Visser et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Reproduction by seed and clonality in plants: correlated syndromes or independent strategies?

(2016) Tomáš Herben et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology

(2016) Bill Shipley et al.   OECOLOGIA

Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

(2016) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Can functional traits predict plant community response to global change?

(2016) Sarah Kimball et al.   Ecosphere

Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

(2015) Joaquín Hortal et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Multiple strategies for drought survival among woody plant species

(2015) Alexandria L. Pivovaroff et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

Herbs are different: clonal and bud bank traits can matter more than leaf-height-seed traits

(2015) Jitka Klimešová et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fast–slow continuum and reproductive strategies structure plant life-history variation worldwide

(2015) Roberto Salguero-Gómez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes

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

A Comparative Assessment Between Three Machine Learning Models and Their Performance Comparison by Bivariate and Multivariate Statistical Methods in Groundwater Potential Mapping

(2015) Seyed Amir Naghibi et al.   WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Plant functional traits as determinants of population stability

(2014) Maria Májeková et al.   ECOLOGY

ThecompadrePlant Matrix Database: an open online repository for plant demography

(2014) Roberto Salguero-Gómez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Clonal and bud bank traits: patterns across temperate plant communities

(2014) Jitka Klimešová et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Grazing management or physiography? Factors controlling vegetation recovery in Mediterranean grasslands

(2013) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Species traits and plant performance: functional trade-offs in a large set of species in a botanical garden

(2013) Tomáš Herben et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do plant traits retrieved from a database accurately predict on-site measurements?

(2013) Verena Cordlandwehr et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Potential effects of climate change on the distribution of Scarabaeidae dung beetles in Western Europe

(2013) E. Dortel et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Are trait-based species rankings consistent across data sets and spatial scales?

(2013) Elena Kazakou et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies

(2013) P. B. Adler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?

(2012) Michael Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Rules of the seed size game: contests between large-seeded and small-seeded species

(2012) Karin Lönnberg et al.   OIKOS

Factors influencing vegetation cover change in Mediterranean Central Chile (1975-2008)

(2011) Jennifer J. Schulz et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

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

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Interspecific variation in functional traits, not climatic differences among species ranges, determines demographic rates across 44 temperate and Mediterranean tree species

(2010) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Universal foliage-stem scaling across environments and species in dicot trees: plasticity, biomechanics and Corner’s Rules

(2009) Mark E. Olson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

A working guide to boosted regression trees

(2008) J. Elith et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

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