Re-visiting historical semi-natural grasslands in the Apennines to assess patterns of changes in species composition and functional traits

Current European policies are unlikely to jointly foster carbon sequestration and protect biodiversity

(2016) Sabina Burrascano et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Leaf Mass Per Area (LMA) as a Possible Predictor of Adaptive Strategies in Two Species ofSesleria(Poaceae): Analysis of Morphological, Anatomical and Physiological Leaf Traits

(2015) Giacomo Puglielli et al.   ANNALES BOTANICI FENNICI

Drivers of vegetation change in grasslands of the Sheffield region, northern England, between 1965 and 2012/13

(2015) Carly J. Stevens et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Wild boar rooting intensity determines shifts in understorey composition and functional traits

(2015) S. Burrascano et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Assessing coexisting plant extinction debt and colonization credit in a grassland–forest change gradient

(2015) Guillem Bagaria et al.   OECOLOGIA

Advantages of the point-intercept method for assessing functional diversity in semi-arid areas

(2015) A Nunes et al.   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis

(2014) Jürgen Dengler et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Long-term changes in calcareous grassland vegetation in North-western Germany – No decline in species richness, but a shift in species composition

(2014) Martin Diekmann et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Pervasive early 21st-century vegetation changes across Danish semi-natural ecosystems: more losers than winners and a shift towards competitive, tall-growing species

(2014) Allan Timmermann et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Land cover changes in an abandoned agricultural land in the Northern Apennine (Italy) between 1954 and 2008: Spatio-temporal dynamics

(2014) S. Assini et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Imputation of missing data in life-history trait datasets: which approach performs the best?

(2014) Caterina Penone et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Management type affects composition and facilitative processes in altoandine dry grassland

(2013) Andrea Catorci et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional diversity of ground-layer plant communities in old-growth and managed northern hardwood forests

(2013) Francesco M. Sabatini et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Assessing vegetation change using vegetation-plot databases: a risky business

(2013) Milan Chytrý et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Allocating CSR plant functional types: the use of leaf economics and size traits to classify woody and herbaceous vascular plants

(2013) Simon Pierce et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Origin and history of grasslands in Central Europe - a review

(2013) M. Hejcman et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Distribution and effects of tree leaf litter on vegetation composition and biomass in a forest–grassland ecotone

(2013) Alejandro Loydi et al.   Journal of Plant 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

Inferring temporal shifts in landuse intensity from functional response traits and functional diversity patterns: a study of Scotland's machair grassland

(2013) Rob J. Lewis et al.   OIKOS

Effect of cattle grazing on soil salinity and vegetation composition along an elevation gradient in a temperate coastal salt marsh of Samborombón Bay (Argentina)

(2013) Carla E. Di Bella et al.   WETLANDS ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Effect of sheep and horse grazing on species and functional composition of sub-Mediterranean grasslands

(2012) Andrea Catorci et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Drivers of beta-diversity variation inBromus erectussemi-natural dry grasslands

(2012) Sabina Burrascano et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Fifty years of change in Central European grassland vegetation: Large losses in species richness and animal-pollinated plants

(2012) Karsten Wesche et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Which plant traits predict species loss in calcareous grasslands with extinction debt?

(2012) Liina Saar et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

(2012) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Mechanisms of ecological succession: insights from plant functional strategies

(2012) Valérie Raevel et al.   OIKOS

Multi-trait interactions, not phylogeny, fine-tune leaf size reduction with increasing altitude

(2011) Rubén Milla et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Spontaneous restoration of target vegetation in old-fields in a central European landscape: a repeated analysis after three decades

(2011) Alena Jírová et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Which habitats of European importance depend on agricultural practices?

(2011) Lubos Halada et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Morphological and reproductive responses of dominant plant species to local conditions in herbaceous successional stages of a calcareous hillside

(2011) Gaylord Dujardin et al.   FLORA

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Important Plant Areas in Italy: From data to mapping

(2010) C. Blasi et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Venation networks and the origin of the leaf economics spectrum

(2010) Benjamin Blonder et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant Strategies in Relation to Resource Supply in Mesic to Wet Environments: Does Theory Mirror Nature?

(2009) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin

(2009) S. Paula et al.   ECOLOGY

Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global-scale terrestrial biosphere models

(2009) JENS KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Suites of plant traits in species from different stages of a Mediterranean secondary succession

(2009) M.-L. Navas et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Combining plant and animal traits to assess community functional responses to disturbance

(2008) Marco Moretti et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

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