Intraspecific variation in traits and tree growth along an elevational gradient in a subtropical forest

Individual-level trait variation and negative density dependence affect growth in tropical tree seedlings

(2018) Maria Natalia Umaña et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Quantifying the role of intra-specific trait variation for allocation and organ-level traits in tropical seedling communities

(2018) María Natalia Umaña et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Why Functional Traits Do Not Predict Tree Demographic Rates

(2018) Jie Yang et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Interspecific integration of trait dimensions at local scales: the plant phenotype as an integrated network

(2017) Julie Messier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The ecological importance of intraspecific variation

(2017) Simone Des Roches et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Linking individual-level functional traits to tree growth in a subtropical forest

(2016) Xiaojuan Liu et al.   ECOLOGY

Wood density is a poor predictor of competitive ability among individuals of the same species

(2016) Alex Fajardo   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Phenological variation of leaf functional traits within species

(2016) Alex Fajardo et al.   OECOLOGIA

Do community-weighted mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies?

(2016) Robert Muscarella et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Elevational Gradients in β-Diversity Reflect Variation in the Strength of Local Community Assembly Mechanisms across Spatial Scales

(2015) J. Sebastián Tello et al.   PLoS One

Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

(2015) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession

(2014) Jesse R. Lasky et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Integrated phenotypes: understanding trait covariation in plants and animals

(2014) W. S. Armbruster et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ontogenetic trait variation influences tree community assembly across environmental gradients

(2014) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   Ecosphere

Intra-specific and inter-specific variation in specific leaf area reveal the importance of abiotic and biotic drivers of species diversity across elevation and latitude

(2013) Catherine M. Hulshof et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A common genetic basis to the origin of the leaf economics spectrum and metabolic scaling allometry

(2012) François Vasseur et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

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

What Makes a Leaf Tough? Patterns of Correlated Evolution between Leaf Toughness Traits and Demographic Rates among 197 Shade-Tolerant Woody Species in a Neotropical Forest

(2011) Jared W. Westbrook et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

(2011) Yusuke Onoda et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Functional traits of individual trees reveal ecological constraints on community assembly in tropical rain forests

(2011) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   OIKOS

When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Growth Strategies of Tropical Tree Species: Disentangling Light and Size Effects

(2011) Nadja Rüger et al.   PLoS One

Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

(2010) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Tissue-level leaf toughness, but not lamina thickness, predicts sapling leaf lifespan and shade tolerance of tropical tree species

(2010) Kaoru Kitajima et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Intraspecific trait variation and covariation in a widespread tree species (Nothofagus pumilio) in southern Chile

(2010) Alex Fajardo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Deterministic tropical tree community turnover: evidence from patterns of functional beta diversity along an elevational gradient

(2010) N. G. Swenson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Biodiversity in a complex world: consolidation and progress in functional biodiversity research

(2009) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The relationship between stem and branch wood specific gravity and the ability of each measure to predict leaf area

(2008) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Leaf size and leaf display of thirty-eight tropical tree species

(2008) Lourens Poorter et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE