Disentangling the Ecological Determinants of Species and Functional Trait Diversity in Herb-Layer Plant Communities in European Temperate Forests

Phylogenetic structure of European forest vegetation

(2021) Josep Padullés Cubino et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Seeing beyond the trees: a comparison of tropical and temperate plant growth forms and their vertical distribution

(2020) Michelle Elise Spicer et al.   ECOLOGY

The edaphic control of plant diversity

(2020) Catherine M. Hulshof et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant species richness increases with light availability, but not variability, in temperate forests understorey

(2020) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Evaluating structural and compositional canopy characteristics to predict the light‐demand signature of the forest understorey in mixed, semi‐natural temperate forests

(2020) Leen Depauw et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Intraspecific variability of specific leaf area fosters the persistence of understory specialists across a light availability gradient

(2020) Stefano Chelli et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Plant taxonomic and phylogenetic turnover increases toward climatic extremes and depends on historical factors in European beech forests

(2020) Josep Padullés Cubino et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Towards a more balanced combination of multiple traits when computing functional differences between species

(2020) Francesco Bello et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Excess Nitrogen in Temperate Forest Ecosystems Decreases Herbaceous Layer Diversity and Shifts Control from Soil to Canopy Structure

(2019) Frank Gilliam   Forests

Plant richness and composition in hardwood forest understories vary along an acidic deposition and soil-chemical gradient in the northeastern United States

(2019) Michael R. Zarfos et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Altitude and aspect filter the herb layer functional structure of sub-Mediterranean forests

(2019) Federico M. Tardella et al.   PHYTOCOENOLOGIA

Forest understory vegetation is more related to soil than to climate towards the cold distribution margin of European beech

(2019) Robert Weigel et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A multifaceted approach for beech forest conservation: Environmental drivers of understory plant diversity

(2019) Gianluigi Ottaviani et al.   FLORA

The functional role of temperate forest understorey vegetation in a changing world

(2019) Dries Landuyt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of climate, soil, forest structure and land use on the functional composition of the understory in Italian forests

(2019) Stefano Chelli et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Tree species impact on understory vegetation: Vascular plant communities of Scots pine and Norway spruce managed stands in northern Europe

(2019) Lisa Petersson et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Maximum air temperature controlled by landscape topography affects plant species composition in temperate forests

(2019) Martin Macek et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Climate is the main driver of clonal and bud bank traits in Italian forest understories

(2019) Stefano Chelli et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Response of herbaceous layer species to canopy and soil variables in a central Appalachian hardwood forest ecosystem

(2019) Frank S. Gilliam   PLANT ECOLOGY

Effects of Disturbance on Understory Vegetation across Slovenian Forest Ecosystems

(2019) Kutnar et al.   Forests

Forest Understorey Vegetation: Colonization and the Availability and Heterogeneity of Resources

(2019) Xiangping Su et al.   Forests

Comparing observer performance in vegetation records by efficiency graphs derived from rarefaction curves

(2019) Walter Seidling et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Light availability and land‐use history drive biodiversity and functional changes in forest herb layer communities

(2019) Leen Depauw et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant functional trait response to environmental drivers across European temperate forest understorey communities

(2019) S. L. Maes et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Modelling understorey dynamics in temperate forests under global change–Challenges and perspectives

(2018) D. Landuyt et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

The ecology of Central European tree species: Trait spectra, functional trade-offs, and ecological classification of adult trees

(2018) Christoph Leuschner et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Functional trait variation of forest understorey plant communities across Europe

(2018) Thomas Vanneste et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Do drivers of forestry vehicles also drive herb layer changes (1970-2015) in a temperate forest with contrasting habitat and management conditions?

(2018) Déborah Closset-Kopp et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Environmental drivers of the forest regeneration in temperate mixed forests

(2018) Flóra Tinya et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Litter quality, land-use history, and nitrogen deposition effects on topsoil conditions across European temperate deciduous forests

(2018) Sybryn L. Maes et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

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

Effects of disturbance frequency and severity on plant traits: An assessment across a temperate flora

(2017) Tomáš Herben et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Nitrogen deposition and its impact on forest ecosystems in the Czech Republic – change in soil chemistry and ground vegetation

(2017) R Novotný et al.   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

Herbaceous Understorey: An Overlooked Player in Forest Landscape Dynamics?

(2016) Timothy Thrippleton et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Soil-climate interactions explain variation in foliar, stem, root and reproductive traits across temperate forests

(2016) Angela H. Simpson et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Predicting plant trait similarity along environmental gradients

(2016) Lauchlan H. Fraser et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Environmental drivers of the composition and diversity of the herb layer in mixed temperate forests in Hungary

(2016) Sára Márialigeti et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey plant life

(2016) Fernando Valladares et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

The contribution of nitrogen deposition to the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of European forests

(2016) Han F. van Dobben et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Environmental Drivers of Patterns of Plant Diversity Along a Wide Environmental Gradient in Korean Temperate Forests

(2016) Chang-Bae Lee et al.   Forests

Monitoring European forests: results for science, policy, and society

(2015) Pasi Rautio et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

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

(2015) Jitka Klimešová et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drivers of herb-layer species diversity in two unmanaged temperate forests in northern Spain

(2014) F. Sabatini et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Trait–environment relationships remain strong despite 50 years of trait compositional change in temperate forests

(2014) Kathryn L. Amatangelo et al.   ECOLOGY

When beech strikes back: How strict nature conservation reduces herb-layer diversity and productivity in Central European deciduous forests

(2014) Andreas Mölder et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Multiple drivers of plant diversity in forest ecosystems

(2014) Yu Zhang et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Disentangling the drivers of understorey species richness in eutrophic forest patches

(2014) Cord Peppler-Lisbach et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Clonal and bud bank traits: patterns across temperate plant communities

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

Environmental correlates of plant diversity in Korean temperate forests

(2013) Tomáš Černý et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Combining the fourth-corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation

(2013) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

Forest floor vegetation response to nitrogen deposition in Europe

(2013) Thomas Dirnböck et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Reproductive traits variation in the herb layer of a submediterranean deciduous forest landscape

(2013) Andrea Catorci et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Plant community assembly in temperate forests along gradients of soil fertility and disturbance

(2012) Tobias Naaf et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Interactions between overstorey and understorey vegetation along an overstorey compositional gradient

(2012) Samuel F. Bartels et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Practical variable selection for generalized additive models

(2011) Giampiero Marra et al.   COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS

The species richness-productivity relationship in the herb layer of European deciduous forests

(2011) Irena Axmanová et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The roles of environmental filtering and colonization in the fine-scale spatial patterning of ground-layer plant communities in north temperate deciduous forests

(2011) Julia I. Burton et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Multi-scale environmental heterogeneity as a predictor of plant species richness

(2011) Jennifer K. Costanza et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

CWM and Rao’s quadratic diversity: a unified framework for functional ecology

(2011) Carlo Ricotta et al.   OECOLOGIA

Tree diversity and environmental context predict herb species richness and cover in Germany's largest connected deciduous forest

(2011) Elke A. Vockenhuber et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

A user's guide to functional diversity indices

(2010) D. Schleuter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Ground vegetation monitoring in Swiss forests: comparison of survey methods and implications for trend assessments

(2010) Anne Thimonier et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Positive association between understory species richness and a dominant shrub species (Corylus avellana) in a boreonemoral spruce forest

(2010) Kadri Koorem et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Air humidity, soil moisture and soil chemistry as determinants of the herb layer composition in European beech forests

(2009) Christoph Leuschner et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Relative climatic, edaphic and management controls of plant functional trait signatures

(2009) Robin J. Pakeman et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

CLO-PLA: the database of clonal and bud bank traits of Central European flora

(2009) Jitka Klimešová et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The influence of light and nutrient availability on herb layer species richness in oak-dominated forests in central Bohemia

(2009) Jeňýk Hofmeister et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

The effect of light conditions on herbs, bryophytes and seedlings of temperate mixed forests in Őrség, Western Hungary

(2009) Flóra Tinya et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

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

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

Influence of tree species on understory vegetation diversity and mechanisms involved—A critical review for temperate and boreal forests

(2007) Stéphane Barbier et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT