Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs

Plant ecological indicator values as predictors of fine‐root trait variations

(2020) Florian Fort et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How mycorrhizal associations drive plant population and community biology

(2020) Leho Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems

(2020) Angela M. Oliverio et al.   Science Advances

The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale

(2020) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   Nature Climate Change

The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants

(2020) Joana Bergmann et al.   Science Advances

Global root traits (GRooT) database

(2020) Nathaly R. Guerrero‐Ramírez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

sP lot – a new tool for global vegetation analyses

(2019) Helge Bruelheide et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses

(2019) B. S. Steidinger et al.   NATURE

Geographic scale and disturbance influence intraspecific trait variability in leaves and roots of North American understorey plants

(2019) Bright B. Kumordzi et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A scale‐dependent framework for trade‐offs, syndromes, and specialization in organismal biology

(2019) Anurag A. Agrawal   ECOLOGY

Global mycorrhizal plant distribution linked to terrestrial carbon stocks

(2019) Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia et al.   Nature Communications

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

(2019) Jens Kattge et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Survival rates indicate that correlations between community-weighted mean traits and environments can be unreliable estimates of the adaptive value of traits

(2018) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits

(2018) Zeqing Ma et al.   NATURE

Fine Root Traits Are Correlated with Flooding Duration while Aboveground Traits Are Related to Grazing in an Ephemeral Wetland

(2018) Adam S. T. Purcell et al.   WETLANDS

Functional traits and community composition: A comparison among community‐weighted means, weighted correlations, and multilevel models

(2018) Jesse E. D. Miller et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

(2018) Helge Bruelheide et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Different phylogenetic and environmental controls of first-order root morphological and nutrient traits: Evidence of multidimensional root traits

(2017) Ruili Wang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation

(2017) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

lmerTest Package: Tests in Linear Mixed Effects Models

(2017) Alexandra Kuznetsova et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Adaptive root foraging strategies along a boreal-temperate forest gradient

(2017) Ivika Ostonen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A worldview of root traits: the influence of ancestry, growth form, climate and mycorrhizal association on the functional trait variation of fine-root tissues in seed plants

(2017) Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Root traits across environmental gradients in Mediterranean woody communities: are they aligned along the root economics spectrum?

(2017) Enrique G. de la Riva et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Aridity increases below-ground niche breadth in grass communities

(2017) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Understanding the regional pattern of projected future changes in extreme precipitation

(2017) S. Pfahl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Get Tough, Get Toxic, or Get a Bodyguard: Identifying Candidate Traits Conferring Belowground Resistance to Herbivores in Grasses

(2017) Ben D. Moore et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

(2017) Dirk Nikolaus Karger et al.   Scientific Data

Patterns of structural and defense investments in fine roots of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestrisL.) across a strong temperature and latitudinal gradient in Europe

(2016) Marcin Zadworny et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum

(2016) Kris R. Kramer-Walter et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Towards a multidimensional root trait framework: a tree root review

(2016) Monique Weemstra et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology

(2016) Etienne Laliberté   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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

Linking trait similarity to interspecific spatial associations in a moist tropical forest

(2015) Eduardo Velázquez et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The evolution of novel host use is unlikely to be constrained by trade-offs or a lack of genetic variation

(2015) Zachariah Gompert et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Environmental filtering increases in intensity at both ends of climatic gradients, though driven by different factors, across woody vegetation types of the southwest USA

(2015) Bradley J. Butterfield   OIKOS

Trade-offs in interspecific comparisons in plant ecology and how plants overcome proposed constraints

(2015) Peter J. Grubb   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Quantifying multimodal trait distributions improves trait-based predictions of species abundances and functional diversity

(2014) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis alters stomatal conductance of host plants more under drought than under amply watered conditions: a meta-analysis

(2014) Robert M. Augé et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Leading dimensions in absorptive root trait variation across 96 subtropical forest species

(2014) Deliang Kong et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant lignin content altered by soil microbial community

(2014) Alison E. Bennett et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

(2014) L. Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

The whole-plant compensation point as a measure of juvenile tree light requirements

(2013) Christopher H. Lusk et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Variation of first-order root traits across climatic gradients and evolutionary trends in geological time

(2013) Weile Chen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

(2012) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Selecting traits that explain species-environment relationships: a generalized linear mixed model approach

(2012) Tahira Jamil et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The role of functional traits in species distributions revealed through a hierarchical model

(2011) Laura J. Pollock et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Climatic constraints on trait-based forest assembly

(2011) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Presence of three mycorrhizal genes in the common ancestor of land plants suggests a key role of mycorrhizas in the colonization of land by plants

(2010) Bin Wang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Climate change mitigation: A spatial analysis of global land suitability for clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation

(2008) Robert J. Zomer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT