Why Be a Shrub? A Basic Model and Hypotheses for the Adaptive Values of a Common Growth Form

Needle age and season influence photosynthetic temperature response and total annual carbon uptake in maturePicea marianatrees

(2015) Anna M. Jensen et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plants Duke It Out in a Warming Arctic

(2015) Lesley Evans Ogden   BIOSCIENCE

Woody tissue photosynthesis in trees: salve on the wounds of drought?

(2015) Maurits W. Vandegehuchte et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Explaining biomass growth of tropical canopy trees: the importance of sapwood

(2015) Masha T. van der Sande et al.   OECOLOGIA

A comparison of hydraulic architecture in three similarly sized woody species differing in their maximum potential height

(2015) Katherine A. McCulloh et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Is the WBE model appropriate for semi-arid shrubs subjected to clear cutting?

(2015) H. B.-A. Issoufou et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Patterns of frequency distribution of woody plant heights: a response to Scheffer et al.

(2015) Hong Qian   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Trees and shrubs differ biomechanically

(2015) Markku Larjavaara   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Bimodality of plant height: fact or artifact? A response to Scheffer et al.

(2015) Hong Qian et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Large changes in carbon storage under different land-use regimes in subtropical seasonally dry forests of southern South America

(2014) Georgina Conti et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Plant material features responsible for bamboo's excellent mechanical performance: a comparison of tensile properties of bamboo and spruce at the tissue, fibre and cell wall levels

(2014) Xiaoqing Wang et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Shrub Expansion Over the Past 62 Years in Rocky Mountain Alpine Tundra: Possible Causes and Consequences

(2014) Adam Formica et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

How to tell a shrub from a tree: A life-history perspective from a South African savanna

(2014) Alexander Zizka et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Management-driven evolution in a domesticated ecosystem

(2014) V. Vandvik et al.   Biology Letters

Differential survival and growth of stumps in 14 woody species after conservation thinning in mixed oak-rich temperate forests

(2014) Jenny Leonardsson et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A systematic review and conceptual framework for the mechanistic pathways of nurse plants

(2014) Alessandro Filazzola et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Assessment of leaf mass and leaf area of tree crowns in young Eucalyptus grandis and E. globulus plantations from measurements made on the stems

(2014) S. J. Rance et al.   NEW FORESTS

Why trees and shrubs but rarely trubs?

(2014) Marten Scheffer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Frost resistance in alpine woody plants

(2014) Gilbert Neuner   Frontiers in Plant Science

Interspecific variation in the size-dependent resprouting ability of temperate woody species and its adaptive significance

(2013) Rei Shibata et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Contribution of stem CO2 fixation to whole-plant carbon balance in nonsucculent species

(2013) E. Ávila et al.   PHOTOSYNTHETICA

Does seed mass drive the differences in relative growth rate between growth forms?

(2013) J. Houghton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Will woody plant encroachment impact the visitor experience and economy of conservation areas?

(2013) Emma F. Gray et al.   KOEDOE

Evidence for plant traits driving specific drought resistance. A community field experiment

(2012) Luis Matías et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Finer resolution observation and monitoring of global land cover: first mapping results with Landsat TM and ETM+ data

(2012) Peng Gong et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Shrubs versus ‘gullivers’: woody species coping with disturbance in grasslands

(2012) Julia-Maria Hermann et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Integration of vessel traits, wood density, and height in angiosperm shrubs and trees

(2011) Hugo I. Martínez-Cabrera et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas

(2011) Zakary Ratajczak et al.   ECOLOGY

High-light acclimation in Quercus robur L. seedlings upon over-topping a shaded environment

(2011) Anna M. Jensen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The more stems the merrier: advantages of multi-stemmed architecture for the demography of understorey trees in a temperate broadleaf woodland

(2011) Andrew J. Tanentzap et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Multi-stemming and mechanical traits ensure persistence of subalpine woody plants exposed to a disturbance gradient

(2011) Alexia Stokes et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Patterns and processes of global shrub expansion

(2011) Adam T. Naito et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Is Branching Intensity Interspecifically Related to Biomass Allocation? A Survey of 25 Dicot Shrub Species from an Open‐Growing Dry Valley

(2010) Shucun Sun et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Establishing a missing link: warm summers and winter snow cover promote shrub expansion into alpine tundra in Scandinavia

(2010) Martin Hallinger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Comparative ecophysiological responses to drought of two shrub and four tree species from karst habitats of southwestern China

(2010) Chang-Cheng Liu et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Multi-stemmed trees in montane rain forests: their frequency and demography in relation to elevation, soil nutrients and disturbance

(2009) Peter J. Bellingham et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Hydraulically integrated or modular? Comparing whole-plant-level hydraulic systems between two desert shrub species with different growth forms

(2009) Susana Espino et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Corticular photosynthesis: A mechanism to enhance shrub expansion in coastal environments

(2009) J.K. Vick et al.   PHOTOSYNTHETICA

Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs

(2008) ALAN K. KNAPP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Hydraulic integration and shrub growth form linked across continental aridity gradients

(2008) H. J. Schenk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA