Effects of extreme drought on specific leaf area of grassland species: A meta-analysis of experimental studies in temperate and sub-Mediterranean systems

The response of sub-Mediterranean grasslands to rainfall variation is influenced by early season precipitation

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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

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Why functional ecology should consider all plant organs: An allocation-based perspective

(2015) Michael Kleyer et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Global Change Experiments: Challenges and Opportunities

(2015) Hans J. De Boeck et al.   BIOSCIENCE

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

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Leaf-trait plasticity and species vulnerability to climate change in a Mongolian steppe

(2015) Pierre Liancourt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

(2015) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Partitioning NEE for absolute C input into various ecosystem pools by combining results from eddy-covariance, atmospheric flux partitioning and 13CO2 pulse labeling

(2015) M. Riederer et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Specific leaf area correlates with temperature: new evidence of trait variation at the population, species and community levels

(2015) Sergey Rosbakh et al.   Alpine Botany

Impacts of drought stress on water relations and carbon assimilation in grassland species at different altitudes

(2014) Christine Bollig et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Impact of Extreme Drought and Warming on Survival and Growth Characteristics of Different Provenences of Juvenile Quercus pubescens Willd

(2014) Camilla Wellstein et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Plasticity in functional traits in the context of climate change: a case study of the subalpine forbBoechera stricta(Brassicaceae)

(2014) Jill T. Anderson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Uses and misuses of meta-analysis in plant ecology

(2014) Julia Koricheva et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intraspecific phenotypic variability of plant functional traits in contrasting mountain grasslands habitats

(2013) Camilla Wellstein et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Morphological and physiological adaptive traits of Mediterranean narrow endemic plants: The case of Centaurea gymnocarpa (Capraia Island, Italy)

(2013) Rosangela Catoni et al.   FLORA

Intraspecific trait variability mediates the response of subalpine grassland communities to extreme drought events

(2013) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

(2012) Claus Beier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Tradeoffs between functional strategies for resource-use and drought-survival in Mediterranean rangeland species

(2012) Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Persistence and production of perennial grasses under water deficits and extreme temperatures: importance of intraspecific vs. interspecific variability

(2012) Magalie Poirier et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Phenological response of grassland species to manipulative snowmelt and drought along an altitudinal gradient

(2012) Christine Cornelius et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Diverse functional responses to drought in a Mediterranean-type shrubland in South Africa

(2012) A. G. West et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

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

Understanding species and community response to environmental change – A functional trait perspective

(2011) Camilla Wellstein et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Increased rainfall variability reduces biomass and forage quality of temperate grassland largely independent of mowing frequency

(2011) Julia Walter et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Extreme climatic events and vegetation: the role of stabilizing processes

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Relationships Between Transpiration Efficiency and Its Surrogate Traits in the rd29A:DREB1A Transgenic Lines of Groundnut

(2011) M. J. Devi et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY AND CROP SCIENCE

Climate extremes initiate ecosystem-regulating functions while maintaining productivity

(2011) Anke Jentsch et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

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

Modelling the ecological niche from functional traits

(2010) M. Kearney et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Competitive advantage of Rumex obtusifolius L. might increase in intensively managed temperate grasslands under drier climate

(2009) Anna K. Gilgen et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

(2009) C. Violle et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST