Different sets of belowground traits predict the ability of plant species to suppress and tolerate their competitors

The Mechanisms and Consequences of Interspecific Competition Among Plants

(2016) Erik T. Aschehoug et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Ecological interactions and the fitness effect of water-use efficiency: Competition and drought alter the impact of naturalMPK12alleles inArabidopsis

(2016) Brandon E. Campitelli et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The reciprocal relationship between competition and intraspecific trait variation

(2016) Jonathan A. Bennett et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant-soil feedbacks: role of plant functional group and plant traits

(2016) Roeland Cortois et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Plasticity in plant functional traits is shaped by variability in neighbourhood species composition

(2016) Maria Abakumova et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology

(2016) Bill Shipley et al.   OECOLOGIA

Linking root traits and competitive success in grassland species

(2016) Janneke M. Ravenek et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Mycorrhizal response trades off with plant growth rate and increases with plant successional status

(2015) Liz Koziol et al.   ECOLOGY

The genetics of intra- and interspecific competitive response and effect in a local population of an annual plant species

(2015) Etienne Baron et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

From pots to plots: hierarchical trait-based prediction of plant performance in a mesic grassland

(2015) Thomas Schroeder-Georgi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant community mycorrhization in temperate forests and grasslands: relations with edaphic properties and plant diversity

(2015) Maret Gerz et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

Disentangling root system responses to neighbours: identification of novel root behavioural strategies

(2015) Pamela R. Belter et al.   AoB Plants

THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF TOLERANCE TO COMPETITION INIPOMOEA PURPUREA, THE COMMON MORNING GLORY

(2014) Lindsay Chaney et al.   EVOLUTION

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Is there an association between root architecture and mycorrhizal growth response?

(2014) Hafiz Maherali   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Do belowground vertical niche differences between deep- and shallow-rooted species enhance resource uptake and drought resistance in grassland mixtures?

(2014) N. J. Hoekstra et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Revising traditional theory on the link between plant body size and fitness under competition: evidence from old-field vegetation

(2014) Amanda J. Tracey et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Competitive dominance of the invasive plant Impatiens glandulifera: using competitive effect and response with a vigorous neighbour

(2013) Michal Gruntman et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Mycorrhizas in the Central European flora: relationships with plant life history traits and ecology

(2013) Stefan Hempel et al.   ECOLOGY

Hierarchy of root functional trait values and plasticity drive early-stage competition for water and phosphorus among grasses

(2013) Florian Fort et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Root and shoot competition: a meta-analysis

(2013) Lars Pødenphant Kiaer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plants are least suppressed by their frequent neighbours: the relationship between competitive ability and spatial aggregation patterns

(2013) Marina Semchenko et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The distribution of below-ground traits is explained by intrinsic species differences and intraspecific plasticity in response to root neighbours

(2013) Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Community assembly by limiting similarity vs. competitive hierarchies: testing the consequences of dispersion of individual traits

(2013) Tomáš Herben et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A rediscovered treasure: mycorrhizal intensity database for 3000 vascular plant species across the former Soviet Union

(2012) Asem A. Akhmetzhanova et al.   ECOLOGY

Daphne: a dated phylogeny of a large European flora for phylogenetically informed ecological analyses

(2012) Walter Durka et al.   ECOLOGY

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Coevolution between invasive and native plants driven by chemical competition and soil biota

(2012) R. A. Lankau   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

(2012) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Functional diversity indices reveal the impacts of land use intensification on plant community assembly

(2011) Robin J. Pakeman   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

To compete or not to compete: an experimental study of interactions between plant species with contrasting root behaviour

(2010) Marina Semchenko et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Trait plasticity in species interactions: a driving force of community dynamics

(2010) Matty P. Berg et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Unveiling below-ground species abundance in a biodiversity experiment: a test of vertical niche differentiation among grassland species

(2010) Liesje Mommer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data

(2010) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The costs and benefits of fast living

(2009) Karen E. Rose et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Are competitive effect and response two sides of the same coin, or fundamentally different?

(2009) Ping Wang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems

(2009) Alain F. Zuur et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Local adaptation to biotic factors: reciprocal transplants of four species associated with aromatic Thymus pulegioides and T. serpyllum

(2008) Eva Grøndahl et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY