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How do leaf veins influence the worldwide leaf economic spectrum? Review and synthesis

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Germination traits explain soil seed persistence across species: the case of Mediterranean annual plants in cereal fields

(2011) Arne Saatkamp et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Soil depth detection by seeds and diurnally fluctuating temperatures: different dynamics in 10 annual plants

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Plant survival in relation to seed size along environmental gradients: a long-term study from semi-arid and Mediterranean annual plant communities

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Evidence for climatic niche and biome shifts between native and novel ranges in plant species introduced to Australia

(2010) Rachael V. Gallagher et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Predictive performance of plant species distribution models depends on species traits

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Why does phenology drive species distribution?

(2010) I. Chuine   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A new understanding of how temperature affects the catalytic activity of enzymes

(2010) Roy M. Daniel et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data

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

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Germination Responses to Water Potential in Neotropical Pioneers Suggest Large-seeded Species Take More Risks

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Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The relationship between seed mass and mean time to germination for 1037 tree species across five tropical forests

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

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