Modes of functional biodiversity control on tree productivity across the European continent

Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands

(2015) Enrique Valencia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession

(2014) Jesse R. Lasky et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Stabilizing effects of diversity on aboveground wood production in forest ecosystems: linking patterns and processes

(2014) Tommaso Jucker et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Shifts in functional traits among tree communities across succession in eastern deciduous forests

(2014) Peter A. Wilfahrt et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

(2014) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Competition for light and water play contrasting roles in driving diversity-productivity relationships in Iberian forests

(2014) Tommaso Jucker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Tree diversity does not always improve resistance of forest ecosystems to drought

(2014) C. Grossiord et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

(2014) C. Violle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Productivity of mixed versus pure stands of oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. and Quercus robur L.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) along an ecological gradient

(2013) Hans Pretzsch et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests

(2013) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Large-scale recruitment limitation in Mediterranean pines: the role ofQuercus ilexand forest successional advance as key regional drivers

(2013) Jofre Carnicer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant functional diversity and carbon storage - an empirical test in semi-arid forest ecosystems

(2013) Georgina Conti et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Tree species diversity increases fine root productivity through increased soil volume filling

(2013) Brian W. Brassard et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Exotic tree seedlings are much more competitive than natives but show underyielding when growing together

(2013) H. Kawaletz et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Disentangling Biodiversity and Climatic Determinants of Wood Production

(2013) Montserrat Vilà et al.   PLoS One

Reconciling biodiversity and carbon conservation

(2012) Chris D Thomas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Site- and species-specific responses of forest growth to climate across the European continent

(2012) Flurin Babst et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

(2012) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta-analysis

(2012) Yu Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Habitat filtering and niche differentiation jointly explain species relative abundance within grassland communities along fertility and disturbance gradients

(2012) Vincent Maire et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tree species richness promotes productivity in temperate forests through strong complementarity between species

(2011) Xavier Morin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Succession-induced trait shifts across a wide range of NW European ecosystems are driven by light and modulated by initial abiotic conditions

(2011) Jacob C. Douma et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Leaf habit and woodiness regulate different leaf economy traits at a given nutrient supply

(2010) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   ECOLOGY

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests

(2010) Alain Paquette et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Higher Allocation to Low Cost Chemical Defenses in Invasive Species of Hawaii

(2010) Josep Peñuelas et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Substantial nutrient resorption from leaves, stems and roots in a subarctic flora: what is the link with other resource economics traits?

(2010) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A generic structure for plant trait databases

(2010) Jens Kattge et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Plant Strategies in Relation to Resource Supply in Mesic to Wet Environments: Does Theory Mirror Nature?

(2009) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

(2009) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin

(2009) S. Paula et al.   ECOLOGY

Biodiversity in a complex world: consolidation and progress in functional biodiversity research

(2009) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A multi-trait test of the leaf-height-seed plant strategy scheme with 133 species from a pine forest flora

(2009) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global-scale terrestrial biosphere models

(2009) JENS KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Faster returns on ‘leaf economics’ and different biogeochemical niche in invasive compared with native plant species

(2009) JOSEP PENUELAS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora

(2009) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability

(2009) Joseph M. Craine et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf phosphorus influences the photosynthesis–nitrogen relation: a cross-biome analysis of 314 species

(2009) Peter B. Reich et al.   OECOLOGIA

SEPARATING THE EFFECTS OF PARTIAL SUBMERGENCE AND SOIL OXYGEN DEMAND ON PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

(2008) Peter M. van Bodegom et al.   ECOLOGY

Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plants

(2008) Peter B. Reich et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Burning seeds: germinative response to heat treatments in relation to resprouting ability

(2008) S. Paula et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use

(2008) Robin J. Pakeman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY