Can traits predict individual growth performance? A test in a hyperdiverse tropical forest

Soil fertility and species traits, but not diversity, drive productivity and biomass stocks in a Guyanese tropical rainforest

(2017) Masha T. van der Sande et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Trait variation and integration across scales: is the leaf economic spectrum present at local scales?

(2016) Julie Messier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Functional trait differences influence neighbourhood interactions in a hyperdiverse Amazonian forest

(2016) Claire Fortunel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Conservative species drive biomass productivity in tropical dry forests

(2016) Jamir A. Prado-Junior et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

Linking functional traits and demographic rates in a subtropical tree community: the importance of size dependency

(2014) Yoshiko Iida et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Exploring variation in leaf mass per area (LMA) from leaf to cell: An anatomical analysis of 26 woody species

(2013) Rafael Villar et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Linking size-dependent growth and mortality with architectural traits across 145 co-occurring tropical tree species

(2013) Yoshiko Iida et al.   ECOLOGY

Bark traits and life-history strategies of tropical dry- and moist forest trees

(2013) Lourens Poorter et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Advances in modeling trait-based plant community assembly

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Fibre wall and lumen fractions drive wood density variation across 24 Australian angiosperms

(2013) Kasia Ziemińska et al.   AoB Plants

Functional traits explain light and size response of growth rates in tropical tree species

(2012) Nadja Rüger et al.   ECOLOGY

Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species

(2012) Claire Fortunel et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

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

Is leaf dry matter content a better predictor of soil fertility than specific leaf area?

(2011) J. G. Hodgson et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Microbially Mediated Plant Functional Traits

(2011) Maren L. Friesen et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

(2011) Yusuke Onoda et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Assessing foliar chlorophyll contents with the SPAD-502 chlorophyll meter: a calibration test with thirteen tree species of tropical rainforest in French Guiana

(2010) Sabrina Coste et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Interspecific variation in functional traits, not climatic differences among species ranges, determines demographic rates across 44 temperate and Mediterranean tree species

(2010) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A method to construct dose–response curves for a wide range of environmental factors and plant traits by means of a meta-analysis of phenotypic data

(2010) Hendrik Poorter et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

Tissue-level leaf toughness, but not lamina thickness, predicts sapling leaf lifespan and shade tolerance of tropical tree species

(2010) Kaoru Kitajima et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Role of Wood Mass Density and Mechanical Constraints in the Economy of Tree Architecture

(2009) Niels P. R. Anten et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

HAND, a new terrain descriptor using SRTM-DEM: Mapping terra-firme rainforest environments in Amazonia

(2008) Camilo Daleles Rennó et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT