Decoupled dimensions of leaf economic and anti-herbivore defense strategies in a tropical canopy tree community

Qualitative differences in tree species distributions along soil chemical gradients give clues to the mechanisms of specialization: why boron may be the most important soil nutrient at Barro Colorado Island

(2015) Brian Steidinger   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Does investment in leaf defenses drive changes in leaf economic strategy? A focus on whole-plant ontogeny

(2014) Chase M. Mason et al.   OECOLOGIA

Amazonian functional diversity from forest canopy chemical assembly

(2014) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High exchangeable calcium concentrations in soils on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

(2013) Tobias Messmer et al.   GEODERMA

Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies

(2013) P. B. Adler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How cellulose-based leaf toughness and lamina density contribute to long leaf lifespans of shade-tolerant species

(2012) Kaoru Kitajima et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phylogenetic niche conservatism: what are the underlying evolutionary and ecological causes?

(2012) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

What Makes a Leaf Tough? Patterns of Correlated Evolution between Leaf Toughness Traits and Demographic Rates among 197 Shade-Tolerant Woody Species in a Neotropical Forest

(2011) Jared W. Westbrook et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Taxonomy and remote sensing of leaf mass per area (LMA) in humid tropical forests

(2011) Gregory P. Asner et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

(2011) Yusuke Onoda et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Chemical ecology of tannins and other phenolics: we need a change in approach

(2011) Juha-Pekka Salminen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Plant latex and other exudates as plant defense systems: Roles of various defense chemicals and proteins contained therein

(2011) Kotaro Konno   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Tannins in plant–herbivore interactions

(2011) Raymond V. Barbehenn et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits

(2010) SUSANNE A. FRITZ et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

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

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

The resource availability hypothesis revisited: a meta-analysis

(2010) María-José Endara et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Thorough Study of Reactivity of Various Compound Classes toward the Folin−Ciocalteu Reagent

(2010) Jace D. Everette et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

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

Canopy phylogenetic, chemical and spectral assembly in a lowland Amazonian forest

(2010) Gregory P. Asner et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A Second Dimension to the Leaf Economics Spectrum Predicts Edaphic Habitat Association in a Tropical Forest

(2010) Jennifer L. Baltzer et al.   PLoS One

Latex: A Model for Understanding Mechanisms, Ecology, and Evolution of Plant Defense Against Herbivory

(2009) Anurag A. Agrawal et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

SIZE-CORRECTION AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS FOR INTERSPECIFIC COMPARATIVE STUDIES

(2009) Liam J. Revell   EVOLUTION

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

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant DNA barcodes and a community phylogeny of a tropical forest dynamics plot in Panama

(2009) W. J. Kress et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Correlations between leaf toughness and phenolics among species in contrasting environments of Australia and New Caledonia

(2008) Jennifer Read et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS