REVIEW: Plant functional traits in agroecosystems: a blueprint for research

Intraspecific leaf economic trait variation partially explains coffee performance across agroforestry management regimes

(2015) Stephanie Gagliardi et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

(2015) Eric Allan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Simple measures of climate, soil properties and plant traits predict national-scale grassland soil carbon stocks

(2015) Peter Manning et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Root functional parameters along a land-use gradient: evidence of a community-level economics spectrum

(2015) Iván Prieto et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seasonal Variation in the Capacity for Plant Trait Measures to Predict Grassland Carbon and Water Fluxes

(2014) Georg Everwand et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Plant trait-digestibility relationships across management and climate gradients in permanent grasslands

(2014) Antoine Gardarin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Of carrots and sticks

(2014) Jens Kattge et al.   Nature Geoscience

Improving intercropping: a synthesis of research in agronomy, plant physiology and ecology

(2014) Rob W. Brooker et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food security

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

Shifts and disruptions in resource-use trait syndromes during the evolution of herbaceous crops

(2014) R. Milla et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The interspecific and intraspecific variation of functional traits in weeds: diversified ecological strategies within arable fields

(2014) Rémi Perronne et al.   ACTA BOTANICA GALLICA

N2-fixing trees and the transfer of fixed-N for sustainable agroforestry: a review

(2013) Jake W. Munroe et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Agroecological weed control using a functional approach: a review of cropping systems diversity

(2013) Sabrina Gaba et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Bee diversity effects on pollination depend on functional complementarity and niche shifts

(2013) Jochen Fründ et al.   ECOLOGY

Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes

(2013) Oliver Purschke et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Side-effects of plant domestication: ecosystem impacts of changes in litter quality

(2013) Pablo García-Palacios et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses

(2013) J. Sayer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Agroforestry systems in a changing climate—challenges in projecting future performance

(2013) Eike Luedeling et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Trajectories of weed communities explained by traits associated with species’ response to management practices

(2012) G. Fried et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

A functional trait perspective on plant invasion

(2012) Rebecca E. Drenovsky et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Patterns and processes in crop domestication: an historical review and quantitative analysis of 203 global food crops

(2012) Rachel S. Meyer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Trait-based approaches to unravelling the assembly of weed communities and their impact on agro-ecosystem functioning

(2012) M-L NAVAS   WEED RESEARCH

A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review

(2011) Eric Garnier et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Agroecology: A Review from a Global-Change Perspective

(2011) Thomas P. Tomich et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Fitness consequences of plants growing with siblings: reconciling kin selection, niche partitioning and competitive ability

(2011) A. L. File et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Crop–climate models need an overhaul

(2011) Reimund P. Rötter et al.   Nature Climate Change

Fire and grazing in a mesic tallgrass prairie: impacts on plant species and functional traits

(2010) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   ECOLOGY

A generic structure for plant trait databases

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

Phenotypic plasticity in response to light in the coffee tree

(2009) Fábio S. Matos et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Perceptions of risk and adaptation: Coffee producers, market shocks, and extreme weather in Central America and Mexico

(2009) Catherine M. Tucker et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

A quantitative and qualitative historical analysis of the scientific discipline of agroecology

(2009) A. Wezel et al.   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

A functional analysis of large-scale temporal shifts from 1970 to 2000 in weed assemblages of sunflower crops in France

(2009) G. Fried et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Relative climatic, edaphic and management controls of plant functional trait signatures

(2009) Robin J. Pakeman et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The role of plant leaf attributes in linking land use to ecosystem function in temperate grassy vegetation

(2008) S. McIntyre   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Functional approaches for assessing plant and invertebrate abundance patterns in arable systems

(2008) C. Hawes et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Assessing Local Knowledge Use in Agroforestry Management with Cognitive Maps

(2008) Marney E. Isaac et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000

(2008) Chad Monfreda et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

(2008) S. SITCH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY