Sapling performance along resource gradients drives tree species distributions within and across tropical forests

Plasticity influencing the light compensation point offsets the specialization for light niches across shrub species in a tropical forest understorey

(2013) Frank J. Sterck et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Xylem recovery from drought-induced embolism: where is the hydraulic point of no return?

(2013) F. C. Meinzer et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Tropical forests and global change: filling knowledge gaps

(2013) Pieter A. Zuidema et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities

(2012) Christopher Baraloto et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

(2012) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

Drought resistance in early and late secondary successional species from a tropical dry forest: the interplay between xylem resistance to embolism, sapwood water storage and leaf shedding

(2012) FERNANDO PINEDA-GARCÍA et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Distribution patterns of tropical woody species in response to climatic and edaphic gradients

(2011) Marisol Toledo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Hydraulics and life history of tropical dry forest tree species: coordination of species’ drought and shade tolerance

(2011) Lars Markesteijn et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf hydraulic vulnerability influences species’ bioclimatic limits in a diverse group of woody angiosperms

(2011) Chris J. Blackman et al.   OECOLOGIA

Water-use strategies of six co-existing Mediterranean woody species during a summer drought

(2011) José L. Quero et al.   OECOLOGIA

The roles of hydraulic and carbon stress in a widespread climate-induced forest die-off

(2011) W. R. L. Anderegg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional traits determine trade-offs and niches in a tropical forest community

(2011) F. Sterck et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modelling functional trait acclimation for trees of different height in a forest light gradient: emergent patterns driven by carbon gain maximization

(2011) F. Sterck et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Physiological mechanisms of drought-induced tree mortality are far from being resolved

(2010) Anna Sala et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Do differences in understory light contribute to species distributions along a tropical rainfall gradient?

(2010) T. Brenes-Arguedas et al.   OECOLOGIA

Ecological differentiation in xylem cavitation resistance is associated with stem and leaf structural traits

(2010) LARS MARKESTEIJN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Asymmetric Density Dependence Shapes Species Abundances in a Tropical Tree Community

(2010) L. S. Comita et al.   SCIENCE

Carbohydrate storage, survival, and growth of two evergreen Nothofagus species in two contrasting light environments

(2009) F. I. Piper et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Seasonal and spatial variation in water availability drive habitat associations in a tropical forest

(2009) Liza S. Comita et al.   ECOLOGY

Xylem hydraulic safety margins in woody plants: coordination of stomatal control of xylem tension with hydraulic capacitance

(2009) Frederick C. Meinzer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Seedling root morphology and biomass allocation of 62 tropical tree species in relation to drought- and shade-tolerance

(2009) Lars Markesteijn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Soil drying in a tropical forest: Three distinct environments controlled by gap size

(2008) T.R. Marthews et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Tolerance to low leaf water status of tropical tree seedlings is related to drought performance and distribution

(2008) Thomas A. Kursar et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Linkage between water stress tolerance and life history type in seedlings of nine chaparral species (Rhamnaceae)

(2008) R. B. Pratt et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE