Within-species variability is the main driver of community-level responses of traits of epiphytes across a long-term chronosequence

A comparison of Lobaria pulmonaria population structure between subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) and mountain alder (Alnus incana) host-tree species in British Columbia’s inland temperate rainforest

(2013) Asha MacDonald et al.   Botany

Growth and secondary compound investments in the epiphytic lichens Lobaria pulmonaria and Hypogymnia occidentalis transplanted along an altitudinal gradient in British Columbia

(2013) Massimo Bidussi et al.   Botany

Contrasting effects of plant inter- and intraspecific variation on community-level trait measures along an environmental gradient

(2013) Emilie Kichenin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The impact of secondary compounds and functional characteristics on lichen palatability and decomposition

(2013) Johan Asplund et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The within-species leaf economic spectrum does not predict leaf litter decomposability at either the within-species or whole community levels

(2013) Benjamin G. Jackson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The influence of tree-scale and ecosystem-scale factors on epiphytic lichen communities across a long-term retrogressive chronosequence

(2013) Johan Asplund et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Experimental assessment of nutrient limitation along a 2-million-year dune chronosequence in the south-western Australia biodiversity hotspot

(2012) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Decoupled responses of tree and shrub leaf and litter trait values to ecosystem retrogression across an island area gradient

(2012) Anna Lagerström et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Lichen Specific Thallus Mass and Secondary Compounds Change across a Retrogressive Fire-Driven Chronosequence

(2012) Johan Asplund et al.   PLoS One

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

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

Interspecific and intraspecific variations in water storage in epiphytic old forest foliose lichens

(2011) Yngvar Gauslaa et al.   Botany

Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

(2011) Jan Lepš et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Contents of carbon based defence compounds in the old forest lichen Lobaria pulmonaria vary along environmental gradients

(2011) Steinar Vatne et al.   Fungal Ecology

Direct and indirect effects of area, energy and habitat heterogeneity on breeding bird communities

(2011) Micael Jonsson et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long-term natural experiment

(2011) David A. Wardle et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Changes in stand structure due to the cessation of traditional land use in wooded meadows impoverish epiphytic lichen communities

(2011) Ede LEPPIK et al.   LICHENOLOGIST

Within- and Across-Species Responses of Plant Traits and Litter Decomposition to Elevation across Contrasting Vegetation Types in Subarctic Tundra

(2011) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   PLoS One

Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

(2011) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Understanding ecosystem retrogression

(2010) Duane A. Peltzer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A multi-trait approach reveals the structure and the relative importance of intra- vs. interspecific variability in plant traits

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Responses of epiphytic lichens to an experimental whole-tree nitrogen-deposition gradient

(2010) Otilia Johansson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Effects of nitrogen enrichment on phosphatase activity and nitrogen : phosphorus relationships in Cladonia portentosa

(2010) E. J. Hogan et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Interacting effects of tree characteristics on the occurrence of rare epiphytes in a Swedish beech forest area

(2009) Örjan Fritz et al.   BRYOLOGIST

Leaf traits capture the effects of land use changes and climate on litter decomposability of grasslands across Europe

(2009) Claire Fortunel et al.   ECOLOGY

High acidity tolerance in lichens with fumarprotocetraric, perlatolic or thamnolic acids is correlated with low pKa1 values of these lichen substances

(2009) Markus Hauck et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Lichen Substances Prevent Lichens from Nutrient Deficiency

(2009) Markus Hauck et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

An experimental comparison of chemical traits and litter decomposition rates in a diverse range of subarctic bryophyte, lichen and vascular plant species

(2009) Simone I. Lang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

(2009) C. Violle et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Usnic acid controls the acidity tolerance of lichens

(2008) Markus Hauck et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Possible functional roles of cortical depsides and medullary depsidones in the foliose lichen Hypogymnia physodes

(2008) Knut Asbjørn Solhaug et al.   FLORA

Ecosystem retrogression leads to increased insect abundance and herbivory across an island chronosequence

(2008) G. M. Crutsinger et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Among- and within-species variation in plant litter decomposition in contrasting long-term chronosequences

(2008) David A. Wardle et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Light might regulate divergently depside and depsidone accumulation in the lichen Parmotrema hypotropum by affecting thallus temperature and water potential

(2008) Daniele Armaleo et al.   MYCOLOGIA