Global relationship of wood and leaf litter decomposability: the role of functional traits within and across plant organs

A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

(2011) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages

(2011) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Leaf economics traits predict litter decomposition of tropical plants and differ among land use types

(2010) Maartje Anne Bakker et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The changing global carbon cycle: linking plant-soil carbon dynamics to global consequences

(2009) F. Stuart Chapin III et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora

(2009) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

On the challenge of treating various types of variables: application for improving the measurement of functional diversity

(2009) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   OIKOS

The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions

(2009) David Lunn et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

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

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

Global meta-analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?

(2008) James T. Weedon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Litter quality is in the eye of the beholder: initial decomposition rates as a function of inoculum characteristics

(2008) Michael S. Strickland et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Long-term patterns of mass loss during the decomposition of leaf and fine root litter: an intersite comparison

(2008) MARK E. HARMON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY