Plant functional traits and nutrient gradients on grassland

Past lessons and future prospects: plant breeding for yield and persistence in cool-temperate pastures

(2011) A. J. Parsons et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Impacts of species interactions on grass community productivity under contrasting management regimes

(2011) Laíse da Silveira Pontes et al.   OECOLOGIA

Comparison of methods for assessing the impact of different disturbances and nutrient conditions upon functional characteristics of grassland communities

(2010) M. Duru et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Differential effects of plant diversity on functional trait variation of grass species

(2010) Marlén Gubsch et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plant resource-use strategies: the importance of phenotypic plasticity in response to a productivity gradient for two subalpine species

(2010) Fabrice Grassein et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Nitrogen deposition threatens species richness of grasslands across Europe

(2010) Carly J. Stevens et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Plant Functional Traits Show Non-Linear Response to Grazing

(2010) Arne Saatkamp et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

(2010) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Remote sensing of plant functional types

(2010) Susan L. Ustin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increased N affects P uptake of eight grassland species: the role of root surface phosphatase activity

(2010) Yuki Fujita et al.   OIKOS

A generic structure for plant trait databases

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

Plant traits related to competition: how do they shape the functional diversity of communities?

(2009) M. Navas et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Trade-off between root nitrogen acquisition and shoot nitrogen utilization across 13 co-occurring pasture grass species

(2009) Vincent Maire et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Linking individual response to biotic interactions with community structure: a trait-based framework

(2009) Nicolas Gross et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Using functional traits to predict grassland ecosystem change: a mathematical test of the response-and-effect trait approach

(2009) KATJA KLUMPP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Strong mixture effects among four species in fertilized agricultural grassland led to persistent and consistent transgressive overyielding

(2009) Daniel Nyfeler et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Defining and measuring ecological specialization

(2009) Vincent Devictor et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

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

Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

(2009) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Discriminating trait-convergence and trait-divergence assembly patterns in ecological community gradients

(2009) Valério D. Pillar et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Sward characteristics, grass dry matter intake and milk production performance are affected by pre-grazing herbage mass and pasture allowance

(2009) J. Curran et al.   Livestock Science

Competition, traits and resource depletion in plant communities

(2009) Cyrille Violle et al.   OECOLOGIA

Bringing the Hutchinsonian niche into the 21st century: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives

(2009) R. D. Holt   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modelling above-ground herbage mass for a wide range of grassland community types

(2008) M. Duru et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Testing the Holy Grail framework: using functional traits to predict ecosystem change

(2008) Katharine N. Suding et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global inputs of biological nitrogen fixation in agricultural systems

(2008) David F. Herridge et al.   PLANT AND SOIL