List of works by Sandra Lavorel

A Bayesian analysis of adaptation of mountain grassland production to global change

scientific article published in 2024

A biodiversity monitoring framework for practical conservation of grasslands and shrublands

A classification of landscape fire succession models: spatial simulations of fire and vegetation dynamics

article

A generic process-based SImulator for meditERRanean landscApes (SIERRA): design and validation exercises

scientific article published in 2001

A generic structure for plant trait databases

article

A hierarchical deductive approach for functional types in disturbed ecosystems

A leachate a day keeps the seedlings away: mowing and the inhibitory effects of Festuca paniculata in subalpine grasslands

scientific article published on 26 March 2009

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

article

A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

article

A novel telecoupling framework to assess social relations across spatial scales for ecosystem services research

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

Adaptation services and pathways for the management of temperate montane forests under transformational climate change

scientific article published on 18 June 2016

Adaptation services of floodplains and wetlands under transformational climate change

scientific article

Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach

scientific article published on 24 June 2021

Advancing the Understanding of Adaptive Capacity of Social‐Ecological Systems to Absorb Climate Extremes

An evolutionary perspective on leaf economics: phylogenetics of leaf mass per area in vascular plants

scientific article

An integrated community and ecosystem-based approach to disaster risk reduction in mountain systems

scientific article published in April 2019

An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation

An interdisciplinary methodological guide for quantifying associations between ecosystem services

An overview of the 2017 report of the French academy of Sciences on biodiversity

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

Are plant functional types relevant to describe degradation in arid, southern Tunisian steppes?

scientific article published on 24 February 2009

Assessing Nature-based Solutions for transformative change

preprint

Assessing ecological equivalence in biodiversity offset schemes: Key issues and solutions

scientific article published in 2011

Assessing functional diversity in the field – methodology matters!

scientific article published in 2007

Assessing long-term land-use legacies in subalpine grasslands by using a plant trait-based generic modelling framework

scientific article published on 05 April 2012

Assessing nature's contributions to people

scientific article published in January 2018

Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change

scientific article

Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?

article

Assessing the Effects of Grassland Management on Forage Production and Environmental Quality to Identify Paths to Ecological Intensification in Mountain Grasslands

scientific article published on 20 June 2015

Assessing the effects of land-use change on plant traits, communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: a standardized methodology and lessons from an application to 11 European sites

scientific article

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography

article

Benefits of crowd-sourced GPS information for modelling the recreation ecosystem service

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Biodiversity conservation: uncertainty in predictions of extinction risk

scientific article

Biodiversity, climate change, and ecosystem services

article

Carbohydrate and nitrogen stores in Festuca paniculata under mowing explain dominance in subalpine grasslands

scientific article

Challenges for land system science

Changes in Mediterranean plant succession: old-fields revisited ⬇️

journal article from 'Journal of Vegetation Science' published in 1996

Climate and multiple dimensions of plant diversity regulate ecosystem carbon exchange along an elevational gradient

scientific article published on 20 April 2021

Climate change threats to plant diversity in Europe

scientific article

Co-producing ecosystem services for adapting to climate change

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Combatting global grassland degradation

Comparison of the Sensitivity of Landscape-fire-succession Models to Variation in Terrain, Fuel Pattern, Climate and Weather

article

Connecting the Green and Brown Worlds

scientific article published in 2013

Conservation needs to integrate knowledge across scales

scientific article published in 2021

Contribution of above- and below-ground plant traits to the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities

scientific article

Crop traits drive soil carbon sequestration under organic farming

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

Determinants of distribution of sixPinusspecies in Catalonia, Spain

article

Disentangling the diversity of definitions for the pollination ecosystem service and associated estimation methods

scientific article published in 2019

Disentangling trade-offs and synergies around ecosystem services with the influence network framework: illustration from a consultative process over the French Alps

article

Dispersal of annual plants in hierarchically structured landscapes

article

Distributional (In)Congruence of Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning

article

Diversity, stability and conservation of mediterranean-type ecosystems in a changing world: an introduction

scientific article published in 1999

Do we need land-cover data to model species distributions in Europe?

scientific article published on 12 October 2010

Does hairiness matter in Harare? Resolving controversy in global comparisons of plant trait responses to ecosystem disturbance

article

Ecological diversity and resilience of Mediterranean vegetation to disturbance

scientific article published in 1999

Ecological mechanisms underpinning climate adaptation services

scientific article

Ecosystem Services Flows: Why Stakeholders' Power Relationships Matter ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Ecosystem service supply and vulnerability to global change in Europe

scientific article

Ecosystem service supply by European landscapes under alternative land-use and environmental policies

scholarly article by Maud A. Mouchet et al published January 2017 in International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management

Ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation: concepts and a glossary

article

Effects of land use and climate on carbon and nitrogen pool partitioning in European mountain grasslands

scientific article published on 22 January 2022

Effects of restricting environmental range of data to project current and future species distributions

article

Effects of snow pack reduction and drought on litter decomposition in subalpine grassland communities

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally

scientific article

Estimating plant migration rates under habitat loss and fragmentation

scientific article published in 2003

Evidence for scale- and disturbance-dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi-natural grasslands

scientific article published in 2013

Evolving away from the linear model of research: a response to Courchamp et al.

scientific article published on 4 June 2015

Filtering of seed traits revealed by convergence and divergence patterns in subalpine grasslands

scientific article published on 25 June 2011

Functional response traits in relation to land use change in the Montado

article

Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle

scientific article published on 01 June 2021

Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms

article

Grazing response groups among understorey plants in arid rangelands

scientific article published on 07 May 2006

Half of the world’s tree biodiversity is unprotected and is increasingly threatened by human activities

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Herbivory differentially alters litter dynamics of two functionally contrasted grasses

scientific article published on 13 April 2013

Herbivory mediated by coupling between biomechanical traits of plants and grasshoppers

scientific article published on 11 February 2013

Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French Alps

scientific article published on 19 July 2012

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure

scientific article published on 16 June 2022

Historical reconfigurations of a social–ecological system adapting to economic, policy and climate changes in the French Alps

scientific article published in 2021

Historical trajectories in land use pattern and grassland ecosystem services in two European alpine landscapes

scientific article published on 15 August 2017

How Species with Different Regeneration Niches Coexist in Patchy Habitats with Local Disturbances

scientific article published in 1995

How biodiversity response to changing climate feeds on to ecosystem processes underlying ecosystem services

scientific article published in 2009

How ecosystem services knowledge and values influence farmers' decision-making

scientific article

How extreme summer weather may limit control ofFestuca paniculataby mowing in subalpine grasslands

article

How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale-up to trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services

scientific article published on 13 December 2011

IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change

Identifying functional groups for response to disturbance in an abandoned pasture

scientific article published on 25 July 2002

Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use

article

Impact of droughts on water provision in managed alpine grasslands in two climatically different regions of the Alps

scientific article

Impacts of land change on biodiversity: making the link to ecosystem services

scholarly article by Harini Nagendra et al published October 2013 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Improving collaboration between ecosystem service communities and the IPBES science-policy platform

scientific article published in 2020

Improving the application of vertebrate trait-based frameworks to the study of ecosystem services.

scientific article published on 21 March 2012

In people’s minds and on the ground: Values and power in climate change adaptation

scientific article published in 2022

Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments

scientific article

Indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem services: a synthesis across ecosystems and spatial scales

scholarly article by Christian K. Feld et al published December 2009 in Oikos

Influence of plant traits, soil microbial properties, and abiotic parameters on nitrogen turnover of grassland ecosystems

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

Informing climate adaptation pathways in multi-use woodland landscapes using the values-rules-knowledge framework

scientific article published in April 2017

Integrating design and ecological theory to achieve adaptive diverse pastures

scientific article published in 2022

Inter- and intra-specific trait shifts among sites differing in drought conditions at the north western edge of the Mediterranean Region

scientific article published in 2018

Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

scientific article published in 2010

Invasions: the perspective of diverse plant communities

scientific article published in 2000

Key knowledge gaps to achieve global sustainability goals

scientific article

Land use in mountain grasslands alters drought response and recovery of carbon allocation and plant-microbial interactions.

scientific article

Land-use change and subalpine tree dynamics: colonization of<i>Larix decidua</i>in French subalpine grasslands

scientific article published on 02 November 2007

Land-use intensity mediates ecosystem service tradeoffs across regional social-ecological systems

Landscape-scale positive feedbacks between fire and expansion of the large tussock grass, Ampelodesmos mauritanica in Catalan shrublands

Large-scale environmental correlates of forest tree distributions in Catalonia (NE Spain)

article

Leaf dry matter content and lateral spread predict response to land use change for six subalpine grassland species

article

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

scientific article published in March 2009

Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

scholarly article by Elena M. Bennett et al published June 2015 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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

article

Linking traits between plants and invertebrate herbivores to track functional effects of land-use changes

article

Livestock grazing in subtropical pastures: steps in the analysis of attribute response and plant functional types

scientific article published on 12 March 2003

Management versus site effects on the abundance of nitrifiers and denitrifiers in European mountain grasslands

scientific article published on 04 August 2018

Mechanisms of resistance of Mediterranean annual communities to invasion by Conyza bonariensis: effects of native functional composition

article

Mechanisms underlying the impacts of exotic plant invasions ⬇️

article

Memory over matter? A conceptual framework to integrate social–ecological l legacies in agricultural NCP co-production

journal article from 'Sustainability Science' published in 2021

Methodological uncertainties in estimating carbon storage in temperate forests and grasslands

scientific article published on 02 August 2018

Modeling Alternative Approaches to the Biodiversity Offsetting of Urban Expansion in the Grenoble Area (France): What Is the Role of Spatial Scales in ‘No Net Loss’ of Wetland Area and Function?

scientific article published in 2021

Moving from autonomous to planned adaptation in the montane forests of southeastern Australia under changing fire regimes

scientific article published on 14 September 2016

Mustering the power of ecosystems for adaptation to climate change

scientific article published in February 2019

National Ecosystem Assessments in Europe: A Review

scientific article

Nature's contributions to people in mountains: A review

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Nature’s contribution to adaptation: insights from examples of the transformation of social-ecological systems

scientific article

Niche properties and geographical extent as predictors of species sensitivity to climate change

article

Niche theory improves understanding of associations between ecosystem services

scientific article published in 2023

On the importance of intraspecific variability for the quantification of functional diversity

scientific article published on 13 July 2011

PLANT TRAITS IN A STATE AND TRANSITION FRAMEWORK AS MARKERS OF ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE TO LAND-USE CHANGE

scientific article published on 06 June 2007

Paleoclimate and current climate collectively shape the phylogenetic and functional diversity of trees worldwide

preprint

Participatory scenario planning in place-based social-ecological research: insights and experiences from 23 case studies ⬇️

scientific article published in 2015

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

Pathways to bridge the biophysical realism gap in ecosystem services mapping approaches

scholarly article by Sandra Lavorel et al published March 2017 in Ecological Indicators

Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime

scientific article published on 18 August 2023

Planetary stewardship in an urbanizing world: beyond city limits

scientific article

Plant Functional Types: Are We Getting Any Closer to the Holy Grail?

article

Plant community structure and nitrogen inputs modulate the climate signal on leaf traits

article

Plant diversity, herbivory and resistance of a plant community to invasion in Mediterranean annual communities

scientific article published in January 2002

Plant functional assemblages as indicators of the resilience of grassland ecosystem service provision

scientific article published on 28 September 2016

Plant functional effects on ecosystem services

scientific article published on 10 May 2013

Plant functional traits reveal the relative contribution of habitat and food preferences to the diet of grasshoppers

scientific article published on 6 October 2013

Plant functional types and disturbance dynamics - Introduction

article

Plant functional types: a promising tool for management and restoration of degraded lands

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

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

scientific article

Plant response to disturbance in a Mediterranean grassland: How many functional groups?

scientific article published on 07 May 2006

Plant trait-based models identify direct and indirect effects of climate change on bundles of grassland ecosystem services

scientific article

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

article

Plant-trait-based modeling assessment of ecosystem-service sensitivity to land-use change

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Post-2020 aspirations for biodiversity

scientific article published in July 2021

Predicting ecological change in tussock grasslands of Aotearoa New Zealand

scientific article published on 10 November 2023

Quantifying the Contribution of Organisms to the Provision of Ecosystem Services

article

Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

article published in 2010

Quaternary climate change explains global patterns of tree beta-diversity

preprint

RELATING PLANT TRAITS AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS ALONG BIOCLIMATIC GRADIENTS FOR 88 LEUCADENDRON TAXA

scientific article published on 04 June 2007

REVIEW: Predictive ecology in a changing world

article

Rare species support vulnerable functions in high-diversity ecosystems

scientific article

Recasting the dynamic equilibrium model through a functional lens: the interplay of trait-based community assembly and climate

scientific article published in 2016

Relationships between functional traits and inorganic nitrogen acquisition among eight contrasting European grass species

scientific article published on 2 December 2014

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

article

Relative contribution of soil, management and traits to co-variations of multiple ecosystem properties in grasslands.

scientific article published on 30 January 2016

Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services

article

Researchers must be aware of their roles at the interface of ecosystem services science and policy.

scientific article

Resilience as a framework for analyzing the adaptation of mountain summer pasture systems to climate change

scientific article published in 2017

Response of herbaceous vegetation functional diversity to land use change across five sites in Europe and Israel

scholarly article by Sandra Lavorel et al published January 2011 in Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution

Scientific outcome of the IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop on biodiversity and climate change

Scientific outcome of the IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop on biodiversity and climate change

scholarly report

Seasonal Patterns in the Seed Bank of Mediterranean Old-Fields

scientific article published in 1993

Sensitivity of community-level trait-environment relationships to data representativeness: A test for functional biogeography

scholarly article by Benjamin Borgy et al published 20 March 2017 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Simple field-based surveys reveal climate-related anomalies in mountain grassland production

scientific article published in 2020

Small Scale Disturbances and the Maintenance of Species Diversity in Mediterranean Old Fields

scientific article published in 1994

Social valuation of ecosystem services in mountain regions

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Soil Organic Matter Changes Under Experimental Pedoclimatic Modifications in Mountain Grasslands of the French Alps

scientific article published in 2022

Soil legacy effects of climatic stress, management and plant functional composition on microbial communities influence the response of Lolium perenne to a new drought event

scientific article published in 2017

Specific leaf area and dry matter content estimate thickness in laminar leaves

scientific article

Spider trait assembly patterns and resilience under fire-induced vegetation change in South Brazilian grasslands

scientific article

Stakeholder perceptions of grassland ecosystem services in relation to knowledge on soil fertility and biodiversity

scientific article published in 2011

Stakeholder visions for trajectories of adaptation to climate change in the Drôme catchment (French Alps)

scientific article published in 2022

Stakeholders' expectations on ecosystem services affect the assessment of ecosystem services hotspots and their congruence with biodiversity

scientific article published in 2012

Stronger Short-Term Effects of Mowing Than Extreme Summer Weather on a Subalpine Grassland

article

TRAJECTORIES: Social-ecological trajectories of French alpine valleys under climate variability ⬇️

conference paper published in 2017

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Taxonomic and functional facets of the resilience to management of mown subalpine grasslands

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

Templates for multifunctional landscape design

scientific article published in 2022

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

scientific article published in 2022

Testing the Effectiveness of Environmental Variables to Explain European Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Richness across Biogeographical Scales

scientific article published on 10 July 2015

The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

research work

The Importance of Spatial Configuration When Restoring Intensive Production Landscapes for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Multifunctionality

scientific article published on 5 April 2024

The acquisitive-conservative axis of leaf trait variation emerges even in homogeneous environments

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

The added value of including key microbial traits to determine nitrogen-related ecosystem services in managed grasslands

scholarly article by Thomas Pommier et al published 13 November 2017 in Journal of Applied Ecology

The diversity of the ecosystem services concept and its implications for their assessment and management

scientific article

The effects of snowpack properties and plant strategies on litter decomposition during winter in subalpine meadows

article

The global spectrum of plant form and function

scientific article

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The importance of biotic interactions and local adaptation for plant response to environmental changes: field evidence along an elevational gradient

scientific article

Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution

article

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

article by Francesco de Bello et al published 10 April 2010 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits

article by Daniel Kissling et al published 17 September 2018 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Trait-mediated effect of arbuscular mycorrhiza on the competitive effect and response of a monopolistic species

scientific article published in 2010

Transforming conservation science and practice for a postnormal world

scientific article

Unpacking ecosystem service bundles: Towards predictive mapping of synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services

scholarly article by Rebecca Spake et al published November 2017 in Global Environmental Change

Using niche-based modelling to assess the impact of climate change on tree functional diversity in Europe

article

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

article

Using plant traits to explain plant-microbe relationships involved in nitrogen acquisition

scientific article

Using proxies of microbial community‐weighted means traits to explain the cascading effect of management intensity, soil and plant traits on ecosystem resilience in mountain grasslands

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Vegetation ecology meets ecosystem science: Permanent grasslands as a functional biogeography case study

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

Vulnerability of land systems to fire: Interactions among humans, climate, the atmosphere, and ecosystems

article published in 2006

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