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A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities.

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

Biodiversity and pollination benefits trade off against profit in an intensive farming system

scientific article published in 2023

Biogeography of global drylands

scholarly article

Cascading effects from plants to soil microorganisms explain how plant species richness and simulated climate change affect soil multifunctionality

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

Climate mediates the biodiversity-ecosystem stability relationship globally

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Comment on "Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness".

scientific article

Configurational crop heterogeneity increases within‐field plant diversity

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Density of insect-pollinated grassland plants decreases with increasing surrounding land-use intensity.

scientific article published on 16 July 2014

Description of long-term monitoring of farmland biodiversity in a LTSER

scientific article published on 19 May 2018

Disentangling coordination among functional traits using an individual-centred model: impact on plant performance at intra- and inter-specific levels

scientific article

Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands

scientific article published on 11 October 2024

Effects of land-use change on productivity depend on small-scale plant species diversity

article

Facilitation displaces hotspots of diversity and allows communities to persist in heavily stressed and disturbed environments

Functional differences between alien and native species: do biotic interactions determine the functional structure of highly invaded grasslands?

article

Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands

scientific article published on 23 January 2015

Functional equivalence, competitive hierarchy and facilitation determine species coexistence in highly invaded grasslands

scientific article

Functional rarity and evenness are key facets of biodiversity to boost multifunctionality

scientific article

Functional trait diversity across trophic levels determines herbivore impact on plant community biomass

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article

Gemini: A grassland model simulating the role of plant traits for community dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Parameterization and evaluation

article

Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

scientific article published on 25 November 2022

Habitat filtering and niche differentiation jointly explain species relative abundance within grassland communities along fertility and disturbance gradients

scientific article

Habitat filtering determines the functional niche occupancy of plant communities worldwide

article

Habitat quality as a predictor of spatial variation in blue tit reproductive performance: a multi-plot analysis in a heterogeneous landscape

scientific article published on 31 July 2004

Herbivore effect traits and their impact on plant community biomass: an experimental test using grasshoppers

article

Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

scientific article published on 12 April 2024

How Facilitation May Interfere with Ecological Speciation

scientific article published in 2012

Increasing crop heterogeneity enhances multitrophic diversity across agricultural regions

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Intransitivity increases plant functional diversity by limiting dominance in drylands worldwide

scientific article published on 14 June 2018

Land-use history impacts functional diversity across multiple trophic groups

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

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

article

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

article

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

scientific article published in December 2017

Phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic richness have both positive and negative effects on ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Plant response traits mediate the effects of subalpine grasslands on soil moisture

article

Plasticity of plant form and function sustains productivity and dominance along environment and competition gradients. A modeling experiment with Gemini

article

Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands ⬇️

article

Species richness: A pivotal factor mediating the effects of land use intensification and climate on grassland multifunctionality

scientific article published in 2024

Strain and vegetation effects on local limiting resources explain the outcomes of biotic interactions

article by Nicolas Gross et al published February 2010 in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands

scientific article

Towards sustainable and multifunctional agriculture in farmland landscapes: Lessons from the integrative approach of a French LTSER platform

scientific article published in February 2018

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

article

Trait-matching and mass effect determine the functional response of herbivore communities to land-use intensification

article

Traits of neighbouring plants and space limitation determine intraspecific trait variability in semi-arid shrublands

article

Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands

scientific article published in 2013

Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world

scientific article published on 7 August 2024

Unveiling ecological assembly rules from commonalities in trait distributions

scientific article published on 15 June 2021

Upper boundary on tree cover at global drylands

scientific article published on 16 February 2024

Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands

scientific article published on 30 July 2024

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