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A Geographic Mosaic of Climate Change Impacts on Terrestrial Vegetation: Which Areas Are Most at Risk?

scientific article

A broader perspective on plant domestication and nutrient and carbon cycling

scientific article published in April 2013

A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

A global growth-form database for 143,616 vascular plant species

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

article

A link between plant traits and abundance: evidence from coastal California woody plants

scientific article published on 23 April 2010

A new metric to assess the predictive accuracy of multinomial land cover models

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

A single evolutionary innovation drives the deep evolution of symbiotic N2-fixation in angiosperms

scientific article (publication date: 10 June 2014)

A trait-based approach to community assembly: partitioning of species trait values into within- and among-community components.

scientific article published in February 2007

A trait-based test for habitat filtering: convex hull volume

scientific article published on June 2006

Abundance, rarity and invasion debt among exotic species in a patchy ecosystem

article

An evolutionary attractor model for sapwood cross section in relation to leaf area ⬇️

scientific article published on March 20, 2012

Are litter decomposition and fire linked through plant species traits?

scientific article

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora ⬇️

publication published on 30 September 2021

Australian Tropical and Subtropical Rain Forest Community Assembly: Phylogeny, Functional Biogeography, and Environmental Gradients

scientific article published on 09 March 2012

Author Correction: A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Bridging reproductive and microbial ecology: a case study in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

article

Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species

article

Climate and soils together regulate photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination within C3 plants worldwide

article

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

scientific article published on 19 February 2009

Continental‐scale shifts in termite diversity and nesting and feeding strategies

scientific article published on 10 December 2021

Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat?

scientific article published on 14 January 2013

Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scientific article published in Nature

Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scholarly article published in Nature

Datastorr: a workflow and package for delivering successive versions of 'evolving data' directly into R

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Decomposition of 51 semidesert species from wide-ranging phylogeny is faster in standing and sand-buried than in surface leaf litters: implications for carbon and nutrient dynamics

scientific article published on 07 July 2015

Does plant size affect growth responses to water availability at glacial, modern and future CO2 concentrations?

article

Evolutionary signals of symbiotic persistence in the legume-rhizobia mutualism.

scientific article

Experimental evidence that the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model best describes the evolution of leaf litter decomposability

scientific article

Finding fungal ecological strategies: Is recycling an option?

scientific article published on 26 December 2019

Flammability across the gymnosperm phylogeny: the importance of litter particle size.

scientific article

Frequent consumption of sap suggests that omnivory is widespread among Australian geckos

scientific article published on 01 April 2021

From dangerous branches to urban banyan: Facilitating aerial root growth of Ficus rubiginosa

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Functional biogeography of angiosperms: life at the extremes

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages

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Functional traits drive the contribution of solar radiation to leaf litter decomposition among multiple arid-zone species

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Fungal functional ecology: bringing a trait-based approach to plant-associated fungi

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Generalists are the most urban‐tolerant of birds: a phylogenetically controlled analysis of ecological and life history traits using a novel continuous measure of bird responses to urbanization

scientific article published in 2019

Global abundance estimates for 9,700 bird species

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 5 November 2008

Global patterns of plant root colonization intensity by mycorrhizal fungi explained by climate and soil chemistry

article

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

article

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

article

Good neighbors aplenty: fungal endophytes rarely exhibit competitive exclusion patterns across a span of woody habitats

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

How much of the world is woody?

scientific article published on 19 April 2014

Impact of land-use on carbon storage as dependent on soil texture: evidence from a desertified dryland using repeated paired sampling design

scientific article published on 2 January 2015

Improving big citizen science data: Moving beyond haphazard sampling

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Initial wood trait variation overwhelms endophyte community effects for explaining decay trajectories

scientific article published in 2022

Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history

scientific article published in 2023

Interactions between Fine Wood Decomposition and Flammability

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Intraspecific leaf trait variability along a boreal-to-tropical community diversity gradient

scientific article

Is color data from citizen science photographs reliable for biodiversity research?

scientific article published on 30 March 2021

Jasper Ridge Woody Plant Community Database

scientific article published in 2012

Leaf traits within communities: context may affect the mapping of traits to function.

scientific article published in September 2013

Linking litter decomposition of above- and below-ground organs to plant-soil feedbacks worldwide

article

Measuring reflectance of tiny organisms: The promise of species level biocrust remote sensing

scientific article published on 10 August 2021

Meta-analysis reveals profound responses of plant traits to glacial CO2 levels

scientific article (publication date: November 2013)

Model Adequacy and the Macroevolution of Angiosperm Functional Traits

scientific article published on 12 June 2015

Multi‐taxon biodiversity responses to the 2019–2020 Australian megafires

scientific article published in 2023

Mutualism Persistence and Abandonment during the Evolution of the Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Natural and Regenerated Saltmarshes Exhibit Similar Soil and Belowground Organic Carbon Stocks, Root Production and Soil Respiration

scientific article

Optimizing future biodiversity sampling by citizen scientists

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Photographs as an essential biodiversity resource: drivers of gaps in the vascular plant photographic record

scientific article published in 2023

Phylogenetic comparative methods

scientific article published on May 2017

Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests

article

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

scientific article (publication date: June 2010)

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

scientific article published in Nature

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Plant functional traits in Australian subtropical rain forest: partitioning within-community from cross-landscape variation

article

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

scientific article

Plants show more flesh in the tropics: variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients

article

Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes

scientific article

Quantifying research interests in 7,521 mammalian species with h-index: a case study

scientific article published on 13 August 2022

Quantifying research interests in 7,521 mammalian species with h-index: a case study

scientific article published on 19 November 2021

Rapidly mapping fire effects on biodiversity at a large-scale using citizen science

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Remote sensing of trophic cascades: multi‐temporal landsat imagery reveals vegetation change driven by the removal of an apex predator

scientific article published in 2021

Reply to Robinson et al.: Data integration will form the basis of future abundance estimates

scientific article published on 8 March 2022

Sexual dimorphism in trait variability and its eco-evolutionary and statistical implications

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Shifts in fine root traits within and among species along a fine-scale hydrological gradient

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Species composition and fire: non-additive mixture effects on ground fuel flammability

scientific article

Species mixture effects on flammability across plant phylogeny: the importance of litter particle size and the special role for non-Pinus Pinaceae

scientific article

Strong but diverging clonality - climate relationships of different plant clades explain weak overall pattern across China

scientific article published on June 2016

Symbiont switching and alternative resource acquisition strategies drive mutualism breakdown

Symbiont switching and alternative resource acquisition strategies drive mutualism breakdown

scientific article published on 30 April 2018

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Temperature sensitivity of termites determines global wood decay rates

Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

Termites amplify the effects of wood traits on decomposition rates among multiple bamboo and dicot woody species

scientific article published in 2015

The Role of Climate Niche, Geofloristic History, Habitat Preference, and Allometry on Wood Density within a California Plant Community

scientific article published on 15 January 2020

The Tree of Life in ecosystems: evolution of plant effects on carbon and nutrient cycling

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

The benefits of contributing to the citizen science platform iNaturalist as an identifier

article published in November 2022

The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

Three Frontiers for the Future of Biodiversity Research Using Citizen Science Data

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scientific article with two erratum

Tissue chemistry of biocrust species along an aridity gradient and comparison to vascular plant leaves

scientific article published on 06 August 2021

Towards a universal model for carbon dioxide uptake by plants

scientific article

Towards an understanding of future range shifts in lichens and mosses under climate change

scientific article published on 29 November 2022

Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities

scientific article

Understanding the ecosystem implications of the angiosperm rise to dominance: leaf litter decomposability among magnoliids and other basal angiosperms

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

Using citizen science data to define and track restoration targets in urban areas

scientific article published on 18 May 2019

Using citizen science to measure recolonisation of birds after the Australian 2019–2020 mega‐fires

scientific article published in 2021

Weak phylogenetic signal in physiological traits of methane-oxidizing bacteria.

scientific article

What we (don't) know about global plant diversity

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What we (don't) know about global plant diversity

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

When and where soil is important to modify the carbon and water economy of leaves

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

When to cut your losses: Dispersal allocation in an asexual filamentous fungus in response to competition

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Why are non-photosynthetic tissues generally13C enriched compared with leaves in C3plants? Review and synthesis of current hypotheses

article

Widespread short‐term persistence of frog species after the 2019–2020 bushfires in eastern Australia revealed by citizen science

scientific article published in 2020

Winners always win: growth of a wide range of plant species from low to future high CO2

scientific article

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scientific article

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