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List of works by Nathan J.B. Kraft

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

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

A phylogenetically informed delineation of floristic regions within a biodiversity hotspot in Yunnan, China.

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A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base

scientific article published on 18 April 2022

A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base

scientific article published on 29 June 2021

Characterizing scale-dependent community assembly using the functional-diversity--area relationship

scientific article published in November 2013

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients.

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Divergent drivers of leaf trait variation within species, among species, and among functional groups.

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Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long‐term drought

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Flowering date of taxonomic families predicts phenological sensitivity to temperature: Implications for forecasting the effects of climate change on unstudied taxa

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Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait–climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities

scientific article published on 25 May 2021

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient.

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Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest.

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Functional traits and the growth-mortality trade-off in tropical trees

scientific article published on December 2010

Functional traits predict species responses to environmental variation in a California grassland annual plant community

scientific article published on 22 January 2022

Global gradients in intraspecific variation in vegetative and floral traits are partially associated with climate and species richness

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Habitat area and climate stability determine geographical variation in plant species range sizes.

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

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure

scientific article published on 16 June 2022

Incompletely resolved phylogenetic trees inflate estimates of phylogenetic conservatism

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Individual cell based traits obtained by scanning flow-cytometry show selection by biotic and abiotic environmental factors during a phytoplankton spring bloom.

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Intransitivity is infrequent and fails to promote annual plant coexistence without pairwise niche differences

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework

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Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics

scientific article published in 2023

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

scientific article published in December 2017

Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests

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Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist.

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

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Patterns and drivers of plant functional group dominance across the Western Hemisphere: a macroecological re-assessment based on a massive botanical dataset

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Phylogenetic relatedness and the determinants of competitive outcomes

scientific article published on 28 April 2014

Plant Functional Diversity and the Biogeography of Biomes in North and South America

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence.

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Plant-O-Matic : a dynamic and mobile guide to all plants of the Americas

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Quaternary climate change explains global patterns of tree beta-diversity

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Regularized Regression: A New Tool for Investigating and Predicting Tree Growth

scientific article published on 20 September 2021

Sensitivity of Spring Phenology to Warming Across Temporal and Spatial Climate Gradients in Two Independent Databases

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Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications.

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Shifts in trait means and variances in North American tree assemblages: species richness patterns are loosely related to the functional space

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Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species

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Sustaining ecosystem functions in a changing world: a call for an integrated approach

scientific article published in June 2013

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Temperature shapes opposing latitudinal gradients of plant taxonomic and phylogenetic β diversity

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The bien r package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) database

scientific article published in 2017

The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

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The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants

scientific article published on 9 August 2019

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

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The hidden value of trees: Quantifying the ecosystem services of tree lineages and their major threats across the contiguous US

scientific article published on 05 April 2022

The relationship between wood density and mortality in a global tropical forest data set.

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The relationship of woody plant size and leaf nutrient content to large‐scale productivity for forests across the Americas

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Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms.

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Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

scientific article published on 2 May 2012

Winning and losing with microbes: how microbially mediated fitness differences influence plant diversity

scientific article published on 27 May 2019