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A Common Toolbox to Understand, Monitor or Manage Rarity? A Response to Carmona et al.

scientific article

A Multidimensional Functional Trait Approach Reveals the Imprint of Environmental Stress in Mediterranean Woody Communities

article published in 2017

A combinatorial analysis using observational data identifies species that govern ecosystem functioning.

scientific article published in August 2018

A common genetic basis to the origin of the leaf economics spectrum and metabolic scaling allometry

scientific article

A genome‐wide analysis suggests pleiotropic effects of Green Revolution genes on shade avoidance in wheat

scientific article published on 28 January 2022

A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address below-ground challenges in plant ecology

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

A network approach for inferring species associations from co-occurrence data

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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

Adaptive diversification of growth allometry in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Allocation strategies and seed traits are hardly affected by nitrogen supply in 18 species differing in successional status

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Allocation, morphology, physiology, architecture: the multiple facets of plant above- and below-ground responses to resource stress

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Analyzing snapshot diversity patterns with the Neutral Theory can show functional groups' effects on community assembly

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Are trait-based species rankings consistent across data sets and spatial scales?

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Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

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Areas of global importance for terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Assessing the causes and scales of the leaf economics spectrum using venation networks inPopulus tremuloides

scientific article published in 2013

Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

correction of a scholarly article

Biogeochemical and Ecomorphological Niche Segregation of Mediterranean Woody Species along a Local Gradient

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Biological scaling in green algae: the role of cell size and geometry

scientific article published on 13 July 2021

CSR ecological strategies and plant mating systems: outcrossing increases with competitiveness but stress-tolerance is related to mixed mating

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Climate as a driver of adaptive variations in ecological strategies in Arabidopsis thaliana

Climate as a driver of adaptive variations in ecological strategies in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation

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Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

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Community variation in plant traits along copper and cobalt gradients

scientific article published on 08 February 2016

Competition, traits and resource depletion in plant communities

scientific article published on 8 April 2009

Complementary effects of species and genetic diversity on productivity and stability of sown grasslands

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

Configurational crop heterogeneity increases within‐field plant diversity

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Consistent functional clusters explain the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem productivity in a long‐term experiment

scientific article published in 2021

Coping with drought: root trait variability within the perennial grass Dactylis glomerata captures a trade-off between dehydration avoidance and dehydration tolerance

scientific article published on 27 October 2018

Correction: A combinatorial analysis using observational data identifies species that govern ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Crop mixtures: does niche complementarity hold for belowground resources? An experimental test using rice genotypic pairs

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession

scientific article

Delivering the promises of trait‐based approaches to the needs of demographic approaches, and vice versa.

scientific article published on 17 June 2018

Differential impacts of plant interactions on herbaceous species recruitment: disentangling factors controlling emergence, survival and growth of seedlings

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Distinguishing the signatures of local environmental filtering and regional trait range limits in the study of trait–environment relationships

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Disturbed habitats locally reduce the signal of deep evolutionary history in functional traits of plants

scientific article

Diversity in Plant Breeding: A New Conceptual Framework

scientific article

Do ecological specialization and functional traits explain the abundance–frequency relationship? Arable weeds as a case study

scientific article

Do leaf nitrogen resorption dynamics align with the slow‐fast continuum? A test at the intraspecific level

scientific article published on 03 March 2022

Domestication-driven changes in plant traits associated with changes in the assembly of the rhizosphere microbiota in tetraploid wheat

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Early dynamics in plant community trait responses to a novel, more extreme hydrological gradient

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Early positive biodiversity effects on total biomass in experimental tree seedling assemblages with and without water limitation

scientific article published on 13 November 2021

Ecological Specialization and Rarity of Arable Weeds: Insights from a Comprehensive Survey in France

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

Ecological and biogeographical drivers of freshwater green algae biodiversity: from local communities to large-scale species pools of desmids

scientific article

Ectomycorrhizal Networks in the Anthropocene: From Natural Ecosystems to Urban Planning

scientific article published on 30 June 2022

Effectiveness of ecological rescue for altered soil microbial communities and functions

scientific article

Effects of Habitat and Competition on Niche Partitioning and Community Structure in Neotropical Ants

scientific article published on 17 June 2022

Embolism and mechanical resistances play a key role in dehydration tolerance of a perennial grass Dactylis glomerata L

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Equilibrium in plant functional trait responses to warming is stronger under higher climate variability during the Holocene

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Experimental demonstration of the importance of competition under disturbance

scientific article

Farming plant cooperation in crops

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Five species, many genotypes, broad phenotypic diversity: When agronomy meets functional ecology.

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

Functional Rarity: The Ecology of Outliers

scientific article

Functional biogeography of dietary strategies in birds

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Functional biogeography of weeds reveals how anthropogenic management blurs trait–climate relationships

scientific article

Functional rarity of coral reef fishes at the global scale: Hotspots and challenges for conservation

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient.

scientific article

Functional traits modulate plant community responses to alien plant invasion

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Functionally distinct tree species support long-term productivity in extreme environments

scientific article published on 19 January 2022

Geographic scale and disturbance influence intraspecific trait variability in leaves and roots of North American understorey plants

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Global distribution and conservation status of ecologically rare mammal and bird species

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

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Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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Grassland-to-crop conversion in agricultural landscapes has lasting impact on the trait diversity of bees

scientific article published on 18 October 2020

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

scientific article

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

Inclusion of vein traits improves predictive power for the leaf economic spectrum: a response to Sack et al. (2013).

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

Increasing crop heterogeneity enhances multitrophic diversity across agricultural regions

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Interspecific integration of trait dimensions at local scales: the plant phenotype as an integrated network

scientific article published on 08 February 2017

Interspecific interactions regulate plant reproductive allometry in cereal–legume intercropping systems

scientific article published on 23 July 2021

Into the range: a latitudinal gradient or a center-margins differentiation of ecological strategies in <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>?

scientific article published on 14 December 2021

Intra-specific and inter-specific variation in specific leaf area reveal the importance of abiotic and biotic drivers of species diversity across elevation and latitude

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Intraspecific body size variability in soil organisms at a European scale: Implications for functional biogeography

scientific article published on 07 August 2018

Intraspecific seed trait variations and competition: passive or adaptive response?

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Intraspecific trait variability mediates the response of subalpine grassland communities to extreme drought events

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Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

scientific article published on 06 July 2010

Is prediction of species richness from stacked species distribution models biased by habitat saturation?

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Isoprene emission structures tropical tree biogeography and community assembly responses to climate

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

Land-use change effects on the taxonomic and morphological trait composition of ant communities in French Guiana

scientific article published on 01 August 2017

Land-use history impacts functional diversity across multiple trophic groups

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

Late Quaternary climate legacies in contemporary plant functional composition

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Leaf economics and slow-fast adaptation across the geographic range of Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Less favourable climates constrain demographic strategies in plants

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Let the concept of trait be functional!

scientific article published in 2007

Let the concept of trait be functional!

Limited sampling hampers "big data" estimation of species richness in a tropical biodiversity hotspot

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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

Litter quality and decomposability of species from a Mediterranean succession depend on leaf traits but not on nitrogen supply

scientific article published on 26 August 2009

Loss of pollinator specialization revealed by historical opportunistic data: Insights from network-based analysis

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Mapping the dependency of crops on pollinators in Belgium

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Mechanisms of ecological succession: insights from plant functional strategies

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

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Multifaceted functional diversity for multifaceted crop yield: Towards ecological assembly rules for varietal mixtures

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Multiple facets of diversity effects on plant productivity: Species richness, functional diversity, species identity and intraspecific competition

scientific article published on 20 October 2019

Multi‐scale and antagonist selection on life‐history traits in parasitoids: A community ecology perspective

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

National-scale changes in crop diversity through the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 13 October 2021

Natural variation at FLM splicing has pleiotropic effects modulating ecological strategies in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

New approaches for delineating n ‐dimensional hypervolumes

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Nitrogen availability and plant–plant interactions drive leaf silicon concentration in wheat genotypes

scientific article published in 2022

Nonlinear phenotypic variation uncovers the emergence of heterosis in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Occupancy and overlap in trait space along a successional gradient in Mediterranean old fields

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

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

preprint

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 limiting similarity and competitive exclusion

scientific article published on June 14, 2011

Phylogenetic patterns and phenotypic profiles of the species of plants and mammals farmed for food

scholarly article by Rubén Milla et al published November 2018 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

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

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Plant community impact on productivity: Trait diversity or key(stone) species effects?

scientific article published on 22 January 2022

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

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Plant demographic and functional responses to management intensification: A long-term study in a Mediterranean rangeland

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Plant domestication through an ecological lens

scientific article published on 29 June 2015

Plant functional traits capture species richness variations along a flooding gradient

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

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Predicting trait-environment relationships for venation networks along an Andes-Amazon elevation gradient

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Quaternary climate change explains global patterns of tree beta-diversity

preprint

Re-growing a tropical dry forest: functional plant trait composition and community assembly during succession

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Rebound in functional distinctiveness following warming and reduced fishing in the North Sea

scientific article published on 13 January 2021

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

scientific article published in 2016

Regional and global shifts in crop diversity through the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Relating root structure and anatomy to whole-plant functioning in 14 herbaceous Mediterranean species

scientific article published in January 2007

Reply to 'No evidence for different metabolism in domestic mammals'

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems

scientific article published in 2015

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

Shifts in plant functional strategies over the course of wheat domestication

scientific article published on 02 December 2017

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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Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Similarities and differences in intrapopulation trait correlations of co-occurring tree species: consistent water-use relationships amid widely different correlation patterns

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

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

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TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Testing models for the leaf economics spectrum with leaf and whole-plant traits in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

The Evolutionary Legacy of Diversification Predicts Ecosystem Function

scientific article published on 15 August 2016

The Open Traits Network: Using Open Science principles to accelerate trait-based science across the Tree of Life

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

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

scientific article published in 2017

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 dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces

scientific article published on 20 May 2021

The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

scientific article

The evolution of bacterial cell size: the internal diffusion-constraint hypothesis.

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

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

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

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

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The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

scientific article published on 13 January 2012

Then-dimensional hypervolume

scientific article published in 2014

Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution

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Towards parsimonious ecophysiological models that bridge ecology and agronomy

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Trait databases: misuses and precautions

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Trait structure and redundancy determine sensitivity to disturbance in marine fish communities

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally

scientific article published on 22 February 2023

Trait‐environment associations diverge between native and alien breeding bird assemblages on the world's oceanic islands

scientific article published on 13 July 2023

Unveiling ecological assembly rules from commonalities in trait distributions

scientific article published on 15 June 2021

Using n -dimensional hypervolumes for species distribution modelling: A response to Qiao et al. ()

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Vacant yet invasible niches in forest community assembly

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

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

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

Venation networks and the origin of the leaf economics spectrum

scientific article published on 15 November 2010

Viva la variance! A reply to Nakagawa & Schielzeth

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Weeds: Against the Rules?

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

What it takes to invade grassland ecosystems: traits, introduction history and filtering processes

scientific article

What makes a weed a weed? A large-scale evaluation of arable weeds through a functional lens

scientific article published on 11 January 2019

What makes trait-abundance relationships when both environmental filtering and stochastic neutral dynamics are at play?

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When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

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When is the best time to flower and disperse? A comparative analysis of plant reproductive phenology in the Mediterranean

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When, where and how does microbial community composition matter?

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cati: an R package using functional traits to detect and quantify multi-level community assembly processes

scientific article published on 06 June 2015

ecolottery : Simulating and assessing community assembly with environmental filtering and neutral dynamics in R

scientific article published in 2017

funrar: An R package to characterize functional rarity

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

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sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots

scientific article published on 21 June 2021