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List of works by Johannes H. C. Cornelissen

A Race for Space? How Sphagnum fuscum stabilizes vegetation composition during long-term climate manipulations

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A broader perspective on plant domestication and nutrient and carbon cycling

scientific article published in April 2013

A functional method for classifying European grasslands for use in joint ecological and economic studies

scientific article published in 2005

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

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A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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A meta-analysis on decomposition quantifies afterlife effects of plant diversity as a global change driver

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

A methodology to derive global maps of leaf traits using remote sensing and climate data

scientific article published in 2018

A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

scientific article published on 29 September 2011

A rediscovered treasure: mycorrhizal intensity database for 3000 vascular plant species across the former Soviet Union

scientific article published in 2012

A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

scientific article published on 07 October 2021

A test of the hierarchical model of litter decomposition

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A triangular relationship between leaf size and seed size among woody species: allometry, ontogeny, ecology and taxonomy

scientific article published in February 1999

AM Fungi Alleviate Phosphorus Limitation and Enhance Nutrient Competitiveness of Invasive Plants via Mycorrhizal Networks in Karst Areas

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Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities

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Aboveground Morphology of Shade-Tolerant Castanopsis fargesii Saplings in Response to Light Environment

scientific article published on 26 July 2002

Abundance-weighted plant functional trait variation differs between terrestrial and wetland habitats along wide climatic gradients

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Advances in flowering phenology across the Northern Hemisphere are explained by functional traits

scientific article published in 2017

Allometric covariation of xylem and stomata across diverse woody seedlings

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Amino acid uptake among wide-ranging moss species may contribute to their strong position in higher-latitude ecosystems

scientific article published on 28 January 2008

An Experimental Comparison of Leaf Decomposition Rates in a Wide Range of Temperate Plant Species and Types

scientific article published on 17 June 2006

An experimental comparison of chemical traits and litter decomposition rates in a diverse range of subarctic bryophyte, lichen and vascular plant species

scientific article published on 11 August 2009

Arctic warming on two continents has consistent negative effects on lichen diversity and mixed effects on bryophyte diversity

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Are litter decomposition and fire linked through plant species traits?

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Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships

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Assessing the reliability of predicted plant trait distributions at the global scale

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Association of leaf silicon content with chronic wind exposure across and within herbaceous plant species

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Bark traits, decomposition and flammability of Australian forest trees

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Behavioural, ecological and evolutionary responses to extreme climatic events: challenges and directions

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BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

scientific article published in July 2018

Biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships change through primary succession

article published in 2017

Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

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Biomass production, N:P ratio and nutrient limitation in a Caucasian alpine tundra plant community

scientific article published on 24 February 2009

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

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C:N:P stoichiometry ofArtemisiaspecies and close relatives across northern China: unravelling effects of climate, soil and taxonomy

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Can bryophyte groups increase functional resolution in tundra ecosystems?

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Can flooding-induced greenhouse gas emissions be mitigated by trait-based plant species choice?

scientific article published on 10 April 2020

Carbon cycling traits of plant species are linked with mycorrhizal strategy

scientific article published on 13 July 2001

Changing leaf litter feedbacks on plant production across contrasting sub-arctic peatland species and growth forms

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

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

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Climatic and evolutionary contexts are required to infer plant life history strategies from functional traits at a global scale

scientific article published on 27 February 2021

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

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

Comparative cryptogam ecology: a review of bryophyte and lichen traits that drive biogeochemistry

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Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

article published in 2019

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Components of relative growth rate and their interrelations in 59 temperate plant species

scientific article published on 12 March 2003

Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealised potential for forest multifunctionality

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Contrasting effects of tree diversity on young tree growth and resistance to insect herbivores across three biodiversity experiments

article by Josephine Haase et al published 8 April 2015 in Oikos

Contrasting nitrogen cycling between herbaceous wetland and terrestrial ecosystems inferred from plant and soil nitrogen isotopes across China

scientific article published on 02 March 2022

Controls on coarse wood decay in temperate tree species: birth of the LOGLIFE experiment

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Convergent xylem widening among organs across diverse woody seedlings

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Coordinated variation in leaf and root traits across multiple spatial scales in Chinese semi-arid and arid ecosystems

scientific article published on October 2010

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 to: New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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DECOMPOSITION OF SUB-ARCTIC PLANTS WITH DIFFERING NITROGEN ECONOMIES: A FUNCTIONAL ROLE FOR HEMIPARASITES

scientific article published on 04 June 2007

Dead wood diversity promotes fungal diversity

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Decadal warming causes a consistent and persistent shift from heterotrophic to autotrophic respiration in contrasting permafrost ecosystems

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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

Determinants of cryptogam composition and diversity inSphagnum-dominated peatlands: the importance of temporal, spatial and functional scales

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Different inter-annual responses to availability and form of nitrogen explain species coexistence in an alpine meadow community after release from grazing.

scientific article published on 12 June 2012

Disentangling ecological, allometric and evolutionary determinants of the relationship between seed mass and elevation: insights from multiple analyses of 1355 angiosperm species on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published on 30 July 2013

Distribution and Ecology of Vascular Epiphytes in Lowland Rain Forest of Guyana

Divergence of above- and belowground C and N pool within predominant plant species along two precipitation gradients in North China

scientific article published on 27 January 2015

Diversity of macro-detritivores in dead wood is influenced by tree species, decay stage and environment

Do shallow soil, low water availability, or their combination increase the competition between grasses with different root systems in karst soil?

scientific article published on 11 March 2017

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

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Dynamic feedbacks among tree functional traits, termite populations and deadwood turnover

scientific article published on 29 January 2021

Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change

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Effects of experimentally imposed climate scenarios on flowering phenology and flower production of subarctic bog species

scientific article published on 17 September 2004

Effects of lianas on forest biogeochemistry during their lives and afterlives

scientific article published in April 2024

Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora

scientific article published on 22 December 2009

Evolutionary Position and Leaf Toughness Control Chemical Transformation of Litter, and Drought Reinforces This Control: Evidence from a Common Garden Experiment across 48 Species

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

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

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Experimental sand burial and precipitation enhancement alter plant and soil carbon allocation in a semi-arid steppe in north China

scientific article published on 16 October 2018

Faunal community consequence of interspecific bark trait dissimilarity in early-stage decomposing logs

scientific article published in 2016

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

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Foliar nutrients in relation to growth, allocation and leaf traits in seedlings of a wide range of woody plant species and types

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Foliar pH as a new plant trait: can it explain variation in foliar chemistry and carbon cycling processes among subarctic plant species and types?

scientific article published on 11 October 2005

Forests in flux as climate varies

scientific article published in Nature

Fuel moisture content enhances nonadditive effects of plant mixtures on flammability and fire behavior

scientific article published on 22 August 2015

Functional Resilience against Climate-Driven Extinctions - Comparing the Functional Diversity of European and North American Tree Floras

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Functional evenness of N-to-P ratios of evergreen-deciduous mixtures predicts positive non-additive effect on leaf litter decomposition

scientific article published on 10 January 2019

Functional leaf attributes predict litter decomposition rate in herbaceous plants

scientific article published on 12 March 2003

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

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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

Functional traits of woody plants: correspondence of species rankings between field adults and laboratory-grown seedlings?

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Functional traits predict relationship between plant abundance dynamic and long-term climate warming.

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Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

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Geographic pattern and effects of climate and taxonomy on nonstructural carbohydrates of Artemisia species and their close relatives across northern China

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Global Root Traits (GRooT) Database

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

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Global change and arctic ecosystems: is lichen decline a function of increases in vascular plant biomass?

scientific article published in 2001

Global change and arctic ecosystems: is lichen decline a function of increases in vascular plant biomass?

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Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

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

scientific article published on 5 November 2008

Global negative vegetation feedback to climate warming responses of leaf litter decomposition rates in cold biomes

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Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

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

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Global patterns of potential future plant diversity hidden in soil seed banks

scientific article published on 02 December 2021

Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

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

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Global root traits (GRooT) database

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

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Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

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Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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Great granny still ruling from the grave: Phenotypical response of plant performance and seed functional traits to salt stress affects multiple generations of a halophyte

scientific article published on 09 October 2021

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

How do bryophytes govern generative recruitment of vascular plants?

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

How interacting fungal species and mineral nitrogen inputs affect transfer of nitrogen from litter via arbuscular mycorrhizal mycelium

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

How much will it cost to save grassland diversity?

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

Impacts of trait variation through observed trait–climate relationships on performance of an Earth system model: a conceptual analysis

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Improved representation of plant functional types and physiology in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES v4.2) using plant trait information

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Inclusion of ecologically based trait variation in plant functional types reduces the projected land carbon sink in an earth system model

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Increasing Functional Diversity in a Global Land Surface Model Illustrates Uncertainties Related to Parameter Simplification

scientific article published on 07 March 2022

Integrated Screening Validates Primary Axes of Specialisation in Plants

scientific article published on 16 November 2006

Integrated plant phenotypic responses to contrasting above- and below-ground resources: key roles of specific leaf area and root mass fraction.

scientific article published on 17 March 2015

Inter- and intraspecific variation in leaf economic traits in wheat and maize

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

Interactions between Fine Wood Decomposition and Flammability

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Interspecific differences in wood decay rates: insights from a new short-term method to study long-term wood decomposition

scientific article published on 09 September 2011

Intra- and interspecific trait variations reveal functional relationships between specific leaf area and soil niche within a subtropical forest

scientific article published on 3 February 2018

Invasive species' leaf traits and dissimilarity from natives shape their impact on nitrogen cycling: a meta-analysis

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Invertebrate phenology modulates the effect of the leaf economics spectrum on litter decomposition rate across 41 subtropical woody plant species

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Is intensity of plant root mycorrhizal colonization a good proxy for plant growth rate, dominance and decomposition in nutrient poor conditions?

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

Is leaf dry matter content a better predictor of soil fertility than specific leaf area?

scientific article published on 21 September 2011

Isotopic analysis of cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation associated with subarctic lichen and bryophyte species

scientific article published on 14 April 2010

Larger phylogenetic distances in litter mixtures: lower microbial biomass and higher C/N ratios but equal mass loss

scientific article published in May 2015

Leaf and root nutrient concentrations and stoichiometry along aridity and soil fertility gradients

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

Leaf digestibility and litter decomposability are related in a wide range of subarctic plant species and types

scientific article published on 08 December 2004

Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf : wood area ratios

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Leaf litter traits of invasive species slow down decomposition compared to Spanish natives: a broad phylogenetic comparison.

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Leaf pH as a plant trait: species-driven rather than soil-driven variation

scientific article published on 12 August 2010

Leaf structure and anatomy as related to leaf mass per area variation in seedlings of a wide range of woody plant species and types

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Leaf structure and defence control litter decomposition rate across species and life forms in regional floras on two continents

scientific article published on 12 March 2003

Leaf traits and herbivore selection in the field and in cafeteria experiments

scientific article published in 2003

Legumes affect alpine tundra community composition via multiple biotic interactions

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Lianas from lives to afterlives

scientific article published on 15 April 2024

Linking performance trait stability with species distribution: the case ofArtemisiaand its close relatives in northern China

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Litter for life: assessing the multifunctional legacy of plant traits

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Litter nitrogen concentration changes mediate effects of drought and plant species richness on litter decomposition

scientific article published on 13 January 2022

Litter stoichiometric traits of plant species of high-latitude ecosystems show high responsiveness to global change without causing strong variation in litter decomposition

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Living Litter: Dynamic Trait Spectra Predict Fauna Composition

scientific article published on 07 June 2020

Long-term ecosystem level experiments at Toolik Lake, Alaska, and at Abisko, Northern Sweden: generalizations and differences in ecosystem and plant type responses to global change

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Long-term vegetation dynamic in the Northwestern Caucasus: which communities are more affected by upward shifts of plant species?

scientific article published on 05 October 2013

Long‐term legacies of seasonal extremes in Arctic ecosystem functioning

scientific article published on 10 January 2022

Management, winter climate and plant–soil feedbacks on ski slopes: a synthesis

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Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

scientific article published in December 2017

Mapping nutrient resorption efficiencies of subarctic cryptogams and seed plants onto the Tree of Life

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

scientific article (publication date: November 2013)

Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate

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Moss Responses to Elevated CO2 and Variation in Hydrology in a Temperate Lowland Peatland

scientific article published in 2006

Multiple abiotic and biotic drivers of long‐term wood decomposition within and among species in the semi‐arid inland dunes: A dual role for stem diameter

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Multiple mechanisms for trait effects on litter decomposition: moving beyond home-field advantage with a new hypothesis

scientific article published on 05 January 2012

Net plant interactions are highly variable and weakly dependent on climate at the global scale

scientific article published on 23 April 2022

New field wind manipulation methodology reveals adaptive responses of steppe plants to increased and reduced wind speed

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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New nitrogen uptake strategy: specialized snow roots

scientific article published on 4 June 2009

Niche assembly of epiphytic bryophyte communities in the Guianas: a regional approach

Nitrogen transfer from one plant to another depends on plant biomass production between conspecific and heterospecific species via a common arbuscular mycorrhizal network

scientific article published on 02 February 2019

Non-additive effects of leaf and twig mixtures from different tree species on experimental litter-bed flammability

scientific article published on 10 January 2019

Non‐negligible contribution of subordinates in community‐level litter decomposition: Deciduous trees in an evergreen world

scientific article published on 19 December 2019

Nutrient Resorption from Leaves of Wetland Plants in a Constructed Wetland Depends on Green Leaf Nutrient Content and Life Form

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Oxygen absorption by adventitious roots promotes the survival of completely submerged terrestrial plants

scientific article published on 10 April 2016

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

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Patterns of free amino acids in tundra soils reflect mycorrhizal type, shrubification, and warming

scientific article published on 21 March 2022

Patterns of natural fungal community assembly during initial decay of coniferous and broadleaf tree logs

scientific article published in 2016

Phragmites australis meets Suaeda salsa on the "red beach": Effects of an ecosystem engineer on salt-marsh litter decomposition

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

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

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Plant community flood resilience in intensively managed grasslands and the role of the plant economic spectrum

scientific article published on 16 May 2020

Plant diversity has stronger linkage with soil fungal diversity than with bacterial diversity across grasslands of northern China

scientific article published on 23 February 2022

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 and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

scientific article published on 13 February 2008

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

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

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Plant trait response of tundra shrubs to permafrost thaw and nutrient addition

scientific article published on 18 October 2020

Plant traits and ecosystem effects of clonality: a new research agenda

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Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?

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Plant-driven variation in decomposition rates improves projections of global litter stock distribution

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Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming

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Quantitative assessment of the differential impacts of arbuscular and ectomycorrhiza on soil carbon cycling

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Quaternary climate change explains global patterns of tree beta-diversity

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Reciprocal effects of litter from exotic and congeneric native plant species via soil nutrients

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Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Reservations about preservations: storage methods affect δ13C signatures differently even in closely related soil fauna

scientific article published in 2011

Responses of community structure and diversity to nitrogen deposition and rainfall addition in contrasting steppes are ecosystem-dependent and dwarfed by year-to-year community dynamics

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Responsiveness of performance and morphological traits to experimental submergence predicts field distribution pattern of wetland plants

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Revisiting the Functional Basis of Sclerophylly Within the Leaf Economics Spectrum of Oaks: Different Roads to Rome

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

Robustness of trait connections across environmental gradients and growth forms

scientific article published on 02 September 2019

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

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Scaling up flammability from individual leaves to fuel beds

scientific article published in 2017

Seasonal climate manipulations have only minor effects on litter decomposition rates and N dynamics but strong effects on litter P dynamics of sub-arctic bog species

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Seed dimorphism, nutrients and salinity differentially affect seed traits of the desert halophyte Suaeda aralocaspicavia multiple maternal effects

scientific article published on September 25, 2012

Seedling Growth and Morphology of the Deciduous Tree Cornus controversa in Simulated Forest Gap Light Environments in Subtropical China

scientific article published on 03 February 2005

Seedling Growth, Allocation and Leaf Attributes in a Wide Range of Woody Plant Species and Types

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Shifts in priming partly explain impacts of long-term nitrogen input in different chemical forms on soil organic carbon storage

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Shrub-tree interactions and environmental changes drive treeline dynamics in the Subarctic

scientific article published in 2012

Similar Growth Performance but Contrasting Biomass Allocation of Root-Flooded Terrestrial Plant (Mart.) Griseb. in Response to Nutrient Versus Dissolved Oxygen Stress

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Similar cation exchange capacities among bryophyte species refute a presumed mechanism of peatland acidification.

scientific article published in September 2010

Simple measures of climate, soil properties and plant traits predict national-scale grassland soil carbon stocks

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Simulating functional diversity of European natural forests along climatic gradients

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Sixteen years of simulated summer and winter warming have contrasting effects on soil mite communities in a sub-Arctic peat bog

scientific article published on 29 December 2018

Snow roots: Where are they and what are they for?

scientific article published on 22 November 2020

Soil fauna accelerate litter mixture decomposition globally, especially in dry environments

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

Soil nutrient patchiness and plant genotypes interact on the production potential and decomposition of root and shoot litter: evidence from short-term laboratory experiments with Triticum aestivum

scientific article published on 13 December 2011

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

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

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Species richness and functional diversity of isopod communities vary across an urbanisation gradient, but the direction and strength depend on soil type

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Species traits and their non-additive interactions control the water economy of bryophyte cushions

scientific article published on 19 September 2011

Specific leaf area predicts dryland litter decomposition via two mechanisms

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Sphagnum modifies climate-change impacts on subarctic vascular bog plants

scientific article published on 21 March 2006

Sphagnum-dwelling testate amoebae in subarctic bogs are more sensitive to soil warming in the growing season than in winter: the results of eight-year field climate manipulations

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Stem Trait Spectra Underpin Multiple Functions of Temperate Tree Species

scientific article published on 03 March 2022

Stem anatomy and relative growth rate in seedlings of a wide range of woody plant species and types

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Stem traits, compartments and tree species affect fungal communities on decaying wood

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Stomatal vs. genome size in angiosperms: the somatic tail wagging the genomic dog?

scientific article (publication date: April 2010)

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

scientific article published on June 2016

Substantial nutrient resorption from leaves, stems and roots in a subarctic flora: what is the link with other resource economics traits?

scientific article published on 19 March 2010

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

Taxonomic effect on plant base concentrations and stoichiometry at the tips of the phylogeny prevails over environmental effect along a large scale gradient

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Temperate forest and open landscapes are distinct alternative states as reflected in canopy height and tree cover

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Temperature sensitivity of termites determines global wood decay rates

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

scientific article published in 2015

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

scholarly article by M. Kleyer et al published November 2008 in Journal of Ecology

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

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

The cover uncovered: Bark control over wood decomposition

scientific article published in 2018

The effect of plant size and branch traits on rainfall interception of 10 temperate tree species

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The global spectrum of plant form and function

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

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The plant traits that drive ecosystems: Evidence from three continents

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The trait contribution to wood decomposition rates of 15 Neotropical tree species.

scientific article published on December 2010

The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2004)

Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution

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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

Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size‐related traits across the tundra biome

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Traits including leaf dry matter content and leaf pH dominate over forest soil pH as drivers of litter decomposition among 60 species

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

Traits underpinning desiccation resistance explain distribution patterns of terrestrial isopods

scientific article

Tree Sapling Responses to 10 Years of Experimental Manipulation of Temperature, Nutrient Availability, and Shrub Cover at the Pyrenean Treeline

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Tree leaf and root traits mediate soil faunal contribution to litter decomposition across an elevational gradient

scientific article published in 2018

Tree species identity in high-latitude forests determines fire spread through fuel ladders from branches to soil and vice versa

scientific article published on 26 June 2017

Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

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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

Untangling interacting mechanisms of seed mass variation with elevation: insights from the comparison of inter-specific and intra-specific studies on eastern Tibetan angiosperm species

scientific article published on 01 December 2014

Variation in plant leaf traits affects transmission and detectability of herbivore vibrational cues

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

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Why trees and shrubs but rarely trubs?

scientific article published on 17 June 2014

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

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Winter climate change in plant–soil systems: summary of recent findings and future perspectives

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Winter climate change, plant traits and nutrient and carbon cycling in cold biomes

scientific article published on 18 December 2013

Winter cover crop legacy effects on litter decomposition act through litter quality and microbial community changes

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