Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

GB De Deyn, JHC Cornelissen, RD Bardgett - Ecology letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Plant functional traits control a variety of terrestrial ecosystem processes, including soil
carbon storage which is a key component of the global carbon cycle. Plant traits regulate net …

CTFS‐Forest GEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, SJ Davies… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

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

S Pierce, D Negreiros, BEL Cerabolini… - Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Competitor, stress‐tolerator, ruderal (CSR) theory is a prominent plant functional
strategy scheme previously applied to local floras. Globally, the wide geographic and …

[BOOK][B] The evolutionary strategies that shape ecosystems

JP Grime, S Pierce - 2012 - books.google.com
THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles
Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree …

Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis

CC Cleveland, AR Townsend, P Taylor… - Ecology …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 939–947 Abstract Tropical rain forests play a dominant role in
global biosphere‐atmosphere CO2 exchange. Although climate and nutrient availability …

Quantifying the thermal performance of green façades: A critical review

AM Hunter, NSG Williams, JP Rayner, L Aye… - Ecological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Green façades are climbing plants grown either directly against, or on support structures
affixed to, external building walls. Like other forms of green infrastructure, they are …

Global‐scale patterns of nutrient resorption associated with latitude, temperature and precipitation

ZY Yuan, HYH Chen - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Nutrient resorption from senescing leaves is an important mechanism of nutrient
conservation in plants, but the patterns of nutrient resorption at the global scale are …

In situ temperature response of photosynthesis of 42 tree and liana species in the canopy of two Panamanian lowland tropical forests with contrasting rainfall regimes

M Slot, K Winter - New Phytologist, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests contribute significantly to the global carbon cycle, but little is known about
the temperature response of photosynthetic carbon uptake in tropical species, and how this …

Tropical tree seedling growth responses to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium addition

LS Santiago, SJ Wright, KE Harms, JB Yavitt, C Korine… - Journal of Ecology, 2012 - JSTOR
1. Nutrients are a critical resource for plant growth, but the elements limiting growth in
tropical forests have rarely been determined. 2. We investigated the influence of nitrogen …

Energetics and the evolution of carnivorous plants—Darwin's 'most wonderful plants in the world'

AM Ellison, NJ Gotelli - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Carnivory has evolved independently at least six times in five angiosperm orders. In spite of
these independent origins, there is a remarkable morphological convergence of carnivorous …