Published in Nature on April 22, 2004
Hyperspectral remote sensing of foliar nitrogen content. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 3.87
Functional- and abundance-based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to N fertilization. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 3.66
Canopy nitrogen, carbon assimilation, and albedo in temperate and boreal forests: Functional relations and potential climate feedbacks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 3.37
Using phylogenetic, functional and trait diversity to understand patterns of plant community productivity. PLoS One (2009) 2.66
Climate and litter quality differently modulate the effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition across biomes. Ecol Lett (2013) 2.43
Use of digital webcam images to track spring green-up in a deciduous broadleaf forest. Oecologia (2007) 2.20
Leaf canopy as a dynamic system: ecophysiology and optimality in leaf turnover. Ann Bot (2004) 2.20
Isotopic values of plants in relation to water availability in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Oecologia (2009) 2.18
Factors that shape seed mass evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 2.09
Sharply increased insect herbivory during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.99
Conservatism and diversification of plant functional traits: Evolutionary rates versus phylogenetic signal. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.94
Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forests. Ann Bot (2006) 1.91
A general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.81
The scaling of leaf area and mass: the cost of light interception increases with leaf size. Proc Biol Sci (2007) 1.80
Comparative cryptogam ecology: a review of bryophyte and lichen traits that drive biogeochemistry. Ann Bot (2007) 1.75
Deterministic tropical tree community turnover: evidence from patterns of functional beta diversity along an elevational gradient. Proc Biol Sci (2010) 1.74
Stoichiometry and large-scale patterns of leaf carbon and nitrogen in the grassland biomes of China. Oecologia (2006) 1.67
The importance of nutritional regulation of plant water flux. Oecologia (2009) 1.63
Leaf phosphorus influences the photosynthesis-nitrogen relation: a cross-biome analysis of 314 species. Oecologia (2009) 1.62
Carbon dioxide fluxes in a spatially and temporally heterogeneous temperate grassland. Oecologia (2005) 1.61
Interspecific difference in the photosynthesis-nitrogen relationship: patterns, physiological causes, and ecological importance. J Plant Res (2004) 1.60
Improving the scale and precision of hypotheses to explain root foraging ability. Ann Bot (2008) 1.58
Synergy between pathogen release and resource availability in plant invasion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.57
Plant allometry, leaf nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry, and interspecific trends in annual growth rates. Ann Bot (2005) 1.57
Fine root decomposition rates do not mirror those of leaf litter among temperate tree species. Oecologia (2009) 1.53
Mean mass-specific metabolic rates are strikingly similar across life's major domains: Evidence for life's metabolic optimum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.53
Low levels of ribosomal RNA partly account for the very high photosynthetic phosphorus-use efficiency of Proteaceae species. Plant Cell Environ (2014) 1.51
Leaf nitrogen:phosphorus stoichiometry across Chinese grassland biomes. Oecologia (2007) 1.48
Do we underestimate the importance of leaf size in plant economics? Disproportional scaling of support costs within the spectrum of leaf physiognomy. Ann Bot (2007) 1.48
Integration of root phenes for soil resource acquisition. Front Plant Sci (2013) 1.47
Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 1.47
"Diminishing returns" in the scaling of functional leaf traits across and within species groups. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.46
Plant ecological strategies shift across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. PLoS Biol (2014) 1.46
Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly. Ecol Lett (2012) 1.45
A functional trait perspective on plant invasion. Ann Bot (2012) 1.43
Longevity, lignin content and construction cost of the assimilatory organs of Nepenthes species. Ann Bot (2008) 1.40
Developmentally based scaling of leaf venation architecture explains global ecological patterns. Nat Commun (2012) 1.39
Detecting the differences in responses of stomatal conductance to moisture stresses between deciduous shrubs and Artemisia subshrubs. PLoS One (2013) 1.39
Leaf extraction and analysis framework graphical user interface: segmenting and analyzing the structure of leaf veins and areoles. Plant Physiol (2010) 1.36
Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling. Nat Commun (2015) 1.35
Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 1.35
Optimizing antenna size to maximize photosynthetic efficiency. Plant Physiol (2010) 1.33
Bushmeat hunting changes regeneration of African rainforests. Proc Biol Sci (2013) 1.32
Plant resource-use strategies: the importance of phenotypic plasticity in response to a productivity gradient for two subalpine species. Ann Bot (2010) 1.31
Relationships among precipitation regime, nutrient availability, and carbon turnover in tropical rain forests. Oecologia (2011) 1.28
Evidence of a general 2/3-power law of scaling leaf nitrogen to phosphorus among major plant groups and biomes. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 1.28
The role of Rubisco and cell walls in the interspecific variation in photosynthetic capacity. Oecologia (2009) 1.26
Linking plant and ecosystem functional biogeography. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 1.26
Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology. Oecologia (2016) 1.25
Sharing and re-use of phylogenetic trees (and associated data) to facilitate synthesis. BMC Res Notes (2012) 1.24
Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 1.23
Genome size scaling through phenotype space. Ann Bot (2008) 1.22
Remote sensing of canopy chemistry. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 1.22
Within- and across-species responses of plant traits and litter decomposition to elevation across contrasting vegetation types in subarctic tundra. PLoS One (2011) 1.20
Is leaf dry matter content a better predictor of soil fertility than specific leaf area? Ann Bot (2011) 1.20
Importance of leaf anatomy in determining mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO2 across species: quantitative limitations and scaling up by models. J Exp Bot (2013) 1.19
Leaf life span plasticity in tropical seedlings grown under contrasting light regimes. Ann Bot (2005) 1.19
Effects of elevated CO₂, warming and precipitation change on plant growth, photosynthesis and peroxidation in dominant species from North China grassland. Planta (2013) 1.18
Leaf palmate venation and vascular redundancy confer tolerance of hydraulic disruption. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.16
Different but equal: the implausible assumption at the heart of neutral theory. J Anim Ecol (2010) 1.14
Changes in resource concentration and defence during leaf development in a tough-leaved (Nothofagus moorei) and soft-leaved (Toona ciliata) species. Oecologia (2006) 1.14
Plant functional types do not predict biomass responses to removal and fertilization in Alaskan tussock tundra. J Ecol (2008) 1.14
Intraspecific variation in root and leaf traits and leaf-root trait linkages in eight aspen demes (Populus tremula and P. tremuloides). Front Plant Sci (2013) 1.14
Leaf trait-environment relationships in a subtropical broadleaved forest in South-East China. PLoS One (2012) 1.13
The leaf size-twig size spectrum of temperate woody species along an altitudinal gradient: an invariant allometric scaling relationship. Ann Bot (2005) 1.12
Key canopy traits drive forest productivity. Proc Biol Sci (2012) 1.12
Mechanical vulnerability explains size-dependent mortality of reef corals. Ecol Lett (2014) 1.12
Amplified temperature dependence in ecosystems developing on the lava flows of Mauna Loa, Hawai'i. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.11
Maximum entropy production and plant optimization theories. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2010) 1.10
Within- and among-species variation in specific leaf area drive community assembly in a tropical cloud forest. Oecologia (2011) 1.09
Scaling of nitrogen and phosphorus across plant organs in shrubland biomes across Northern China. Sci Rep (2014) 1.09
Carnivorous syndrome in Asian pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes. Ann Bot (2007) 1.08
Altitudinal variation in leaf nitrogen concentration on the eastern slope of Mount Gongga on the Tibetan Plateau, China. PLoS One (2012) 1.07
Competition, traits and resource depletion in plant communities. Oecologia (2009) 1.06
Evolutionary tradeoffs can select against nitrogen fixation and thereby maintain nitrogen limitation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.06
Genotypic and environmental variation in specific leaf area in a widespread Alpine plant after transplantation to different altitudes. Oecologia (2010) 1.06
Leaf size and leaf display of thirty-eight tropical tree species. Oecologia (2008) 1.05
Nitrogen and phosphorus limitation over long-term ecosystem development in terrestrial ecosystems. PLoS One (2012) 1.03
Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 1.03
No post-Cretaceous ecosystem depression in European forests? Rich insect-feeding damage on diverse middle Palaeocene plants, Menat, France. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 1.03
Genome size evolution in relation to leaf strategy and metabolic rates revisited. Ann Bot (2007) 1.03
High-dimensional coexistence of temperate tree species: functional traits, demographic rates, life-history stages, and their physical context. PLoS One (2011) 1.02
Ecological contingency in the effects of climatic warming on forest herb communities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.02
Phosphorus-mobilization ecosystem engineering: the roles of cluster roots and carboxylate exudation in young P-limited ecosystems. Ann Bot (2012) 1.02
Nutrients limit photosynthesis in seedlings of a lowland tropical forest tree species. Oecologia (2011) 1.02
Regeneration niche differentiates functional strategies of desert woody plant species. Oecologia (2010) 1.01
Functional traits predict relationship between plant abundance dynamic and long-term climate warming. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 1.01
Testing the link between functional diversity and ecosystem functioning in a Minnesota grassland experiment. PLoS One (2012) 1.01
Is the abundance of species determined by their functional traits? A new method with a test using plant communities. Oecologia (2007) 1.01
Patterns of leaf morphology and leaf N content in relation to winter temperatures in three evergreen tree species. Int J Biometeorol (2011) 1.01
Nutritional differences and leaf acclimation of climbing plants and the associated vegetation in different types of an Andean montane rainforest. Oecologia (2005) 1.00
Plant morphometric traits and climate gradients in northern China: a meta-analysis using quadrat and flora data. Ann Bot (2009) 1.00
Tight coupling between leaf area index and foliage N content in arctic plant communities. Oecologia (2004) 1.00
Hydraulic integration and shrub growth form linked across continental aridity gradients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.00
The altitudinal patterns of leaf C∶N∶P stoichiometry are regulated by plant growth form, climate and soil on Changbai Mountain, China. PLoS One (2014) 1.00
Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands. New Phytol (2015) 0.99
Incorporating intraspecific variation in tests of trait-based community assembly. Oecologia (2012) 0.99
Independent evolution of leaf and root traits within and among temperate grassland plant communities. PLoS One (2011) 0.99
Genome-wide maps of chromatin state in pluripotent and lineage-committed cells. Nature (2007) 65.18
Genome sequence, comparative analysis and haplotype structure of the domestic dog. Nature (2005) 23.04
Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature (2007) 18.01
Large-scale sequencing reveals 21U-RNAs and additional microRNAs and endogenous siRNAs in C. elegans. Cell (2006) 15.12
Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits. Trends Ecol Evol (2006) 10.52
Bivariate line-fitting methods for allometry. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc (2006) 10.08
Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology. Bioinformatics (2010) 9.84
The chemical genomic portrait of yeast: uncovering a phenotype for all genes. Science (2008) 8.52
Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment. Nature (2006) 8.28
Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution. Bioinformatics (2008) 7.91
Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests. Nature (2009) 7.71
The velocity of climate change. Nature (2009) 6.79
Global patterns of plant leaf N and P in relation to temperature and latitude. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 5.77
Comprehensive, Integrative Genomic Analysis of Diffuse Lower-Grade Gliomas. N Engl J Med (2015) 5.71
Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide. Ecol Lett (2008) 5.60
Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis. New Phytol (2009) 5.18
From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity. Science (2006) 5.14
Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta-analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control. New Phytol (2011) 5.10
Universal scaling of respiratory metabolism, size and nitrogen in plants. Nature (2006) 4.90
A brief history of seed size. Science (2005) 4.87
High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services. Nature (2011) 4.41
Spatial scaling of microbial eukaryote diversity. Nature (2004) 4.36
Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology. Ecol Lett (2010) 4.33
Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest. Science (2008) 4.13
Improved automatic detection and segmentation of cell nuclei in histopathology images. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng (2009) 4.01
Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought. Nature (2012) 3.91
Thermal acclimation and the dynamic response of plant respiration to temperature. Trends Plant Sci (2003) 3.76
Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes. Ecol Lett (2008) 3.66
Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time. Ecol Lett (2011) 3.62
Assessing evidence for a pervasive alteration in tropical tree communities. PLoS Biol (2008) 3.58
Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability. New Phytol (2009) 3.32
Climate change and the future of California's endemic flora. PLoS One (2008) 3.28
Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale. Nature (2009) 3.25
A trait-based test for habitat filtering: convex hull volume. Ecology (2006) 3.19
Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2. Nature (2006) 3.16
Delays in starting morning operating lists: an analysis of more than 20,000 cases in 22 German hospitals. Dtsch Arztebl Int (2013) 3.14
Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships. New Phytol (2005) 3.10
Leaf traits are good predictors of plant performance across 53 rain forest species. Ecology (2006) 3.04
Avoiding bias in calculations of relative growth rate. Ann Bot (2002) 2.92
Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities. Am Nat (2007) 2.79
From selection to complementarity: shifts in the causes of biodiversity-productivity relationships in a long-term biodiversity experiment. Proc Biol Sci (2007) 2.77
Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications. New Phytol (2011) 2.76
Root structure and functioning for efficient acquisition of phosphorus: Matching morphological and physiological traits. Ann Bot (2006) 2.71
Using phylogenetic, functional and trait diversity to understand patterns of plant community productivity. PLoS One (2009) 2.66
Codon usage between genomes is constrained by genome-wide mutational processes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 2.56
Fundamental trade-offs generating the worldwide leaf economics spectrum. Ecology (2006) 2.49
Advances, challenges and a developing synthesis of ecological community assembly theory. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2011) 2.36
Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests. Ecol Lett (2006) 2.36
High-resolution description of antibody heavy-chain repertoires in humans. PLoS One (2011) 2.36
Functional traits and the growth-mortality trade-off in tropical trees. Ecology (2010) 2.30
Leaf traits capture the effects of land use changes and climate on litter decomposability of grasslands across Europe. Ecology (2009) 2.27
The effects of hepatitis B virus integration into the genomes of hepatocellular carcinoma patients. Genome Res (2012) 2.19
Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models. Ecol Lett (2006) 2.17
Specific leaf area and dry matter content estimate thickness in laminar leaves. Ann Bot (2005) 2.15
Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 2.11
Factors that shape seed mass evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 2.09
Banksia born to burn. New Phytol (2011) 2.08
All-cause mortality among people with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders, and depressive disorders in southeast London: a cohort study. BMC Psychiatry (2010) 2.08
Increasing liana abundance and biomass in tropical forests: emerging patterns and putative mechanisms. Ecol Lett (2011) 2.04
Leaf trait relationships of native and invasive plants: community- and global-scale comparisons. New Phytol (2007) 2.03
Triple loss of function of protein phosphatases type 2C leads to partial constitutive response to endogenous abscisic acid. Plant Physiol (2009) 2.02
A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities. BMC Ecol (2013) 2.01
Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2013) 1.96
Metagenomic analysis reveals a marked divergence in the structure of belowground microbial communities at elevated CO2. Ecol Lett (2010) 1.95
Ecosystem productivity can be predicted from potential relative growth rate and species abundance. Ecol Lett (2006) 1.93
Antimitochondrial antibodies in acute liver failure: implications for primary biliary cirrhosis. Hepatology (2007) 1.93
A reassessment of carbon content in tropical trees. PLoS One (2011) 1.92
Architecture of 54 moist-forest tree species: traits, trade-offs, and functional groups. Ecology (2006) 1.91
Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forests. Ann Bot (2006) 1.91
Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity-productivity pattern. Ecology (2011) 1.88
Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities. Ecol Lett (2012) 1.87
The Janus face of ethylene: growth inhibition and stimulation. Trends Plant Sci (2006) 1.86
Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 1.85
Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties. Ecol Lett (2011) 1.84