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The worldwide leaf economics spectrum
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2003 · Australian Journal of Botany
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2022
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- The number of tree species on EarthProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 236 citations
2021
- Erosion reduces soil microbial diversity, network complexity and multifunctionalityThe ISME Journal · 815 citations
- A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2Nature · 704 citations
- For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!Conservation Letters · 424 citations
- Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variationNature Ecology & Evolution · 368 citations
- Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental changeEcology Letters · 329 citations
- The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem functionNature · 313 citations
- Biodiversity–productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutionsNature Climate Change · 223 citations
2020
- Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomesNature Ecology & Evolution · 1,453 citations
- Extinction risk and threats to plants and fungiPlants People Planet · 472 citations
- The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichmentNature · 434 citations
- Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and AsiaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 283 citations
- Global root traits (GRooT) databaseGlobal Ecology and Biogeography · 232 citations
- The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realisticNature Ecology & Evolution · 220 citations
2019
- TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open accessGlobal Change Biology · 2,179 citations
- Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbiosesNature · 675 citations
- Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomassNature Climate Change · 563 citations
- Climate change effects on plant-soil feedbacks and consequences for biodiversity and functioning of terrestrial ecosystemsScience Advances · 525 citations
- Variation and evolution of C:N ratio among different organs enable plants to adapt to N‐limited environmentsGlobal Change Biology · 280 citations
- When Do Ecosystem Services Depend on Rare Species?Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 276 citations
- Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposedProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 252 citations
2018
- Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary productionProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 752 citations
- Global trait–environment relationships of plant communitiesNature Ecology & Evolution · 745 citations
- Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biomeNature · 740 citations
- Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationshipNature Ecology & Evolution · 638 citations
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From OpenAlex- article197
- review2
- erratum1
- Nature22
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences19
- Ecology Letters14
- Ecology13
- New Phytologist12
- Ian J. Wright31
- Jacek Oleksyn26
- David Tilman26
- Mark G. Tjoelker25
- David S. Ellsworth23
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Universities
2023 to 2025Zhejiang A & F University
2023Australian National University
2021Michigan Technological University
2011 to 2020The University of Sydney
2004University of Nebraska–Lincoln
1997Utah State University
Industry and labs
2023Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
2023Natural Resources Canada
2023Canadian Forest Service
1999Oak Ridge National Laboratory