The increasing availability of phylogenetic data, computing power and informatics tools has
facilitated a rapid expansion of studies that apply phylogenetic data and methods to …

Approximately 20 years ago, Avise and colleagues proposed the integration of
phylogenetics and population genetics for investigating the connection between micro- and …

One of ecology's grand challenges is developing general rules to explain and predict highly
complex systems. Understanding and predicting ecological processes from species' traits …

Bringing together leaf trait data spanning 2,548 species and 175 sites we describe, for the
first time at global scale, a universal spectrum of leaf economics consisting of key chemical, …

Plant traits – the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs – determine how primary producers respond to …

… By comparing correlation coefficients between species pairwise trait differences versus
the phylogenetic distance between them to a null model (methods described in Cavender‐Bares …

Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other …

… Cavender‐Bares is gratefully acknowledged for valuable discussions and other assistance.
Funding for this study was provided by a National Science Foundation dissertation …

Background Two decades of research showing that increasing plant diversity results in
greater community productivity has been predicated on greater functional diversity allowing …

Remote sensing has transformed the monitoring of life on Earth by revealing spatial and
temporal dimensions of biological diversity through structural, compositional and functional …