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Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages (2023)
Journal Article
Martins, I. S., Schrodt, F., Blowes, S. A., Bates, A. E., Bjorkman, A. D., Brambilla, V., …Dornelas, M. (2023). Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages. Science, 381(6662), 1067-1071. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adg6006

Biotic responses to global change include directional shifts in organismal traits. Body size, an integrative trait that determines demographic rates and ecosystem functions, is thought to be shrinking in the Anthropocene. Here, we assessed the preval... Read More about Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages.

Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function (2023)
Journal Article
Walker, T. W. N., Schrodt, F., Allard, P., Defossez, E., Jassey, V. E. J., Schuman, M. C., …Peñuelas, J. (2023). Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function. Science Advances, 9(35), Article eadi402. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi4029

The metabolome is the biochemical basis of plant form and function, but we know little about its macroecological variation across the plant kingdom. Here, we used the plant functional trait concept to interpret leaf metabolome variation among 457 tro... Read More about Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function.

Applying the concept of niche breadth to understand urban tree mortality in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Kim, E. H., Hitchmough, J. D., Cameron, R. W., Schrodt, F., Martin, K. W., & Cubey, R. (2023). Applying the concept of niche breadth to understand urban tree mortality in the UK. Science of the Total Environment, 902, Article 166304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166304

Accelerated climate change has raised concerns about heightened vulnerability of urban trees, spurring the need to reevaluate their suitability. The urgency has also driven the widespread application of climatic niche-based models. In particular, the... Read More about Applying the concept of niche breadth to understand urban tree mortality in the UK.

Effects of climate change on the distribution of plant species and plant functional strategies on the Canary Islands (2023)
Journal Article
Hanz, D. M., Cutts, V., Barajas‐Barbosa, M. P., Algar, A., Beierkuhnlein, C., Collart, F., …Irl, S. D. H. (2023). Effects of climate change on the distribution of plant species and plant functional strategies on the Canary Islands. Diversity and Distributions, 29(9), 1157-1171. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13750

Aim: Oceanic islands possess unique floras with high proportions of endemic species. Island floras are expected to be severely affected by changing climatic conditions as species on islands have limited distribution ranges and small population sizes... Read More about Effects of climate change on the distribution of plant species and plant functional strategies on the Canary Islands.

Imputing missing data in plant traits: A guide to improve gap‐filling (2023)
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Joswig, J. S., Kattge, J., Kraemer, G., Mahecha, M. D., Rüger, N., Schaepman, M. E., …Schuman, M. C. (2023). Imputing missing data in plant traits: A guide to improve gap‐filling. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(8), 1395-1408. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13695

Aim: Globally distributed plant trait data are increasingly used to understand relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem processes. However, global trait databases are sparse because they are compiled from many, mostly small databases. This sp... Read More about Imputing missing data in plant traits: A guide to improve gap‐filling.

Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change (2023)
Journal Article
Xu, W., Guo, W., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Schrodt, F., Eiserhardt, W. L., Enquist, B. J., …Ordonez, A. (2023). Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change. Science Advances, 9(14), Article eadd8553. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add8553

As Earth’s climate has varied strongly through geological time, studying the impacts of past climate change on biodiversity helps to understand the risks from future climate change. However, it remains unclear how paleoclimate shapes spatial variatio... Read More about Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change.

Understanding trait diversity: the role of geodiversity (2023)
Journal Article
Vernham, G., Bailey, J. J., Chase, J. M., Hjort, J., Field, R., & Schrodt, F. (2023). Understanding trait diversity: the role of geodiversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 38(8), 736-748. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.02.010

Geodiversity – the abiotic heterogeneity of Earth's (sub)surface – is gaining recognition for its ecological links to biodiversity. However, theoretical and conceptual knowledge of geodiversity–trait diversity relationships is currently lacking and c... Read More about Understanding trait diversity: the role of geodiversity.

Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally (2023)
Journal Article
Engel, T., Bruelheide, H., Hoss, D., Sabatini, F. M., Altman, J., Arfin-Khan, M. A., …Pillar, V. (2023). Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(5), 695-706. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13644

Aim: Theoretical, experimental and observational studies have shown that biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships are influenced by functional community structure through two mutually non-exclusive mechanisms: (1) the dominance effect (... Read More about Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally.

Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics (2023)
Journal Article
Cutts, V., Hanz, D. M., Barajas-Barbosa, M. P., Schrodt, F., Steinbauer, M. J., Beierkuhnlein, C., …Algar, A. C. (2023). Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics. Ecology Letters, 26(4), 504-515. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14169

Current models of island biogeography treat endemic and non-endemic species as if they were functionally equivalent, focussing primarily on species richness. Thus, the functional composition of island biotas in relation to island biogeographical vari... Read More about Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics.

Ecosystem Restoration: What, Why, How, and Where? (2022)
Journal Article
Panter, C. T., Baines, O., Draper, E. L., Hunt, L., Schrodt, F., Veeken, A., …Field, R. (2022). Ecosystem Restoration: What, Why, How, and Where?. Frontiers for Young Minds, 10, Article 856833. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2022.856833

Our world contains many ecosystems, from tropical forests to coral reefs to urban parks. Ecosystems help us in important ways, including cleaning our air and water, storing carbon, and producing food. People have been shaping most ecosystems for at l... Read More about Ecosystem Restoration: What, Why, How, and Where?.

Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity (2022)
Journal Article
Sabatini, F. M., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Jandt, U., Chytrý, M., Field, R., Kessler, M., …Bruelheide, H. (2022). Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 4683. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z

Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain controversial. Using data on 170,272 georeferenced local plant assemblag... Read More about Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity.

Pollen‐based reconstruction reveals the impact of the onset of agriculture on plant functional trait composition (2022)
Journal Article
Veeken, A., Santos, M. J., McGowan, S., Davies, A. L., & Schrodt, F. (2022). Pollen‐based reconstruction reveals the impact of the onset of agriculture on plant functional trait composition. Ecology Letters, 25(9), 1937-1951. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14063

The onset of agriculture improved the capacity of ecosystems to produce food, but inadvertently altered other vital ecosystem functions. Plant traits play a central role in determining ecosystem properties, therefore we investigated how the onset of... Read More about Pollen‐based reconstruction reveals the impact of the onset of agriculture on plant functional trait composition.

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure (2022)
Journal Article
Guo, W., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Schrodt, F., Eiserhardt, W. L., Maitner, B. S., Merow, C., …Svenning, J. (2022). High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(25), Article e2026733119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026733119

Safeguarding Earth’s tree diversity is a conservation priority due to the importance of trees for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services such as carbon sequestration. Here, we improve the foundation for effective conservation of global tre... Read More about High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure.

A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire (2022)
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Pugh, B. E., Colley, M., Dugdale, S. J., Edwards, P., Flitcroft, R., Holz, A., …Field, R. (2022). A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(10), 1990-2004. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13555

Background: Historically, wildfire regimes produced important landscape-scale disturbances in many regions globally. The “pyrodiversity begets biodiversity” hypothesis suggests that wildfires that generate temporally and spatially heterogeneous mosai... Read More about A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire.

Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology (2022)
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Walker, T. W. N., Alexander, J. M., Allard, P., Baines, O., Baldy, V., Bardgett, R. D., …Salguero‐Gómez, R. (2022). Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology. Journal of Ecology, 110(1), 4-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13826

A major aim of ecology is to upscale attributes of individuals to understand processes at population, community and ecosystem scales. Such attributes are typically described using functional traits, that is, standardised characteristics that impact f... Read More about Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology.

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation (2021)
Journal Article
Joswig, J. S., Wirth, C., Schuman, M. C., Kattge, J., Reu, B., Wright, I. J., …Mahecha, M. D. (2021). Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6, 36-50. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01616-8

Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still, we lack a global understanding of how land and climate affect plant t... Read More about Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation.

Mainstreaming Climate Change Education in UK Higher Education Institutions (2021)
Working Paper
Thew, H., Graves, C., Reay, D., Smith, S., Petersen, K., Bomberg, E., …Worsfold, N. Mainstreaming Climate Change Education in UK Higher Education Institutions

Key messages • Mainstreaming Climate Change Education (CCE) across all learning and operational activities enables Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to better serve their core purpose of preparing learners for their roles in work and wider societ... Read More about Mainstreaming Climate Change Education in UK Higher Education Institutions.

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots (2021)
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Sabatini, F. M., Lenoir, J., Hattab, T., Arnst, E. A., Chytrý, M., Dengler, J., …Bruelheide, H. (2021). sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(9), 1740-1764. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13346

Motivation: Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or abundance of all plant species c... Read More about sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots.

Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs (2021)
Journal Article
Laughlin, D. C., Mommer, L., Sabatini, F. M., Bruelheide, H., Kuyper, T. W., McCormack, M. L., …Weigelt, A. (2021). Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5(8), 1123-1134. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01471-7

Ecological theory is built on trade-offs, where trait differences among species evolved as adaptations to different environments. Trade-offs are often assumed to be bidirectional, where opposite ends of a gradient in trait values confer advantages in... Read More about Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs.

The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide (2021)
Journal Article
Cai, Q., Welk, E., Ji, C., Fang, W., Sabatini, F. M., Zhu, J., …Bruelheide, H. (2021). The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide. Journal of Biogeography, 48(5), 1240-1253. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14074

Aim: This work explores whether the commonly observed positive range size–niche breadth relationship exists for Fagus, one of the most dominant and widespread broad-leaved deciduous tree genera in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere. Additio... Read More about The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide.

Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity—Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces (2020)
Journal Article
Lausch, A., Schaepman, M. E., Skidmore, A. K., Truckenbrodt, S. C., Hacker, J. M., Baade, J., …Thiel, C. (2020). Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity—Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces. Remote Sensing, 12(22), Article 3690. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12223690

The status, changes, and disturbances in geomorphological regimes can be regarded as controlling and regulating factors for biodiversity. Therefore, monitoring geomorphology at local, regional, and global scales is not only necessary to conserve geod... Read More about Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity—Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces.

Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants (2020)
Journal Article
Meireles, J. E., Cavender-Bares, J., Townsend, P. A., Ustin, S., Gamon, J. A., Schweiger, A. K., …O'Meara, B. C. (2020). Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants. New Phytologist, 228(2), 485-493. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16771

Leaf reflectance spectra have been increasingly used to assess plant diversity. However, we do not yet understand how spectra vary across the tree of life or how the evolution of leaf traits affects the differentiation of spectra among species and li... Read More about Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants.

Integrating Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, and Auxiliary Information for the Study of Ecosystem Functioning and Conservation at Large Spatial Scales (2020)
Book Chapter
Schrodt, F., De La Barreda Bautista, B., Williams, C., Boyd, D. S., Schaepman-Strub, G., & Santos, M. J. (2020). Integrating Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, and Auxiliary Information for the Study of Ecosystem Functioning and Conservation at Large Spatial Scales. In Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity (449-484). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33157-3_17

© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020. Assessing patterns and processes of plant functional, taxonomic, genetic, and structural biodiversity at large scales is essential across many disciplines, including ecosystem management, agricu... Read More about Integrating Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, and Auxiliary Information for the Study of Ecosystem Functioning and Conservation at Large Spatial Scales.

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access (2019)
Journal Article
Kattge, J., Bönisch, G., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I. C., Leadley, P., …The Nutrient Network. (2020). TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology, 26(1), 119-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904

© 2019 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, af... Read More about TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access.

Linking Remote Sensing and Geodiversity and their Traits Relevant to Biodiversity – Part I: Soil Characteristics (2019)
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Lausch, A., Baade, J., Bannehr, L., Borg, E., Bumberger, J., Chabrilliat, S., …Schaepman, M. E. (2019). Linking Remote Sensing and Geodiversity and their Traits Relevant to Biodiversity – Part I: Soil Characteristics. Remote Sensing, 11(20), 1-51. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11202356

In the face of rapid global change it is imperative to preserve geodiversity for the overall conservation of biodiversity. Geodiversity is important for understanding complex biogeochemical and physical processes and is directly and indirectly linked... Read More about Linking Remote Sensing and Geodiversity and their Traits Relevant to Biodiversity – Part I: Soil Characteristics.

Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf/wood area ratios (2019)
Journal Article
Mencuccini, M., Rosas, T., Rowland, L., Choat, B., Cornelissen, H., Jansen, S., …Martínez-Vilalta, J. (2019). Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf/wood area ratios. New Phytologist, 224(4), 1544-1556. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15998

Biomass and area ratios between leaves, stems and roots regulate many physiological and ecological processes. The Huber value Hv (sapwood area/leaf area ratio) is central to plant water balance and drought responses. However, its coordination with ke... Read More about Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf/wood area ratios.

Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt? (2019)
Journal Article
Schrodt, F., Santos, M. J., Bailey, J. J., & Field, R. (2019). Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt?. Journal of Biogeography, 46(8), 1631-1642. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13616

Alexander von Humboldt was arguably the most influential scientist of his day. Although his fame has since lessened relative to some of his contemporaries, we argue that his influence remains strong-mainly because his approach to science inspired oth... Read More about Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt?.

sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses (2019)
Journal Article
Bruelheide, H., Dengler, J., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Purschke, O., Hennekens, S. M., Chytrý, M., …and other 116 authors. (2019). sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30(2), 161-186. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12710

Questions: Vegetation-plot records provide information on presence and cover or abundance of plants co-occurring in the same community. Vegetation-plot data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies and biodiversity research centers,... Read More about sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses.

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities (2018)
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Hölzel, N., Sporbert, M., Guerin, G. R., Jentsch, A., Neill, D. A., Korolyuk, A. Y., …Knollová, I. (2018). Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(12), 1906-1917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8

Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the community level trait combinations are expected to be decoupled from t... Read More about Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities.

Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward (2017)
Journal Article
Pettorelli, N., Schulte to Bühne, H., Tulloch, A., Dubois, G., Macinnis-Ng, C., Queirós, A. M., …Nicholson, E. (2018). Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 4(2), 71-93. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.59

Societal, economic and scientific interests in knowing where biodiversity is, how it is faring and what can be done to efficiently mitigate further biodiversity loss and the associated loss of ecosystem services are at an all?time high. So far, howev... Read More about Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward.

Monitoring plant functional diversity from space (2016)
Journal Article
Jetz, W., Cavender-Bares, J., Pavlick, R., Schimel, D., Davis, F. W., Asner, G. P., …Ustin, S. L. (2016). Monitoring plant functional diversity from space. Nature Plants, 2(3), Article 16039. https://doi.org/10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.24

The world’s ecosystems are losing biodiversity fast. A satellite mission designed to track changes in plant functional diversity around the globe could deepen our understanding of the pace and consequences of this change and how to manage it.

Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function (2015)
Journal Article
Lloyd, J., Domingues, T. F., Schrodt, F., Ishida, F. Y., Feldpausch, T. R., Saiz, G., …Phillips, O. L. (2015). Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function. Biogeosciences, 12(22), 6529-6571. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-6529-2015

Sampling along a precipitation gradient in tropical South America extending from ca. 0.8 to 2.0 m a−1, savanna soils had consistently lower exchangeable cation concentrations and higher C / N ratios than nearby forest plots. These soil differences we... Read More about Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function.

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography (2015)
Journal Article
Schrodt Williams, F., Kattge, J., Shan, H., Fazayeli, F., Joswig, J., Banerjee, A., …Reich, P. B. (2015). BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24(12), 1510-1521. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12335

& Sons Ltd. Aim: Functional traits of organisms are key to understanding and predicting biodiversity and ecological change, which motivates continuous collection of traits and their integration into global databases. Such trait matrices are inherent... Read More about BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography.

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography: Gap-filling in trait databases (2015)
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Schrodt, F., Kattge, J., Shan, H., Fazayeli, F., Joswig, J., Banerjee, A., …Reich, P. B. (2015). BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography: Gap-filling in trait databases. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24(12), 1510-1521. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12335

Aim: Functional traits of organisms are key to understanding and predicting biodiversity and ecological change, which motivates continuous collection of traits and their integration into global databases. Such trait matrices are inherently sparse,... Read More about BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography: Gap-filling in trait databases.

Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations? (2015)
Journal Article
Veenendaal, E. M., Torello-Raventos, M., Feldpausch, T. R., Domingues, T. F., Gerard, F., Schrodt, F., …Lloyd, J. (2015). Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?. Biogeosciences, 12(10), 2927-2951. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2927-2015

Through interpretations of remote-sensing data and/or theoretical propositions, the idea that forest and savanna represent "alternative stable states" is gaining increasing acceptance. Filling an observational gap, we present detailed stratified flor... Read More about Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?.

Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon (2015)
Journal Article
Ferreira Domingues, T., Ishida, F. Y., Feldpausch, T. R., Grace, J., Meir, P., Saiz, G., …Lloyd, J. (2015). Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon. Oecologia, 178(3), 659-672. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3250-5

Photosynthesis/nutrient relationships of proximally growing forest and savanna trees were determined in an ecotonal region of Cameroon (Africa). Although area-based foliar N concentrations were typically lower for savanna trees, there was no differen... Read More about Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon.

Foliar trait contrasts between African forest and savanna trees: genetic versus environmental effects (2014)
Journal Article
Schrodt, F., Domingues, T. F., Feldpausch, T. R., Saiz, G., Quesada, C. A., Schwarz, M., …Lloyd, J. (2014). Foliar trait contrasts between African forest and savanna trees: genetic versus environmental effects. Functional Plant Biology, 42(1), 63-83. https://doi.org/10.1071/fp14040

Variations in leaf mass per unit area (Ma) and foliar concentrations of N, P, C, K, Mg and Ca were determined for 365 trees growing in 23 plots along a West African precipitation gradient ranging from 0.29 to 1.62 m a–1. Contrary to previous studies,... Read More about Foliar trait contrasts between African forest and savanna trees: genetic versus environmental effects.

On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions (2013)
Journal Article
Torello-Raventos, M., Feldpausch, T. R., Veenendaal, E., Schrodt, F., Saiz, G., Domingues, T. F., …Lloyd, J. (2013). On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions. Plant Ecology and Diversity, 6(1), 101-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2012.762812

Background: There is no generally agreed classification scheme for the many different vegetation formation types occurring in the tropics. This hinders cross-continental comparisons and causes confusion as words such as ‘forest’ and ‘savanna’ have di... Read More about On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions.