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Phylogenetic ecology at world scale, a new fusion between ecology and evolutionMark Westoby
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Ecology 87:S163-5. 2006..There will be unification of two aims: first to explain the spread of different ways of making a living, across the range of present-day species; and second, to narrate the evolutionary history that has led up to present-day ecology...- Land-plant ecology on the basis of functional traitsMark Westoby
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Trends Ecol Evol 21:261-8. 2006..By extending the list and by developing better models for how traits influence species distributions and interactions, a strong foundation of basic ecology can be established, with many practical applications... - The leaf size-twig size spectrum and its relationship to other important spectra of variation among speciesMark Westoby
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
Oecologia 135:621-8. 2003..The leaf-size-twig-size spectrum has obvious consequences for the texture of canopies, but we are only just beginning to understand the costs and benefits of large versus small leaf and twig size... 
Lifetime return on investment increases with leaf lifespan among 10 Australian woodland speciesDaniel S Falster
Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
New Phytol 193:409-19. 2012..This suggests that time-discounting effects, that is, the compounding of income that arises from quick reinvestment of C revenue, are key in allowing short-LL species to succeed in the face of this economic handicap...
Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forestsIan J Wright
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Ann Bot 99:1003-15. 2007..Here we investigated relationships among several traits, and thus the strategy dimensions they represented, across 2134 woody species from seven Neotropical forests...- Anatomical basis of variation in mesophyll resistance in eastern Australian sclerophylls: news of a long and winding pathTiina Tosens
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
J Exp Bot 63:5105-19. 2012.... - An evolutionary attractor model for sapwood cross section in relation to leaf areaMark Westoby
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
J Theor Biol 303:98-109. 2012..Evolutionary-attractor theory for SA:LA and RA:LA complements models that take whole-plant conductivity per leaf area as a parameter... - Irradiance, temperature and rainfall influence leaf dark respiration in woody plants: evidence from comparisons across 20 sitesIan J Wright
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
New Phytol 169:309-19. 2006..Our findings should prove useful for modelling plant nutrient and carbon budgets, and for modelling vegetation shifts with climate change... - Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationshipsIan J Wright
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
New Phytol 166:485-96. 2005..Much, but not all, heterogeneity can be explained by variation in sample size alone. PNUE can also be considered as part of this trait spectrum, whereas leaf K and N : P ratios are only loosely related... - The worldwide leaf economics spectrumIan J Wright
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Nature 428:821-7. 2004..Reliable quantification of the leaf economics spectrum and its interaction with climate will prove valuable for modelling nutrient fluxes and vegetation boundaries under changing land-use and climate... - Global patterns of leaf mechanical propertiesYusuke Onoda
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Ecol Lett 14:301-12. 2011..Seldom appreciated in the past, toughness per density is a key factor in leaf mechanical resistance, which itself influences plant-animal interactions and ecosystem functions across the globe... - Setbacks to shoot growth are common in woody plants, so how are shoots of some species safer than others?Don W Butler
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie, University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Ecology 93:1275-82. 2012.... - The relationship between stem biomechanics and wood density is modified by rainfall in 32 Australian woody plant speciesYusuke Onoda
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
New Phytol 185:493-501. 2010..Our results also highlight the importance of understanding how the biomechanics-wood density relationship evolves under different environmental conditions to better understand plant growth across diverse habitats... - The importance of leaf cuticle for carbon economy and mechanical strengthYusuke Onoda
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
New Phytol 196:441-7. 2012..The substantial cost of thicker cuticle is probably offset by increased mechanical resistance which might confer longer leaf lifespans among evergreen species... - Safety and streamlining of woody shoots in wind: an empirical study across 39 species in tropical AustraliaDon W Butler
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
New Phytol 193:137-49. 2012..Variable shoot and stem traits, which all influenced shoot biomechanics, were integrated in shoots to yield a relatively narrow range of outcomes in wind... - Costs of height gain in rainforest saplings: main-stem scaling, functional traits and strategy variation across 75 speciesRobert M Kooyman
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Ann Bot 104:987-93. 2009..Height gain plays an important role in plant life-history strategies and species coexistence. Here main-stem costs of height gain of saplings across species within a rainforest community are compared... - A brief history of seed sizeAngela T Moles
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 5304, USA
Science 307:576-80. 2005..Cross-species studies and evolutionary theory are consistent with this evidence that growth form and seed size evolve in a coordinated manner... - Factors that shape seed mass evolutionAngela T Moles
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 5304, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:10540-4. 2005..However, these environmental variables had much less explanatory power than did plant traits such as seed dispersal syndrome and plant growth form... - The relationship between nuclear DNA content and leaf strategy in seed plantsHuw D Morgan
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Ann Bot 96:1321-30. 2005..A prediction that species 2C-values are negatively related to leaf life span (LL) and leaf mass per area (LMA) is tested. These leaf traits are components of a major dimension of ecological variation among plant species... - Spatial scaling of microbial eukaryote diversityJessica L Green
Key Centre for Biodiversity and Bioresources, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Nature 432:747-50. 2004..Taxa dissimilarities across continents and between them would strengthen these projections. Such data do not yet exist, but would be feasible to collect... - Least-cost input mixtures of water and nitrogen for photosynthesisIan J Wright
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Am Nat 161:98-111. 2003..This restraint of transpirational water use apparently counterbalances the multiple costs of deploying high-nitrogen leaves... - A general model for the scaling of offspring size and adult sizeDaniel S Falster
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Am Nat 172:299-317. 2008..In these ways, the model generalizes across previous theory and provides explanations for some differences between major taxa... - Rebuilding community ecology from functional traitsBrian J McGill
Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1B1
Trends Ecol Evol 21:178-85. 2006..We suggest this approach can create a more quantitative and predictive science that can more readily address issues of global change... - Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwideWilliam K Cornwell
Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Department of Systems Ecology, Institute of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ecol Lett 11:1065-71. 2008..This connection between plant strategies and decomposability is crucial for both understanding vegetation-soil feedbacks, and for improving forecasts of the global carbon cycle... - Accessory costs of seed productionJanice M Lord
Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Oecologia 150:310-7. 2006..We found a proportional relationship between accessory costs and seed mass that warrants further investigation within the context of selection on margin returns on investment... - An earlier formulation of the genetic conflict hypothesis of genomic imprintingDavid Haig
Nat Genet 38:271. 2006