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Scaling of xylem vessels and veins within the leaves of oak speciesDavid A Coomes
University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
Biol Lett 4:302-6. 2008..These findings indicate that leaf vasculature needs to be included in whole-plant scaling models, for these to accurately reflect and predict whole-plant transport and its implications for performance and ecology...
Challenges to the generality of WBE theoryDavid A Coomes
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, UK, CB3 2EA
Trends Ecol Evol 21:593-6. 2006..For WBE theory to be relevant to plant community dynamics, more complex models are required to deal with the influences of competition for light, nutrient supply and disturbance experienced by such communities...- Scaling of tree vascular transport systems along gradients of nutrient supply and altitudeDavid A Coomes
University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
Biol Lett 3:86-9. 2007..Thus, conduit tapering relationships appear to be invariant with respect to environmental conditions... 
Use of an airborne lidar system to model plant species composition and diversity of Mediterranean oak forestsWilliam D Simonson
Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom
Conserv Biol 26:840-50. 2012..However, particular attention needs to be paid to issues of survey design: density of lidar points and geospatial accuracy of ground-truthing and its timing relative to acquisition of lidar data...- Soil nutrient supply modulates temperature-induction cues in mast-seeding grassesAndrew J Tanentzap
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom
Ecology 93:462-9. 2012..Thus, predicting masting requires a consideration of the interactions among climate, the internal resources of plants, and mineral nutrient uptake... - Comment on "Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands"Tommaso Jucker
Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
Science 337:155; author reply 155. 2012..This suggests that biodiversity loss may have especially strong consequences in harsh environments... - Trends in entropy production during ecosystem development in the Amazon BasinRobert J Holdaway
Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB3 2EA, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:1437-47. 2010..We conclude that, although further work is required, entropy production could potentially provide a much-needed theoretical basis for understanding the effects of deforestation and land-use change on the land-surface energy balance... - Comment on "A brief history of seed size"Peter J Grubb
Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
Science 310:783; author reply 783. 2005 - Tree fern trunks facilitate seedling regeneration in a productive lowland temperate rain forestAurora Gaxiola
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
Oecologia 155:325-35. 2008..Our study shows evidence of direct facilitative interactions by tree ferns during seedling establishment in plant communities associated with nutrient-rich soils... - Carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems: do browsing and grazing herbivores matter?Andrew J Tanentzap
Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 87:72-94. 2012..We suggest that herbivore removal might represent an important strategy towards increasing terrestrial carbon stocks at local and regional scales within specific vegetation types, since humans influence populations of most large mammals... - Monocot leaves are eaten less than dicot leaves in tropical lowland rain forests: correlations with toughness and leaf presentationPeter J Grubb
Plant Sciences Department, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
Ann Bot 101:1379-89. 2008.... - Influences of forest structure, climate and species composition on tree mortality across the eastern USEmily R Lines
Forest Conservation and Ecology Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 5:e13212. 2010.... - Disturbance affects short-term facilitation, but not long-term saturation, of exotic plant invasion in New Zealand forestLaura A Spence
Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
Proc Biol Sci 278:1457-66. 2011..Our results show that disturbance frequency has surprisingly little influence on the long-term trajectory of invasion, while invader persistence strongly determines invasion patterns... - Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum potential: a mechanism promoting positive diversity-invasibility relationships in mountain beech forests in New Zealand?Laura A Spence
Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Mycorrhiza 21:309-14. 2011.... - Patterns and drivers of tree mortality in iberian forests: climatic effects are modified by competitionPaloma Ruiz-Benito
Department of Forest Ecology and Genetics, Forest Research Center Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Madrid, Spain
PLoS ONE 8:e56843. 2013.... - Differential responses of vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores to traits of New Zealand subalpine shrubsAndrew J Tanentzap
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB23EA, United Kingdom
Ecology 92:994-9. 2011..Overall, our results demonstrate the importance of herbivore type and coevolved interactions for the adaptive significance of plant traits... - Growth-size scaling relationships of woody plant species differ from predictions of the Metabolic Ecology ModelSabrina E Russo
Conservation and Community Ecology Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
Ecol Lett 10:889-901. 2007..Based on a quantitative test, violation of these assumptions alone could not explain the model's poor fit to our data, possibly reflecting multiple, unsound assumptions, as well as unaccounted-for variation that should be incorporated... - Long-term effects of wildfire on ecosystem properties across an island area gradientDavid A Wardle
Department of Forest Vegetation Ecology, Faculty of Forestry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE901 83 Umeå, Sweden
Science 300:972-5. 2003..This contributes to greater carbon storage with increasing time since fire; for every century without a major fire, an additional 0.5 kilograms per square meter of carbon becomes stored in the humus...