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Plant diversity, CO2, and N influence inorganic and organic N leaching in grasslandsFeike A Dijkstra
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Ecology 88:490-500. 2007..DON losses can be as large as DIN loss but are more sensitive to organic matter production and turnover...
Key canopy traits drive forest productivityPeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530 Cleveland Avenue North, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Proc Biol Sci 279:2128-34. 2012..Given the increasing capacity to remotely sense canopy LAI, %N and phenology, these results support the idea that physiologically based scaling relations can be useful tools for global modelling...- Species and functional group diversity independently influence biomass accumulation and its response to CO2 and NPeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, 55108, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:10101-6. 2004..These results indicate that S and F independently influence biomass accumulation and its response to elevated CO(2) and N... - Global patterns of plant leaf N and P in relation to temperature and latitudePeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, 55108 6112, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:11001-6. 2004.... - Global biogeography of plant chemistry: filling in the blanksPeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, 55108, USA
New Phytol 168:263-6. 2005 
Leaf phosphorus influences the photosynthesis-nitrogen relation: a cross-biome analysis of 314 speciesPeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530 Cleveland Avenue North, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Oecologia 160:207-12. 2009....- Controls on declining carbon balance with leaf age among 10 woody species in Australian woodland: do leaves have zero daily net carbon balances when they die?Peter B Reich
University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
New Phytol 183:153-66. 2009..Thus, the results suggest that a whole-plant economic framework, including respiratory costs, may be useful in assessing controls on leaf longevity... - Universal scaling of respiratory metabolism, size and nitrogen in plantsPeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Nature 439:457-61. 2006..These findings suggest that plants and animals follow different metabolic scaling relations, driven by distinct mechanisms... - Evidence of a general 2/3-power law of scaling leaf nitrogen to phosphorus among major plant groups and biomesPeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530 Cleveland Avenue North, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Proc Biol Sci 277:877-83. 2010..Additionally, although abundant variance exists within broad constraints, these results also support the idea that surprisingly simple rules regulate leaf form and function in terrestrial ecosystems... - Climate warming will reduce growth and survival of Scots pine except in the far northP B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530 Cleveland Avenue North, St Paul, MN 55108 1027, USA
Ecol Lett 11:588-97. 2008..Thus, even modest climate warming will likely influence Scots pine survival and growth, but in distinct ways in different parts of the species range... - Elevated CO2 reduces losses of plant diversity caused by nitrogen depositionPeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530 Cleveland Avenue North, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Science 326:1399-402. 2009..This resulted from multiple effects of CO2 and N on plant traits and soil resources that altered competitive interactions among species. Elevated CO2 thus ameliorated the negative effects of N enrichment on species richness... - Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2Peter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Nature 440:922-5. 2006.... - Predicting leaf physiology from simple plant and climate attributes: a global GLOPNET analysisPeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530 Cleveland Avenue North, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Ecol Appl 17:1982-8. 2007..This shows encouraging possibilities of progress in developing general predictive equations for macro-ecology, global scaling, and global modeling... - Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plantsPeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530 Cleveland Avenue North, St Paul, MN 55108 1027, USA
Ecol Lett 11:793-801. 2008.... - Plant diversity enhances ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen depositionP B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Nature 410:809-12. 2001..We found that the enhanced biomass accumulation in response to elevated levels of CO2 or nitrogen, or their combination, is less in species-poor than in species-rich assemblages... - Diversity and productivity in a long-term grassland experimentD Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Science 294:843-5. 2001.... - Legume species identity and soil nitrogen supply determine symbiotic nitrogen-fixation responses to elevated atmospheric [CO2]Jason B West
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA
New Phytol 167:523-30. 2005..Our results suggest that legume species identity and N supply are critical factors in determining symbiotic N-fixation responses to increased atmospheric [CO2]... - Effects of earthworm invasion on plant species richness in northern hardwood forestsAndrew R Holdsworth
University of Minnesota, Conservation Biology Graduate Program, 187 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Conserv Biol 21:997-1008. 2007..Our results provide regional evidence that invasion by Lumbricus species may be an important mechanism in reduced plant-species richness and changes in plant communities in mature forests dominated by sugar maples... - Physiological and phenological responses of oak seedlings to oak forest soil in the absence of treesIan A Dickie
University of Minnesota, Department of Forest Resources, St Paul, MN, USA
Tree Physiol 27:133-40. 2007..Belowground influences of trees on conspecific seedlings may play a critical role in early seedling establishment... - Nutrient conservation increases with latitude of origin in European Pinus sylvestris populationsJ Oleksyn
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 115 Green Hall, 1530 Cleveland Avenue N, MN 55108 6112, St Paul, USA
Oecologia 136:220-35. 2003.... - Exotic earthworm effects on hardwood forest floor, nutrient availability and native plants: a mesocosm studyCindy M Hale
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108 6112, USA
Oecologia 155:509-18. 2008..rubellus alone. This study corroborates field studies that European earthworm invasions alter North American forest ecosystem processes by initiating a cascade of impacts on plant community composition and soil properties... - Fine root decomposition rates do not mirror those of leaf litter among temperate tree speciesSarah E Hobbie
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Oecologia 162:505-13. 2010..Our results imply that studies that focus solely on aboveground traits may obscure some of the important mechanisms by which plant species influence ecosystem processes... - Direct and indirect effects of CO2, nitrogen, and community diversity on plant-enemy interactionsJennifer A Lau
Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Ecology 89:226-36. 2008.... - Regional extent of an ecosystem engineer: earthworm invasion in northern hardwood forestsAndrew R Holdsworth
University of Minnesota, Conservation Biology Graduate Program, 187 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Ecol Appl 17:1666-77. 2007.... - Transgenerational effects of global environmental change: long-term CO(2) and nitrogen treatments influence offspring growth response to elevated CO(2)Jennifer A Lau
Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, 55108, USA
Oecologia 158:141-50. 2008..Combined, our results suggest that transgenerational effects of eCO(2) and N-addition may influence the growth stimulation effects of eCO(2), potentially altering the long-term impacts of eCO(2) on plant populations... - Untangling positive and negative biotic interactions: views from above and below ground in a forest ecosystemRebecca A Montgomery
University of Minnesota, Department of Forest Resources, 1530 Cleveland Ave N, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Ecology 91:3641-55. 2010..g., competition) should consider simultaneous positive and negative interactions occurring above and below ground... - Reducing greenhouse gas emissions for climate stabilization: framing regional optionsLaura Schmitt Olabisi
Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Initiative, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Environ Sci Technol 43:1696-703. 2009.... - Tree species effects on decomposition and forest floor dynamics in a common gardenSarah E Hobbie
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Ecology 87:2288-97. 2006.... - The resource economics of chemical and structural defenses across nitrogen supply gradientsJoseph Craine
100 Ecology, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
Oecologia 137:547-56. 2003.... - Good-Enough RFLP Matcher (GERM) programIan A Dickie
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 115 Green Hall, 1530 N Cleveland Ave, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Mycorrhiza 13:171-2. 2003..The program is available through the web page of this journal... - Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experimentDavid Tilman
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Nature 441:629-32. 2006..Our results indicate that the reliable, efficient and sustainable supply of some foods (for example, livestock fodder), biofuels and ecosystem services can be enhanced by the use of biodiversity... - Changes in hardwood forest understory plant communities in response to European earthworm invasionsCindy M Hale
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108 6112, USA
Ecology 87:1637-49. 2006..Evidence from these forest sites suggests that earthworm invasion can lead to dramatic changes in the understory community and that the nature of these changes is influenced by the species composition of the invading earthworm community... - Legume presence increases photosynthesis and N concentrations of co-occurring non-fixers but does not modulate their responsiveness to carbon dioxide enrichmentTali D Lee
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 115 Green Hall, 1530 Cleveland Ave N, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Oecologia 137:22-31. 2003..Regardless of the presence or absence of Lupinus, CO(2) enrichment resulted in reduced leaf N concentrations and rates of net photosynthesis... - Elevated [CO2] and increased N supply reduce leaf disease and related photosynthetic impacts on Solidago rigidaJoachim Strengbom
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530 Cleveland Ave N, St Paul, 55108, USA
Oecologia 149:519-25. 2006..Our results show that, in this instance, indirect effects from elevated [CO(2)], i.e., lower disease incidence, had a stronger effect on realized photosynthetic rate than the direct effect of higher [CO(2)]... - From selection to complementarity: shifts in the causes of biodiversity-productivity relationships in a long-term biodiversity experimentJoseph Fargione
Department of Ecology, University of Minnesota, St Paul 55108, USA
Proc Biol Sci 274:871-6. 2007.... - The scaling of leaf area and mass: the cost of light interception increases with leaf sizeRubén Milla
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530 Cleveland Avenue North, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Proc Biol Sci 274:2109-14. 2007.... - Predicting leaf area index from scaling principles: corroboration and consequencesKirk R Wythers
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
Tree Physiol 23:1171-9. 2003..The results indicate that biologically based LAI scaling approaches can closely track temporal changes in a deciduous forest and have potential for spatial and temporal scaling of LAI... - Strong ecological but weak evolutionary effects of elevated CO2 on a recombinant inbred population of Arabidopsis thalianaJennifer A Lau
Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, 250 Biosciences, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
New Phytol 175:351-62. 2007..The data suggest that patterns of natural selection and the quantitative genetic parameters of this A. thaliana population are robust to increases in CO2 concentration and that responses to eCO2 will be primarily ecological... - 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... - Assessing environmental changes in grasslandsCharles E Mitchell
Science 299:1844-5; author reply 1844-5. 2003 - 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... - 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... - Evidence that the negative relationship between seed mass and relative growth rate is not physiological but linked to species identity: a within-family analysis of Scots pineJorge Castro
Grupo de Ecología Terrestre, Departamento de Ecologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, E 18071 Granada, Spain
Tree Physiol 28:1077-82. 2008.... - 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... - Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioningJustin P Wright
Ecol Lett 9:111-20. 2006..These results suggest that we need a more nuanced understanding of how the diversity of functional traits of species in an assemblage affects ecosystem functioning... - Stoichiometric response of nitrogen-fixing and non-fixing dicots to manipulations of CO2, nitrogen, and diversityAmy M Novotny
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 4501, USA
Oecologia 151:687-96. 2007..These data suggest that atmospheric CO(2) levels, N availability, and plant species diversity interact to affect both aboveground and belowground processes by altering plant elemental composition... - Fundamental trade-offs generating the worldwide leaf economics spectrumBill Shipley
Departement de Biologie, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Ecology 87:535-41. 2006.... - Dark respiration rate increases with plant size in saplings of three temperate tree species despite decreasing tissue nitrogen and nonstructural carbohydratesJose Luis Machado
Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA
Tree Physiol 26:915-23. 2006..However, contrary to our hypotheses, whole-plant and tissue R(d) increased with plant size in the three species... - 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... - Biomass and toxicity responses of poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) to elevated atmospheric CO2: commentStefan A Schnitzer
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
Ecology 89:581-5; discussion 585-7. 2008 - Leaf-level light compensation points in shade-tolerant woody seedlingsJoseph M Craine
New Phytol 166:710-3. 2005 - Why are evergreen leaves so contrary about shade?Christopher H Lusk
Department of Biological Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Trends Ecol Evol 23:299-303. 2008.... - "Diminishing returns" in the scaling of functional leaf traits across and within species groupsKarl J Niklas
Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:8891-6. 2007..We argue that this set reflects a fundamental property of all plants and helps to explain why annual growth fails to keep pace with increases in total body mass across species...