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Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

2015940 citationsJournal Articlegreen Open Access

Authors

Georges Künstler · Université Grenoble Alpes

Daniel S. Falster · Macquarie University

David A. Coomes · University of Cambridge

Francis K. C. Hui · Australian National University

Robert M. Kooyman · Macquarie University

Daniel C. Laughlin · University of Waikato

Lourens Poorter ·

Topics & Keywords

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Plant and animal studies Forest ecology and management

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Life in Land

Publication Details

Published in: Nature

Volume 529, Issue 7585, pp. 204-207

DOI: 10.1038/nature16476

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 84.72

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Wageningen University & Research

Mark C. Vanderwel · University of Regina

Ghislain Vieilledent · Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

S. Joseph Wright‬ · Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Masahiro Aiba · Tohoku University

Christopher Baraloto · Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane

John P. Caspersen · Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

J. Hans C. Cornelissen · Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury · Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

Marc Hanewinkel · Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Bruno Hérault · Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

Jens Kattge · Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Hiroko Kurokawa · Tohoku University

Yusuke Onoda · Kyoto University

Josep Peñuelas · Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB

Hendrik Poorter · Forschungszentrum Jülich

María Uriarte · Columbia University

Sarah J. Richardson · Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research

Paloma Ruiz‐Benito · University of Stirling

I‐Fang Sun · National Dong Hwa University

Göran Ståhl · Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Nathan G. Swenson · University of Maryland, College Park

Jill Thompson · UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Bertil Westerlund · Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Christian Wirth · German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research

Miguel Á. Zavala · Universidad de Alcalá

Hongcheng Zeng · University of Toronto

Jess K. Zimmerman · University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras

Niklaus E. Zimmermann · Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Mark Westoby · Macquarie University