Mark Westoby

Research interests

Publications

• Global climatic drivers of leaf size

  Science · 2017 · 10.1126/science.aal4760

• Physiological and structural tradeoffs underlying the leaf economics spectrum

  New Phytologist · 2017 · 10.1111/nph.14496

• Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16476

• The global spectrum of plant form and function

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16489

• Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem‐specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species

  New Phytologist · 2015 · 10.1111/nph.13646

• Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

  Nature · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12872

• Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

  Nature · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11688

• TRY – a global database of plant traits

  Global Change Biology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02451.x

• Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

  Nature · 2009 · 10.1038/nature07764

• Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

  Ecology Letters · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01219.x

• Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2006.02.002

• Bivariate line‐fitting methods for allometry

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2006 · 10.1017/s1464793106007007

• Land-plant ecology on the basis of functional traits

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2006 · 10.1016/j.tree.2006.02.004

• Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1466-822x.2005.00172.x

• Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships

  New Phytologist · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01349.x

• The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

  Nature · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02403

• Seedling survival and seed size: a synthesis of the literature

  Journal of Ecology · 2004 · 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00884.x

• Plant height and evolutionary games

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2003 · 10.1016/s0169-5347(03)00061-2

• The Evolution of Plant Functional Variation: Traits, Spectra, and Strategies

  International Journal of Plant Sciences · 2003 · 10.1086/374368

• Plant Ecological Strategies: Some Leading Dimensions of Variation Between Species

  Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.33.010802.150452

• Strategy shifts in leaf physiology, structure and nutrient content between species of high‐ and low‐rainfall and high‐ and low‐nutrient habitats

  Functional Ecology · 2001 · 10.1046/j.0269-8463.2001.00542.x

• The evolutionary ecology of seed size.

  CABI Publishing eBooks · 2000 · 10.1079/9780851994321.0031

• A leaf-height-seed (LHS) plant ecology strategy scheme

  Plant and Soil · 1998 · 10.1023/a:1004327224729

• Comparative ecology of seed size and dispersal

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1996 · 10.1098/rstb.1996.0114

• Opportunistic Management for Rangelands Not at Equilibrium

  Journal of Range Management · 1989 · 10.2307/3899492

Current projects

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