Standout Papers

A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional t... 2000 2026 2008 2017 3.0k
  1. A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2003)
    J. H. C. Cornelissen, Sandra Lavorel et al. Australian Journal of Botany
  2. Consequences of changing biodiversity (2000)
    F. Stuart Chapin, Erika S. Zavaleta et al. Nature
  3. Vive la différence: plant functional diversity matters to ecosystem processes (2001)
    Sandra Dı́az, Marcelo Cabido Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  4. Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2009)
    Stephen R. Carpenter, Harold A. Mooney et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  5. Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments (2007)
    Sandra Dı́az, Sandra Lavorel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  6. Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment (2016)
    Kai M. A. Chan, Patricia Balvanera et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  7. Biodiversity Loss Threatens Human Well-Being (2006)
    Sandra Dı́az, Joseph Fargione et al. PLoS Biology
  8. Scaling environmental change through the community‐level: a trait‐based response‐and‐effect framework for plants (2008)
    Katharine N. Suding, Sandra Lavorel et al. Global Change Biology
  9. Plant trait responses to grazing – a global synthesis (2006)
    Sandra Dı́az, Sandra Lavorel et al. Global Change Biology
  10. Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade‐off in tropical trees (2010)
    S. Joseph Wright‬, Kaoru Kitajima et al. Ecology
  11. Plant functional traits and environmental filters at a regional scale (1998)
    Sandra Dı́az, Marcelo Cabido et al. Journal of Vegetation Science
  12. Global climatic drivers of leaf size (2017)
    Ian J. Wright, Ning Dong et al. Science
  13. Plant functional types and ecosystem function in relation to global change (1997)
    Sandra Dı́az, Marcelo Cabido Journal of Vegetation Science
  14. People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years (2021)
    Erle C. Ellis, Nicolas Gauthier et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  15. Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability (2013)
    Sandra Dı́az, Andy Purvis et al. Ecology and Evolution
  16. The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss (2022)
    Pedro Jaureguiberry, Nicolas Titeux et al. Science Advances
  17. Does functional trait diversity predict above‐ground biomass and productivity of tropical forests? Testing three alternative hypotheses (2014)
    Bryan Finegan, Marielos Peña‐Claros et al. Journal of Ecology
  18. Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism (2021)
    Unai Pascual, William M. Adams et al. Nature Sustainability
  19. Fine-root traits in the global spectrum of plant form and function (2021)
    Carlos P. Carmona, C. Guillermo Bueno et al. Nature

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Works of Sandra Dı́az being referenced

Plant functional diversity and carbon storage – an empirical test in semi‐arid forest ecosystems
2012
Vive la différence: plant functional diversity matters to ecosystem processes
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Author Peers

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Sandra Dı́az 15999 10940 8202 8578 180 29.6k
Osvaldo E. Sala 14945 14875 5924 13966 195 34.2k
William J. Bond 19169 16962 7056 11439 330 32.0k
Andy Hector 13431 7798 6838 8633 103 24.6k
James B. Grace 12914 7686 5864 13600 197 27.5k
Robin L. Chazdon 12750 10978 6047 6983 218 24.2k
Norman Myers 9510 9048 8587 9524 106 30.4k
Steward T. A. Pickett 12638 14316 5330 10209 233 31.3k
Scott L. Collins 12470 9359 4724 10679 311 23.2k
Richard J. Hobbs 19393 14811 6703 17693 419 37.6k
Fernando T. Maestre 11244 8300 9348 9550 323 29.7k

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