Author Name
Provisional title and article type (review,
research manuscript, etc.)
Overview/Synthesis
Yadvinder Malhi
Leaf-level studies
Roberta Martin
Ben Blonder
Ben Blonder
Sandra Diaz
Gregory Goldsmith
Tom Peters
The CHAMBASA project - linking plant traits
to ecosystem function along an elevation
gradient landscape in the tropical Andes
Changes in foliar chemical traits in sun and
shade leaves on an Andean-Amazon
elevation gradient
Predicting trait-environment relationships:
vein density in a tropical forest elevation
gradient
Leaf reticulation
Top down and bottom up controls of leaf
herbivory along a tropical elevation gradient
Variation in leaf water repellency along a
4000 m elevation transect in the Peruvian
Andes
Phylogenetic and environmental controls on
plant leaf wax composition
Sarah Feakins
Plant biomarkers capture hydrogen isotopic
gradients in precipitation from the Andes
and Amazon
Roberta Martin
Phylogenetic partitioning of variance in foliar
chemical traits along the chemical gradient
in sun and shade leaves
Leaf wax δ13C varies with elevation in the
Peruvian Andes and western Amazonia
Christine Wu
Cecilia Chavana-Bryant
Cecilia Chavana-Bryant
Jin Wu
Wood, litter and tree traits
Norma Salinas
Walter Huaraca Huasco
Norma Salinas
NP Special Issues guide and pro forma Jan 2015
Functional trait plasticity along the leaf life
cycle of Amazonian canopy trees
Leaf aging of Amazonian canopy trees
revealed by spectral and physiochemical
measurements
Convergence in relations among leaf traits,
spectra and age across canopy environments
and two contrasting tropical forests
Wood traits can predict and drive the
stresses of trees migrating along an
altitudinal gradient
Fine root dynamics along a 3500 elevation
gradient from Amazonian rainforests to
Andean grasslands
The sensitivity of tropical wood
William Farfan
Lettice Hicks
Scaling from leaves to tree-level properties
Lisa Patrick Bentley
Imma Oliveras
Lisa Patrick Bentley
Lisa Patrick Bentley
Alexander Shenkin
Yadvinder Malhi
Scaling from trees to communities
Margot Neyret
Ben Blonder
Nikos Fyllas
Brian Enquist
William Farfan
Scaling from plots to landscapes
Miles Silman
Evan Rehm
NP Special Issues guide and pro forma Jan 2015
decomposition to temperature: results from
a large-scale leaf translocation experiment
along an elevation gradient in Peruvian
forests
Variation of wood density with elevation and
species along and Amazon-Andes transect
The effects of species identity and litter trait
differences on soil carbon dynamics along an
Andean forest elevation gradient
Examining patterns in the scaling of tree
branching architecture across multiple
tropical ecosystems
Examining inter- and intra-specific variation
of functional traits and their consequences
on community-weighted metrics and
diversity indices in multiple tropical forest
environmental gradients
Assessing the generality of the leaf
economics spectrum along an elevational
gradient
Functional trait sampling strategies and the
detection of community assembly processes
in trees
The scaling of tree size and crown allometry
across the tropics
Can species maximum growth rate be
predicted by leaf-level traits?
Examining tropical ecosystem community
assembly across environmental gradients
using leaf mass per area.
Forbidden ecological strategies and
community assembly along a tropical forest
elevation gradient
Combining the Metabolic Scaling Theory
with an Individual-based model to predict
forest productivity along an elevation
gradient in the tropical Andes
Predicting NPP from plant traits distributions
through Trait Drivers Theory
Can tree mortality be predicted by growth
and wood density in Andean cloud forest?
Biodiversity, community composition, and
ecosystem services under climate change in
functionally megadiverse forests of the
Andes to Amazon gradient
Experimental seedling transplants show that
factors other than mean temperature may
determine tropical treeline shifts
Paulo Olivas
Alexander Shenkin
Christopher Doughty
Patrick Meir
Responses of high elevation tropical
grasslands to changes in thermal and
hydrological regimes
Can forest primary productivity be mapped
through airborne remote sensing?
Can leaf spectroscopy predict photosynthesis
and leaf traits along a Peruvian tropical
forest elevation gradient?
Can we use remotely sensed canopy
properties to predict the influence of plant
litter on soil carbon dynamics?
Ken Feeley
Patterns and implications of climate-driven
changes in the plant species composition of
tropical forests
Andrew Nottingham
Nutrient supply from plant litter across a
large tropical elevation gradient modulates
differential growth responses in soil bacteria
and fungi, and influences carbon residence
time.
Spatial variation of tree size and eood
density in the Andes
Predicting the scaling of tree growth using
leaf traits, tree size and scaling models
Scale-dependence of foliar chemical trait
distributions within plots and plots within
landscapes using remote sensing.
Sassan Saatchi
Brian Enquist
Greg Asner
NP Special Issues guide and pro forma Jan 2015