2008

Cornwell, W.K., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Amatangelo, K., Dorrepaal, E., Eviner, V.T., Godoy, O., Hobbie, S.E., Hoorens, B., Kurokawa, H., Perez-Harguindeguy, N., Quested, H.M., Santiago, L.S., Wardle, D.A., Wright, I.J., Aerts, R., Allison, S., Van Bodegom, P.M., Brovkin, V., Chatain, A., Callaghan, T., Díaz, S., Garnier, E., Gurvich, D.E., Kazakou, E., Klein, J.A., Read, J., Reich, P.B., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Vaieretti, M.V. & Westoby, M. (2008) Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide. Ecology Letters 11: 1065-1071.

Moles, A.T., Wright, I.J., Pitman, A.J., Murray, B.G. & Westoby, M. (2008) Is there a latitudinal gradient in seed production? Ecography, in press.

Ordoñez J., Aerts R., van Bodegom P., Witte J-P., Wright IJ, Reich P. (2008) A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility. Global Ecology & Biogeography (in press).

Poorter, L., Paz, H., Wright, S.J., Ackerly, D.D., Condit, R., Ibarra-Manriquez, G., Harms, K.E., Licona, J.C., Martinez-Ramos, M., Mazer, S.J., Muller-Landau, H.C., Peña-Claros, M., Webb, C.O. & Wright, I.J. (2008) Are functional traits good predictors of demographic rates? Evidence from five Neotropical forests. Ecology 89, 1908-1920.

Reich, P.B., Tjoelker, M.G., Pregitzer, K.S., Wright, I.J., Oleksyn, J. & Machado, J.-L. (2008) Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plants. Ecology Letters 11, 793-801.

2007

Niklas KJ, Cobb ED, Niinemets U, Reich PB, Sellin A, Shipley B & Wright IJ 2007. "Diminishing returns" in the scaling of functional leaf traits across and within species groups. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 8891-8896.

Reich PB, Wright IJ & Lusk CH 2007.Predicting leaf physiology from simple plant and climate attributes: A global GLOPNET analysis. Ecological Applications 17, 1982-1988.

Royer DL, Sack L, Wilf P, Lusk CH, Jordan GJ, Niinemets U, Wright IJ,Westoby M, Cariglino B, Coley PD, Cutter AD, Johnson KR, Labandeira CC, Moles AT, Palmer MB & alladares F 2007.Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications. Paleobiology 33, 574-589.

Wright IJ , Ackerly DD, Bongers F, Harms KE, Ibarra-Manriquez G, Martinez-Ramos M, Mazer SJ, Muller-Landau HC, Paz H, Pitman NCA, Poorter L, Silman MR, Vriesendorp CF, Webb CO, Westoby M & Wright SJ 2007. Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven Neotropical forests. Annals of Botany 99, 1003-1015.

2006

Wright, I.J., Falster, D.S., Pickup, M. & Westoby, M. (2006). Cross-species patterns in the coordination between leaf and stem traits, and their implications for plant hydraulics. Physiologia Plantarum 127, 445-456.

Westoby, M & Wright, I.J. (2006). Land-plant ecology on the basis of functional traits. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 21, 261-268.

Lenz, T.I., Wright, I.J. & Westoby, M. (2006). Interrelations among pressure-volume curve traits across species and water availability gradients. Physiologia Plantarum 127, 423-433.

Wright, I.J., Leishman, M.R., Read, C. & Westoby, M. (2006). Gradients of light availability and leaf traits with leaf age and canopy position in 28 Australian shrubs and trees. Functional Plant Biology 33, 407-419.

Shipley, B., Lechowicz, M.J., Wright, I.J., & Reich, P.B. (2006). Fundamental tradeoffs generating the worldwide leaf economics spectrum. Ecology 87, 535-541.

Read, C., Wright, I.J. & Westoby, M. (2006). Scaling up from leaf to canopy-aggregate properties in sclerophyll shrub species. Austral Ecology 31, 310-316.

Warton, D.I, Wright, I.J., Falster, D.S. & Westoby, M. (2006). Bivariate line fitting methods for allometry. Biological Reviews 81, 259-291.

Wright, I.J., Reich, P.B., Atkin, O.K., Lusk, C.H., Tjoelker, M.G. & Westoby, M. (2006). Irradiance, temperature and rainfall influence leaf respiration in woody plants: evidence from comparisons across 20 sites. New Phytologist 169: 309–319 [pdf]

2005

Wright, I.J., Reich, P.B., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Falster, D.S., Groom, P.K., Hikosaka, K., Lee, W., Lusk, C.H., Niinemets, Ü., Oleksyn, J., Osada, N., Poorter, H., Warton, D.I., & Westoby, M. (2005). Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate. Global Ecology & Biogeography 14: 411–421. [pdf]

Wright, I.J., Reich, P.B., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Falster, D.S., Garnier, E., Hikosaka, K., Lamont, B.B., Lee, W., Oleksyn, J., Osada, N., Poorter, H., Villar, R., Warton, D.I. & Westoby, M. (2005) Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships. New Phytologist 166: 485-496. [pdf]

Shipley, B., Vile, D., Garnier, E., Wright, I.J. & Poorter, H. (2005) Functional linkages between leaf traits and net photosynthetic rate: reconciling empirical and mechanistic models. Functional Ecology, 19: 602-625. [pdf]

Vile, D., Garnier, E., Shipley, B., Laurent, G., Navas, M-L., Roumet, C., Lavorel, S., Díaz, S., Hodgson, J.G., Lloret, F., Midgley, G.F., Poorter, H., Rutherford, M.C., Wilson, P.J. & Wright, I.J. (2005) Specific leaf area and dry matter content estimate thickness in laminar leaves. Annals of Botany 96, 1129-1136.

2004

Wright I.J., Reich P.B., Westoby M., Ackerly D.D., Baruch Z., Bongers F., Cavender-Bares J., Chapin F.S., Cornelissen J.H.C., Diemer M., Flexas J., Garnier E., Groom P.K., Gulias J., Hikosaka K., Lamont B.B., Lee T., Lee W., Lusk C., Midgley J.J., Navas M-L., Niinemets Ü., Oleksyn J., Osada N., Poorter H., Poot P., Prior L., Pyankov V.I., Roumet C., Thomas S.C., Tjoelker M.G., Veneklaas E., Villar R. (2004) The world-wide leaf economics spectrum. Nature 428, 821-827. [pdf]

Wright I.J, Groom P.K., Lamont B.B., Poot P., Prior L.D., Reich P.B., Schulze E-D, Veneklaas E. & Westoby M. (2004) Leaf trait relationships in Australian plant species. Functional Plant Biology 31, 551-558. [pdf]

Wright I.J. & Westoby M. (2004) The economics of leaves. Australasian Science 25, 34-38. [pdf]

2003

Lusk, C.H., Wright, I.J. & Reich, P.B. (2003) Photosynthetic differences contribute to competitive advantage of evergreen angiosperm trees over evergreen conifers in productive habitats. New Phytologist 160, 329-336. [pdf]

Wright, I.J., Reich, P.B. & Westoby, M (2003) Least-cost input mixtures of water and nitrogen for photosynthesis. American Naturalist 161, 98-111. [pdf]

Wright, I.J. & Westoby, M (2003) Nutrient concentration, resorption and lifespan: leaf traits of Australian sclerophyll species. Functional Ecology 17, 10-19. [pdf]

Reich, P.B., Wright, I.J., Cavender-Bares, J., Craine, J.M., Oleksyn, J., Westoby, M. and Walters, M.B. (2003). The evolution of plant functional variation: traits, spectra, and strategies. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164(3 Suppl.), S143-S164. [pdf]

Westoby, M. and Wright, I.J. (2003) The spectrum of twig-size variation and its correlates among perennial species in fire-prone sclerophyll vegetation. Oecologia 135, 621-628. [pdf]

2002

Wright, I.J. & Westoby, M (2002) Leaves at low versus high rainfall: coordination of structure, lifespan and physiology. New Phytologist 155, 403-416. [pdf]

Wright, I.J., Westoby, M & Reich, P.B. (2002) Convergence towards higher leaf mass per area has different consequences for leaf lifespan in dry and nutrient-poor habitats. Journal of Ecology 90, 534-543. [pdf]

Westoby, M, Falster, D.S., Moles, A.T., Vesk, P.A. & Wright I.J. (2002) Plant ecological strategies: some leading dimensions of variation between species. Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics 33, 125-159. [pdf]

2001

Wright, I.J., Reich, P.B. & Westoby, M. (2001) Strategy-shifts in leaf physiology, structure and nutrient content between species of high and low rainfall, and high and low nutrient habitats. Functional Ecology 15, 423-434. [pdf]

Wright, I.J. & Cannon, K. (2001) Relationships between leaf lifespan and structural defences in a low nutrient, sclerophyll flora. Functional Ecology 15, 351-359. [pdf]

Wright, I.J. and Westoby, M. (2001) Understanding seedling growth relationships through specific leaf area and leaf nitrogen concentration: generalisations across growth forms and growth irradiance. Oecologia 127, 21-29. [pdf]

2000

Wright, I.J. and Westoby, M. (2000). Cross-species relationships between seedling RGR, nitrogen productivity and root versus leaf function in 28 Australian woody species. Functional Ecology 14(1), 97-107. [pdf]

Wright, I.J., Clifford, H.T., Kidson, R., Reed, M.L., Rice, B.L., and Westoby. M. (2000). A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69, 521-547. [pdf]

Leishman, M.R., Wright, I.J., Moles, A.T., and Westoby, M. (2000). The evolutionary ecology of seed size. In Seeds - the ecology of regeneration in plant communities, 2nd edition (ed M. Fenner), pp 31-57. CAB International, Wallingford, U.K. [pdf]

pre-2000

Wright, I.J. and Westoby, M. (1999). Differences in seedling growth behaviour among species: trait correlations and shifts along nutrient compared to rainfall gradients. Journal of Ecology 87(1), 85-97. [pdf]

Westoby, M., Cunningham, S., Fonseca, C., Overton, J. and Wright, I.J. (1998). Phylogeny and variation in light capture area deployed per unit investment in leaves: designs for selecting study species with a view to generalizing. In Variation in Growth Rate and Productivity of Higher Plants (eds H. Lambers, H. Poorter and M.M.I. Van Vuren), pp 539-566. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. [pdf]

Wright, I.J. and Ladiges, P.Y. (1997). Geographic variation in Eucalyptus diversifolia (Myrtaceae) and the recognition of new subspecies E. diversifolia subsp. hesperia and E. diversifolia subsp. megacarpa. Australian Systematic Botany 10(5), 651-680. [pdf] ( Click here to see a picture of juvenile leaf variation in these taxa, or here to see variation in fruit size.)

Manuscripts in review or in prep

Lenz, T.I., Wright, I.J. & Westoby, M. (in prep). Pressure-volume curve traits in relation to leaf carbon gain strategy.

Basden, A., Wright, I.J. & Westoby, M. (in prep). Winning and losing competition for space among seedlings.

Moles, A.T., Wright, I.J., Pitman, A.J., Murray, B.R. & Westoby, M. (in review). Latitude and seed production.

Craine, J.M., Elmore, A.J., Aidar, M.P.M, Amundson, R., Barrett, J.E., Bustamante, M., Coetsee, C., Dawson, T., Hawkins, H.J., Hobbie, E.A., Houlton, B.Z., Koba, K., Mack, M.C., Makarov, M., McLauchlan, K.K., Michelsen, A., Nardoto, G.B., Pardo, L.H., Peñuelas, J., Reich, P.B., Schuur, E.G., Stock, W.D., Tateno, R., Virginia, R., Welker, J.M., Wright, I.J. (in prep). Nitrogen isotopes in leaves index global patterns of nitrogen availability.

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