| Revisiting the H oly G rail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes JL Funk, JE Larson, GM Ames, BJ Butterfield, J Cavender‐Bares, J Firn, ... Biological Reviews 92 (2), 1156-1173, 2017 | 284 | 2017 |
| Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity LA Cavieres, RW Brooker, BJ Butterfield, BJ Cook, Z Kikvidze, CJ Lortie, ... Ecology letters 17 (2), 193-202, 2014 | 244 | 2014 |
| TRY plant trait database–enhanced coverage and open access J Kattge, G Bönisch, S Díaz, S Lavorel, IC Prentice, P Leadley, ... Global change biology 26 (1), 119-188, 2020 | 192 | 2020 |
| Single‐trait functional indices outperform multi‐trait indices in linking environmental gradients and ecosystem services in a complex landscape BJ Butterfield, KN Suding Journal of Ecology 101 (1), 9-17, 2013 | 151 | 2013 |
| Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments BJ Butterfield, LA Cavieres, RM Callaway, BJ Cook, Z Kikvidze, CJ Lortie, ... Ecology Letters 16 (4), 478-486, 2013 | 150 | 2013 |
| Foundation species influence trait‐based community assembly C Schöb, BJ Butterfield, FI Pugnaire New Phytologist 196 (3), 824-834, 2012 | 138 | 2012 |
| Effects of facilitation on community stability and dynamics: synthesis and future directions BJ Butterfield Journal of Ecology 97 (6), 1192-1201, 2009 | 99 | 2009 |
| A functional comparative approach to facilitation and its context dependence BJ Butterfield, RM Callaway Functional Ecology 27 (4), 907-917, 2013 | 90 | 2013 |
| Regeneration niche differentiates functional strategies of desert woody plant species BJ Butterfield, JM Briggs Oecologia 165 (2), 477-487, 2011 | 83 | 2011 |
| A global analysis of bidirectional interactions in alpine plant communities shows facilitators experiencing strong reciprocal fitness costs C Schöb, R Michalet, LA Cavieres, FI Pugnaire, RW Brooker, ... New Phytologist 202 (1), 95-105, 2014 | 80 | 2014 |
| Facilitation drives 65 years of vegetation change in the Sonoran Desert BJ Butterfield, JL Betancourt, RM Turner, JM Briggs Ecology 91 (4), 1132-1139, 2010 | 77 | 2010 |
| Testing the link between functional diversity and ecosystem functioning in a Minnesota grassland experiment CM Clark, DFB Flynn, BJ Butterfield, PB Reich PloS one 7 (12), e52821, 2012 | 71 | 2012 |
| The effects of foundation species on community assembly: a global study on alpine cushion plant communities Z Kikvidze, RW Brooker, BJ Butterfield, RM Callaway, LA Cavieres, ... Ecology 96 (8), 2064-2069, 2015 | 53 | 2015 |
| Does the stress‐gradient hypothesis hold water? Disentangling spatial and temporal variation in plant effects on soil moisture in dryland systems BJ Butterfield, JB Bradford, C Armas, I Prieto, FI Pugnaire Functional Ecology 30 (1), 10-19, 2016 | 52 | 2016 |
| The economic value of grassland species for carbon storage BA Hungate, EB Barbier, AW Ando, SP Marks, PB Reich, N Van Gestel, ... Science Advances 3 (4), e1601880, 2017 | 48 | 2017 |
| Prestoration: using species in restoration that will persist now and into the future BJ Butterfield, SM Copeland, SM Munson, CM Roybal, TE Wood Restoration Ecology 25, S155-S163, 2017 | 40 | 2017 |
| Patch dynamics of soil biotic feedbacks in the Sonoran Desert BJ Butterfield, JM Briggs Journal of Arid Environments 73 (1), 96-102, 2009 | 40 | 2009 |
| The context dependence of beneficiary feedback effects on benefactors in plant facilitation C Schöb, RM Callaway, F Anthelme, RW Brooker, LA Cavieres, ... New Phytologist 204 (2), 386-396, 2014 | 36 | 2014 |
| Anticipatory natural resource science and management for a changing future JB Bradford, JL Betancourt, BJ Butterfield, SM Munson, TE Wood Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16 (5), 295-303, 2018 | 34 | 2018 |
| Scaling up the diversity–resilience relationship with trait databases and remote sensing data: the recovery of productivity after wildfire MJ Spasojevic, CA Bahlai, BA Bradley, BJ Butterfield, MN Tuanmu, ... Global change biology 22 (4), 1421-1432, 2016 | 33 | 2016 |
Francisco I. PugnaireResearch Professor, EEZA-CSIC, Almeria, SpainVerified email at eeza.csic.es
