2012

Falster DS, Reich PB, Ellsworth DS, Wright IJ, Westoby M, Oleksyn J, Lee TD (2012). Life-time leaf C gain and nutrient use efficiency increases with leaf life-span among 10 Australian woodland species. New Phytologist 193:409-419.

2011

Kattge J, Diaz S, Lavorel S, Prentice IC, Leadley P, Bönisch G, Garnier E, Westoby M, Reich PB, Wright IJ and 124 more authors (2011). TRY - a global database of plant functional traits. Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935.

Kueffer C, Niinemets Ü, Drenovsky RE, Kattge J, Milberg P, Poorter H, Reich PB, Werner C, Westoby M, Wright IJ (2011). Fame, glory and neglect in meta-analyses. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26: 4930.

Onoda Y, Westoby M, Adler PB, Choong AMF, Clissold FJ, Cornelissen JHC, Díaz S, Dominy NJ, Elgart A, Enrico L, Fine PVA, Howard JJ, Jalili A, Kitajima K, Kurokawa H, McArthur C, Lucas PW, Markesteijn L, Pérez-Harguindeguy N, Poorter L, Richards L, Santiago LS, Sosinski EE, Van Bael SA, Warton DI, Wright IJ, Wright SJ, Yamashita N (2011). Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties. Ecology Letters 14:301-312.

Peppe DJ, Royer DL, Cariglino B, Oliver SY, Newman S, Leight E, Enikolopov G, Fernandez-Burgos M, Herrera F, Adams JM, Correa E, Currano ED, Erickson JM, Hinojosa LF, Hoganson JW, Iglesias A, Jaramillo CA, Johnson KR, Jordan GJ, Kraft NJB, Lovelock EC, Lusk CH, Niinemets Ü, Peñuelas J, Rapson G, Wing SL, Wright IJ (2011). Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications. New Phytologist 190:724-739.

Swenson NG, Enquist BJ, Pither J, Kerkhoff AJ, Boyle B, Weiser MD, Elser JJ, Fagan WF, Forero-Montaña J, Fyllas N, Kraft NJB, Lake JK, Moles AT, Patiño S, Phillips OL, Price CA, Reich PB, Quesada CA, Stegen JC, Valencia R, Wright IJ, Wright SJ, Andelman S, Jørgensen PM, Lacher Jr TE, Monteagudo A, Núñez-Vargas MP, Vasquez-Martínez R, Nolting KM (2011). The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America. Global Ecology & Biogeography, in press.

2010

Ordonez A, Wright IJ, Olff H (2010). Functional differences between native and alien species: a global-scale comparison. Functional Ecology 24:1353-1361. [pdf]

Reich PB, Oleksyn J, Wright IJ, Niklas KJ, Hedin L, Elser JJ (2010). Evidence for a general 2/3-power leaf nitrogen to phosphorus scaling among major plant groups and biomes. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 277:877-883. [pdf]

Wright SJ, Kitajima K, Kraft NJB, Reich PB, Wright IJ, Bunker DE, Condit R, Dalling JW, Davies SJ, Diaz S, Engelbrecht BMJ, Harms KE, Hubbell SP, Marks CO, Ruiz-Jaen MC, Salvador CM, Zanne AE (2010). Functional traits and the growth-mortality tradeoff in tropical trees. Ecology 91:3664-3674. [pdf]

2009

Cernusak LA, Tcherkez G, Keitel C, Cornwell WK, Santiago LS, Knohl A, Barbour MG, Williams DG, Reich PB, Ellsworth DS, Dawson TE, Griffiths HG, Farquhar GD, Wright IJ & Westoby M (2009) Why are non-photosynthetic tissues generally 13C enriched compared to leaves in C3 plants? Review and synthesis of current hypotheses. Functional Plant Biology, 36:199-213. [pdf]

Craine JM, Elmore AJ, Aidar MPM, Bustamante M, Dawson TE, Hobbie EA, Kahmen A, Mack MC, McLauchlan KK, Michelsen A, Nardoto GB, Pardo LH, Penuelas J,Reich PB, Schuur EAG, Stock WD, Templer PH, Virginia RA,Welker JM & Wright IJ (2009). Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability. New Phytologist 183:980-992. [pdf]

Hallik L, Niinemets U, Wright IJ (2009). Tolerance to shade and drought in relation to foliage structural and functional traits in temperate woody species. New Phytologist 184:257-274. [pdf]

Moles AT, Wright IJ, Pitman AJ, Murray BG & Westoby M (2009) Is there a latitudinal gradient in seed production? Ecography 32:78-82. [pdf]

Niinemets U, Wright IJ, Evans JR (2009). Leaf internal diffusion conductance in 35 Australian sclerophylls covering a broad range of foliage structural and physiological variation. Journal of Experimental Botany, 60:2433-2449. [pdf]

Ordonez J., Aerts R., van Bodegom P., Witte J-P., Wright IJ, Reich P. (2009) A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility. Global Ecology & Biogeography 18:137-149. [pdf]

Poorter H, Niinemets U, Poorter L, Wright IJ, Villar R (2009) Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis. (Tansley review) New Phytologist 182:565-588. [pdf]

Reich PB, Falster DS, Ellsworth DS, Wright IJ, Westoby M, Oleksyn J, Lee TD (2009) Controls on declining carbon balance with leaf age among 10 woody species in Australian woodland: do leaves have zero net carbon balances when they die? New Phytologist, 183:153-166. [pdf]

Reich PB, Oleksyn J, Wright IJ (2009) Leaf phosphorus influences the photosynthesis-nitrogen relation: a crossbiome analysis of 319 species. Oecologia, 160:207-212. [pdf]

2008

Cornwell WK, Cornelissen JHC, Amatangelo K, Dorrepaal E, Eviner VT, Godoy O, Hobbie SE, Hoorens B, Kurokawa H, Perez-Harguindeguy N, Quested HM, Santiago LS, Wardle DA, Wright IJ, Aerts R, Allison S, Van Bodegom PM, Brovkin V, Chatain A, Callaghan T, Diaz S, Garnier E, Gurvich DE, Kazakou E, Klein JA, Read J, Reich PB, Soudzilovskaia NA, Vaieretti MV & Westoby M (2008) Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide. Ecology Letters 11: 1065-1071. [pdf]

Poorter L, Paz H, Wright SJ, Ackerly DD, Condit R, Ibarra-Manriquez G, Harms KE, Licona JC, Martinez-Ramos M, Mazer SJ, Muller-Landau HC, Pena-Claros M, Webb CO & Wright IJ (2008) Are functional traits good predictors of demographic rates? Evidence from five Neotropical forests. Ecology 89, 1908-1920. [pdf]

Reich PB, Tjoelker MG, Pregitzer KS, Wright IJ, 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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

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 & Valladares F 2007.Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications. Paleobiology 33, 574-589. [pdf]

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. [pdf]

2006

Wright IJ, Falster DS, 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. [pdf]

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

Lenz TI, Wright IJ & Westoby M (2006) Interrelations among pressure-volume curve traits across species and water availability gradients. Physiologia Plantarum 127, 423-433. [pdf]

Wright IJ, Leishman MR, 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. [pdf]

Shipley B, Lechowicz MJ, Wright IJ, & Reich PB (2006) Fundamental tradeoffs generating the worldwide leaf economics spectrum. Ecology 87, 535-541. [pdf]

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

Warton DI, Wright IJ, Falster DS & Westoby M (2006) Bivariate line fitting methods for allometry. Biological Reviews 81, 259-291. [pdf]

Wright IJ, Reich PB, Atkin OK, Lusk CH, Tjoelker, MG & 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 IJ, Reich PB, Cornelissen JHC, Falster DS, Groom PK, Hikosaka K, Lee W, Lusk CH, Niinemets U, Oleksyn J, Osada N, Poorter H, Warton DI & Westoby M (2005) Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate. Global Ecology & Biogeography 14: 411-421 [pdf]

Wright IJ, Reich PB, Cornelissen JHC, Falster DS, Garnier E, Hikosaka K, Lamont BB, Lee W, Oleksyn J, Osada N, Poorter H, Villar R, Warton DI & Westoby M (2005) Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships. New Phytologist 166: 485-496. [pdf]

Shipley B, Vile D, Garnier E, Wright IJ & 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, Diaz S, Hodgson JG, Lloret F, Midgley GF, Poorter H, Rutherford MC, Wilson PJ & Wright IJ (2005) Specific leaf area and dry matter content estimate thickness in laminar leaves. Annals of Botany 96, 1129-1136. [pdf]

2004

Wright IJ, Reich PB, Westoby M, Ackerly DD, Baruch Z, Bongers F, Cavender-Bares J, Chapin FS, Cornelissen JHC, Diemer M, Flexas J, Garnier E, Groom PK, Gulias J, Hikosaka K, Lamont BB, Lee T, Lee W, Lusk C, Midgley JJ, Navas M-L, Niinemets U, Oleksyn J, Osada N, Poorter H, Poot P, Prior L, Pyankov VI, Roumet C, Thomas SC, Tjoelker MG, Veneklaas E & Villar R (2004) The world-wide leaf economics spectrum. Nature 428, 821-827. [pdf]

Wright IJ, Groom PK, Lamont BB, Poot P, Prior LD, Reich PB, Schulze E-D, Veneklaas E & Westoby M (2004) Leaf trait relationships in Australian plant species. Functional Plant Biology 31, 551-558. [pdf]

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

2003

Lusk CH, Wright IJ & Reich PB (2003) Photosynthetic differences contribute to competitive advantage of evergreen angiosperm trees over evergreen conifers in productive habitats. New Phytologist 160, 329-336. [pdf]

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

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

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

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

Wright IJ, Westoby M & Reich PB (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 DS, Moles AT, Vesk PA & Wright IJ (2002) Plant ecological strategies: some leading dimensions of variation between species. Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics 33, 125-159. [pdf]

2001

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

Wright IJ & 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 IJ & 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 IJ, Clifford HT, Kidson R, Reed ML, Rice BL & 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 MR, Wright IJ, Moles AT & 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, UK. [pdf]

pre-2000

Wright IJ & 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 & Wright IJ (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 Inherent Variation in Plant Growth: Physiological Mechanisms and Ecological Consequences (eds H Lambers, H Poorter and MMI Van Vuren), pp 539-566. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. [pdf]

Wright IJ & Ladiges PY (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.)

PUBLICATIONS: Statistics software

Falster DS, Warton DI & Wright IJ (2006). SMATR: Standardised major axis tests and routines - Version 2.0. www.bio.mq.edu.au/ecology/SMATR/

Falster DS, Warton DI & Wright IJ (2003). SMATR v1.0.