Evidence for scale- and disturbance-dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi-natural grasslands

Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

(2013) Maud Bernard-Verdier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Which trait dissimilarity for functional diversity: trait means or trait overlap?

(2013) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Contrasting effects of productivity and disturbance on plant functional diversity at local and metacommunity scales

(2013) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOLOGY

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages

(2011) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The quest for trait convergence and divergence in community assembly: are null-models the magic wand?

(2011) Francesco de Bello   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

(2011) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Linking landscape history and dispersal traits in grassland plant communities

(2011) Oliver Purschke et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Small-scale plant species richness and evenness in semi-natural grasslands respond differently to habitat fragmentation

(2009) Triin Reitalu et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

(2009) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Independent contrasts and regression through the origin

(2009) Pierre Legendre et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

(2009) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

(2009) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

On the challenge of treating various types of variables: application for improving the measurement of functional diversity

(2009) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   OIKOS

FIRE REDUCES MORPHOSPACE OCCUPATION IN PLANT COMMUNITIES

(2008) Juli G. Pausas et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant species segregation on different spatial scales in semi-natural grasslands

(2008) T. Reitalu et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE