Incorporating dominant species as proxies for biotic interactions strengthens plant community models

Vegetation Mediates Soil Temperature and Moisture in Arctic-Alpine Environments

(2013) Juha Aalto et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Turnover of plant lineages shapes herbivore phylogenetic beta diversity along ecological gradients

(2013) Loïc Pellissier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil moisture's underestimated role in climate change impact modelling in low-energy systems

(2013) Peter Christiaan le Roux et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Thermal niches are more conserved at cold than warm limits in arctic-alpine plant species

(2013) Loïc Pellissier et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Earth surface processes drive the richness, composition and occurrence of plant species in an arctic-alpine environment

(2013) Peter C. le Roux et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

(2012) Mary Susanne Wisz et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOLOGY

Cross-validation of species distribution models: removing spatial sorting bias and calibration with a null model

(2012) Robert J. Hijmans   ECOLOGY

Horizontal, but not vertical, biotic interactions affect fine-scale plant distribution patterns in a low-energy system

(2012) Peter C. le Roux et al.   ECOLOGY

Accounting for dispersal and biotic interactions to disentangle the drivers of species distributions and their abundances

(2012) Isabelle Boulangeat et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

A predictive model of community assembly that incorporates intraspecific trait variation

(2012) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The accuracy of plant assemblage prediction from species distribution models varies along environmental gradients

(2012) Julien Pottier et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Foundation species influence trait-based community assembly

(2012) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation

(2012) Seth J. Wenger et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming

(2012) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Climate-based empirical models show biased predictions of butterfly communities along environmental gradients

(2011) Loïc Pellissier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

SESAM - a new framework integrating macroecological and species distribution models for predicting spatio-temporal patterns of species assemblages

(2011) Antoine Guisan et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Impact of shrub canopies on understorey vegetation in western Eurasian tundra

(2011) A.M. Pajunen et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Advances, challenges and a developing synthesis of ecological community assembly theory

(2011) E. Weiher et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Communities Under Climate Change

(2011) D. Nogues-Bravo et al.   SCIENCE

Predicting impacts of climate change on biodiversity: a role for semi-mechanistic community-level modelling

(2010) Karel Mokany et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Species distribution models reveal apparent competitive and facilitative effects of a dominant species on the distribution of tundra plants

(2010) Loïc Pellissier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Modeling species co-occurrence by multivariate logistic regression generates new hypotheses on fungal interactions

(2010) Otso Ovaskainen et al.   ECOLOGY

Resident functional composition mediates the impacts of nutrient enrichment and neighbour removal on plant immigration rates

(2010) Anu Eskelinen   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Can CSR classification be generally applied outside Britain?

(2010) Bruno E. L. Cerabolini et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Is There a Latitudinal Gradient in the Importance of Biotic Interactions?

(2009) Douglas W. Schemske et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Plant traits, leaf palatability and litter decomposability for co-occurring woody species differing in invasion status and nitrogen fixation ability

(2009) Hiroko Kurokawa et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A working guide to boosted regression trees

(2008) J. Elith et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Topographic controls on snow distribution, soil moisture, and species diversity of herbaceous alpine vegetation, Niwot Ridge, Colorado

(2008) M. I. Litaor et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A Significant Upward Shift in Plant Species Optimum Elevation During the 20th Century

(2008) J. Lenoir et al.   SCIENCE