Changing gears during succession: shifting functional strategies in young tropical secondary forests

Species Richness, Forest Structure, and Functional Diversity During Succession in the New Guinea Lowlands

(2014) Timothy J. S. Whitfeld et al.   BIOTROPICA

Stand age and soils as drivers of plant functional traits and aboveground biomass in secondary tropical dry forest

(2014) Justin M. Becknell et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Remnant Trees Affect Species Composition but Not Structure of Tropical Second-Growth Forest

(2014) Manette E. Sandor et al.   PLoS One

Extension of Nakagawa & Schielzeth'sR2GLMMto random slopes models

(2014) Paul C.D. Johnson   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The assembly of tropical tree communities - the advances and shortcomings of phylogenetic and functional trait analyses

(2013) Nathan G. Swenson   ECOGRAPHY

Successional changes in functional composition contrast for dry and wet tropical forest

(2013) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait-mediated effects of environmental filtering on tree community dynamics

(2013) Jesse R. Lasky et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Key role of symbiotic dinitrogen fixation in tropical forest secondary succession

(2013) Sarah A. Batterman et al.   NATURE

Succession of Ephemeral Secondary Forests and Their Limited Role for the Conservation of Floristic Diversity in a Human-Modified Tropical Landscape

(2013) Michiel van Breugel et al.   PLoS One

Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

(2013) R. Condit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effect of land cover and use on dry season river runoff, runoff efficiency, and peak storm runoff in the seasonal tropics of Central Panama

(2013) Fred L. Ogden et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Functional regeneration and spectral reflectance of trees during succession in a highly diverse tropical dry forest ecosystem

(2012) Mariana Y. Alvarez-Añorve et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species

(2012) Claire Fortunel et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Secondary forests of central Panama increase in similarity to old-growth forest over time in shade tolerance but not species composition

(2012) Daisy H. Dent et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities

(2011) Natalia Norden et al.   ECOLOGY

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

(2011) Yusuke Onoda et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

The relative importance of above- versus belowground competition for tree growth during early succession of a tropical moist forest

(2011) Michiel van Breugel et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Measuring wood specific gravity…Correctly

(2010) G. Bruce Williamson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional traits and environmental filtering drive community assembly in a species-rich tropical system

(2010) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

(2010) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Tissue-level leaf toughness, but not lamina thickness, predicts sapling leaf lifespan and shade tolerance of tropical tree species

(2010) Kaoru Kitajima et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Contrasting community compensatory trends in alternative successional pathways in central Amazonia

(2010) Natalia Norden et al.   OIKOS

Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

(2010) Holger Schielzeth   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Wood density and its radial variation in six canopy tree species differing in shade-tolerance in western Thailand

(2009) Charles A. Nock et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The future of tropical species in secondary forests: A quantitative review

(2009) Daisy H. Dent et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Resilience of tropical rain forests: tree community reassembly in secondary forests

(2009) Natalia Norden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Variation in leaf functional trait values within and across individuals and species: an example from a Costa Rican dry forest

(2009) Catherine M. Hulshof et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Functional trait variation and sampling strategies in species-rich plant communities

(2009) Christopher Baraloto et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species

(2009) Lourens Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Forest Regeneration from Pasture in the Dry Tropics of Panama: Effects of Cattle, Exotic Grass, and Forested Riparia

(2009) Heather P. Griscom et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems

(2009) Alain F. Zuur et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Successional Change and Resilience of a Very Dry Tropical Deciduous Forest Following Shifting Agriculture

(2008) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   BIOTROPICA

Integrating Agricultural Landscapes with Biodiversity Conservation in the Mesoamerican Hotspot

(2008) CELIA A. HARVEY et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Testing the assumptions of chronosequences in succession

(2008) Edward A. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biomass allocation and leaf life span in relation to light interception by tropical forest plants during the first years of secondary succession

(2008) N. Galia Selaya et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Leaf size and leaf display of thirty-eight tropical tree species

(2008) Lourens Poorter et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE