Species interactions and random dispersal rather than habitat filtering drive community assembly during early plant succession

Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness

(2015) Santiago Soliveres et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Is successional research nearing its climax? New approaches for understanding dynamic communities

(2015) Scott J. Meiners et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

How context dependent are species interactions?

(2014) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands

(2014) Werner Ulrich et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Predicting environmental gradients with fern species composition in Brazilian Amazonia

(2014) Gabriela Zuquim et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Small-scale spatial variability in phylogenetic community structure during early plant succession depends on soil properties

(2014) Werner Ulrich et al.   OECOLOGIA

Matrix models for quantifying competitive intransitivity from species abundance data

(2014) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS

Resource competition in plant invasions: emerging patterns and research needs

(2014) Margherita Gioria et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Increased competition does not lead to increased phylogenetic overdispersion in a native grassland

(2013) Jonathan A. Bennett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disentangling the drivers of metacommunity structure across spatial scales

(2013) Christine N. Meynard et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Soil conditions and phylogenetic relatedness influence total community trait space during early plant succession

(2013) Werner Ulrich et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Species-Driven Phases and Increasing Structure in Early-Successional Plant Communities

(2012) Markus K. Zaplata et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Stability criteria for complex ecosystems

(2012) Stefano Allesina et al.   NATURE

Habitat filtering and niche differentiation jointly explain species relative abundance within grassland communities along fertility and disturbance gradients

(2012) Vincent Maire et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Pattern detection in null model analysis

(2012) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS

How invader traits interact with resident communities and resource availability to determine invasion success

(2012) T. M. Mata et al.   OIKOS

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

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

An allelopathic investigation of the domination of the introduced invasive Conyza canadensis L.

(2011) Lola Djurdjević et al.   FLORA

Eight (and a half) deadly sins of spatial analysis

(2011) Bradford A. Hawkins   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Statistical challenges in null model analysis

(2011) Nicholas J. Gotelli et al.   OIKOS

Microhabitat amelioration and reduced competition among understorey plants as drivers of facilitation across environmental gradients: Towards a unifying framework

(2011) Santiago Soliveres et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

A competitive network theory of species diversity

(2011) S. Allesina et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Null model analysis of species associations using abundance data

(2010) Werner Ulrich et al.   ECOLOGY

Interaction rules affect species coexistence in intransitive networks

(2010) José Rojas-Echenique et al.   ECOLOGY

The Association of Dispersal and Persistence Traits of Plants with Different Stages of Succession in Central European Man-Made Habitats

(2010) Vít Latzel et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts

(2010) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A comprehensive framework for the evaluation of metacommunity structure

(2010) Steven J. Presley et al.   OIKOS

The artificial catchment “Chicken Creek” (Lusatia, Germany)—A landscape laboratory for interdisciplinary studies of initial ecosystem development

(2009) Werner Gerwin et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Increasing deterministic control of primary succession on Mount St. Helens, Washington

(2009) Roger del Moral   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Insights into succession processes using temporally repeated habitat models: results from a long-term study in a post-mining landscape

(2009) Annett Baasch et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

On the relationship between abiotic stress and co-occurrence patterns: an assessment at the community level using soil lichen communities and multiple stress gradients

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   OIKOS

A consistent metric for nestedness analysis in ecological systems: reconciling concept and measurement

(2008) Mário Almeida-Neto et al.   OIKOS

A consumer's guide to nestedness analysis

(2008) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS