A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients

Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

(2012) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

(2012) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Rare species drive local trait diversity in two geographically disjunct examples of a naturally rare alpine ecosystem in New Zealand

(2012) Sarah J. Richardson et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

From diversity indices to community assembly processes: a test with simulated data

(2011) T. Münkemüller et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

Species- and community-level patterns in fine root traits along a 120 000-year soil chronosequence in temperate rain forest

(2011) Robert J. Holdaway et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional diversity indices reveal the impacts of land use intensification on plant community assembly

(2011) Robin J. Pakeman   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

On the importance of intraspecific variability for the quantification of functional diversity

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   OIKOS

Functional Structure of Biological Communities Predicts Ecosystem Multifunctionality

(2011) David Mouillot et al.   PLoS One

Understanding ecosystem retrogression

(2010) Duane A. Peltzer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A user's guide to functional diversity indices

(2010) D. Schleuter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Leaf palatability and decomposability increase during a 200-year-old post-cultural woody succession in New Zealand

(2010) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The partitioning of diversity: showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth

(2010) Francesco De Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

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

The stratification theory for plant coexistence promoted by one-sided competition

(2009) Takashi Kohyama et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   OIKOS

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Species’ traits predict the effects of disturbance and productivity on diversity

(2008) Nick M. Haddad et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does niche overlap control relative abundance in French lacustrine fish communities? A new method incorporating functional traits

(2008) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Evidence that niche specialization explains species–energy relationships in lake fish communities

(2008) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Testing the spatial phylogenetic structure of local communities: statistical performances of different null models and test statistics on a locally neutral community

(2008) Olivier J. Hardy   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant nutrient-acquisition strategies change with soil age

(2008) H LAMBERS et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION