Do newcomers stick to the rules of the residents? Designing trait-based community assembly tests

Changes in trait divergence and convergence along a productivity gradient in wet meadows

(2014) Marta Carboni et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Trait-mediated environmental filtering drives assembly at biogeographic transition zones

(2013) Brigitte Sommer et al.   ECOLOGY

Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands

(2013) Nicolas Gross et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional and phylogenetic community assembly linked to changes in species diversity in a long-term resource manipulation experiment

(2013) Pille Gerhold et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Maintenance of constant functional diversity during secondary succession of a subtropical forest in China

(2013) Martin Böhnke et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Are trait-based species rankings consistent across data sets and spatial scales?

(2013) Elena Kazakou et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

New method for extracting plant indicators based on their adaptive responses to management practices: application to semi-natural and artificial grassland data

(2012) Tomoyo Koyanagi et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

(2012) Nico Blüthgen et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Which plant traits determine abundance under long-term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity?

(2012) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Can limiting similarity increase invasion resistance? A meta-analysis of experimental studies

(2012) Jodi N. Price et al.   OIKOS

Leaf Trait-Environment Relationships in a Subtropical Broadleaved Forest in South-East China

(2012) Wenzel Kröber et al.   PLoS One

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

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Identification of the environmental factors which drive the botanical and functional composition of permanent grasslands

(2011) A. MICHAUD et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL 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

Dark diversity: shedding light on absent species

(2011) Meelis Pärtel et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

(2010) Markus Fischer et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

(2010) Helge Bruelheide et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Measuring the contribution of community members to functional diversity

(2009) Dénes Schmera et al.   OIKOS

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

(2009) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   OIKOS

The role of plant leaf attributes in linking land use to ecosystem function in temperate grassy vegetation

(2008) S. McIntyre   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Simultaneous Inference in General Parametric Models

(2008) Torsten Hothorn et al.   BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL

The myth of plant species saturation

(2008) Thomas J. Stohlgren et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Dispersal failure contributes to plant losses in NW Europe

(2008) Wim A. Ozinga et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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