Inter-annual fluctuations in rainfall shift the functional structure of Mediterranean grasslands across gradients of productivity and disturbance

Grazing management or physiography? Factors controlling vegetation recovery in Mediterranean grasslands

(2013) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

(2013) Maud Bernard-Verdier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evidence for scale- and disturbance-dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi-natural grasslands

(2013) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Nicolas Gross et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Correlations between phylogenetic and functional diversity: mathematical artefacts or true ecological and evolutionary processes?

(2013) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Contrasting effects of productivity and disturbance on plant functional diversity at local and metacommunity scales

(2013) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Dissecting the Effects of Simulated Cattle Activity on Floristic Composition and Functional Traits in Mediterranean Grasslands

(2013) Iker Dobarro et al.   PLoS One

Effects of grazing abandonment on functional and taxonomic diversity of Mediterranean grasslands

(2012) B. Peco et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Temporal variability in California grasslands: Soil type and species functional traits mediate response to precipitation

(2012) B. M. Fernandez-Going et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant traits mediate consumer and nutrient control on plant community productivity and diversity

(2012) Anu Eskelinen et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional trade-offs increase species diversity in experimental plant communities

(2012) Eyal Ben-Hur et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant functional trait responses to interannual rainfall variability, summer drought and seasonal grazing in Mediterranean herbaceous communities

(2012) Lorenzo Pérez-Camacho et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Taxonomical and functional diversity turnover in Mediterranean grasslands: interactions between grazing, habitat type and rainfall

(2012) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

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

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

Filtering of seed traits revealed by convergence and divergence patterns in subalpine grasslands

(2011) Flore Viard-Crétat et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

(2011) Jan Lepš et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

Trait assembly in plant assemblages and its modulation by productivity and disturbance

(2011) Robin J. Pakeman et al.   OECOLOGIA

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

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

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

Plant survival in relation to seed size along environmental gradients: a long-term study from semi-arid and Mediterranean annual plant communities

(2010) Johannes Metz et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

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

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

Local immigration, competition from dominant guilds, and the ecological assembly of high-diversity pine savannas

(2009) Jonathan A. Myers et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant responsiveness to variation in precipitation and nitrogen is consistent across the compositional diversity of a California annual grassland

(2009) Samuel B. St. Clair et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Seed size and response to rainfall patterns in annual grasslands: 16 years of permanent plot data

(2009) B. Peco et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Interactive effects of clipping and nutrient availability on the compensatory growth of a grass species

(2009) Marja A. van Staalduinen et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Functional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effect

(2009) Amy L. Angert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Relationship between variability in aboveground net primary production and precipitation in global grasslands

(2008) Yuanhe Yang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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