Null model approaches to evaluating the relative role of different assembly processes in shaping ecological communities

Biotic homogenization and differentiation of soil faunal communities in the production forest landscape: taxonomic and functional perspectives

(2014) Akira S. Mori et al.   OECOLOGIA

Introducing the biogeographic species pool

(2013) Daniel Wisbech Carstensen et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Bee diversity effects on pollination depend on functional complementarity and niche shifts

(2013) Jochen Fründ et al.   ECOLOGY

Community assembly processes shape an altitudinal gradient of forest biodiversity

(2013) Akira S Mori et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes

(2013) Oliver Purschke et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Turnover of soil bacterial diversity driven by wide-scale environmental heterogeneity

(2013) L. Ranjard et al.   Nature Communications

Undersampling and the measurement of beta diversity

(2013) Jan Beck et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

(2012) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Intensive agriculture erodes β-diversity at large scales

(2012) Daniel S. Karp et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Beta-diversity in temperate and tropical forests reflects dissimilar mechanisms of community assembly

(2012) Jonathan A. Myers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities

(2012) James C. Stegen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The variation of tree beta diversity across a global network of forest plots

(2012) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Drivers of β-diversity along latitudinal gradients revisited

(2012) Hong Qian et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Interspecific differences in determinants of plant species distribution and the relationships with functional traits

(2012) Masahiro Aiba et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities

(2012) Christopher Baraloto et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Is there an ecological basis for species abundance distributions?

(2012) Jian D. L. Yen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Conversion of the Amazon rainforest to agriculture results in biotic homogenization of soil bacterial communities

(2012) J. L. M. Rodrigues et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality

(2012) R. E. Ricklefs et al.   SCIENCE

Comment on "Disentangling the Drivers of   Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients"

(2012) H. Qian et al.   SCIENCE

Comment on "Disentangling the Drivers of   Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients"

(2012) H. Tuomisto et al.   SCIENCE

The case for ecological neutral theory

(2012) James Rosindell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Quantifying the importance of local niche-based and stochastic processes to tropical tree community assembly

(2011) Bill Shipley et al.   ECOLOGY

Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Community assembly: alternative stable states or alternative transient states?

(2011) Tadashi Fukami et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Determining the relative roles of species replacement and species richness differences in generating beta-diversity patterns

(2011) José C. Carvalho et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The quest for trait convergence and divergence in community assembly: are null-models the magic wand?

(2011) Francesco de Bello   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Stochastic and deterministic processes interact in the assembly of desert microbial communities on a global scale

(2011) Tancredi Caruso et al.   ISME Journal

Relative role of deterministic and stochastic determinants of soil animal community: a spatially explicit analysis of oribatid mites

(2011) Tancredi Caruso et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Statistical challenges in null model analysis

(2011) Nicholas J. Gotelli et al.   OIKOS

Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales

(2011) J. M. Chase et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Disentangling the Drivers of   Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

(2011) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE

Null model analysis of species associations using abundance data

(2010) Werner Ulrich et al.   ECOLOGY

Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

(2010) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Stochastic Community Assembly Causes Higher Biodiversity in More Productive Environments

(2010) J. M. Chase   SCIENCE

Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

(2009) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

(2009) Takashi Kohyama et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Spatial and environmental factors contributing to patterns in arboreal and terrestrial oribatid mite diversity across spatial scales

(2009) Zoë Lindo et al.   OECOLOGIA

Spatial distributions of tree species in a subtropical forest of China

(2009) Lin Li et al.   OIKOS

Temperature dependence, spatial scale, and tree species diversity in eastern Asia and North America

(2009) Z. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DIVERSITY–INVASIBILITY ACROSS AN EXPERIMENTAL DISTURBANCE GRADIENT IN APPALACHIAN FORESTS

(2008) R. Travis Belote et al.   ECOLOGY

Coexistence through spatio-temporal heterogeneity and species sorting in grassland plant communities

(2008) Erin J. Questad et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa

(2008) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY 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

Assessing the scale-specific importance of niches and other spatial processes on beta diversity: a case study from a temperate forest

(2008) Etienne Laliberté et al.   OECOLOGIA

A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria

(2008) J. A. Fuhrman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA