Functional trait differences and the outcome of community assembly: an experimental test with vernal pool annual plants

Specific leaf area responses to environmental gradients through space and time

(2013) John M. Dwyer et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

(2013) Peter B. Adler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Hierarchy of root functional trait values and plasticity drive early-stage competition for water and phosphorus among grasses

(2013) Florian Fort et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

(2012) J. HilleRisLambers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Niche evolution across spatial scales: climate and habitat specialization in CaliforniaLasthenia(Asteraceae)

(2012) Nancy C. Emery et al.   ECOLOGY

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional beta-diversity patterns reveal deterministic community assembly processes in eastern North American trees

(2012) Andrew Siefert et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Long-term dynamics of biotic and abiotic resistance to exotic species invasion in restored vernal pool plant communities

(2011) Sharon K. Collinge et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Functional traits of individual trees reveal ecological constraints on community assembly in tropical rain forests

(2011) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   OIKOS

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

More closely related species are more ecologically similar in an experimental test

(2011) J. H. Burns et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant geography upon the basis of functional traits: an example from eastern North American trees

(2010) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

(2010) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecological Limits and Fitness Consequences of Cross‐Gradient Pollen Movement in Lasthenia fremontii

(2009) Nancy C. Emery   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

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

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

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

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

Ecological consequences of genetic diversity

(2008) A. Randall Hughes et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Factors driving distribution limits in an annual plant community

(2008) Nancy C. Emery et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE

Does phylogenetic relatedness influence the strength of competition among vascular plants?

(2007) James F. Cahill et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS