Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

Integrating ecology and phylogenetics: the footprint of history in modern-day communities1

(2012) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY

Variability in life-history and ecological traits is a buffer against extinction in mammals

(2012) Manuela González-Suárez et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems

(2012) Diane S. Srivastava et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Improving the application of vertebrate trait-based frameworks to the study of ecosystem services

(2012) Gary W. Luck et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012–20

(2012) Anne Larigauderie et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Phylogenetic constraints on ecosystem functioning

(2012) Dominique Gravel et al.   Nature Communications

Eco-evolutionary responses of biodiversity to climate change

(2012) Jon Norberg et al.   Nature Climate Change

Using phylogenetic information to predict species tolerances to toxic chemicals

(2011) Guillaume Guénard et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Toward an integration of evolutionary biology and ecosystem science

(2011) Blake Matthews et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale-up to trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services

(2011) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Consequences of climate change on the tree of life in Europe

(2011) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   NATURE

Linking functional diversity and social actor strategies in a framework for interdisciplinary analysis of nature's benefits to society

(2011) S. Diaz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Invasive rats and recent colonist birds partially compensate for the loss of endemic New Zealand pollinators

(2011) D. E. Pattemore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

The Jungle of Methods for Evaluating Phenotypic and Phylogenetic Structure of Communities

(2010) Juli G. Pausas et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits

(2010) SUSANNE A. FRITZ et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Positive adjacency effects mediated by seed disperser birds in pine plantations

(2010) Regino Zamora et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A framework for metacommunity analysis of phylogenetic structure

(2010) Valério D. Pillar et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Communities contain closely related species during ecosystem disturbance

(2010) Matthew R. Helmus et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A structured and dynamic framework to advance traits-based theory and prediction in ecology

(2010) Colleen T. Webb et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations

(2010) J. B. YODER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ecological interactions are evolutionarily conserved across the entire tree of life

(2010) José M. Gómez et al.   NATURE

Local adaptation in Trinidadian guppies alters ecosystem processes

(2010) Ronald D. Bassar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE

Evosystem services: an evolutionary perspective on the links between biodiversity and human well-being

(2010) Daniel P Faith et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory

(2010) Luis-Miguel Chevin et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Invasive ants alter the phylogenetic structure of ant communities

(2009) Jean-Philippe Lessard et al.   ECOLOGY

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

Integrating physiological, ecological and evolutionary change: a Price equation approach

(2009) Sinéad Collins et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

(2009) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

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

Effects of biological invasions on forest carbon sequestration

(2009) D. A. PELTZER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

(2009) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NATURE

Experimental evaluation of evolution and coevolution as agents of ecosystem change in Trinidadian streams

(2009) E. P. Palkovacs et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution in plant populations as a driver of ecological changes in arthropod communities

(2009) M. T.J. Johnson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Are rare species less shade tolerant than common species in fire-prone environments? A test with seven Amorpha (Fabaceae) species

(2009) Renée M. Marchin et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Conservatism and diversification of plant functional traits: Evolutionary rates versus phylogenetic signal

(2009) D. Ackerly   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adaptive Radiation: Contrasting Theory with Data

(2009) S. Gavrilets et al.   SCIENCE

Comparative Methods with Sampling Error and Within‐Species Variation: Contrasts Revisited and Revised

(2008) Joseph Felsenstein   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Invasive plants transform the three-dimensional structure of rain forests

(2008) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic patterns of species loss in Thoreau's woods are driven by climate change

(2008) C. G. Willis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge

(2008) J. Schipper et al.   SCIENCE

Human influences on rates of phenotypic change in wild animal populations

(2007) ANDREW P. HENDRY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY