The demographic effects of functional traits: an integral projection model approach reveals population-level consequences of reproduction-defence trade-offs

Monarch butterfly and milkweed declines substantially predate the use of genetically modified crops

(2019) J. H. Boyle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why Functional Traits Do Not Predict Tree Demographic Rates

(2018) Jie Yang et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Accounting for clonality in comparative plant demography – growth or reproduction?

(2017) Zdeněk Janovský et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Perturbation approaches for integral projection models

(2017) Alden B. Griffith   OIKOS

Linking individual-level functional traits to tree growth in a subtropical forest

(2016) Xiaojuan Liu et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees

(2016) Marco D. Visser et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Variability in plant nutrients reduces insect herbivore performance

(2016) William C. Wetzel et al.   NATURE

Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

(2016) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Elevated temperature and periodic water stress alter growth and quality of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and monarch (Danaus plexippus) larval performance

(2015) John J. Couture et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Quantifying the influence of measured and unmeasured individual differences on demography

(2015) Floriane Plard et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Growth-defense tradeoffs for two major anti-herbivore traits of the common milkweedAsclepias syriaca

(2015) Tobias Züst et al.   OIKOS

Unravelling the annual cycle in a migratory animal: breeding-season habitat loss drives population declines of monarch butterflies

(2014) D. T. Tyler Flockhart et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Leaf life span and the leaf economic spectrum in the context of whole plant architecture

(2014) Erika J. Edwards et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

ThecompadrePlant Matrix Database: an open online repository for plant demography

(2014) Roberto Salguero-Gómez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Senescence, ageing and death of the whole plant: morphological prerequisites and constraints of plant immortality

(2014) Jitka Klimešová et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Is there a species spectrum within the world-wide leaf economics spectrum? Major variations in leaf functional traits in the Mediterranean sclerophyllQuercus ilex

(2014) Ülo Niinemets   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Clonal growth and sexual reproduction: tradeoffs and environmental constraints

(2014) Tomáš Herben et al.   OIKOS

Spectroscopic sensitivity of real-time, rapidly induced phytochemical change in response to damage

(2013) John J. Couture et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies

(2013) P. B. Adler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: a practical guide

(2013) Cory Merow et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A predictive model of community assembly that incorporates intraspecific trait variation

(2012) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Milkweed loss in agricultural fields because of herbicide use: effect on the monarch butterfly population

(2012) JOHN M. PLEASANTS et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Toxic cardenolides: chemical ecology and coevolution of specialized plant-herbivore interactions

(2012) Anurag A. Agrawal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Modeling Effects of Environmental Change on Wolf Population Dynamics, Trait Evolution, and Life History

(2011) T. Coulson et al.   SCIENCE

Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

(2011) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Increased nitrogen availability influences predator–prey interactions by altering host-plant quality

(2010) John J. Couture et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

Climate influences the demography of three dominant sagebrush steppe plants

(2010) Harmony J. Dalgleish et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Genetic variation in expression of defense phenotype may mediate evolutionary adaptation of Asclepias syriaca to elevated CO2

(2010) RACHEL L. VANNETTE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Interspecific variation in functional traits, not climatic differences among species ranges, determines demographic rates across 44 temperate and Mediterranean tree species

(2010) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Latex: A Model for Understanding Mechanisms, Ecology, and Evolution of Plant Defense Against Herbivory

(2009) Anurag A. Agrawal et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Impacts of insect herbivory on cactus population dynamics: experimental demography across an environmental gradient

(2009) Tom E. X. Miller et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A time to grow and a time to die: a new way to analyze the dynamics of size, light, age, and death of tropical trees

(2009) C. Jessica E. Metcalf et al.   ECOLOGY

Linking environmental variation to population dynamics of a forest herb

(2009) Johan P. Dahlgren et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

Evolution of latex and its constituent defensive chemistry in milkweeds (Asclepias): a phylogenetic test of plant defense escalation

(2008) Anurag A. Agrawal et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA