Forest community assembly is driven by different strata‐dependent mechanisms along an elevational gradient

Greater than the sum of the parts: how the species composition in different forest strata influence ecosystem function

(2019) Ya‐Huang Luo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A trait-based approach reveals the importance of biotic filter for elevational herb richness pattern

(2018) Zihan Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Understory Community Assembly Following Wildfire in Boreal Forests: Shift From Stochasticity to Competitive Exclusion and Environmental Filtering

(2018) Bo Liu et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Logging increases the functional and phylogenetic dispersion of understorey plant communities in tropical lowland rain forest

(2017) Timm F. Döbert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Patterns and drivers of plant biodiversity in Chinese university campuses

(2017) Jiajia Liu et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Phylogenetic constraints to soil properties determine elevational diversity gradients of forest understory vegetation

(2017) Nobuhiko Shigyo et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Should Environmental Filtering be Abandoned?

(2017) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Using phylogeny and functional traits for assessing community assembly along environmental gradients: A deterministic process driven by elevation

(2017) Jinshi Xu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Integrating trait and phylogenetic distances to assess scale-dependent community assembly processes

(2016) Andros T. Gianuca et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Higher β-diversity observed for herbs over woody plants is driven by stronger habitat filtering in a tropical understory

(2016) Stephen J. Murphy et al.   ECOLOGY

Positive species diversity and above-ground biomass relationships are ubiquitous across forest strata despite interference from overstorey trees

(2016) Yu Zhang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Spatial scale and intraspecific trait variability mediate assembly rules in alpine grasslands

(2016) Loïc Chalmandrier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Out of the Tropical Lowlands: Latitude versus Elevation

(2016) Hong Qian et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

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

Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level

(2016) Marcell K. Peters et al.   Nature Communications

Trait-Based Community Assembly along an Elevational Gradient in Subalpine Forests: Quantifying the Roles of Environmental Factors in Inter- and Intraspecific Variability

(2016) Ya-Huang Luo et al.   PLoS One

Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects

(2015) Tadashi Fukami   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

pez: phylogenetics for the environmental sciences

(2015) William D. Pearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Contrasting patterns of lichen functional diversity and species richness across an elevation gradient

(2015) Claus Bässler et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Effects of species' similarity and dominance on the functional and phylogenetic structure of a plant meta-community

(2015) L. Chalmandrier et al.   ECOLOGY

Species colonisation, not competitive exclusion, drives community overdispersion over long-term succession

(2015) Shao-peng Li et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Using trait and phylogenetic diversity to evaluate the generality of the stress-dominance hypothesis in eastern North American tree communities

(2014) Jessica R. Coyle et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The origin and maintenance of montane diversity: integrating evolutionary and ecological processes

(2014) Catherine H. Graham et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

(2014) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Near-to-nature logging influences fungal community assembly processes in a temperate forest

(2014) Claus Bässler et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic structure and phylogenetic diversity of angiosperm assemblages in forests along an elevational gradient in Changbaishan, China

(2014) Hong Qian et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Community and Ecosystem Responses to Elevational Gradients: Processes, Mechanisms, and Insights for Global Change

(2013) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Canopy closure exerts weak controls on understory dynamics: a 30-year study of overstory–understory interactions

(2013) Charles B. Halpern et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

The ecology of differences: assessing community assembly with trait and evolutionary distances

(2013) Marc Cadotte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Chinese tropical tree community across size classes, spatial scales and habitats

(2013) Jie Yang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Scale decisions can reverse conclusions on community assembly processes

(2013) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Variability in functional traits mediates plant interactions along stress gradients

(2013) Christian Schöb et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional and Phylogenetic Approaches to Forecasting Species' Responses to Climate Change

(2012) Lauren B. Buckley et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Understory plant communities and the functional distinction between savanna trees, forest trees, and pines

(2012) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   ECOLOGY

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The patterns and causes of elevational diversity gradients

(2011) Nathan J. Sanders et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach

(2010) S. Pavoine et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Untangling positive and negative biotic interactions: views from above and below ground in a forest ecosystem

(2010) Rebecca A. Montgomery et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

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

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

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

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

Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

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

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

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