Trait hierarchies and intraspecific variability drive competitive interactions in Mediterranean annual plants

Multidimensional ecological analyses demonstrate how interactions between functional traits shape fitness and life history strategies

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Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities

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Should Environmental Filtering be Abandoned?

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

Is Biomass a Reliable Estimate of Plant Fitness?

(2017) Brett S. Younginger et al.   Applications in Plant Sciences

How variation between individuals affects species coexistence

(2016) Simon P. Hart et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The reciprocal relationship between competition and intraspecific trait variation

(2016) Jonathan A. Bennett et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant community assembly in Mediterranean grasslands: understanding the interplay between grazing and spatio-temporal water availability

(2016) Cristina Rota et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology

(2016) Bill Shipley et al.   OECOLOGIA

Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

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

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Leaf-trait plasticity and species vulnerability to climate change in a Mongolian steppe

(2015) Pierre Liancourt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Effects of land use on taxonomic and functional diversity: a cross-taxon analysis in a Mediterranean landscape

(2015) Violeta Hevia et al.   OECOLOGIA

Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes

(2015) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Within-species variability is the main driver of community-level responses of traits of epiphytes across a long-term chronosequence

(2014) Johan Asplund et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

More for less: sampling strategies of plant functional traits across local environmental gradients

(2014) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Will among-population variation in seed traits improve the chance of species persistence under climate change?

(2014) Anne Cochrane et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Inter-annual fluctuations in rainfall shift the functional structure of Mediterranean grasslands across gradients of productivity and disturbance

(2014) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functional equivalence, competitive hierarchy and facilitation determine species coexistence in highly invaded grasslands

(2014) Nicolas Gross et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2014) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   OIKOS

Mechanisms of plant competition for nutrients, water and light

(2013) Joseph M. Craine et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

(2013) Maud Bernard-Verdier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands

(2013) Nicolas Gross et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Contrasting effects of productivity and disturbance on plant functional diversity at local and metacommunity scales

(2013) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

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

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

Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

(2012) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

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

Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

(2011) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evidence for assembly rules: limiting similarity within a saltmarsh

(2011) J. Bastow Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Multimodel inference in ecology and evolution: challenges and solutions

(2011) C. E. GRUEBER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Model averaging, missing data and multiple imputation: a case study for behavioural ecology

(2010) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Individuals and the Variation Needed for High Species Diversity in Forest Trees

(2010) J. S. Clark   SCIENCE

Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

(2010) Holger Schielzeth   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

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

The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

(2009) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Interactive effects of clipping and nutrient availability on the compensatory growth of a grass species

(2009) Marja A. van Staalduinen et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Bringing the Hutchinsonian niche into the 21st century: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives

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