Functional traits explain the Hutchinsonian niches of plant species

ΔTraitSDMs: species distribution models that account for local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity

(2019) Marta Benito Garzón et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2019) Nuria Pistón et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Life-History Traits Evolved Jointly with Climatic Niche and Disturbance Regime in the Genus Leucadendron (Proteaceae)

(2018) Jeanne Tonnabel et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Plant niche breadths along environmental gradients and their relationship to plant functional traits

(2018) David Schellenberger Costa et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Delivering the promises of trait-based approaches to the needs of demographic approaches, and vice versa

(2018) Roberto Salguero-Gómez et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Microenvironment and functional-trait context dependence predict alpine plant community dynamics

(2018) Benjamin Blonder et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Is local trait variation related to total range size of tropical trees?

(2018) Eduardo Chacón-Madrigal et al.   PLoS One

Why Functional Traits Do Not Predict Tree Demographic Rates

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

R 2s for Correlated Data: Phylogenetic Models, LMMs, and GLMMs

(2018) Anthony R Ives   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Interspecific integration of trait dimensions at local scales: the plant phenotype as an integrated network

(2017) Julie Messier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intensifying postfire weather and biological invasion drive species loss in a Mediterranean-type biodiversity hotspot

(2017) Jasper A. Slingsby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global climatic drivers of leaf size

(2017) Ian J. Wright et al.   SCIENCE

The spatial scales of species coexistence

(2017) Simon P. Hart et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

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

Environmental drivers of demographic variation across the global geographical range of 26 plant species

(2016) Martina Treurnicht et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Usefulness of Species Traits in Predicting Range Shifts

(2016) Alba Estrada et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

When Climate Reshuffles Competitors: A Call for Experimental Macroecology

(2016) Jake M. Alexander et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Towards Process-based Range Modeling of Many Species

(2016) Margaret E.K. Evans et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Predicting changes in the distribution and abundance of species under environmental change

(2015) Johan Ehrlén et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why

(2015) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

Climatic controls on ecosystem resilience: Postfire regeneration in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa

(2015) Adam M. Wilson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

(2015) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fast–slow continuum and reproductive strategies structure plant life-history variation worldwide

(2015) Roberto Salguero-Gómez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On using integral projection models to generate demographically driven predictions of species' distributions: development and validation using sparse data

(2014) Cory Merow et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

(2014) C. Violle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

(2013) C. B. Sides et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

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

How to understand species’ niches and range dynamics: a demographic research agenda for biogeography

(2012) Frank M. Schurr et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A physiological analogy of the niche for projecting the potential distribution of plants

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Resprouting as a key functional trait: how buds, protection and resources drive persistence after fire

(2012) P. J. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Developmental Plasticity in Protea as an Evolutionary Response to Environmental Clines in the Cape Floristic Region

(2012) Jane E. Carlson et al.   PLoS One

Fynbos Proteaceae as model organisms for biodiversity research and conservation

(2012) Frank M. Schurr et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

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

Multimodel inference in ecology and evolution: challenges and solutions

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

Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

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

Mechanistic niche modelling: combining physiological and spatial data to predict species’ ranges

(2009) Michael Kearney et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecophysiological significance of leaf size variation in Proteaceae from the Cape Floristic Region

(2009) Megan J. Yates et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

(2009) C. Violle et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species

(2009) Lourens Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY