A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space

Larval and phenological traits predict insect community response to mowing regime manipulations

(2019) Roel Klink et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Factors affecting the metacommunity structure of periphytic ostracods (Crustacea, Ostracoda): a deconstruction approach based on biological traits

(2018) Ramiro de Campos et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

Boreal peat properties link to plant functional traits of ecosystem engineers

(2017) Julia E. Palozzi et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Community assembly of coral reef fishes along the Melanesian biodiversity gradient

(2017) Joshua A. Drew et al.   PLoS One

Changes in the size structure of carabid communities in forest ecosystems under technogenic transformation

(2017) E. A. Belskaya et al.   RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

(2016) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

(2016) Andros T. Gianuca et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A plant growth form dataset for the New World

(2016) K. Engemann et al.   ECOLOGY

Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information

(2016) Carsten Meyer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Drivers of the composition and diversity of carabid functional traits in UK coniferous plantations

(2016) Rebecca Spake et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Interactions between plant traits and environmental factors within and among montane forest belts: A study of vascular species colonising decaying logs

(2016) Damian Chmura et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Avian pest control in vineyards is driven by interactions between bird functional diversity and landscape heterogeneity

(2016) Luc Barbaro et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Variation in the composition of corals, fishes, sponges, echinoderms, ascidians, molluscs, foraminifera and macroalgae across a pronounced in-to-offshore environmental gradient in the Jakarta Bay–Thousand Islands coral reef complex

(2016) D.F.R. Cleary et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Bat and bird diversity along independent gradients of latitude and tree composition in European forests

(2016) Yohan M. Charbonnier et al.   OECOLOGIA

How universal are reserve design rules? A test using butterflies and their life history traits

(2015) Alena Bartonova et al.   ECOGRAPHY

www.freshwaterecology.info – An online tool that unifies, standardises and codifies more than 20,000 European freshwater organisms and their ecological preferences

(2015) Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Trait-related responses to habitat fragmentation in Amazonian bats

(2015) Fábio Z. Farneda et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

The influence of environmental variables on the functional structure of headwater stream fish assemblages: a study of two tropical basins in Central Brazil

(2015) Rodrigo Assis Carvalho et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

Predicting communities from functional traits

(2015) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Urban habitat complexity affects species richness but not environmental filtering of morphologically-diverse ants

(2015) Alessandro Ossola et al.   PeerJ

Responses of foliage-living spider assemblage composition and traits to a climatic gradient inThemedagrasslands

(2014) H. Gibb et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Assembly rules of ectoparasite communities across scales: combining patterns of abiotic factors, host composition, geographic space, phylogeny and traits

(2014) Boris R. Krasnov et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Integrating species traits and habitat characteristics into models of butterfly diversity in a fragmented ecosystem

(2014) Natalie Robinson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

How to increase the value of urban areas for butterfly conservation? A lesson from Prague nature reserves and parks

(2014) Martin KONVICKA et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

A Unimodal Species Response Model Relating Traits to Environment with Application to Phytoplankton Communities

(2014) Tahira Jamil et al.   PLoS One

Metacommunity versus Biogeography: A Case Study of Two Groups of Neotropical Vegetation-Dwelling Arthropods

(2014) Thiago Gonçalves-Souza et al.   PLoS One

Elevation matters: contrasting effects of climate change on the vegetation development at different elevations in the Bavarian Alps

(2014) Sergey Rosbakh et al.   Alpine Botany

The fourth-corner solution - using predictive models to understand how species traits interact with the environment

(2014) Alexandra M. Brown et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Morphological traits: predictable responses to macrohabitats across a 300 km scale

(2014) Michelle L. Yates et al.   PeerJ

Linking plant and insect traits to understand multitrophic community structure in arid steppes

(2013) Cédric Frenette-Dussault et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Level-dependence of the relationships between amphibian biodiversity and environment in pond systems within an intensive agricultural landscape

(2013) Alienor Jeliazkov et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Plant community assembly in semi-natural grasslands and ex-arable fields: a trait-based approach

(2013) Bryndís Marteinsdóttir et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The influence of urbanisation on diversity and trait composition of birds

(2013) Peter J. Meffert et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Individual Cell Based Traits Obtained by Scanning Flow-Cytometry Show Selection by Biotic and Abiotic Environmental Factors during a Phytoplankton Spring Bloom

(2013) Francesco Pomati et al.   PLoS One

Trajectories of weed communities explained by traits associated with species’ response to management practices

(2012) G. Fried et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Testing the response of macroinvertebrate functional structure and biodiversity to flooding and confinement

(2012) Belinda GALLARDO et al.   JOURNAL OF LIMNOLOGY

Salinity tolerance and the decoupling of resource axis plant traits

(2012) Anthony S. Eallonardo et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Selecting traits that explain species-environment relationships: a generalized linear mixed model approach

(2012) Tahira Jamil et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?

(2012) Michael Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Edge and area effects on avian assemblages and insectivory in fragmented native forests

(2012) Luc Barbaro et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Can the intermediate disturbance hypothesis and information on species traits predict anuran responses to fire?

(2012) Martin J. Westgate et al.   OIKOS

Mechanisms of ecological succession: insights from plant functional strategies

(2012) Valérie Raevel et al.   OIKOS

The Influence of Coral Reef Benthic Condition on Associated Fish Assemblages

(2012) Karen M. Chong-Seng et al.   PLoS One

Low Functional β-Diversity Despite High Taxonomic β-Diversity among Tropical Estuarine Fish Communities

(2012) Sébastien Villéger et al.   PLoS One

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

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

A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

(2012) David Mouillot et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Reproducing or dispersing? Using trait based habitat templet models to analyse Orthoptera response to flooding and land use

(2011) Frank Dziock et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Using life-history traits to explain bird population responses to changing weather variability

(2011) A Cormont et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Relationships between species feeding traits and environmental conditions in fish communities: a three-matrix approach

(2011) Anik Brind'Amour et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Multivariate identification of plant functional response and effect traits in an agricultural landscape

(2011) Robin J. Pakeman   ECOLOGY

Functional and phylogenetic diversity as predictors of biodiversity–ecosystem-function relationships

(2011) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY

Post-fire succession of collembolan communities in a northern hardwood forest

(2011) K. Huebner et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Beyond taxonomic diversity patterns: how do α, β and γ components of bird functional and phylogenetic diversity respond to environmental gradients across France?

(2011) Christine N. Meynard et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Species traits weakly involved in plant responses to landscape properties in Mediterranean grasslands

(2011) Guillem Bagaria et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem

(2011) Burak K Pekin et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functional structure of an arid steppe plant community reveals similarities with Grime's C-S-R theory

(2011) Cédric Frenette-Dussault et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Linking landscape history and dispersal traits in grassland plant communities

(2011) Oliver Purschke et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional response traits in relation to land use change in the Montado

(2010) Helena Castro et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

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

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Bromeliads as biodiversity amplifiers and habitat segregation of spider communities in a Neotropical rainforest

(2010) Thiago Gonçalves-Souza et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Linking patterns in phylogeny, traits, abiotic variables and space: a novel approach to linking environmental filtering and plant community assembly

(2010) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Data archiving in ecology and evolution: best practices

(2010) Michael C. Whitlock   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

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

Linking bird, carabid beetle and butterfly life-history traits to habitat fragmentation in mosaic landscapes

(2008) Luc Barbaro et al.   ECOGRAPHY

TESTING THE SPECIES TRAITS–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS: THE FOURTH-CORNER PROBLEM REVISITED

(2008) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

Revisiting urban refuges: Changes of butterfly and burnet fauna in Prague reserves over three decades

(2007) Tomas Kadlec et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING