Plant species richness and community assembly along gradients of elevation and soil nitrogen availability

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

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

(2019) Ya‐Huang Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Stand dynamics and competition in a mixed forest at the northern distribution limit of evergreen hardwood species

(2018) Koichi Takahashi et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Using a forest dynamics model to link community assembly processes and traits structure

(2017) Mickaël Chauvet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Should Environmental Filtering be Abandoned?

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

Relative importance of habitat filtering and limiting similarity on species assemblages of alpine and subalpine plant communities

(2016) Koichi Takahashi et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

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

Altitudinal Patterns of Species Diversity and Phylogenetic Diversity across Temperate Mountain Forests of Northern China

(2016) Wenxin Zhang et al.   PLoS One

Elevation, moisture and shade drive the functional and phylogenetic meadow communities’ assembly in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2015) W. Qi et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Climate moderates release from nutrient limitation in natural annual plant communities

(2015) John M. Dwyer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant Trait Variation along an Altitudinal Gradient in Mediterranean High Mountain Grasslands: Controlling the Species Turnover Effect

(2015) David S. Pescador et al.   PLoS One

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

Leaf economics of evergreen and deciduous tree species along an elevational gradient in a subtropical mountain

(2015) Kundong Bai et al.   AoB Plants

Effects of wind and thermal conditions on timberline formation in central Japan: a lattice model

(2014) Koichi Takahashi   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

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

Community assembly in a tropical cloud forest related to specific leaf area and maximum species height

(2014) Wenxing Long et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Predicting current and future spatial community patterns of plant functional traits

(2013) Anne Dubuis et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intra-specific and inter-specific variation in specific leaf area reveal the importance of abiotic and biotic drivers of species diversity across elevation and latitude

(2013) Catherine M. Hulshof et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functional and phylogenetic community assembly linked to changes in species diversity in a long-term resource manipulation experiment

(2013) Pille Gerhold et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

How the timberline formed: altitudinal changes in stand structure and dynamics around the timberline in central Japan

(2012) Koichi Takahashi et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

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

Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

(2012) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climatic constraints on trait-based forest assembly

(2011) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Soil resource availability shapes community trait structure in a species-rich dipterocarp forest

(2011) Masatoshi Katabuchi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Understorey diversity in southern boreal forests is regulated by productivity and its indirect impacts on resource availability and heterogeneity

(2011) Peter B. Reich et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Mid-successional stand dynamics in a cool-temperate conifer-hardwood forest in northern Japan

(2010) Koichi Takahashi   PLANT ECOLOGY

Plant traits related to competition: how do they shape the functional diversity of communities?

(2009) M. Navas et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

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

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

Relationships between leaf life span, leaf mass per area, and leaf nitrogen cause different altitudinal changes in leaf δ13C between deciduous and evergreen species

(2008) K. Takahashi et al.   Botany

FIRE, LOGGING, AND OVERSTORY AFFECT UNDERSTORY ABUNDANCE, DIVERSITY, AND COMPOSITION IN BOREAL FOREST

(2008) Stephen A. Hart et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Nutrient availability at different altitudes in a tropical montane forest in Ecuador

(2008) Nathalie Soethe et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

A Significant Upward Shift in Plant Species Optimum Elevation During the 20th Century

(2008) J. Lenoir et al.   SCIENCE

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

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