Trait‐based ecology at large scales: Assessing functional trait correlations, phylogenetic constraints and spatial variability using open data

The three Rs of river ecosystem resilience: Resources, recruitment, and refugia

(2019) Kris Van Looy et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

The dimensionality of stability depends on disturbance type

(2019) Viktoriia Radchuk et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The predictability of ecological stability in a noisy world

(2019) Qiang Yang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Limitations of Trait‐Based Approaches for Stressor Assessment: the Case of Freshwater Invertebrates and Climate Drivers

(2019) Anna T. Hamilton et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Beyond neutrality: disentangling the effects of species sorting and spurious correlations in community analysis

(2018) Sylvie Clappe et al.   ECOLOGY

How to do meta-analysis of open datasets

(2018) Antica Culina et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The three regimes of spatial recovery

(2018) Yuval R. Zelnik et al.   ECOLOGY

Biodiversity increases and decreases ecosystem stability

(2018) Frank Pennekamp et al.   NATURE

Physical and biological controls on fine sediment transport and storage in rivers

(2018) Martin A. Wilkes et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Towards a trait-based ecology of wetland vegetation

(2017) Helen Moor et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Should Environmental Filtering be Abandoned?

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

Functional diversity and community assembly of river invertebrates show globally consistent responses to decreasing glacier cover

(2017) Lee E. Brown et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Response diversity, nonnative species, and disassembly rules buffer freshwater ecosystem processes from anthropogenic change

(2016) Jonathan W. Moore et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Towards a multidimensional root trait framework: a tree root review

(2016) Monique Weemstra et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Functional traits, convergent evolution, and periodic tables of niches

(2015) Kirk O. Winemiller et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Temperature-size responses match latitudinal-size clines in arthropods, revealing critical differences between aquatic and terrestrial species

(2015) Curtis R. Horne et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

On the importance of trait interrelationships for understanding environmental responses of stream macroinvertebrates

(2015) A. F. H. Pilière et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

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

Assessing the ecological status in the context of the European Water Framework Directive: Where do we go now?

(2014) Yorick Reyjol et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Combining the fourth-corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation

(2013) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

On the dimensionality of ecological stability

(2013) Ian Donohue et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A macroecological perspective of trait patterns in stream communities

(2013) Jani Heino et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity

(2013) Rick D. Stuart-Smith et al.   NATURE

Delivering on a promise: integrating species traits to transform descriptive community ecology into a predictive science

(2013) W. C. E. P. Verberk et al.   Freshwater Science

Ecological traits affect the response of tropical forest bird species to land-use intensity

(2012) T. Newbold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Environmental harshness and global richness patterns in glacier-fed streams

(2011) Dean Jacobsen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A structured and dynamic framework to advance traits-based theory and prediction in ecology

(2010) Colleen T. Webb et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Can biological invertebrate traits resolve effects of multiple stressors on running water ecosystems?

(2010) BERNHARD STATZNER et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Beyond taxonomy: a review of macroinvertebrate trait-based community descriptors as tools for freshwater biomonitoring

(2010) Salomé Menezes et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Applying life-history strategies for freshwater macroinvertebrates to lentic waters

(2008) WILCO C. E. P. VERBERK et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Life-history strategies in freshwater macroinvertebrates

(2008) WILCO C. E. P. VERBERK et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY