Processes of community assembly in an environmentally heterogeneous, high biodiversity region

Functional Traits in Parallel Evolutionary Radiations and Trait-Environment Associations in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa

(2015) Nora Mitchell et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

Forest and fynbos are alternative states on the same nutrient poor geological substrate

(2015) C. Coetsee et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Niche versus Neutrality: A Dynamical Analysis

(2014) Michael Kalyuzhny et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The impact of native large herbivores and fire on the vegetation dynamics in the Cape renosterveld shrublands of South Africa: insights from a six-yr field experiment

(2014) Frans G.T. Radloff et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Spatial scale resolves the niche versus neutral theory debate

(2014) Jonathan M. Chase   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

(2014) Mark Vellend et al.   OIKOS

Trait-mediated assembly processes predict successional changes in community diversity of tropical forests

(2014) J. R. Lasky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Estimating uncertainty in daily weather interpolations: a Bayesian framework for developing climate surfaces

(2013) Adam M. Wilson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Effects of sampling scale on patterns of habitat association in tropical trees

(2013) Carol X. Garzon-Lopez 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

Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French Alps

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Functional beta-diversity patterns reveal deterministic community assembly processes in eastern North American trees

(2012) Andrew Siefert et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients

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

Incorporating intraspecific variation in tests of trait-based community assembly

(2012) Andrew Siefert   OECOLOGIA

Can entropy maximization use functional traits to explain species abundances? A comprehensive evaluation

(2011) Cory Merow et al.   ECOLOGY

Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Early post-fire plant succession in Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos: The first three years after disturbance

(2011) M.C. Rutherford et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

(2010) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A fundamental, eco-hydrological basis for niche segregation in plant communities

(2010) Yoseph N. Araya et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Deterministic tropical tree community turnover: evidence from patterns of functional beta diversity along an elevational gradient

(2010) N. G. Swenson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Hierarchical Bayesian model of wildfire in a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot: Implications of weather variability and global circulation

(2009) Adam M. Wilson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

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

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

Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad-leaved forest of China

(2009) Pierre Legendre et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Little evidence for limiting similarity in a long-term study of a roadside plant community

(2009) Ken Thompson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Experimental biogeography: the role of environmental gradients in high geographic diversity in Cape Proteaceae

(2009) Andrew M. Latimer et al.   OECOLOGIA

The impact of browsing-induced degradation on the reproduction of subtropical thicket canopy shrubs and trees

(2009) A.M. Sigwela et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Does niche overlap control relative abundance in French lacustrine fish communities? A new method incorporating functional traits

(2008) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

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