On the opportunity of using phylogenetic information to ask evolutionary questions in functional community ecology

Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better)

(2015) Pille Gerhold et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies

(2015) Patrick Venail et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Larger phylogenetic distances in litter mixtures: lower microbial biomass and higher C/N ratios but equal mass loss

(2015) X. Pan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Novel ecosystems in the Anthropocene: a revision of the novel ecosystem concept for pragmatic applications

(2014) Nathaniel B. Morse et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

The influence of phylogenetic relatedness on species interactions among freshwater green algae in a mesocosm experiment

(2014) Patrick A. Venail et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Insect herbivores should follow plants escaping their relatives

(2014) Benjamin Yguel et al.   OECOLOGIA

Mycorrhizae support oaks growing in a phylogenetically distant neighbourhood

(2014) Benjamin Yguel et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Phylogenetic imputation of plant functional trait databases

(2013) Nathan G. Swenson   ECOGRAPHY

Experimental evidence that evolutionary relatedness does not affect the ecological mechanisms of coexistence in freshwater green algae

(2013) Anita Narwani et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes

(2013) Oliver Purschke et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems

(2012) Diane S. Srivastava et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disparate relatives: Life histories vary more in genera occupying intermediate environments

(2012) Marie Hermant et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity

(2011) K. Safi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Decomposition of trait diversity among the nodes of a phylogenetic tree

(2010) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts

(2010) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Combining spatial and phylogenetic eigenvector filtering in trait analysis

(2009) Ingolf Kühn et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Less lineages more trait variation: phylogenetically clustered plant communities are functionally more diverse

(2008) Andreas Prinzing et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity

(2008) M. W. Cadotte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA