Spatial and evolutionary parallelism between shade and drought tolerance explains the distributions of conifers in the conterminous United States

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Polytolerance to abiotic stresses: how universal is the shade-drought tolerance trade-off in woody species?

(2015) Lauri Laanisto et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fighting their last stand? A global analysis of the distribution and conservation status of gymnosperms

(2015) Yann Fragnière et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

Flammability across the gymnosperm phylogeny: the importance of litter particle size

(2015) William K. Cornwell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests

(2013) Bradford A. Hawkins et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

(2013) Amy E. Zanne et al.   NATURE

Unifying fossils and phylogenies for comparative analyses of diversification and trait evolution

(2013) Graham J. Slater et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Using phylogenetic information and the comparative method to evaluate hypotheses in macroecology

(2013) Cristián E. Hernández et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Ecology and evolution of pine life histories

(2012) Jon E. Keeley   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

No evidence of a trade-off between drought and shade tolerance in seedlings of six coastal desert shrub species in north-central Chile

(2012) Karina Martínez-Tillería et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Phylogenetic niche conservatism: what are the underlying evolutionary and ecological causes?

(2012) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fire-adapted traits ofPinusarose in the fiery Cretaceous

(2012) Tianhua He et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cenozoic climate change shaped the evolutionary ecophysiology of the Cupressaceae conifers

(2012) J. Pittermann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hemisphere-scale differences in conifer evolutionary dynamics

(2012) A. B. Leslie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Scaling from leaf traits to fire behaviour: community composition predicts fire severity in a temperate forest

(2011) Dylan W. Schwilk et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Too good to be true: pitfalls of using mean Ellenberg indicator values in vegetation analyses

(2011) David Zelený et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Evidence for a freezing tolerance-growth rate trade-off in the live oaks (Quercus series Virentes) across the tropical-temperate divide

(2011) Kari Koehler et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cenozoic extinctions account for the low diversity of extant gymnosperms compared with angiosperms

(2011) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

On the importance of intraspecific variability for the quantification of functional diversity

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   OIKOS

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits

(2010) SUSANNE A. FRITZ et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic comparative approaches for studying niche conservatism

(2010) N. COOPER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Fire and the spread of flowering plants in the Cretaceous

(2010) William J. Bond et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Increased early growth rates decrease longevities of conifers in subalpine forests

(2009) Christof Bigler et al.   OIKOS

Hydraulic traits are influenced by phylogenetic history in the drought-resistant, invasive genus Juniperus (Cupressaceae)

(2008) Cynthia J. Willson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE