Regeneration: an overlooked aspect of trait-based plant community assembly models

Recasting the dynamic equilibrium model through a functional lens: the interplay of trait-based community assembly and climate

(2016) Jessy Loranger et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects

(2015) Tadashi Fukami   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Fine-scale coexistence patterns along a productivity gradient in wet meadows: shifts from trait convergence to divergence

(2015) Ondřej Mudrák et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Short-term priority over exotic annuals increases the initial density and longer-term cover of native perennial grasses

(2015) Kurt J. Vaughn et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Recruitment limitation of long-lived conifers: implications for climate change responses

(2015) Steve J. Kroiss et al.   ECOLOGY

Early plant recruitment stages set the template for the development of vegetation patterns along a hydrological gradient

(2015) Rob G. A. Fraaije et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Re-growing a tropical dry forest: functional plant trait composition and community assembly during succession

(2015) Vanessa Buzzard et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Do key dimensions of seed and seedling functional trait variation capture variation in recruitment probability?

(2015) Julie E. Larson et al.   OECOLOGIA

Body size and fitness in plants: Revisiting the selection consequences of competition

(2015) Lonnie W. Aarssen   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

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

Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes

(2015) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Keeping Pace with Climate Change: Stage-Structured Moving-Habitat Models

(2014) Melanie A. Harsch et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Plant traits respond to the competitive neighbourhood at different spatial and temporal scales

(2014) Anne-Kristel Bittebiere et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The ecophysiology of seed persistence: a mechanistic view of the journey to germination or demise

(2014) Rowena L. Long et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Identifying plant traits associated with topographic contrasts in a rugged and diverse region (Klamath-Siskiyou Mts, OR, USA)

(2014) Stella M. Copeland et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Initial temperature of seed germination as related to species occurrence along a temperature gradient

(2014) Sergey Rosbakh et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

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

Seed and seedling traits affecting critical life stage transitions and recruitment outcomes in dryland grasses

(2014) Julie E. Larson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Quantifying multimodal trait distributions improves trait-based predictions of species abundances and functional diversity

(2014) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Clonal and bud bank traits: patterns across temperate plant communities

(2014) Jitka Klimešová et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Spatial scale resolves the niche versus neutral theory debate

(2014) Jonathan M. Chase   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Seed Rain and Seed Bank Reveal that Seed Limitation Strongly Influences Plant Community Assembly in Grasslands

(2014) Bryndís Marteinsdóttir   PLoS One

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

Temperature-dependent shifts in phenology contribute to the success of exotic species with climate change

(2013) Elizabeth M. Wolkovich et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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

Quantifying invasion resistance: the use of recruitment functions to control for propagule pressure

(2013) Alice L. Miller et al.   ECOLOGY

Predicting species' maximum dispersal distances from simple plant traits

(2013) Riin Tamme et al.   ECOLOGY

Strong natural selection during plant restoration favors an unexpected suite of plant traits

(2013) Sarah M. Kulpa et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Effects of litter on seedling establishment in natural and semi-natural grasslands: a meta-analysis

(2013) Alejandro Loydi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Size is not everything for desiccation-sensitive seeds

(2013) James P. Hill et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Progress towards an interdisciplinary science of plant phenology: building predictions across space, time and species diversity

(2013) Elizabeth M. Wolkovich et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mechanisms of grass response in grasslands and shrublands during dry or wet periods

(2013) Debra P. C. Peters et al.   OECOLOGIA

A functional trait-based approach to understand community assembly and diversity–productivity relationships over 7 years in experimental grasslands

(2013) Christiane Roscher et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

D3: The Dispersal and Diaspore Database – Baseline data and statistics on seed dispersal

(2013) Christina Hintze et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies

(2013) P. B. Adler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hydrothermal Assessment of Temporal Variability in Seedbed Microclimate

(2013) Stuart P. Hardegree et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Variation in Timing of Planting Influences Bluebunch Wheatgrass Demography in an Arid System

(2013) Chad S. Boyd et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Advances in modeling trait-based plant community assembly

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The roles of shifting and filtering in generating community-level flowering phenology

(2012) Joseph M. Craine et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Directed seed dispersal towards areas with low conspecific tree density by a scatter-hoarding rodent

(2012) Ben T. Hirsch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

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

Selecting traits that explain species-environment relationships: a generalized linear mixed model approach

(2012) Tahira Jamil et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A comparative study of seed morphology in relation to desiccation tolerance and other physiological responses in 71 Eastern Australian rainforest species

(2012) KIM N. HAMILTON et al.   PLANT SPECIES BIOLOGY

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Seed Supply, Recruitment, and Assembly: Quantifying Relative Seed and Establishment Limitation in a Plant Community Context

(2011) Rebecca J. Aicher et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Germination traits explain soil seed persistence across species: the case of Mediterranean annual plants in cereal fields

(2011) Arne Saatkamp et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Quantifying the importance of local niche-based and stochastic processes to tropical tree community assembly

(2011) Bill Shipley et al.   ECOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages

(2011) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Seasonal priority effects: implications for invasion and restoration in a semi-arid system

(2011) Claire E. Wainwright et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Demographic processes limiting seedling recruitment in arid grassland restoration

(2011) Jeremy J. James et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Succession-induced trait shifts across a wide range of NW European ecosystems are driven by light and modulated by initial abiotic conditions

(2011) Jacob C. Douma et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass

(2011) Fiona J. Thomson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Flowering phenology as a functional trait in a tallgrass prairie

(2011) Joseph M. Craine et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Seed mass and summer drought survival in a Mediterranean-climate ecosystem

(2011) Lauren M. Hallett et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Germination, Postgermination Adaptation, and Species Ecological Ranges

(2010) Kathleen Donohue et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Order of plant host establishment alters the composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal communities

(2010) Natasha Teutsch Hausmann et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Searching for the Relevance of Clonal and Bud Bank Traits Across Floras and Communities

(2010) Jitka Klimešová et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Seed survival in soil: interacting effects of predation, dormancy and the soil microbial community

(2010) James W. Dalling et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Region versus site variation in the population dynamics of three short-lived perennials

(2010) Eelke Jongejans et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Quantifying relationships between traits and explicitly measured gradients of stress and disturbance in early successional plant communities

(2010) Grégory Sonnier et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Seed dispersal effectiveness revisited: a conceptual review

(2010) Eugene W. Schupp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Strong microsite control of seedling recruitment in tundra

(2010) Bente J. Graae et al.   OECOLOGIA

Regeneration niche differentiates functional strategies of desert woody plant species

(2010) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   OECOLOGIA

Clonal mobility and its implications for spatio-temporal patterns of plant communities: what do we need to know next?

(2010) Martin Zobel et al.   OIKOS

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

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

Seed arrival, ecological filters, and plant species richness: a meta-analysis

(2009) Jonathan A. Myers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Linking individual response to biotic interactions with community structure: a trait-based framework

(2009) Nicolas Gross et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Intraspecific seed trait variations and competition: passive or adaptive response?

(2009) Cyrille Violle et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Relative climatic, edaphic and management controls of plant functional trait signatures

(2009) Robin J. Pakeman et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

CLO-PLA: the database of clonal and bud bank traits of Central European flora

(2009) Jitka Klimešová et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Discriminating trait-convergence and trait-divergence assembly patterns in ecological community gradients

(2009) Valério D. Pillar et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Are species shade and drought tolerance reflected in leaf-level structural and functional differentiation in Northern Hemisphere temperate woody flora?

(2009) Lea Hallik et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The effects of fire frequency and grazing on tallgrass prairie productivity and plant composition are mediated through bud bank demography

(2009) Harmony J. Dalgleish et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Altering Light Availability to Restore Invaded Forest: The Predictive Role of Plant Traits

(2009) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

What determines emergence and net recruitment in an early succession plant community? Disentangling biotic and abiotic effects

(2008) Arantzazu L. Luzuriaga et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Understory plant diversity is related to higher variability of vegetative mobility of coexisting species

(2008) Mari Moora et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance

(2008) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Seed Persistence in the Field May Be Predicted by Laboratory-Controlled Aging

(2008) Rowena L. Long et al.   WEED SCIENCE