Species pools and environmental sorting control different aspects of plant diversity and functional trait composition in recovering grasslands

Low seed pressure and competition from resident vegetation restricts dry grassland specialists to edges of abandoned fields

(2015) Jana Knappová et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Impacts of visitor trampling on the taxonomic and functional community structure of calcareous grassland

(2015) Timo Conradi et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Recovery of plant diversity in restored semi-natural pastures depends on adjacent land use

(2015) Marie Winsa et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

(2015) Eric Allan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Is successional research nearing its climax? New approaches for understanding dynamic communities

(2015) Scott J. Meiners et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The species pool concept as a framework for studying patterns of plant diversity

(2015) Martin Zobel   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on community assembly

(2015) Gary G. Mittelbach et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

What Are Species Pools and When Are They Important?

(2014) Howard V. Cornell et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Landscape context in colonization of restored dry grasslands by target species

(2014) Karel Prach et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Intraspecific trait variation and allocation strategies of calcareous grassland species: Results from a restoration experiment

(2014) Bianca O. Andrade et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales

(2014) Anke Stein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil phosphorus constrains biodiversity across European grasslands

(2014) Tobias Ceulemans et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Traits of plant communities in fragmented forests: the relative influence of habitat spatial configuration and local abiotic conditions

(2014) Adam Kimberley et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients

(2014) E. Laliberte et al.   SCIENCE

Imputation of missing data in life-history trait datasets: which approach performs the best?

(2014) Caterina Penone et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

(2013) Peter B. Adler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

(2013) Maud Bernard-Verdier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Are trait-based species rankings consistent across data sets and spatial scales?

(2013) Elena Kazakou et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functional trait metrics are sensitive to the completeness of the species' trait data?

(2013) Robin J. Pakeman   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses

(2012) Teja Tscharntke et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Quantification of plant dispersal ability within and beyond a calcareous grassland

(2012) Jacqueline C. Diacon-Bolli et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant species richness: the world records

(2012) J. Bastow Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Resource availability mediates the importance of priority effects in plant community assembly and ecosystem function

(2012) Paul Kardol et al.   OIKOS

Inferring local ecological processes amid species pool influences

(2012) Jean-Philippe Lessard et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

MissForest--non-parametric missing value imputation for mixed-type data

(2011) D. J. Stekhoven et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Multivariate identification of plant functional response and effect traits in an agricultural landscape

(2011) Robin J. Pakeman   ECOLOGY

Multimodel inference in ecology and evolution: challenges and solutions

(2011) C. E. GRUEBER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Colonization of central European abandoned fields by dry grassland species depends on the species richness of the source habitats: a new approach for measuring habitat isolation

(2011) Jana Knappová et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Dispersal traits determine plant response to habitat connectivity in an urban landscape

(2011) Andrea Schleicher et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Flowering phenology as a functional trait in a tallgrass prairie

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

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

Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

(2010) Holger Schielzeth   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests

(2009) ROBIN L. CHAZDON et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Plant phenology: a critical controller of soil resource acquisition

(2009) E. A. Nord et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Remnant grassland habitats as source communities for plant diversification in agricultural landscapes

(2007) Sara A.O. Cousins et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations

(2007) Andrew Gelman   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE