Inferring community assembly processes from trait diversity across environmental gradients

Determinants of change in subtropical tree diameter growth with ontogenetic stage

(2014) Yong Shen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of disturbance intensity on species and functional diversity in a tropical forest

(2013) Geovana Carreño-Rocabado et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant functional diversity and carbon storage - an empirical test in semi-arid forest ecosystems

(2013) Georgina Conti et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Environmental factors predict community functional composition in Amazonian forests

(2013) Claire Fortunel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Forest dynamics of a subtropical monsoon forest in Dinghushan, China: recruitment, mortality and the pace of community change

(2013) Yong Shen et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

A family of null models to distinguish between environmental filtering and biotic interactions in functional diversity patterns

(2013) L. Chalmandrier et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Effects of land-use changes on plant functional and taxonomic diversity along a productivity gradient in wet meadows

(2013) Š. Janeček et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

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

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

Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

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

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

Topography related spatial distribution of dominant tree species in a tropical seasonal rain forest in China

(2011) Guoyu Lan et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Topographic and biotic regulation of aboveground carbon storage in subtropical broad-leaved forests of Taiwan

(2011) Ryan W. McEwan et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

(2011) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Soil resource availability shapes community trait structure in a species-rich dipterocarp forest

(2011) Masatoshi Katabuchi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Leaf attributes and tree growth in a tropical dry forest

(2011) R. K. Chaturvedi et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Interspecific variation in functional traits, not climatic differences among species ranges, determines demographic rates across 44 temperate and Mediterranean tree species

(2010) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species–topography association in a species-rich subtropical forest of China

(2009) Zhigao Wang et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

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

Seasonal and spatial variation in water availability drive habitat associations in a tropical forest

(2009) Liza S. Comita et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Pierre Legendre et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Response of recruitment to light availability across a tropical lowland rain forest community

(2009) Nadja Rüger et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY