Which randomizations detect convergence and divergence in trait-based community assembly? A test of commonly used null models

Functional diversity through the mean trait dissimilarity: resolving shortcomings with existing paradigms and algorithms

(2016) Francesco de Bello et al.   OECOLOGIA

VirtualCom: a simulation model for eco-evolutionary community assembly and invasion

(2015) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Testing the ability of functional diversity indices to detect trait convergence and divergence using individual-based simulation

(2015) Zoltán Botta-Dukát et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Robustness of trait distribution metrics for community assembly studies under the uncertainties of assembly processes

(2013) Masahiro Aiba et al.   ECOLOGY

Scale decisions can reverse conclusions on community assembly processes

(2013) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Which trait dissimilarity for functional diversity: trait means or trait overlap?

(2013) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

Functional diversity: a tool for answering challenging ecological questions

(2013) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

(2012) J. HilleRisLambers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Pattern detection in null model analysis

(2012) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

From diversity indices to community assembly processes: a test with simulated data

(2011) T. Münkemüller et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Statistical challenges in null model analysis

(2011) Nicholas J. Gotelli et al.   OIKOS

Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales

(2011) J. M. Chase et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A user's guide to functional diversity indices

(2010) D. Schleuter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Null model analysis of species associations using abundance data

(2010) Werner Ulrich 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

Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

(2010) Mark Vellend   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

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

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

Little evidence for limiting similarity in a long-term study of a roadside plant community

(2009) Ken Thompson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A stochastic dispersal-limited trait-based model of community dynamics

(2009) Franck Jabot   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The empirical Bayes approach as a tool to identify non-random species associations

(2009) Nicholas J. Gotelli et al.   OECOLOGIA

Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration

(2009) Richard J. Hobbs et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Testing the spatial phylogenetic structure of local communities: statistical performances of different null models and test statistics on a locally neutral community

(2008) Olivier J. Hardy   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY