Tracking succession by means of 3D scans of plant communities in a glacier forefield to infer assembly processes

Digital whole-community phenotyping: tracking morphological and physiological responses of plant communities to environmental changes in the field

(2023) Vincent Zieschank et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Succession comprises a sequence of threshold-induced community assembly processes towards multidiversity

(2022) Maximilian Hanusch et al.   Communications Biology

Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment

(2022) Emma Ladouceur et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The functional trait distinctiveness of plant species is scale dependent

(2022) Pierre Gaüzère et al.   ECOGRAPHY

How to improve scaling from traits to ecosystem processes

(2022) Julia Chacón-Labella et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old field succession

(2021) Lindsay Backhaus et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Successional Herbaceous Species Affect Soil Processes in a High-Elevation Alpine Proglacial Chronosequence

(2021) Andrea Mainetti et al.   Frontiers in Environmental Science

Quantification of biogeomorphic interactions between small‐scale sediment transport and primary vegetation succession on proglacial slopes of the Gepatschferner, Austria

(2021) Stefan Haselberger et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Similar successional development of functional community structure in glacier forelands despite contrasting bedrocks

(2021) Konrad Greinwald et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Dynamics of Ecological Communities Following Current Retreat of Glaciers

(2021) Gentile Francesco Ficetola et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

How allogenic factors affect succession in glacier forefields

(2021) Robin Wojcik et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Soil multitrophic network complexity enhances the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality in agricultural systems

(2021) Shuo Jiao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Microclimatic effects on alpine plant communities and flower-visitor interactions

(2020) Lisa-Maria Ohler et al.   Scientific Reports

Community-level variation in plant functional traits and ecological strategies shapes habitat structure along succession gradients in alpine environment

(2020) Magda Zanzottera et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Trait‐based community assembly pattern along a forest succession gradient in a seasonally dry tropical forest

(2019) Suresh C. Subedi et al.   Ecosphere

Trait and phylogenetic patterns reveal deterministic community assembly mechanisms on Mount St. Helens

(2019) Cynthia C. Chang et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

100 years of primary succession highlights stochasticity and competition driving community establishment and stability

(2019) B. Buma et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after 20 years of manipulation during grassland restoration

(2019) Sara G. Baer et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A global synthesis of biodiversity responses to glacier retreat

(2019) Sophie Cauvy-Fraunié et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

High-throughput environmental sequencing reveals high diversity of litter and moss associated protist communities along a gradient of drainage and tree productivity

(2018) Thierry J. Heger et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Elevation predicts the functional composition of alpine plant communities based on vegetative traits, but not based on floral traits

(2018) Robert R. Junker et al.   Alpine Botany

A new method for quantifying the phylogenetic redundancy of biological communities

(2017) Carlo Ricotta et al.   OECOLOGIA

Trait-mediated community assembly: distinguishing the signatures of biotic and abiotic filters

(2017) Deirdre Loughnan et al.   OIKOS

Does environmental heterogeneity drive functional trait variation? A test in montane and alpine meadows

(2017) Jordan Stark et al.   OIKOS

Should Environmental Filtering be Abandoned?

(2017) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Processes of community assembly in an environmentally heterogeneous, high biodiversity region

(2016) Matthew E. Aiello-Lammens et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide

(2016) Carlo Ricotta et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

pez: phylogenetics for the environmental sciences

(2015) William D. Pearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Hyperspectral Indices, Correlation and Regression Models for Estimating Growth Parameters of Wheat Genotypes

(2015) Ramanjit Kaur et al.   Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Assessing community assembly along a successional gradient in the North Adriatic Karst with functional and phylogenetic distances

(2015) Marco Antonio Batalha et al.   OECOLOGIA

Disentangling mechanisms that mediate the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes in microbial succession

(2015) Francisco Dini-Andreote et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Moving Split Window (MSW) analysis in vegetation science – an overview

(2014) L Erdős   APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

A succession of theories: purging redundancy from disturbance theory

(2014) Stephanie A. Pulsford et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Tropical tree assembly depends on the interactions between successional and soil filtering processes

(2014) Maxime Réjou-Méchain et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant functional diversity drives niche-size-structure of dominant microbial consumers along a poor to extremely rich fen gradient

(2014) Vincent E. J. Jassey et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

(2013) Amy E. Zanne et al.   NATURE

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

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

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

Riparian forests of Southwest Europe: are functional trait and species composition assemblages constrained by environment?

(2012) Francisca C. Aguiar et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Plant adaptive responses during primary succession are associated with functional adaptations in ground beetles on deglaciated terrain

(2011) M. Gobbi et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

Plant functional traits and species ability for sediment retention during concentrated flow erosion

(2011) M. Burylo et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

Plant succession and soil development on the foreland of the Morteratsch glacier (Pontresina, Switzerland): Straight forward or chaotic?

(2010) Conradin A. Burga et al.   FLORA

Community development along a proglacial chronosequence: are above-ground and below-ground community structure controlled more by biotic than abiotic factors?

(2010) Matthew L. Carlson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Suites of plant traits in species from different stages of a Mediterranean secondary succession

(2009) M.-L. Navas et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

On the identification of the most suitable traits for plant functional trait analyses

(2008) Markus Bernhardt-Römermann et al.   OIKOS