Individual species affect plant traits structure in their surroundings: evidence of functional mechanisms of assembly

Beyond the classical nurse species effect: diversity assembly in a Mediterranean semi-arid dwarf shrubland

(2015) Julia Chacón-Labella et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Adopting a spatially explicit perspective to study the mysterious fairy circles of Namibia

(2014) Stephan Getzin et al.   ECOGRAPHY

On tests of spatial pattern based on simulation envelopes

(2014) Adrian Baddeley et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Characterizing scale-dependent community assembly using the functional-diversity–area relationship

(2013) Adam B. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

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

Quantifying spatial phylogenetic structures of fully stem-mapped plant communities

(2013) Guochun Shen et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

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

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

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

Foundation species influence trait-based community assembly

(2012) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Is leaf dry matter content a better predictor of soil fertility than specific leaf area?

(2011) J. G. Hodgson et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

(2011) Jan Lepš et al.   ECOGRAPHY

CWM and Rao’s quadratic diversity: a unified framework for functional ecology

(2011) Carlo Ricotta et al.   OECOLOGIA

On the importance of intraspecific variability for the quantification of functional diversity

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   OIKOS

Advances, challenges and a developing synthesis of ecological community assembly theory

(2011) E. Weiher et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A framework for metacommunity analysis of phylogenetic structure

(2010) Valério D. Pillar et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

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

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

Ecological information from spatial patterns of plants: insights from point process theory

(2009) Richard Law et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do facilitative interactions increase species richness at the entire community level?

(2009) Lohengrin A. Cavieres et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Socialism in soil? The importance of mycorrhizal fungal networks for facilitation in natural ecosystems

(2009) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Ken Thompson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

(2009) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Leaf longevity and drought: avoidance of the costs and risks of early leaf abscission as inferred from the leaf carbon isotopic composition

(2008) Alfonso Escudero et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Nitrogen enrichment modifies plant community structure via changes to plant–soil feedback

(2008) P. Manning et al.   OECOLOGIA

Does phylogenetic relatedness influence the strength of competition among vascular plants?

(2007) James F. Cahill et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS