Do community-weighted mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies?

Species-habitat associations and demographic rates of forest trees

(2015) Yue Bin et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Commonness, rarity, and intraspecific variation in traits and performance in tropical tree seedlings

(2015) María Natalia Umaña et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

(2015) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes

(2015) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Does probability of occurrence relate to population dynamics?

(2014) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The influence of interspecific interactions on species range expansion rates

(2014) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Sapling performance along resource gradients drives tree species distributions within and across tropical forests

(2014) F. Sterck et al.   ECOLOGY

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

(2014) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Quantifying multimodal trait distributions improves trait-based predictions of species abundances and functional diversity

(2014) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Trait-mediated assembly processes predict successional changes in community diversity of tropical forests

(2014) J. R. Lasky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CATS regression - a model-based approach to studying trait-based community assembly

(2014) David I. Warton et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

ENMeval: An R package for conducting spatially independent evaluations and estimating optimal model complexity forMaxentecological niche models

(2014) Robert Muscarella et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

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

The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Can species distribution models be used to describe plant abundance patterns?

(2012) Rosalinde Van Couwenberghe et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Exploring the role of physiology and biotic interactions in determining elevational ranges of tropical animals

(2012) Jill E. Jankowski et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A predictive model of community assembly that incorporates intraspecific trait variation

(2012) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Fitness and physiology in a variable environment

(2011) Sarah Kimball et al.   OECOLOGIA

A strong test of a maximum entropy model of trait-based community assembly

(2010) Bill Shipley et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Ecological differentiation in xylem cavitation resistance is associated with stem and leaf structural traits

(2010) LARS MARKESTEIJN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

(2010) Mark Vellend   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Abundance and the Environmental Niche: Environmental Suitability Estimated from Niche Models Predicts the Upper Limit of Local Abundance

(2009) Jeremy VanDerWal et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Abundant Genetic Variation + Strong Selection = Multivariate Genetic Constraints: A Geometric View of Adaptation

(2009) Bruce Walsh et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

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

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

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

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST