Soil-mediated filtering organizes tree assemblages in regenerating tropical forests

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Should Environmental Filtering be Abandoned?

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Natural forest regeneration and ecological restoration in human-modified tropical landscapes

(2016) Miguel Martínez-Ramos et al.   BIOTROPICA

A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

(2016) Simon Pierce et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Multiple successional pathways in human-modified tropical landscapes: new insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research

(2015) Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Biomass is the main driver of changes in ecosystem process rates during tropical forest succession

(2015) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   ECOLOGY

Is successional research nearing its climax? New approaches for understanding dynamic communities

(2015) Scott J. Meiners et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Soil fertility induces coordinated responses of multiple independent functional traits

(2015) Melissa M. Jager et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Changing gears during succession: shifting functional strategies in young tropical secondary forests

(2015) Dylan Craven et al.   OECOLOGIA

Species Richness, Forest Structure, and Functional Diversity During Succession in the New Guinea Lowlands

(2014) Timothy J. S. Whitfeld et al.   BIOTROPICA

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

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

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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Successional changes in functional composition contrast for dry and wet tropical forest

(2013) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   ECOLOGY

Changing drivers of species dominance during tropical forest succession

(2013) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

(2013) R. Condit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the hope for biodiversity-friendly tropical landscapes

(2013) Felipe P.L. Melo et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

Models and estimators linking individual-based and sample-based rarefaction, extrapolation and comparison of assemblages

(2012) R. K. Colwell et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Mechanisms of ecological succession: insights from plant functional strategies

(2012) Valérie Raevel et al.   OIKOS

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

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

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

(2011) Masatoshi Katabuchi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Carlo Ricotta et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional diversity changes during tropical forest succession

(2011) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

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

Functional traits and environmental filtering drive community assembly in a species-rich tropical system

(2010) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos 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

The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests

(2010) Alain Paquette et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Tissue-level leaf toughness, but not lamina thickness, predicts sapling leaf lifespan and shade tolerance of tropical tree species

(2010) Kaoru Kitajima et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Long-term erosion of tree reproductive trait diversity in edge-dominated Atlantic forest fragments

(2009) Ariadna Valentina Lopes et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation

(2009) Milton Cezar Ribeiro et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A Contemporary Assessment of Change in Humid Tropical Forests

(2009) GREGORY P. ASNER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests

(2009) ROBIN L. CHAZDON et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The stratification theory for plant coexistence promoted by one-sided competition

(2009) Takashi Kohyama et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY