Recent breakthroughs in metabolomics promise to reveal the cryptic chemical traits that mediate plant community composition, character evolution and lineage diversification

Integration of Molecular Networking and In-Silico MS/MS Fragmentation for Natural Products Dereplication

(2016) Pierre-Marie Allard et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Species with greater seed mass are more tolerant of conspecific neighbours: a key driver of early survival and future abundances in a tropical forest

(2016) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking

(2016) Mingxun Wang et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The impact of plant chemical diversity on plant–herbivore interactions at the community level

(2016) Diego Salazar et al.   OECOLOGIA

Relating belowground microbial composition to the taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional trait distributions of trees in a tropical forest

(2015) Albert Barberán et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phytochemical diversity drives plant–insect community diversity

(2015) Lora A. Richards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New Synthesis: Parallels Between Biodiversity and Chemodiversity

(2014) Monika Hilker   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Testing predictions of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival

(2014) Liza S. Comita et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Automatic Detection of Key Innovations, Rate Shifts, and Diversity-Dependence on Phylogenetic Trees

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky   PLoS One

Defense mutualisms enhance plant diversification

(2014) Marjorie G. Weber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insect herbivores, chemical innovation, and the evolution of habitat specialization in Amazonian trees

(2013) Paul V. A. Fine et al.   ECOLOGY

No evidence for phylogenetic constraint on natural defense evolution among wild tomatoes

(2013) David C. Haak et al.   ECOLOGY

How specialised must natural enemies be to facilitate coexistence among plants?

(2013) Brian E. Sedio et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Tropical Plant–Herbivore Networks: Reconstructing Species Interactions Using DNA Barcodes

(2013) Carlos García-Robledo et al.   PLoS One

Mass spectral molecular networking of living microbial colonies

(2012) J. Watrous et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The role of functional traits in species distributions revealed through a hierarchical model

(2011) Laura J. Pollock et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Asymmetric Density Dependence Shapes Species Abundances in a Tropical Tree Community

(2010) L. S. Comita et al.   SCIENCE

The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga

(2009) T. A. Kursar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for adaptive radiation from a phylogenetic study of plant defenses

(2009) A. A. Agrawal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The interaction between predation and competition

(2008) Peter Chesson et al.   NATURE

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE