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

Temperate rain forest species partition fine-scale gradients in light availability based on their leaf mass per area (LMA)

(2016) Alex Fajardo et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Theoretical consequences of trait-based environmental filtering for the breadth and shape of the niche: New testable hypotheses generated by the Traitspace model

(2015) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Optimal strategies for sampling functional traits in species-rich forests

(2015) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Facilitation promotes changes in leaf economics traits of a perennial forb

(2015) Ana I. García-Cervigón et al.   OECOLOGIA

Quantifying forest canopy traits: Imaging spectroscopy versus field survey

(2015) Gregory P. Asner et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A toolbox for studying thermal heterogeneity across spatial scales: from unmanned aerial vehicle imagery to landscape metrics

(2015) Emile Faye et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Shifts in trait means and variances in North American tree assemblages: species richness patterns are loosely related to the functional space

(2014) Irena Šímová et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Applying trait-based models to achieve functional targets for theory-driven ecological restoration

(2014) Daniel C. Laughlin   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales

(2014) Anke Stein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

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

Linking small-scale topography with microclimate, plant species diversity and intra-specific trait variation in an alpine landscape

(2014) Øystein H. Opedal et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient

(2014) C. Lamanna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extension of Nakagawa & Schielzeth'sR2GLMMto random slopes models

(2014) Paul C.D. Johnson   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

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

Unravelling the architecture of functional variability in wild populations ofPolygonum viviparumL

(2013) Florian C. Boucher et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Thermography to explore plant–environment interactions

(2013) J. Miguel Costa et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

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

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The evolution and functional significance of leaf shape in the angiosperms

(2011) Adrienne B. Nicotra et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Fine-scale Microhabitat Heterogeneity in a French Guianan Forest

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   BIOTROPICA

Is understory plant species diversity driven by resource quantity or resource heterogeneity?

(2010) Samuel F. Bartels et al.   ECOLOGY

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil heterogeneity buffers community response to climate change in species-rich grassland

(2010) JASON D. FRIDLEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Topographically controlled thermal-habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

(2009) C. Violle et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

The niche, limits to species' distributions, and spatiotemporal variation in demography across the elevation ranges of two monkeyflowers

(2009) A. L. Angert   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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