Integrating species traits into species pools

Interpreting variation to advance predictive restoration science

(2017) Lars A. Brudvig et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Ecological drift and the distribution of species diversity

(2017) Benjamin Gilbert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale

(2017) Joseph A. LaManna et al.   SCIENCE

Ecological distributions, phenological isolation, and genetic structure in sympatric and parapatric populations of the Larrea tridentata polyploid complex

(2016) Robert G. Laport et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Constancy in Functional Space across a Species Richness Anomaly

(2016) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Multiple reproductive barriers separate recently diverged sunflower ecotypes

(2016) Katherine L. Ostevik et al.   EVOLUTION

Scaling up the diversity-resilience relationship with trait databases and remote sensing data: the recovery of productivity after wildfire

(2016) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Quantifying resilience

(2016) David G. Angeler et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Lagging behind: have we overlooked previous-year rainfall effects in annual grasslands?

(2016) Joan Dudney et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Habitat degradation increases functional originality in highly diverse coral reef fish assemblages

(2016) Simon J. Brandl et al.   Ecosphere

Deforestation Impacts on Bat Functional Diversity in Tropical Landscapes

(2016) Rodrigo García-Morales et al.   PLoS One

Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects

(2015) Tadashi Fukami   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The species pool concept as a framework for studying patterns of plant diversity

(2015) Martin Zobel   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on community assembly

(2015) Gary G. Mittelbach et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

What Are Species Pools and When Are They Important?

(2014) Howard V. Cornell et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Using functional diversity patterns to explore metacommunity dynamics: a framework for understanding local and regional influences on community structure

(2014) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

(2014) Daniel C. Laughlin   ECOLOGY LETTERS

CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

(2014) Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Beta diversity among prairie restorations increases with species pool size, but not through enhanced species sorting

(2014) Emily Grman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Niche filling slows the diversification of Himalayan songbirds

(2014) Trevor D. Price et al.   NATURE

Null model approaches to evaluating the relative role of different assembly processes in shaping ecological communities

(2014) Akira S. Mori et al.   OECOLOGIA

Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

(2014) Mark Vellend et al.   OIKOS

The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

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

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

The fourth-corner solution - using predictive models to understand how species traits interact with the environment

(2014) Alexandra M. Brown et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Ontogenetic trait variation influences tree community assembly across environmental gradients

(2014) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   Ecosphere

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

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

Functional diversity: a tool for answering challenging ecological questions

(2013) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

phyloGenerator: an automated phylogeny generation tool for ecologists

(2013) William D. Pearse et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

(2013) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Changes in alpine vegetation over 21 years: Are patterns across a heterogeneous landscape consistent with predictions?

(2013) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   Ecosphere

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

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

Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOLOGY

Beta-diversity in temperate and tropical forests reflects dissimilar mechanisms of community assembly

(2012) Jonathan A. Myers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients

(2012) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe's Mountain Summits

(2012) H. Pauli et al.   SCIENCE

Inferring local ecological processes amid species pool influences

(2012) Jean-Philippe Lessard et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2012) Michael Gottfried et al.   Nature Climate Change

Limits to Speciation Inferred from Times to Secondary Sympatry and Ages of Hybridizing Species along a Latitudinal Gradient

(2011) Jason T. Weir et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Toward an Era of Restoration in Ecology: Successes, Failures, and Opportunities Ahead

(2011) Katharine N. Suding   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity

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

Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales

(2011) J. M. Chase et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Strong influence of regional species pools on continent-wide structuring of local communities

(2011) J.-P. Lessard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic relatedness predicts priority effects in nectar yeast communities

(2011) K. G. Peay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disentangling the Drivers of   Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

(2011) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE

Dark diversity: shedding light on absent species

(2011) Meelis Pärtel et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A user's guide to functional diversity indices

(2010) D. Schleuter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Experimental evidence for neutral community dynamics governing an insect assemblage

(2010) Adam M. Siepielski et al.   ECOLOGY

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Community assembly, natural selection and maximum entropy models

(2010) Bill Shipley   OIKOS

The roles of time and ecology in the continental radiation of the Old World leaf warblers (Phylloscopus and Seicercus)

(2010) T. D. Price   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Deterministic tropical tree community turnover: evidence from patterns of functional beta diversity along an elevational gradient

(2010) N. G. Swenson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Local immigration, competition from dominant guilds, and the ecological assembly of high-diversity pine savannas

(2009) Jonathan A. Myers et al.   ECOLOGY

Seed arrival, ecological filters, and plant species richness: a meta-analysis

(2009) Jonathan A. Myers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Linking individual response to biotic interactions with community structure: a trait-based framework

(2009) Nicolas Gross et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Disintegration of the Ecological Community

(2008) Robert E. Ricklefs   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Coexistence through spatio-temporal heterogeneity and species sorting in grassland plant communities

(2008) Erin J. Questad et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Spatial aspects of trait homogenization within the German flora

(2008) Marten Winter et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A phylogenetic perspective on the distribution of plant diversity

(2008) M. J. Donoghue   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance

(2008) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Functional biotic homogenization of bird communities in disturbed landscapes

(2007) Vincent Devictor et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Trait-Based Filtering of the Regional Species Pool to Guide Understory Plant Reintroductions in Midwestern Oak Savannas, U.S.A.

(2007) Lars A. Brudvig et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY