Identifying mechanisms that structure ecological communities by snapping model parameters to empirically observed tradeoffs

Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities

(2017) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Next-Generation Individual-Based Models Integrate Biodiversity and Ecosystems: Yes We Can, and Yes We Must

(2016) Volker Grimm et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Do abundance distributions and species aggregation correctly predict macroecological biodiversity patterns in tropical forests?

(2016) Felix May et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology

(2016) Bill Shipley et al.   OECOLOGIA

Towards Process-based Range Modeling of Many Species

(2016) Margaret E.K. Evans et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Resilience of Amazon forests emerges from plant trait diversity

(2016) Boris Sakschewski et al.   Nature Climate Change

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Resource limitation in a competitive context determines complex plant responses to experimental resource additions

(2013) Caroline E. Farrior et al.   ECOLOGY

Consequences of defaunation for a tropical tree community

(2013) Rhett D Harrison et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

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

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Functional traits explain light and size response of growth rates in tropical tree species

(2012) Nadja Rüger et al.   ECOLOGY

Coexistence, niches and biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning

(2012) Lindsay Ann Turnbull et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diversification, Biotic Interchange, and the Universal Trade-Off Hypothesis

(2011) David Tilman   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass

(2011) Fiona J. Thomson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Individuals and the Variation Needed for High Species Diversity in Forest Trees

(2010) J. S. Clark   SCIENCE

Trait-Based Community Ecology of Phytoplankton

(2008) Elena Litchman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation

(2008) D. A. Fornara et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

(2008) Helene C. Muller-Landau et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Understanding strategies for seed dispersal by wind under contrasting atmospheric conditions

(2008) S. J. Wright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predictive Models of Forest Dynamics

(2008) D. Purves et al.   SCIENCE