Re-growing a tropical dry forest: functional plant trait composition and community assembly during succession

Successional dynamics in Neotropical forests are as uncertain as they are predictable

(2015) Natalia Norden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stand age and soils as drivers of plant functional traits and aboveground biomass in secondary tropical dry forest

(2014) Justin M. Becknell et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Community assembly and functional diversity along succession post-management

(2014) Radika Bhaskar et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem

(2014) Jizhong Zhou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Role of Litter Turnover in Soil Quality in Tropical Degraded Lands of Colombia

(2014) Juan D. León et al.   TheScientificWorldJOURNAL

Changing drivers of species dominance during tropical forest succession

(2013) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes

(2013) Oliver Purschke et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional regeneration and spectral reflectance of trees during succession in a highly diverse tropical dry forest ecosystem

(2012) Mariana Y. Alvarez-Añorve et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Mapping where ecologists work: biases in the global distribution of terrestrial ecological observations

(2012) Laura J Martin et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Changes in stable nitrogen and carbon isotope ratios of plants and soil across a boreal forest fire chronosequence

(2012) Fujio Hyodo et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Do legumes and non-legumes tree species affect soil properties in unmanaged forests and plantations in Costa Rican dry forests?

(2012) Maria G. Gei et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Viva la variance! A reply to Nakagawa & Schielzeth

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

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

The quest for trait convergence and divergence in community assembly: are null-models the magic wand?

(2011) Francesco de Bello   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental changes during secondary succession in a tropical dry forest in Mexico

(2011) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Four opportunities for studies of ecological succession

(2011) Karel Prach et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

(2010) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

(2010) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Coarse woody debris stocks as a function of forest type and stand age in Costa Rican tropical dry forest: long-lasting legacies of previous land use

(2010) Lisa B. Kissing et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Leaf palatability and decomposability increase during a 200-year-old post-cultural woody succession in New Zealand

(2010) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant traits related to competition: how do they shape the functional diversity of communities?

(2009) M. Navas et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Succession and management of tropical dry forests in the Americas: Review and new perspectives

(2009) Mauricio Quesada et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Diversity and structure of regenerating tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: Geographic patterns and environmental drivers

(2008) Jennifer S. Powers et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT