Is successional research nearing its climax? New approaches for understanding dynamic communities

Reconstructing Disturbances and Their Biogeochemical Consequences over Multiple Timescales

(2014) Kendra K. McLauchlan et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Plant succession as an integrator of contrasting ecological time scales

(2014) Lawrence R. Walker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Vegetation succession in restoration of disturbed sites in Central Europe: the direction of succession and species richness across 19 seres

(2013) Karel Prach et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

The problem of pattern and scale in ecology: what have we learned in 20 years?

(2013) Jérôme Chave   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The ecology of differences: assessing community assembly with trait and evolutionary distances

(2013) Marc Cadotte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Chinese tropical tree community across size classes, spatial scales and habitats

(2013) Jie Yang 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

Plant-soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges

(2013) Wim H. van der Putten et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Change in Phylogenetic Community Structure during Succession of Traditionally Managed Tropical Rainforest in Southwest China

(2013) Xiao-Xue Mo et al.   PLoS One

Diversity in time and space: wanted dead and alive

(2013) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A trait-based framework to understand life history of mycorrhizal fungi

(2013) Pierre-Luc Chagnon et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Differential succession towards woodland along a nutrient gradient

(2012) Franz Rebele   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Predicting plant responses to mycorrhizae: integrating evolutionary history and plant traits

(2012) Kurt O. Reinhart et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Negative plant-soil feedbacks dominate seedling competitive interactions of North American successional grassland species

(2012) Francisco M. Padilla et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Trait but not species convergence during plant community assembly in restored semi-natural grasslands

(2012) Kenny Helsen et al.   OIKOS

Mechanisms of ecological succession: insights from plant functional strategies

(2012) Valérie Raevel et al.   OIKOS

Integration of the study of natural and anthropogenic disturbances using severity gradients

(2011) LAWRENCE R. WALKER   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Change in community phylogenetic structure during tropical forest succession: evidence from New Guinea

(2011) T. J. S. Whitfeld et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities

(2011) Natalia Norden et al.   ECOLOGY

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Drivers of secondary succession rates across temperate latitudes of the Eastern USA: climate, soils, and species pools

(2011) Jason D. Fridley et al.   OECOLOGIA

Disturbance regime changes the trait distribution, phylogenetic structure and community assembly of tropical rain forests

(2011) Yi Ding et al.   OIKOS

Phylogenetic community structure during succession: Evidence from three Neotropical forest sites

(2011) Susan G. Letcher et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

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

Four opportunities for studies of ecological succession

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

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development

(2010) Lawrence R. Walker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Changes through time: integrating microorganisms into the study of succession

(2010) Noah Fierer et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions

(2010) James D. Bever et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

How understanding aboveground–belowground linkages can assist restoration ecology

(2010) Paul Kardol et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic signatures of facilitation and competition in successional communities

(2009) Miguel Verdú et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Shifts in species and phylogenetic diversity between sapling and tree communities indicate negative density dependence in a lowland rain forest

(2009) Mailyn A. Gonzalez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Suites of plant traits in species from different stages of a Mediterranean secondary succession

(2009) M.-L. Navas et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic structure of angiosperm communities during tropical forest succession

(2009) S. G. Letcher   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Reciprocal adjustments between landforms and living organisms: Extended geomorphic evolutionary insights

(2008) D. Corenblit et al.   CATENA

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

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

Small differences in arrival time influence composition and productivity of plant communities

(2007) Christian Körner et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Spontaneous Vegetation Succession in Gravel–Sand Pits: A Potential for Restoration

(2007) Klára Řehounková et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY