Invaders among locals: Alien species decrease phylogenetic and functional diversity while increasing dissimilarity among native community members

Comparing traits of native and alien plants: Can we do better?

(2017) Philip E. Hulme et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Do Hypervolumes Have Holes?

(2016) Benjamin Blonder   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Species pools, community completeness and invasion: disentangling diversity effects on the establishment of native and alien species

(2016) Jonathan A. Bennett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Exotic or not, leaf trait dissimilarity modulates the effect of dominant species on mixed litter decomposition

(2016) Genevieve E. Finerty et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Which randomizations detect convergence and divergence in trait-based community assembly? A test of commonly used null models

(2016) Lars Götzenberger et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functional diversity through the mean trait dissimilarity: resolving shortcomings with existing paradigms and algorithms

(2016) Francesco de Bello et al.   OECOLOGIA

Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

(2016) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide

(2016) Carlo Ricotta et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

What it takes to invade grassland ecosystems: traits, introduction history and filtering processes

(2015) Marta Carboni et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The effects of phylogenetic relatedness on invasion success and impact: deconstructing Darwin's naturalisation conundrum

(2015) Shao-peng Li et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Alien plants invade more phylogenetically clustered community types and cause even stronger clustering

(2015) Zdeňka Lososová et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Revisiting Darwin's naturalization conundrum: explaining invasion success of non-native trees and shrubs in southern Africa

(2015) Simeon Bezeng Bezeng et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

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

Alien species pool influences the level of habitat invasion in intercontinental exchange of alien plants

(2014) Veronika Kalusová et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The imbalance of nature: revisiting a Darwinian framework for invasion biology

(2014) Jason D. Fridley et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Trees, branches and (square) roots: why evolutionary relatedness is not linearly related to functional distance

(2014) Andrew D. Letten et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Functional and phylogenetic similarity of alien plants to co-occurring natives

(2013) Alejandro Ordonez   ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Marc Cadotte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Partitioning phylogenetic and functional diversity into alpha and beta components along an environmental gradient in a Mediterranean rangeland

(2013) Maud Bernard-Verdier et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Impact of plant invasions on functional diversity in the vegetation of Central Europe

(2013) Martin Hejda et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A test of Darwin's naturalization hypothesis in the thistle tribe shows that close relatives make bad neighbors

(2013) D. S. Park et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOLOGY

Daphne: a dated phylogeny of a large European flora for phylogenetically informed ecological analyses

(2012) Walter Durka et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogenetically Poor Plant Communities Receive More Alien Species, Which More Easily Coexist with Natives

(2011) Pille Gerhold et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems

(2011) Montserrat Vilà et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A global assessment of invasive plant impacts on resident species, communities and ecosystems: the interaction of impact measures, invading species' traits and environment

(2011) Petr Pyšek et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

CWM and Rao’s quadratic diversity: a unified framework for functional ecology

(2011) Carlo Ricotta et al.   OECOLOGIA

Resolving Darwin’s naturalization conundrum: a quest for evidence

(2010) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Functional differences between native and alien species: a global-scale comparison

(2010) Alejandro Ordonez et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A meta-analysis of trait differences between invasive and non-invasive plant species

(2009) Mark van Kleunen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Native and exotic invasive plants have fundamentally similar carbon capture strategies

(2009) Michelle R. Leishman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

CLO-PLA: the database of clonal and bud bank traits of Central European flora

(2009) Jitka Klimešová et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

On the challenge of treating various types of variables: application for improving the measurement of functional diversity

(2009) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   OIKOS

Trait interactions help explain plant invasion success in the German flora

(2008) Eva C. Küster et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance

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