Interactions between abiotic gradients determine functional and phylogenetic diversity patterns in Mediterranean-type climate mountains in the Andes

Sensitivity of community-level trait-environment relationships to data representativeness: A test for functional biogeography

(2017) Benjamin Borgy et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Using phylogeny and functional traits for assessing community assembly along environmental gradients: A deterministic process driven by elevation

(2017) Jinshi Xu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Spatial scale and intraspecific trait variability mediate assembly rules in alpine grasslands

(2016) Loïc Chalmandrier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology

(2016) Bill Shipley et al.   OECOLOGIA

Trait-based plant ecology: moving towards a unifying species coexistence theory

(2016) Adrián Escudero et al.   OECOLOGIA

Soil under nurse plants is always better than outside: a survey on soil amelioration by a complete guild of nurse plants across a long environmental gradient

(2016) M. A. K. Mihoč et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Mechanisms underlying local functional and phylogenetic beta diversity in two temperate forests

(2015) Xugao Wang et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better)

(2015) Pille Gerhold et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Beyond the classical nurse species effect: diversity assembly in a Mediterranean semi-arid dwarf shrubland

(2015) Julia Chacón-Labella et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Phylogenetic distance among beneficiary species in a cushion plant species explains interaction outcome

(2015) Nuria Pistón et al.   OIKOS

Different effects of elevation, habitat fragmentation and grazing management on the functional, phylogenetic and taxonomic structure of mountain grasslands

(2015) Matteo Dainese et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Phylogenetic gradient analysis: environmental drivers of phylogenetic variation across ecological communities

(2015) Pedro R. Peres-Neto et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Plant Trait Variation along an Altitudinal Gradient in Mediterranean High Mountain Grasslands: Controlling the Species Turnover Effect

(2015) David S. Pescador et al.   PLoS One

Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments

(2013) B. J. Butterfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2013) Marc Cadotte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Convergent effects of elevation on functional leaf traits within and among species

(2013) Quentin D. Read et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The environment and space, not phylogeny, determine trait dispersion in a subtropical forest

(2013) Xiaojuan Liu et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Jie Yang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Variability in functional traits mediates plant interactions along stress gradients

(2013) Christian Schöb et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands

(2013) Nicolas Gross et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Correlations between phylogenetic and functional diversity: mathematical artefacts or true ecological and evolutionary processes?

(2013) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Contrasting effects of productivity and disturbance on plant functional diversity at local and metacommunity scales

(2013) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Does trait conservatism guarantee that indicators of phylogenetic community structure will reveal niche-based assembly processes along stress gradients?

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

Plant functional traits and community assembly along interacting gradients of productivity and fragmentation

(2013) Felix May et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

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

Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French Alps

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

(2012) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

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

A functional comparative approach to facilitation and its context dependence

(2012) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

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

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

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

Environmental conditions and biotic interactions acting together promote phylogenetic randomness in semi-arid plant communities: new methods help to avoid misleading conclusions

(2012) Santiago Soliveres et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

More closely related species are more ecologically similar in an experimental test

(2011) J. H. Burns et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity

(2011) Jonathan M. Chase et al.   Ecosphere

The Jungle of Methods for Evaluating Phenotypic and Phylogenetic Structure of Communities

(2010) Juli G. Pausas et al.   BIOSCIENCE

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Linking patterns in phylogeny, traits, abiotic variables and space: a novel approach to linking environmental filtering and plant community assembly

(2010) Sandrine Pavoine et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Plant interactions are unimportant in a subarctic–alpine plant community

(2009) Matthew G. E. Mitchell et al.   ECOLOGY

Beyond description: the active and effective way to infer processes from spatial patterns

(2009) Eliot J. B. McIntire et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

(2009) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

Testing the spatial phylogenetic structure of local communities: statistical performances of different null models and test statistics on a locally neutral community

(2008) Olivier J. Hardy   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE