Environmental filtering limits functional diversity during succession in a seasonally wet tropical secondary forest

Environmental filtering, local site factors and landscape context drive changes in functional trait composition during tropical forest succession

(2017) Vanessa K. Boukili et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Should Environmental Filtering be Abandoned?

(2017) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Linking multidimensional functional diversity to quantitative methods: a graphical hypothesis-evaluation framework

(2016) Kate S. Boersma et al.   ECOLOGY

Changes in assembly rules along a stress gradient from open dry grasslands to wetlands

(2016) Barbara Lhotsky 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

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico

(2015) Robert Muscarella et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Changing gears during succession: shifting functional strategies in young tropical secondary forests

(2015) Dylan Craven et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes

(2015) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Linking Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Uncertainties and the Necessary Next Steps

(2014) Patricia Balvanera et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Species Richness, Forest Structure, and Functional Diversity During Succession in the New Guinea Lowlands

(2014) Timothy J. S. Whitfeld et al.   BIOTROPICA

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

Trait-mediated assembly processes predict successional changes in community diversity of tropical forests

(2014) J. R. Lasky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Successional changes in functional composition contrast for dry and wet tropical forest

(2013) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   ECOLOGY

Changing drivers of species dominance during tropical forest succession

(2013) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effects of disturbance intensity on species and functional diversity in a tropical forest

(2013) Geovana Carreño-Rocabado et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

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

Key role of symbiotic dinitrogen fixation in tropical forest secondary succession

(2013) Sarah A. Batterman et al.   NATURE

Succession of Ephemeral Secondary Forests and Their Limited Role for the Conservation of Floristic Diversity in a Human-Modified Tropical Landscape

(2013) Michiel van Breugel et al.   PLoS One

Carbon pools recover more quickly than plant biodiversity in tropical secondary forests

(2013) P. A. Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effect of land cover and use on dry season river runoff, runoff efficiency, and peak storm runoff in the seasonal tropics of Central Panama

(2013) Fred L. Ogden et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

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

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

Secondary forests of central Panama increase in similarity to old-growth forest over time in shade tolerance but not species composition

(2012) Daisy H. Dent et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

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

Functional diversity changes during tropical forest succession

(2011) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

The relative importance of above- versus belowground competition for tree growth during early succession of a tropical moist forest

(2011) Michiel van Breugel et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil carbon dynamics under young tropical secondary forests on former pastures—A case study from Panama

(2010) Luisa Neumann-Cosel et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Recovery of saturated hydraulic conductivity under secondary succession on former pasture in the humid tropics

(2010) Sibylle K. Hassler et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

The future of tropical species in secondary forests: A quantitative review

(2009) Daisy H. Dent et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Composition and Dynamics of Functional Groups of Trees During Tropical Forest Succession in Northeastern Costa Rica

(2009) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   BIOTROPICA

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

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

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional trait variation and sampling strategies in species-rich plant communities

(2009) Christopher Baraloto et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Beyond Reserves: A Research Agenda for Conserving Biodiversity in Human-modified Tropical Landscapes

(2008) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   BIOTROPICA

Integrating Agricultural Landscapes with Biodiversity Conservation in the Mesoamerican Hotspot

(2008) CELIA A. HARVEY et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Testing the assumptions of chronosequences in succession

(2008) Edward A. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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