Functional diversity is more sensitive to biotic filters than phylogenetic diversity during community assembly

Links between community ecology theory and ecological restoration are on the rise

(2017) Claire E. Wainwright et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Can weeds enhance profitability? Integrating ecological concepts to address crop-weed competition and yield quality

(2017) David J. Gibson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Logging increases the functional and phylogenetic dispersion of understorey plant communities in tropical lowland rain forest

(2017) Timm F. Döbert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Response and effect traits of arable weeds in agro-ecosystems: a review of current knowledge

(2017) S Gaba et al.   WEED RESEARCH

A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology

(2016) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Phylogenetic diversity is maintained despite richness losses over time in restored tallgrass prairie plant communities

(2016) Nicholas A. Barber et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic diversity reveals hidden patterns related to population source and species pools during restoration

(2016) Mohammed I. Khalil et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Species pools and environmental sorting control different aspects of plant diversity and functional trait composition in recovering grasslands

(2016) Timo Conradi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Is phylogenetic diversity a good proxy for functional diversity of plant communities? A case study from urban habitats

(2016) Zdeňka Lososová et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A plant traits approach to managing legacy species during restoration transitions in temperate eucalypt woodlands

(2016) Ian A. Cole et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Plant community response to regional sources of dominant grasses in grasslands restored across a longitudinal gradient

(2016) Laurel R. Wilson et al.   Ecosphere

Phylogeny in the Service of Ecological Restoration

(2015) Andrew L. Hipp et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Species colonisation, not competitive exclusion, drives community overdispersion over long-term succession

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

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

(2015) Pille Gerhold et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic measures of plant communities show long-term change and impacts of fire management in tallgrass prairie remnants

(2015) Daniel J. Larkin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

From pots to plots: hierarchical trait-based prediction of plant performance in a mesic grassland

(2015) Thomas Schroeder-Georgi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional diversity: an overview of its history and applicability

(2015) Livia Maira Orlandi Laureto et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Unifying Species Diversity, Phylogenetic Diversity, Functional Diversity, and Related Similarity and Differentiation Measures Through Hill Numbers

(2014) Anne Chao et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Applying trait-based models to achieve functional targets for theory-driven ecological restoration

(2014) Daniel C. Laughlin   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Propagule abundance and richness are equivalent or higher in communities restored with local ecotypes relative to cultivars of dominant species

(2014) Jason E. Willand et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Do subordinate species punch above their weight? Evidence from above- and below-ground

(2014) Pierre Mariotte   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Genetic Sorting of Subordinate Species in Grassland Modulated by Intraspecific Variation in Dominant Species

(2014) Danny J. Gustafson et al.   PLoS One

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

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Fertilization decreases species diversity but increases functional diversity: A three-year experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow

(2013) Kechang Niu et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

When is local the best paradigm? Breeding history influences conservation reintroduction survival and population trajectories in times of extreme climate events

(2013) Joyce Maschinski et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Convergent and Contingent Community Responses to Grass Source and Dominance During Prairie Restoration Across a Longitudinal Gradient

(2013) Ryan P. Klopf et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

No effect of seed source on multiple aspects of ecosystem functioning during ecological restoration: cultivars compared to local ecotypes of dominant grasses

(2013) Sara G. Baer et al.   Evolutionary Applications

EDITOR'S CHOICE: Application of genetic diversity-ecosystem function research to ecological restoration

(2013) Karin M. Kettenring et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Plant functional effects on ecosystem services

(2013) Sandra Lavorel   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

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 species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability

(2012) Marc W. Cadotte 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

Limited effects of dominant species population source on community composition during community assembly

(2012) David J. Gibson et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The role of evolutionary processes in producing biodiversity patterns, and the interrelationships between taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic biodiversity

(2011) N. G. Swenson   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Functional and phylogenetic diversity as predictors of biodiversity–ecosystem-function relationships

(2011) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY

Determining appropriate goals for restoration of imperilled communities and species

(2011) Andrea S. Thorpe et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

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

Effects of foundation species genotypic diversity on subordinate species richness in an assembling community

(2011) David J. Gibson et al.   OIKOS

Using plant functional traits to guide restoration: A case study in California coastal grassland

(2011) B. Sandel et al.   Ecosphere

The role of plant traits and their plasticity in the response of pasture grasses to nutrients and cutting frequency

(2010) Laíse da Silveira Pontes et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Intraspecific Variation in Ecophysiology of Three Dominant Prairie Grasses Used in Restoration: Cultivar Versus Non-Cultivar Population Sources

(2010) Allison M. Lambert et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

A question of origin: Where and how to collect seed for ecological restoration

(2009) Kristine Vander Mijnsbrugge et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III

(2009)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

A community-level test of the leaf-height-seed ecology strategy scheme in relation to grazing conditions

(2009) Carly Golodets et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Empirical and theoretical challenges in aboveground–belowground ecology

(2009) Wim H. van der Putten et al.   OECOLOGIA

Conservatism and diversification of plant functional traits: Evolutionary rates versus phylogenetic signal

(2009) D. Ackerly   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Root Dynamics of Cultivar and Non-Cultivar Population Sources of Two Dominant Grasses during Initial Establishment of Tallgrass Prairie

(2009) Ryan P. Klopf et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging

(2008) D. Posada   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance

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

Does phylogenetic relatedness influence the strength of competition among vascular plants?

(2007) James F. Cahill et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS