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

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

(2010) Juli G. Pausas et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Ecosystem properties determined by plant functional group identity

(2010) Jennie R. McLaren et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions

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

Don’t Diss Integration: A Comment on Ricklefs’s Disintegrating Communities

(2009) Rob W. Brooker et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Local immigration, competition from dominant guilds, and the ecological assembly of high-diversity pine savannas

(2009) Jonathan A. Myers 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

Disentangling niche and neutral influences on community assembly: assessing the performance of community phylogenetic structure tests

(2009) Steven W. Kembel   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Niches versus neutrality: uncovering the drivers of diversity in a species-rich community

(2009) Remi Vergnon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity in a complex world: consolidation and progress in functional biodiversity research

(2009) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Seed arrival, ecological filters, and plant species richness: a meta-analysis

(2009) Jonathan A. Myers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

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

Fine-scale species co-occurrence patterns in an old-growth temperate forest

(2009) Jian Zhang et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Are competitive effect and response two sides of the same coin, or fundamentally different?

(2009) Ping Wang et al.   FUNCTIONAL 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

Non-random recruitment of invader species in experimental grasslands

(2009) Christiane Roscher et al.   OIKOS

Null model analyses of presence–absence matrices need a definition of independence

(2009) Jorge A. Navarro-Alberto et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Disintegration of the Ecological Community

(2008) Robert E. Ricklefs   AMERICAN NATURALIST

What determines the relationship between plant diversity and habitat productivity?

(2008) Martin Zobel et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Does niche overlap control relative abundance in French lacustrine fish communities? A new method incorporating functional traits

(2008) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Evidence that niche specialization explains species–energy relationships in lake fish communities

(2008) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Plant species segregation on different spatial scales in semi-natural grasslands

(2008) T. Reitalu et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A consumer's guide to nestedness analysis

(2008) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS

Plant–pollinator interactions and the assembly of plant communities

(2008) Risa D. Sargent et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic analysis of community assembly and structure over space and time

(2008) Brent C. Emerson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION