Using trait and phylogenetic diversity to evaluate the generality of the stress-dominance hypothesis in eastern North American tree communities

Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests

(2013) Bradford A. Hawkins et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

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

Effects of competition on phylogenetic signal and phenotypic plasticity in plant functional traits

(2012) Jean H. Burns et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOLOGY

Untangling the influence of ecological and evolutionary factors on trait variation across hummingbird assemblages

(2012) Catherine H. Graham et al.   ECOLOGY

Habitat specialization and the role of trait lability in structuring diverse willow (genusSalix) communities

(2012) Jessica A. Savage 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

Soil water balance performs better than climatic water variables in tree species distribution modelling

(2012) Christian Piedallu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Functional beta-diversity patterns reveal deterministic community assembly processes in eastern North American trees

(2012) Andrew Siefert et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

Inter-specific and intra-specific trait variation along short environmental gradients in an old-growth temperate forest

(2012) Sébastien Auger et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Leaf Trait-Environment Relationships in a Subtropical Broadleaved Forest in South-East China

(2012) Wenzel Kröber et al.   PLoS One

Traits, trees and taxa: global dimensions of biodiversity in mammals

(2012) S. Huang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Trends over time in tree and seedling phylogenetic diversity indicate regional differences in forest biodiversity change

(2011) Kevin M. Potter et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The quest for trait convergence and divergence in community assembly: are null-models the magic wand?

(2011) Francesco de Bello   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Succession-induced trait shifts across a wide range of NW European ecosystems are driven by light and modulated by initial abiotic conditions

(2011) Jacob C. Douma et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Carlo Ricotta et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional traits of individual trees reveal ecological constraints on community assembly in tropical rain forests

(2011) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   OIKOS

When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity

(2011) K. Safi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

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

Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach

(2010) S. Pavoine et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Elevational gradients in phylogenetic structure of ant communities reveal the interplay of biotic and abiotic constraints on diversity

(2010) Antonin Machac et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Plant geography upon the basis of functional traits: an example from eastern North American trees

(2010) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

A multi-trait approach reveals the structure and the relative importance of intra- vs. interspecific variability in plant traits

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Phylogenetic diversity, trait diversity and niches: species assembly of ferns along a tropical elevational gradient

(2010) Jürgen Kluge et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climatic water deficit, tree species ranges, and climate change in Yosemite National Park

(2010) James A. Lutz et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Individuals and the Variation Needed for High Species Diversity in Forest Trees

(2010) J. S. Clark   SCIENCE

Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

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

Wood anatomy and wood density in shrubs: Responses to varying aridity along transcontinental transects

(2009) Hugo I. Martínez-Cabrera et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

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

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Intra- and interspecific variation in wood density and fine-scale spatial distribution of stand-level wood density in a northern Thai tropical montane forest

(2009) Witchaphart Sungpalee et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL 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

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenetic beta diversity: linking ecological and evolutionary processes across space in time

(2008) Catherine H. Graham et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity

(2008) M. W. Cadotte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

(2008) J. A. Bryant et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Phylogenetic analysis of community assembly and structure over space and time

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