Trait–environment relationships remain strong despite 50 years of trait compositional change in temperate forests

Is taxonomic homogenization linked to functional homogenization in temperate forests?

(2014) Grégory Sonnier et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Assess ecosystem resilience: Linking response and effect traits to environmental variability

(2013) M. Sterk et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Trait-convergence and divergence assembly patterns in a temperate forest herbaceous layer along the gradient of canopy closure

(2012) F. Joner et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Improved testing of species traits–environment relationships in the fourth-corner problem

(2012) Cajo J. F. ter Braak et al.   ECOLOGY

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

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

Analysis of climate paths reveals potential limitations on species range shifts

(2011) Regan Early et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diverse marsh plant communities are more consistently productive across a range of different environmental conditions through functional complementarity

(2011) Bastian Steudel 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

Climatic constraints on trait-based forest assembly

(2011) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Nitrification is linked to dominant leaf traits rather than functional diversity

(2011) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Individual-based trait analyses reveal assembly patterns in tree sapling communities

(2011) Marcos B. Carlucci et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Spatial patterns of functional divergence in old-field plant communities

(2011) Andrew Siefert   OIKOS

Converging forest community composition along an edaphic gradient threatens landscape-level diversity

(2010) Kathryn L. Amatangelo et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Multiple interacting ecosystem drivers: toward an encompassing hypothesis of oak forest dynamics across eastern North America

(2010) Ryan W. McEwan et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

(2010) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

A century of increasing pine density and associated shifts in understory plant strategies

(2010) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY

Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization?

(2010) Joanne Clavel et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Patterns of Climate Change Across Wisconsin From 1950 to 2006

(2010) Christopher J. Kucharik et al.   PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Loss of functionally unique species may gradually undermine ecosystems

(2010) E. J. O'Gorman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

FDiversity: a software package for the integrated analysis of functional diversity

(2010) Fernando Casanoves et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Impact of Prunus serotina invasion on understory functional diversity in a European temperate forest

(2009) Olivier Chabrerie et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Paying the Extinction Debt in Southern Wisconsin Forest Understories

(2009) DAVID A. ROGERS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Earthworm Invasion as the Driving Force Behind Plant Invasion and Community Change in Northeastern North American Forests

(2009) VICTORIA A. NUZZO et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Environmental change controls postglacial forest dynamics through interspecific differences in life-history traits

(2009) Terri Lacourse   ECOLOGY

Conversion of native forest to exotic Pinus radiata plantation: Response of understorey plant composition using a plant functional trait approach

(2009) Trevor L. Meers et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Little evidence for limiting similarity in a long-term study of a roadside plant community

(2009) Ken Thompson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Comparison of two plant functional approaches to evaluate natural restoration along an old-field - deciduous forest chronosequence

(2009) Isabelle Aubin et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration

(2009) Richard J. Hobbs et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Demise of Fire and “Mesophication” of Forests in the Eastern United States

(2008) Gregory J. Nowacki et al.   BIOSCIENCE

TESTING THE SPECIES TRAITS–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS: THE FOURTH-CORNER PROBLEM REVISITED

(2008) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

SHIFTS IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN FOREST CANOPY AND UNDERSTORY RICHNESS, COMPOSITION, AND HETEROGENEITY

(2008) David A. Rogers et al.   ECOLOGY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

High white-tailed deer densities benefit graminoids and contribute to biotic homogenization of forest ground-layer vegetation

(2008) Thomas P. Rooney   PLANT ECOLOGY