Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

(2012) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic density dependence and environmental filtering predict seedling mortality in a tropical forest

(2011) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic limiting similarity and competitive exclusion

(2011) Cyrille Violle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic community structure during succession: Evidence from three Neotropical forest sites

(2011) Susan G. Letcher et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

More closely related species are more ecologically similar in an experimental test

(2011) J. H. Burns et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Species and Communities

(2010) Sébastien Lavergne et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

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

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

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

A review of light interception in plant stands from leaf to canopy in different plant functional types and in species with varying shade tolerance

(2010) Ülo Niinemets   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

(2010) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Effects of competition on tree radial-growth vary in importance but not in intensity along climatic gradients

(2010) Georges Kunstler et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

Wood density and its radial variation in six canopy tree species differing in shade-tolerance in western Thailand

(2009) Charles A. Nock et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plant traits related to competition: how do they shape the functional diversity of communities?

(2009) M. Navas et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Interspecific relationships among growth, mortality and xylem traits of woody species from New Zealand

(2009) Sabrina E. Russo et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic signatures of facilitation and competition in successional communities

(2009) Miguel Verdú et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Big plants--do they limit species coexistence?

(2009) L. M. Keating et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Phylogenetic structure of angiosperm communities during tropical forest succession

(2009) S. G. Letcher   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

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