Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Effect of local community phylogenetic structure on pollen limitation in an obligately insect-pollinated plant

(2011) Risa D. Sargent et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Phylogenetically Poor Plant Communities Receive More Alien Species, Which More Easily Coexist with Natives

(2011) Pille Gerhold et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Niche and fitness differences relate the maintenance of diversity to ecosystem function

(2011) Ian T. Carroll et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Phylogenetic Patterns of Colonization and Extinction in Experimentally Assembled Plant Communities

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

Independent Evolution of Leaf and Root Traits within and among Temperate Grassland Plant Communities

(2011) Steven W. Kembel et al.   PLoS One

An Experimental Test of Darwin’s Naturalization Hypothesis

(2010) Lin Jiang et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Evolutionary Distinctiveness, Threat Status, and Ecological Oddity in Primates

(2010) DAVID W. REDDING et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic patterns differ for native and exotic plant communities across a richness gradient in Northern California

(2010) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Rarest of the rare: advances in combining evolutionary distinctiveness and scarcity to inform conservation at biogeographical scales

(2010) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

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

Spatial patterns of phylogenetic diversity

(2010) Hélène Morlon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic Community Context Influences Pollen Delivery to Allium cernuum

(2010) Elissa M. Schuett et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Plant traits that predict resistance to herbivores

(2010) Diego Carmona et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests

(2010) Alain Paquette et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

(2010) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Refining the establishment of guilds in Neotropical spiders (Arachnida: Araneae)

(2010) Sidclay Calaça Dias et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Experimental niche evolution alters the strength of the diversity–productivity relationship

(2010) Dominique Gravel et al.   NATURE

Ecological interactions are evolutionarily conserved across the entire tree of life

(2010) José M. Gómez et al.   NATURE

Stability of Ecological Communities and the Architecture of Mutualistic and Trophic Networks

(2010) E. Thebault et al.   SCIENCE

Functional-diversity indices can be driven by methodological choices and species richness

(2009) Mark S. Poos 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

Reducing horizontal and vertical diversity in a foodweb triggers extinctions and impacts functions

(2009) Diane S. Srivastava et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

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

Evolutionary history and distance dependence control survival of dipterocarp seedlings

(2009) Robert Bagchi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning

(2009) Luke J. Harmon et al.   NATURE

Differential effects of functional traits on aboveground biomass in semi-natural grasslands

(2009) Jens Schumacher et al.   OIKOS

Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

The signature of phylogenetic constraints on food-web structure

(2008) Louis-Félix Bersier et al.   Ecological Complexity

JANZEN-CONNELL EFFECTS ARE WIDESPREAD AND STRONG ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN DIVERSITY IN GRASSLANDS

(2008) Jana S. Petermann et al.   ECOLOGY

Less lineages more trait variation: phylogenetically clustered plant communities are functionally more diverse

(2008) Andreas Prinzing et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Challenging urban species diversity: contrasting phylogenetic patterns across plant functional groups in Germany

(2008) Sonja Knapp et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecological consequences of genetic diversity

(2008) A. Randall Hughes 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

Emerging patterns in the comparative analysis of phylogenetic community structure

(2008) S. M. VAMOSI et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

Phylogenetic patterns of species loss in Thoreau's woods are driven by climate change

(2008) C. G. Willis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic Signal, Evolutionary Process, and Rate

(2008) Liam J. Revell et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evolutionarily distinctive species often capture more phylogenetic diversity than expected

(2007) David W. Redding et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

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

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