Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico

Is successional research nearing its climax? New approaches for understanding dynamic communities

(2015) Scott J. Meiners et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites

(2015) Susan G. Letcher et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Changing gears during succession: shifting functional strategies in young tropical secondary forests

(2015) Dylan Craven et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional Trait Strategies of Trees in Dry and Wet Tropical Forests Are Similar but Differ in Their Consequences for Succession

(2015) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   PLoS One

The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession

(2014) Jesse R. Lasky et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Community assembly and functional diversity along succession post-management

(2014) Radika Bhaskar et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Tropical tree assembly depends on the interactions between successional and soil filtering processes

(2014) Maxime Réjou-Méchain et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A Well-Resolved Phylogeny of the Trees of Puerto Rico Based on DNA Barcode Sequence Data

(2014) Robert Muscarella et al.   PLoS One

Trait-mediated assembly processes predict successional changes in community diversity of tropical forests

(2014) J. R. Lasky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tropical rain forest evolution: palms as a model group

(2013) Thomas LP Couvreur et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Successional changes in functional composition contrast for dry and wet tropical forest

(2013) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   ECOLOGY

Changing drivers of species dominance during tropical forest succession

(2013) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Partitioning phylogenetic and functional diversity into alpha and beta components along an environmental gradient in a Mediterranean rangeland

(2013) Maud Bernard-Verdier et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functional and phylogenetic community assembly linked to changes in species diversity in a long-term resource manipulation experiment

(2013) Pille Gerhold et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Does trait conservatism guarantee that indicators of phylogenetic community structure will reveal niche-based assembly processes along stress gradients?

(2013) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

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

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities

(2011) Natalia Norden et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Environmental changes during secondary succession in a tropical dry forest in Mexico

(2011) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Disturbance regime changes the trait distribution, phylogenetic structure and community assembly of tropical rain forests

(2011) Yi Ding et al.   OIKOS

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

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

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

(2011) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

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

Functional traits and environmental filtering drive community assembly in a species-rich tropical system

(2010) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Long‐Term Persistence of Pioneer Species in Tropical Rain Forest Soil Seed Banks

(2009) James W. Dalling et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Hurricane Disturbance Alters Secondary Forest Recovery in Puerto Rico

(2009) Dan F.B. Flynn et al.   BIOTROPICA

Variation in Susceptibility to Hurricane Damage as a Function of Storm Intensity in Puerto Rican Tree Species

(2009) Charles D. Canham et al.   BIOTROPICA

Natural disturbance and human land use as determinants of tropical forest dynamics: results from a forest simulator

(2009) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic structure of angiosperm communities during tropical forest succession

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

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

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Coexistence through spatio-temporal heterogeneity and species sorting in grassland plant communities

(2008) Erin J. Questad et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Testing the spatial phylogenetic structure of local communities: statistical performances of different null models and test statistics on a locally neutral community

(2008) Olivier J. Hardy   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY