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

Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

(2011) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Resolving Darwin’s naturalization conundrum: a quest for evidence

(2010) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

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

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

The partitioning of diversity: showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth

(2010) Francesco De Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Community assembly, natural selection and maximum entropy models

(2010) Bill Shipley   OIKOS

Convex hulls, habitat filtering, and functional diversity: mathematical elegance versus ecological interpretability

(2009) J. Podani   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Ken Thompson et al.   JOURNAL OF 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

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

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Does niche overlap control relative abundance in French lacustrine fish communities? A new method incorporating functional traits

(2008) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY