Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

Drought-induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana

(2012) Sophie Fauset et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

What controls tropical forest architecture? Testing environmental, structural and floristic drivers

(2012) L. Banin et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The partitioning of Africa: statistically defined biogeographical regions in sub-Saharan Africa

(2012) H. Peter Linder et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Temperature dependence of the reproduction niche and its relevance for plant species distributions

(2012) Olga Bykova et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Connecting dynamic vegetation models to data - an inverse perspective

(2012) Florian Hartig et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   NATURE

Fire and fire-adapted vegetation promoted C4 expansion in the late Miocene

(2012) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Carbon dioxide and the uneasy interactions of trees and savannah grasses

(2012) W. J. Bond et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How many elephants can you fit into a conservation area

(2012) Simon Scheiter et al.   Conservation Letters

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Reconstructing range dynamics and range fragmentation of European bison for the last 8000 years

(2011) Tobias Kuemmerle et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Individual-scale variation, species-scale differences: inference needed to understand diversity

(2011) James S. Clark et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Toward dynamic global vegetation models for simulating vegetation–climate interactions and feedbacks: recent developments, limitations, and future challenges

(2011) Anne Quillet et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

Projecting the future distribution of European potential natural vegetation zones with a generalized, tree species-based dynamic vegetation model

(2011) Thomas Hickler et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global vegetation and terrestrial carbon cycle changes after the last ice age

(2011) I. C. Prentice et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Worldwide correlations of mechanical properties and green wood density

(2010) Karl J. Niklas et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

High-dimensional coexistence based on individual variation: a synthesis of evidence

(2010) James S. Clark et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

The stability of African savannas: insights from the indirect estimation of the parameters of a dynamic model

(2010) Steven I. Higgins et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

A structured and dynamic framework to advance traits-based theory and prediction in ecology

(2010) Colleen T. Webb et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate change vulnerability of forest biodiversity: climate and competition tracking of demographic rates

(2010) JAMES S. CLARK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The role of climate and plant functional trade-offs in shaping global biome and biodiversity patterns

(2010) Björn Reu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

(2010) Rosie Fisher et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Multiple mechanisms of Amazonian forest biomass losses in three dynamic global vegetation models under climate change

(2010) David Galbraith et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

An exceptional role for flowering plant physiology in the expansion of tropical rainforests and biodiversity

(2010) C. K. Boyce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Controls of Aboveground Net Primary Production in Mesic Savanna Grasslands: An Inter-Hemispheric Comparison

(2009) Greg M. Buis et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Global biogeophysical interactions between forest and climate

(2009) Victor Brovkin et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

(2009) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NATURE

Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire

(2009) M. F. Simon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effect

(2009) Amy L. Angert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FIRE REDUCES MORPHOSPACE OCCUPATION IN PLANT COMMUNITIES

(2008) Juli G. Pausas et al.   ECOLOGY

Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

(2008) S. SITCH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impacts of climate change on the vegetation of Africa: an adaptive dynamic vegetation modelling approach

(2008) SIMON SCHEITER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Towards quantifying uncertainty in predictions of Amazon 'dieback'

(2008) C. Huntingford et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE