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

Recovery of woody plant diversity in tropical rain forests in southern China after logging and shifting cultivation

(2011) Yi Ding et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Multivariate identification of plant functional response and effect traits in an agricultural landscape

(2011) Robin J. Pakeman   ECOLOGY

On the importance of intraspecific variability for the quantification of functional diversity

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   OIKOS

Advances, challenges and a developing synthesis of ecological community assembly theory

(2011) E. Weiher et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

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

(2010) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Communities contain closely related species during ecosystem disturbance

(2010) Matthew R. Helmus et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A multi-trait approach reveals the structure and the relative importance of intra- vs. interspecific variability in plant traits

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effects of Logging on the Diversity of Lianas in a Lowland Tropical Rain Forest in Hainan Island, South China

(2009) Yi Ding et al.   BIOTROPICA

Rapid Recovery of Biomass, Species Richness, and Species Composition in a Forest Chronosequence in Northeastern Costa Rica

(2009) Susan G. Letcher et al.   BIOTROPICA

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Disentangling niche and neutral influences on community assembly: assessing the performance of community phylogenetic structure tests

(2009) Steven W. Kembel   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Resilience of tropical rain forests: tree community reassembly in secondary forests

(2009) Natalia Norden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

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

Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities

(2009) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional trait variation and sampling strategies in species-rich plant communities

(2009) Christopher Baraloto et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Shifts in species and phylogenetic diversity between sapling and tree communities indicate negative density dependence in a lowland rain forest

(2009) Mailyn A. Gonzalez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic Resolution and Quantifying the Phylogenetic Diversity and Dispersion of Communities

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson   PLoS One

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

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

(2008) Sonja Knapp et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Spatiotemporal Patterns and Dynamics of Species Richness and Abundance of Woody Plant Functional Groups in a Tropical Forest Landscape of Hainan Island, South China

(2008) Zhi-Dong Zhang et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE