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Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

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Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

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The fourth-corner solution - using predictive models to understand how species traits interact with the environment

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Using observation-level random effects to model overdispersion in count data in ecology and evolution

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Selecting traits that explain species-environment relationships: a generalized linear mixed model approach

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Using life-history traits to explain bird population responses to changing weather variability

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The role of functional traits in species distributions revealed through a hierarchical model

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CWM and Rao’s quadratic diversity: a unified framework for functional ecology

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Climate change effects on an endemic-rich edaphic flora: resurveying Robert H. Whittaker's Siskiyou sites (Oregon, USA)

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