Why species tell more about traits than traits about species: predictive analysis

Intraspecific trait variation across scales: implications for understanding global change responses

(2015) Emily V. Moran et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

(2015) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Beyond mean functional traits: Influence of functional trait profiles on forest structure, production, and mortality across the eastern US

(2014) Matthew B. Russell et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Shifts in functional traits among tree communities across succession in eastern deciduous forests

(2014) Peter A. Wilfahrt et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Within-species variability is the main driver of community-level responses of traits of epiphytes across a long-term chronosequence

(2014) Johan Asplund et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Community-weighted mean functional effect traits determine larval amphibian responses to litter mixtures

(2014) J. S. Cohen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Predicting species' range limits from functional traits for the tree flora of North America

(2014) U. Stahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A fully traits-based approach to modeling global vegetation distribution

(2014) P. M. van Bodegom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient

(2014) C. Lamanna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

More than the sum of the parts: forest climate response from joint species distribution models

(2013) James S. Clark et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Phylogenetic trait-based analyses of ecological networks

(2013) Nicole E. Rafferty et al.   ECOLOGY

Combining the fourth-corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation

(2013) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

Quantifying and comparing intraspecific functional trait variability: a case study withHypochaeris radicata

(2013) Rachel M. Mitchell et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Dual impacts of climate change: forest migration and turnover through life history

(2013) Kai Zhu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Dynamic Inverse Prediction and Sensitivity Analysis With High-Dimensional Responses: Application to Climate-Change Vulnerability of Biodiversity

(2013) James S. Clark et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS

Spatial Regression Modeling for Compositional Data With Many Zeros

(2013) Thomas J. Leininger et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS

Using Hierarchical Bayes to Understand Movement, Health, and Survival in the Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale

(2013) Robert S. Schick et al.   PLoS One

Whole-plant trait spectra of North American woody plant species reflect fundamental ecological strategies

(2013) Ulrike Stahl et al.   Ecosphere

The k-ZIG: Flexible Modeling for Zero-Inflated Counts

(2012) Souparno Ghosh et al.   BIOMETRICS

Improving plant functional groups for dynamic models of biodiversity: at the crossroads between functional and community ecology

(2012) Isabelle Boulangeat et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2012) Tahira Jamil et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?

(2012) Michael Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

(2012) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLoS One

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

(2011) Laura J. Pollock et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

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

The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Individual-scale inference to anticipate climate-change vulnerability of biodiversity

(2011) J. S. Clark et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2010) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

(2010) Colleen T. Webb 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

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

(2009) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species

(2009) Lourens Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant functional types do not predict biomass responses to removal and fertilization in Alaskan tussock tundra

(2008) M. Syndonia Bret-Harte et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Bayesian Inference for Multivariate Ordinal Data Using Parameter Expansion

(2008) Earl Lawrence et al.   TECHNOMETRICS