Species with greater seed mass are more tolerant of conspecific neighbours: a key driver of early survival and future abundances in a tropical forest

Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees

(2016) Marco D. Visser et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Trade-offs in juvenile growth potential vs. shade tolerance among subtropical rain forest trees on soils of contrasting fertility

(2015) Kerrie M. Sendall et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

Testing predictions of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival

(2014) Liza S. Comita et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

(2014) Robert Bagchi et al.   NATURE

Plant–soil feedback links negative distance dependence and light gradient partitioning during seedling establishment

(2013) Sarah McCarthy-Neumann et al.   ECOLOGY

Does relatedness matter? Phylogenetic density-dependent survival of seedlings in a tropical forest

(2013) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

(2013) Peter B. Adler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Enemies Maintain Hyperdiverse Tropical Forests

(2012) John Terborgh   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Conspecific Negative Density Dependence and Forest Diversity

(2012) D. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

What Makes a Leaf Tough? Patterns of Correlated Evolution between Leaf Toughness Traits and Demographic Rates among 197 Shade-Tolerant Woody Species in a Neotropical Forest

(2011) Jared W. Westbrook et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Tropical tree seedling growth responses to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium addition

(2011) Louis S. Santiago et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A theoretical model linking interspecific variation in density dependence to species abundances

(2011) Ryan A. Chisholm et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Distance-responsive natural enemies strongly influence seedling establishment patterns of multiple species in an Amazonian rain forest

(2010) Varun Swamy et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seed survival in soil: interacting effects of predation, dormancy and the soil microbial community

(2010) James W. Dalling et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

(2010) Oliver L. Phillips et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tissue-level leaf toughness, but not lamina thickness, predicts sapling leaf lifespan and shade tolerance of tropical tree species

(2010) Kaoru Kitajima et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The tolerance-fecundity trade-off and the maintenance of diversity in seed size

(2010) H. C. Muller-Landau   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Asymmetric Density Dependence Shapes Species Abundances in a Tropical Tree Community

(2010) L. S. Comita et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data

(2010) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Positive density dependence in seedlings of the neotropical tree speciesGarcinia macrophyllaandXylopia micans

(2009) Jill T. Anderson   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Seedling Traits Determine Drought Tolerance of Tropical Tree Species

(2008) Lourens Poorter et al.   BIOTROPICA

TOLERANCE OF SOIL PATHOGENS CO-VARIES WITH SHADE TOLERANCE ACROSS SPECIES OF TROPICAL TREE SEEDLINGS

(2008) Sarah McCarthy-Neumann et al.   ECOLOGY

Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

(2008) Helene C. Muller-Landau et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY