Relative importance of habitat filtering and limiting similarity on species assemblages of alpine and subalpine plant communities

Effects of topographic and edaphic conditions on alpine plant species distribution along a slope gradient on Mount Norikura, central Japan

(2014) Koichi Takahashi et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Effects of wind and thermal conditions on timberline formation in central Japan: a lattice model

(2014) Koichi Takahashi   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Robustness of trait distribution metrics for community assembly studies under the uncertainties of assembly processes

(2013) Masahiro Aiba et al.   ECOLOGY

Evidence for scale- and disturbance-dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi-natural grasslands

(2013) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How the timberline formed: altitudinal changes in stand structure and dynamics around the timberline in central Japan

(2012) Koichi Takahashi et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

(2012) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Foundation species influence trait-based community assembly

(2012) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

(2011) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Soil resource availability shapes community trait structure in a species-rich dipterocarp forest

(2011) Masatoshi Katabuchi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Microhabitat amelioration and reduced competition among understorey plants as drivers of facilitation across environmental gradients: Towards a unifying framework

(2011) Santiago Soliveres et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Climatic drivers of plant–plant interactions and diversity in alpine communities

(2011) Zaal Kikvidze et al.   Alpine Botany

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Topographically controlled thermal-habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A link between plant traits and abundance: evidence from coastal California woody plants

(2010) William K. Cornwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Genotypic and environmental variation in specific leaf area in a widespread Alpine plant after transplantation to different altitudes

(2010) J. F. Scheepens et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Trait-based assembly and phylogenetic structure in northeast Pacific rockfish assemblages

(2009) Travis Ingram et al.   ECOLOGY

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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