Temperature is better than precipitation as a predictor of plant community assembly across a dryland region

Long-term plant responses to climate are moderated by biophysical attributes in a North American desert

(2015) Seth M. Munson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Environmental filtering increases in intensity at both ends of climatic gradients, though driven by different factors, across woody vegetation types of the southwest USA

(2015) Bradley J. Butterfield   OIKOS

Using trait and phylogenetic diversity to evaluate the generality of the stress-dominance hypothesis in eastern North American tree communities

(2014) Jessica R. Coyle et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

(2014) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Regional signatures of plant response to drought and elevated temperature across a desert ecosystem

(2013) Seth M. Munson et al.   ECOLOGY

Correlates of tree species sorting along a temperature gradient in New Zealand rain forests: seedling functional traits, growth and shade tolerance

(2013) Christopher H. Lusk et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evidence for recent evolution of cold tolerance in grasses suggests current distribution is not limited by (low) temperature

(2013) Aelys M. Humphreys et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

European deciduous trees exhibit similar safety margins against damage by spring freeze events along elevational gradients

(2013) Armando Lenz et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant responses, climate pivot points, and trade-offs in water-limited ecosystems

(2013) Seth M. Munson   Ecosphere

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

(2012) J. HilleRisLambers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Forecasting climate change impacts to plant community composition in the Sonoran Desert region

(2011) Seth M. Munson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

SESAM - a new framework integrating macroecological and species distribution models for predicting spatio-temporal patterns of species assemblages

(2011) Antoine Guisan et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

On the brink of change: plant responses to climate on the Colorado Plateau

(2011) Seth M. Munson et al.   Ecosphere

Evolution and Ecology of Species Range Limits

(2009) Jason P. Sexton et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Importance of abiotic stress as a range-limit determinant for European plants: insights from species responses to climatic gradients

(2009) Signe Normand et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Physiographically sensitive mapping of climatological temperature and precipitation across the conterminous United States

(2008) Christopher Daly et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST