Challenges in linking trait patterns to niche differentiation

Can Clustering in Genotype Space Reveal “Niches”?

(2016) Rafael D’Andrea et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The effect of intraspecific variation and heritability on community pattern and robustness

(2016) György Barabás et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A new modeling approach estimates the relative importance of different community assembly processes

(2015) Fons van der Plas et al.   ECOLOGY

Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly

(2015) Jesse R. Lasky et al.   ECOLOGY

A new dynamic null model for phylogenetic community structure

(2015) Alex L. Pigot et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Changes in trait divergence and convergence along a productivity gradient in wet meadows

(2014) Marta Carboni et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Sensitivity analysis of coexistence in ecological communities: theory and application

(2014) György Barabás et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Do newcomers stick to the rules of the residents? Designing trait-based community assembly tests

(2014) Eva Breitschwerdt et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Between- and within-species trait variability and the assembly of sapling communities in forest patches

(2014) Marcos B. Carlucci et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Trait-mediated assembly processes predict successional changes in community diversity of tropical forests

(2014) J. R. Lasky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Revising the Tolerance-Fecundity Trade-Off; or, On the Consequences of Discontinuous Resource Use for Limiting Similarity, Species Diversity, and Trait Dispersion

(2013) Rafael D’Andrea et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Species Richness and the Temporal Stability of Biomass Production: A New Analysis of Recent Biodiversity Experiments

(2013) Kevin Gross et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The role of functional traits and individual variation in the co-occurrence ofFicusspecies

(2013) Jesse R. Lasky et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

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

Community assembly by limiting similarity vs. competitive hierarchies: testing the consequences of dispersion of individual traits

(2013) Tomáš Herben et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Predicting coexistence of plants subject to a tolerance-competition trade-off

(2013) Bart Haegeman et al.   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Emergent neutrality or hidden niches?

(2013) György Barabás et al.   OIKOS

Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies

(2013) P. B. Adler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

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

Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOLOGY

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Large-scale spatial synchrony and the stability of forest biodiversity revisited

(2012) Annette M. Ostling   Journal of Plant Ecology

Trait assembly of woody plants in communities across sub-alpine gradients: Identifying the role of limiting similarity

(2012) Bangguo Yan et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Incorporating intraspecific variation in tests of trait-based community assembly

(2012) Andrew Siefert   OECOLOGIA

Quantification of the relative roles of niche and neutral processes in structuring gastrointestinal microbiomes

(2012) P. Jeraldo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Species packing in nonsmooth competition models

(2012) György Barabás et al.   Theoretical Ecology

The coherence problem with the Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity

(2012) James S. Clark   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Emergent neutrality leads to multimodal species abundance distributions

(2012) Remi Vergnon et al.   Nature Communications

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

CalculatingNeandNe/Nin age-structured populations: a hybrid Felsenstein-Hill approach

(2011) Robin S. Waples et al.   ECOLOGY

The ecological causes of individual specialisation

(2011) Márcio S. Araújo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evidence for assembly rules: limiting similarity within a saltmarsh

(2011) J. Bastow Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional traits of individual trees reveal ecological constraints on community assembly in tropical rain forests

(2011) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   OIKOS

On the importance of intraspecific variability for the quantification of functional diversity

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   OIKOS

More closely related species are more ecologically similar in an experimental test

(2011) J. H. Burns et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional traits determine trade-offs and niches in a tropical forest community

(2011) F. Sterck et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

(2011) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography at Age Ten

(2011) James Rosindell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Dynamic Phenotypic Clustering in Noisy Ecosystems

(2011) Morten Ernebjerg et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

An Experimental Test of Darwin’s Naturalization Hypothesis

(2010) Lin Jiang et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Approximate Bayesian Computation in Evolution and Ecology

(2010) Mark A. Beaumont   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

A user's guide to functional diversity indices

(2010) D. Schleuter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

On the evidence for species coexistence: a critique of the coexistence program

(2010) Adam M. Siepielski et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

(2010) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

The clumping transition in niche competition: a robust critical phenomenon

(2010) H Fort et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

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

Emergent neutrality drives phytoplankton species coexistence

(2010) A. M. Segura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Intra-specific variability and the competition–colonisation trade-off: coexistence, abundance and stability patterns

(2010) Benoit Courbaud et al.   Theoretical Ecology

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

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

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Niches versus neutrality: uncovering the drivers of diversity in a species-rich community

(2009) Remi Vergnon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Variation in leaf functional trait values within and across individuals and species: an example from a Costa Rican dry forest

(2009) Catherine M. Hulshof et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

When the exception becomes the rule: The disappearance of limiting similarity in the Lotka–Volterra model

(2009) György Barabás et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Species competition: coexistence, exclusion and clustering

(2009) E. Hernandez-Garcia et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC CLUSTERS THROUGH COMPETITION AND LOCAL ADAPTATION ALONG AN ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT

(2008) Olof Leimar et al.   EVOLUTION

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

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