Using phylogeny and functional traits for assessing community assembly along environmental gradients: A deterministic process driven by elevation

Variation in wood nutrients along a tropical soil fertility gradient

(2016) Katherine D. Heineman et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Individual species affect plant traits structure in their surroundings: evidence of functional mechanisms of assembly

(2016) Julia Chacón-Labella et al.   OECOLOGIA

Trait-Based Community Assembly along an Elevational Gradient in Subalpine Forests: Quantifying the Roles of Environmental Factors in Inter- and Intraspecific Variability

(2016) Ya-Huang Luo et al.   PLoS One

Patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic diversity during a long-term succession of forest on the Loess Plateau, China: insights into assembly process

(2016) Yongfu Chai et al.   Scientific Reports

Using functional trait diversity to evaluate the contribution of multiple ecological processes to community assembly during succession

(2015) Hui Zhang et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better)

(2015) Pille Gerhold et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Using Plant Functional Traits and Phylogenies to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Assembly in a Seasonal Tropical Forest in Lao PDR

(2015) Manichanh Satdichanh et al.   PLoS One

Community assembly and functional diversity along succession post-management

(2014) Radika Bhaskar et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic structure and phylogenetic diversity of angiosperm assemblages in forests along an elevational gradient in Changbaishan, China

(2014) Hong Qian et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients

(2014) E. Laliberte et al.   SCIENCE

Community and Ecosystem Responses to Elevational Gradients: Processes, Mechanisms, and Insights for Global Change

(2013) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Habitat filtering influences the phylogenetic structure of avian communities across a coastal gradient in southern Brazil

(2013) Andros Tarouco Gianuca et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic and functional diversity area relationships in two temperate forests

(2013) Xugao Wang et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The environment and space, not phylogeny, determine trait dispersion in a subtropical forest

(2013) Xiaojuan Liu et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Chinese tropical tree community across size classes, spatial scales and habitats

(2013) Jie Yang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Community assembly processes shape an altitudinal gradient of forest biodiversity

(2013) Akira S Mori et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

(2013) Maud Bernard-Verdier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Trait-mediated effects of environmental filtering on tree community dynamics

(2013) Jesse R. Lasky et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes

(2013) Oliver Purschke et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Environmental factors predict community functional composition in Amazonian forests

(2013) Claire Fortunel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do plant traits retrieved from a database accurately predict on-site measurements?

(2013) Verena Cordlandwehr et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intra-specific and inter-specific variation in specific leaf area reveal the importance of abiotic and biotic drivers of species diversity across elevation and latitude

(2013) Catherine M. Hulshof et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Australian Tropical and Subtropical Rain Forest Community Assembly: Phylogeny, Functional Biogeography, and Environmental Gradients

(2012) Robert Kooyman et al.   BIOTROPICA

The effect of environmental and phylogenetic drivers on community assembly in an alpine meadow community

(2012) Zhongling Yang et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of competition on phylogenetic signal and phenotypic plasticity in plant functional traits

(2012) Jean H. Burns 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

Beta-diversity in temperate and tropical forests reflects dissimilar mechanisms of community assembly

(2012) Jonathan A. Myers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional beta-diversity patterns reveal deterministic community assembly processes in eastern North American trees

(2012) Andrew Siefert et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The accuracy of plant assemblage prediction from species distribution models varies along environmental gradients

(2012) Julien Pottier et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Relative effects of phylogeny, biological characters and environments on leaf traits in shrub biomes across central Inner Mongolia, China

(2012) Chao Liu et al.   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

Trait but not species convergence during plant community assembly in restored semi-natural grasslands

(2012) Kenny Helsen et al.   OIKOS

Contrasting patterns of trait-based community assembly in lianas and trees from temperate Australia

(2012) Rachael V. Gallagher et al.   OIKOS

Sensitivity of Metrics of Phylogenetic Structure to Scale, Source of Data and Species Pool of Hummingbird Assemblages along Elevational Gradients

(2012) Sebastián González-Caro et al.   PLoS One

How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

(2012) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Assessing the threat to montane biodiversity from discordant shifts in temperature and precipitation in a changing climate

(2011) Christy M. McCain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Nitrification is linked to dominant leaf traits rather than functional diversity

(2011) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Patterns of plant community assembly in invaded and non-invaded communities along a natural environmental gradient

(2011) Riccardo Santoro et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Trait-based community assembly of understory palms along a soil nutrient gradient in a lower montane tropical forest

(2011) Kelly M. Andersen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Disturbance regime changes the trait distribution, phylogenetic structure and community assembly of tropical rain forests

(2011) Yi Ding et al.   OIKOS

Phylogenetic Beta Diversity Metrics, Trait Evolution and Inferring the Functional Beta Diversity of Communities

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson   PLoS One

The evolution of the worldwide leaf economics spectrum

(2011) Lisa A. Donovan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach

(2010) S. Pavoine et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

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

Functional traits and environmental filtering drive community assembly in a species-rich tropical system

(2010) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY

A framework for metacommunity analysis of phylogenetic structure

(2010) Valério D. Pillar et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield 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

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

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

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

(2010) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Deterministic tropical tree community turnover: evidence from patterns of functional beta diversity along an elevational gradient

(2010) N. G. Swenson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad-leaved forest of China

(2009) Pierre Legendre et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Disentangling niche and neutral influences on community assembly: assessing the performance of community phylogenetic structure tests

(2009) Steven W. Kembel   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

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

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave 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

Relative climatic, edaphic and management controls of plant functional trait signatures

(2009) Robin J. Pakeman et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A community-level test of the leaf-height-seed ecology strategy scheme in relation to grazing conditions

(2009) Carly Golodets et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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