Survival rates indicate that correlations between community-weighted mean traits and environments can be unreliable estimates of the adaptive value of traits

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

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

Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum

(2016) Kris R. Kramer-Walter et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Scale dependence of canopy trait distributions along a tropical forest elevation gradient

(2016) Gregory P. Asner et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology

(2016) Bill Shipley et al.   OECOLOGIA

Meta-analysis reveals that hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns of drought-induced tree mortality across the globe

(2016) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Do community-weighted mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies?

(2016) Robert Muscarella et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Large niche differences emerge at the recruitment stage to stabilize grassland coexistence

(2015) Chengjin Chu et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Multiple environmental drivers structure plant traits at the community level in a pyrogenic ecosystem

(2015) Gregory M. Ames et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates

(2015) Vincent Maire et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Soil fertility induces coordinated responses of multiple independent functional traits

(2015) Melissa M. Jager et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

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

Long-term Protection from Heavy Livestock Grazing Affects Ponderosa Pine Understory Composition and Functional Traits

(2015) Robert T. Strahan et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes

(2015) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

piecewiseSEM: Piecewise structural equation modelling inr for ecology, evolution, and systematics

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

(2014) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Phosphorus limitation, soil-borne pathogens and the coexistence of plant species in hyperdiverse forests and shrublands

(2014) Etienne Laliberté et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

CATS regression - a model-based approach to studying trait-based community assembly

(2014) David I. Warton et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Combining the fourth-corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation

(2013) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

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

Environmental factors predict community functional composition in Amazonian forests

(2013) Claire Fortunel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

A predictive model of community assembly that incorporates intraspecific trait variation

(2012) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A century of increasing pine density and associated shifts in understory plant strategies

(2010) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   ECOLOGY

A strong test of a maximum entropy model of trait-based community assembly

(2010) Bill Shipley et al.   ECOLOGY

Quantifying relationships between traits and explicitly measured gradients of stress and disturbance in early successional plant communities

(2010) Grégory Sonnier et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

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

A multi-trait test of the leaf-height-seed plant strategy scheme with 133 species from a pine forest flora

(2009) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Demography of perennial grassland plants: survival, life expectancy and life span

(2008) William K. Lauenroth et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY