Towards the general mechanistic prediction of community dynamics

Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities

(2017) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV

(2016)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

There's no place like home: seedling mortality contributes to the habitat specialisation of tree species across Amazonia

(2016) Claire Fortunel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional trait differences influence neighbourhood interactions in a hyperdiverse Amazonian forest

(2016) Claire Fortunel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Trade-Offs and Coexistence in Fluctuating Environments: Evidence for a Key Dispersal-Fecundity Trade-Off in Five Nonpollinating Fig Wasps

(2015) A. Bradley Duthie et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Temperate forest termites: ecology, biogeography, and ecosystem impacts

(2015) DANIEL S. MAYNARD et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

(2015) Pille Gerhold et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why

(2015) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Successional dynamics in Neotropical forests are as uncertain as they are predictable

(2015) Natalia Norden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trade-Offs and Coexistence: A Lottery Model Applied to Fig Wasp Communities

(2014) A. Bradley Duthie et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

How context dependent are species interactions?

(2014) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disentangling the drivers of context-dependent plant-animal interactions

(2014) John L. Maron et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Multiple environmental changes interact to modify species dynamics and invasion rates

(2014) Jason I. Griffiths et al.   OIKOS

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Does relatedness matter? Phylogenetic density-dependent survival of seedlings in a tropical forest

(2013) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin   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

Standardized laboratory tests with 21 species of temperate and tropical sepsid flies confirm their suitability as bioassays of pharmaceutical residues (ivermectin) in cattle dung

(2012) Wolf U. Blanckenhorn et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Water Availability Is the Main Climate Driver of Neotropical Tree Growth

(2012) Fabien Wagner et al.   PLoS One

Resource limitation, tolerance, and the future of ecological plant classification

(2012) Joseph M. Craine et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Phylogenetic density dependence and environmental filtering predict seedling mortality in a tropical forest

(2011) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evidence for a freezing tolerance-growth rate trade-off in the live oaks (Quercus series Virentes) across the tropical-temperate divide

(2011) Kari Koehler et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

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

Assessing foliar chlorophyll contents with the SPAD-502 chlorophyll meter: a calibration test with thirteen tree species of tropical rainforest in French Guiana

(2010) Sabrina Coste et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

High-dimensional coexistence based on individual variation: a synthesis of evidence

(2010) James S. Clark et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Neighborhood phylodiversity affects plant performance

(2010) Juan Pablo Castillo et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) S. Joseph Wright 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

Seasonal and spatial variation in water availability drive habitat associations in a tropical forest

(2009) Liza S. Comita et al.   ECOLOGY

Mechanistic niche modelling: combining physiological and spatial data to predict species’ ranges

(2009) Michael Kearney et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

(2009) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

On testing the role of niche differences in stabilizing coexistence

(2008) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The role of desiccation tolerance in determining tree species distributions along the Malay–Thai Peninsula

(2008) J. L. Baltzer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Tolerance to low leaf water status of tropical tree seedlings is related to drought performance and distribution

(2008) Thomas A. Kursar et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Linking global turnover of species and environments

(2008) L. B. Buckley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predicting and understanding forest dynamics using a simple tractable model

(2008) D. W. Purves et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA