Towards a functional basis for predicting vegetation patterns; incorporating plant traits in habitat distribution models

Process-based proxy of oxygen stress surpasses indirect ones in predicting vegetation characteristics

(2011) Ruud P. Bartholomeus et al.   Ecohydrology

Environmental and anthropogenic determinants of vegetation distribution across Africa

(2011) Michelle Greve et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

A method to construct dose–response curves for a wide range of environmental factors and plant traits by means of a meta-analysis of phenotypic data

(2010) Hendrik Poorter et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Plant Strategies in Relation to Resource Supply in Mesic to Wet Environments: Does Theory Mirror Nature?

(2009) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Species Distribution Models: Ecological Explanation and Prediction Across Space and Time

(2009) Jane Elith et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

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

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

(2009) Michael Kearney et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Separating the influences of environment and species interactions on patterns of distribution and abundance: competition between large herbivores

(2009) Euan G. Ritchie et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Contemporary perspectives on the niche that can improve models of species range shifts under climate change

(2008) X. Morin et al.   Biology Letters

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Critical soil conditions for oxygen stress to plant roots: Substituting the Feddes-function by a process-based model

(2008) Ruud P. Bartholomeus et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Assignment of relevés to pre-defined classes by supervised clustering of plant communities using a new composite index

(2008) Onno van Tongeren et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

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