The assembly of tropical tree communities - the advances and shortcomings of phylogenetic and functional trait analyses

Trait evolution and the coexistence of a species swarm in the tropical forest understorey

(2013) Brian E. Sedio et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The Contribution of Rare Species to Community Phylogenetic Diversity across a Global Network of Forest Plots

(2012) Xiangcheng Mi et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

(2012) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Evolutionary tools for phytosanitary risk analysis: phylogenetic signal as a predictor of host range of plant pests and pathogens

(2012) Gregory S. Gilbert et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Phylogenetic turnover in tropical tree communities: impact of environmental filtering, biogeography and mesoclimatic niche conservatism

(2012) Olivier J. Hardy et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Maintenance of tree phylogenetic diversity in a highly fragmented rain forest

(2012) Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities

(2012) Christopher Baraloto et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do Stacked Species Distribution Models Reflect Altitudinal Diversity Patterns?

(2012) Rubén G. Mateo et al.   PLoS One

Covariation in Plant Functional Traits and Soil Fertility within Two Species-Rich Forests

(2012) Xiaojuan Liu et al.   PLoS One

What Makes a Leaf Tough? Patterns of Correlated Evolution between Leaf Toughness Traits and Demographic Rates among 197 Shade-Tolerant Woody Species in a Neotropical Forest

(2011) Jared W. Westbrook et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Change in community phylogenetic structure during tropical forest succession: evidence from New Guinea

(2011) T. J. S. Whitfeld et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities

(2011) Natalia Norden et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Soil resource availability shapes community trait structure in a species-rich dipterocarp forest

(2011) Masatoshi Katabuchi et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

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

Phylogenetic community structure during succession: Evidence from three Neotropical forest sites

(2011) Susan G. Letcher et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Exploring Tree-Habitat Associations in a Chinese Subtropical Forest Plot Using a Molecular Phylogeny Generated from DNA Barcode Loci

(2011) Nancai Pei et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic community structure and phylogenetic turnover across space and edaphic gradients in western Amazonian tree communities

(2010) Paul V. A. Fine et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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 the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos 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

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The relationship between wood density and mortality in a global tropical forest data set

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phylogenetic Analysis of Local-Scale Tree Soil Associations in a Lowland Moist Tropical Forest

(2010) Laura A. Schreeg et al.   PLoS One

Advances in the Use of DNA Barcodes to Build a Community Phylogeny for Tropical Trees in a Puerto Rican Forest Dynamics Plot

(2010) W. John Kress et al.   PLoS One

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

The impact of ecological differentiation and dispersal limitation on species turnover and phylogenetic structure of inselberg's plant communities

(2009) Ingrid Parmentier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Functional trait variation and sampling strategies in species-rich plant communities

(2009) Christopher Baraloto et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Shifts in species and phylogenetic diversity between sapling and tree communities indicate negative density dependence in a lowland rain forest

(2009) Mailyn A. Gonzalez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga

(2009) T. A. Kursar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant DNA barcodes and a community phylogeny of a tropical forest dynamics plot in Panama

(2009) W. J. Kress et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic structure of angiosperm communities during tropical forest succession

(2009) S. G. Letcher   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

Commentary on Losos (2008): niche conservatism déjà vu

(2008) John J. Wiens   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Emerging patterns in the comparative analysis of phylogenetic community structure

(2008) S. M. VAMOSI et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity

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

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

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