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

Fates of seedling carpets in an Amazonian floodplain forest: intra-cohort competition or attack by enemies?

(2011) Patricia Alvarez-Loayza et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Phylogenetic distance can predict susceptibility to attack by natural enemies

(2011) J. H. Ness et al.   OIKOS

Widespread density-dependent seedling mortality promotes species coexistence in a highly diverse Amazonian rain forest

(2010) Margaret R. Metz et al.   ECOLOGY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant-herbivore food webs from a tropical forest

(2010) Vojtech Novotny et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Distance-responsive natural enemies strongly influence seedling establishment patterns of multiple species in an Amazonian rain forest

(2010) Varun Swamy et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

Asymmetric Density Dependence Shapes Species Abundances in a Tropical Tree Community

(2010) L. S. Comita et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2009)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Evolutionary history and distance dependence control survival of dipterocarp seedlings

(2009) Robert Bagchi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Identification of Amazonian Trees with DNA Barcodes

(2009) Mailyn Adriana Gonzalez et al.   PLoS One

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

Weak Competition Among Tropical Tree Seedlings: Implications for Species Coexistence

(2008) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   BIOTROPICA

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

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A phylogenetic perspective on the distribution of plant diversity

(2008) M. J. Donoghue   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