Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

Phenotypic selection on leaf functional traits of two congeneric species in a temperate rainforest is consistent with their shade tolerance

(2013) Ernesto Gianoli et al.   OECOLOGIA

Coexistence in tropical forests through asynchronous variation in annual seed production

(2012) Jacob Usinowicz et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant traits mediate consumer and nutrient control on plant community productivity and diversity

(2012) Anu Eskelinen et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional trade-offs increase species diversity in experimental plant communities

(2012) Eyal Ben-Hur et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

(2012) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Which plant traits determine abundance under long-term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity?

(2012) Etienne Laliberté et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

When should we expect microbial phenotypic traits to predict microbial abundances?

(2012) Jeremy W. Fox   Frontiers in Microbiology

Forecasting plant community impacts of climate variability and change: when do competitive interactions matter?

(2011) Peter B. Adler et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evidence for assembly rules: limiting similarity within a saltmarsh

(2011) J. Bastow Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Masatoshi Katabuchi 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

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

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

Differential responses of vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores to traits of New Zealand subalpine shrubs

(2010) Andrew J. Tanentzap et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Bill Shipley 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

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Soil heterogeneity buffers community response to climate change in species-rich grassland

(2010) JASON D. FRIDLEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A phylogenetic approach to disentangling the role of competition and habitat filtering in community assembly of Neotropical forest birds

(2010) Juan Pablo Gómez et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung 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

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

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

Competition-defense tradeoffs and the maintenance of plant diversity

(2010) D. V. Viola et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The tolerance-fecundity trade-off and the maintenance of diversity in seed size

(2010) H. C. Muller-Landau   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

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

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Trait-based assembly and phylogenetic structure in northeast Pacific rockfish assemblages

(2009) Travis Ingram et al.   ECOLOGY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effect

(2009) Amy L. Angert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

Rainfall effects on rare annual plants

(2008) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use

(2008) Robin J. Pakeman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The interaction between predation and competition

(2008) Peter Chesson et al.   NATURE

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

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

Why are evergreen leaves so contrary about shade?

(2008) C LUSK et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION