Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages

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

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

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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

Coordinated variation in leaf and root traits across multiple spatial scales in Chinese semi-arid and arid ecosystems

(2010) Guofang Liu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Stochastic Community Assembly Causes Higher Biodiversity in More Productive Environments

(2010) J. M. Chase   SCIENCE

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

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

Little evidence for limiting similarity in a long-term study of a roadside plant community

(2009) Ken Thompson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora

(2009) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

(2009) Francesco de Bello et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

LEAF HERBIVORY AND DECOMPOSABILITY IN A MALAYSIAN TROPICAL RAIN FOREST

(2008) Hiroko Kurokawa et al.   ECOLOGY

Positive interactions among competitors can produce species-rich communities

(2008) Kevin Gross   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

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

Mutualistic Interactions Drive Ecological Niche Convergence in a Diverse Butterfly Community

(2008) Marianne Elias et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY