From Plant Traits to Plant Communities: A Statistical Mechanistic Approach to Biodiversity

By Bill Shipley, D. Vile, Eric Garnier. Science, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The fourth‐corner solution – using predictive models to understand how species traits interact with the environment (2014, methodology): “For example, when applying the method to the bird data of Tatibouet (1981) as in Fig.”
Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology (2010, methodology): “This framework is reflected in many of the recent efforts at synthesis under the rubric of nicheneutral reconciliation (e.g., Shipley et al. 2006; Adler et al. 2007), and has proven very useful, but its domain is restricted to competitive coexistence and is focused almost entirely on local…”
Plant traits related to competition: how do they shape the functional diversity of communities? (2009, background): “Community ecology is currently being reinvigorated by the development of promising quantitative approaches which predict species abundances from plant functional traits that have been successfully filtered by the environment (Shipley et al. 2006, Cingolani et al. 2007).”
Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche (2009, background): “…abundance at a site) best reflect the level of physiological adaptation of traits to the environment (e.g. Garnier et al. 2004; Quétier et al. 2007; Shipley et al. 2006), given that dominants in a given plant assemblage should have trait values better fitted to environment than minor species…”
Complementarity as a mechanism of coexistence between functional groups of grasses (2007, background): “Classification based on functional traits rather than simple growth form is critical when examining species coexistence or ecosystem processes (Diaz et al. 2004; McGill et al. 2006; Shipley et al. 2006; Wright et al. 2006).”
MAcroecological Framework for Invasive Aliens (MAFIA): disentangling large-scale context dependence in biological invasions (2020, methodology): “With the development of Community Assembly by Trait Selection (CATS; Shipley et al 2006; Warton et al. 2015b) the classical fourth-corner problem (Legendre et al. 1997) and its implementation in joint models for abundance (Warton et al. 2015a), the analysis of trait × environment interactions, have…”
How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology. (2010, background): “…by water availability and other environmental variables whereas LDMC is relatively more fixed by the evolutionary history of a species, which is consistent with earlier analyses of the functional and evolutionary relationships among traits in the leaf economic spectrum (Shipley et al. 2006a).”
Effects of biological invasions on forest carbon sequestration (2010, background): “functional traits or characteristics) to ecosystem properties including C sequestration (e.g. Eviner, 2003; Dı́az et al., 2004, 2007; Shipley et al., 2006; De Deyn et al., 2008).”
Predicting impacts of climate change on biodiversity: a role for semi‐mechanistic community‐level modelling (2011, background): “Of the small number of semi-mechanistic community-level models that have been developed, several innovative approaches have applied mechanistic theory of community assembly and structure within a statistical mechanics framework (Shipley et al., 2006; Dewar & Porte, 2008; Harte et al., 2008).”
Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework. (2007, background): “Recent work centred on traits may provide such a solution (Shipley et al. 2006).”