A trait-based approach to community assembly: partitioning of species trait values into within- and among-community components.

By David D. Ackerly, William K. Cornwell. Ecology Letters, 2007

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

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Regeneration: an overlooked aspect of trait‐based plant community assembly models (2016, background): “While there are many evolving approaches to trait-based inferences of community assembly processes (e.g. Ackerly & Cornwell 2007; Pillar et al. 2009; Spasojevic & Suding 2012; Laughlin & Laughlin 2013; Loranger et al. 2016), the required inputs and desired outputs are generally similar (Fig.”
Plant functional traits capture species richness variations along a flooding gradient (2011, background): “Hence, our study supports the idea of the relevance of plant traits to explain biodiversity distribution (McGill et al. 2006, Ackerly and Cornwell 2007, Violle and Jiang 2009), but also advocates selecting the trait toolbox carefully.”
Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science (2011, background): “Trait-based approaches that consider how the traits of organisms turn over along abiotic gradients provide a bridge between processes at the community level and global change predictions (McGill et al., 2006; Ackerly & Cornwell, 2007; Suding et al., 2008).”
Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide. (2008, background): “…in space (e.g. soil fertility and hydrology) and time (e.g. disturbance) and ⁄ or tradeoffs among other physiological traits that produce roughly similar fitness levels among coexisting species with alternate physiological strategies (Grime 2006; Marks & Lechowicz 2006; Ackerly & Cornwell 2007).”
The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests (2011, methodology): “…was based on seed mass, which relates to reproductive strategy, wood density (reproductive strategy and growth rate) and maximum height (dominance and structural diversity), all traits often used in the B-EF literature (Ackerly & Cornwell, 2007; Chave et al., 2009; Lei et al., 2009) (Table 2).”
Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory (2012, background): “…within and between communities has increased our understanding of how traits are distributed among interacting species at various spatial scales (Ackerly & Cornwell 2007); and second, the insight that phylogenetic relatedness can be used as a proxy for trait similarity has expanded our ability…”
The partitioning of diversity: showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth (2010, background): “The partitioning of biodiversity into different spatial components is critical to understand processes underlying species distributions and diversity turnover (Magurran 2004; Ackerly & Cornwell 2007; Prinzing et al. 2008; de Bello et al. 2009).”
Intraspecific variability and trait‐based community assembly (2010, background): “…approaches have recently emerged as a promising way to understand the mechanisms structuring plant communities (e.g. Stubbs & Wilson 2004; Ackerly & Cornwell 2007; Cingolani et al. 2007; Schamp, Chau & Aarssen 2008; Webb et al. 2010), so much so that McGill et al. (2006) proposed…”
Trait-Based Approaches in the Analysis of Stream Fish Communities (2010, background): “This is a fast-growing topic in plant community ecology (e.g., Fukami et al. 2005; Ackerly and Cornwell 2007; Kraft et al. 2007), but examples in stream fish community ecology are lacking (but see Cook et al. 2004; Eros et al. 2009).”
Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche (2009, methodology): “For instance, applying this method to woody plant communities of coastal California, Ackerly and Cornwell (2007) showed that beta trait values for SLA, leaf size, wood density and maximum height, which all covaried, reflect species positions across a gradient of soil moisture availability.”
The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto (2014, background): “…the C-S axis of the Grime triangle and the ‘leaf’ component of the Westoby LHS scheme are paralleled by findings from economics trait spectra studies (Grime 1979; Reich, Walters & Ellsworth 1997; Wright et al. 2004; Westoby 2006), despite different ways of describing and labelling those strategies.”
The distribution of below‐ground traits is explained by intrinsic species differences and intraspecific plasticity in response to root neighbours (2013, background): “Species tolerance was defined as the range of soil properties where a single species was observed (Ackerly & Cornwell 2007).”
Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? (2014, unknown): “…al. 2007; Pakeman et al. 2008; Fortunel et al. 2009; Pakeman et al. 2009) 73 (Niinemets 1999, 2001) 75 (Cornwell et al. 2006; Preston et al. 2006; Ackerly & Cornwell 2007; Cornwell & Ackerly 2009) 89 (Kattge et al. 2009) 136 (van Bodegom et al. 2008) 138 (Bakker et al. 2006) 139 (Bakker et al.…”
Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects (2015, background): “In contrast to the increasing relative number of papers on other topics in community assembly, such as functional traits and phylogenetic structure (Ackerly & Cornwell 2007, Kraft et al. 2007, Swenson 2013), historical contingency has remained a fairly minor part of the literature to date (Figure…”