A trait-based test for habitat filtering: convex hull volume.

By William K. Cornwell, D. Schwilk, David D. Ackerly. Ecology, 2006

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Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest (2010, methodology): “E-mail: nkraft@biodiversity.ubc.ca 401 expectation generated by drawing species at random from a regional pool of potential colonists (Webb 2000, Cornwell et al. 2006).”
Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach (2011, background): “Richness Convex hull ConvH Cornwell et al. (2006) × × Exponent of the relation between edge rank and corresponding cumulative edge length in a minimum spanning tree α Ricotta & Moretti (2008) × ×”
Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? (2014, neutral): “2009) 73 (Niinemets 1999, 2001) 75 (Cornwell et al. 2006; Preston et al. 2006; Ackerly & Cornwell 2007; Cornwell & Ackerly 2009) 89 (Kattge et al.”
A user's guide to functional diversity indices (2010, methodology): “…properties of selected indices were specified by Petchey and Gaston (2006) and Ricotta (2005), but new indices have been published since then (e.g., Cornwell et al. 2006, Podani and Schmera 2007, Villéger et al. 2008) and although the importance of intraspecific specialization and variability is…”
Climate change and the invasion of California by grasses (2012, background): “Abiotic conditions can be conceptualized as filters that, by acting on functional traits, determine local community membership (Diaz et al., 1998; Thuiller et al., 2004; Cornwell et al., 2006).”
How climate change affects the seasonal ecology of insect parasitoids (2020, background): “Trait convergence within communities can be expected when environmental conditions are particularly harsh and influence © 2019 The Royal Entomological Society, Ecological Entomology, 45, 167–181 coexisting species (Cornwell et al., 2006; Le Lann et al., 2014b).”
Quantifying Functional Biodiversity (2011, methodology): “The procedure is like the convex hull hyper-volume (Cornwell et al. 2006).”
Contrasting changes in taxonomic vs. functional diversity of tropical fish communities after habitat degradation. (2010, background): “From a practical point of view, Cornwell et al. (2006) show that habitat filtering may reduce the amount of functional diversity in plant communities under constraints, while Villéger et al. (2008a), in a more general framework, suggest that considering the three facets of functional diversity may…”