Phylogenetic community structure in Minnesota oak savanna is influenced by spatial extent and environmental variation

By C. G. Willis, Marta Halina, Clarence Lehman, Peter B. Reich, A. Keen, Shawn P McCarthy, Jeannine Cavender-Bares. 2009

152 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Francesco de Bello
2. J. Lepš
3. S. Lavorel
4. J. Levine
5. Z. Botta‐Dukát
6. M. Mayfield
7. Bálint Czúcz
8. P. Adler

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Francesco de Bello
2. J. Lepš
3. S. Lavorel
4. J. Levine
5. Z. Botta‐Dukát
6. Bálint Czúcz
7. Wilfried Thuiller
8. M. Mayfield

In Plant Science

1. Francesco de Bello
2. S. Lavorel
3. J. Lepš
4. J. Levine
5. M. Mayfield
6. Jeannine Cavender-Bares
7. Z. Botta‐Dukát
8. S. Klotz

Citations in the corpus

• Phylogenetic and functional characteristics of household yard floras and their changes along an urbanization gradient (2012, background): “These results also emphasize that phylogenetic patterns are scale dependent (CavenderBares et al. 2006, Willis et al. 2010).”
• Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory (2012, background): “…plant communitiesa o, u Prinzing et al. 2008 Mediterranean communitiesa (Spain) o, u Verdu & Pausas 2007, Ojeda et al. 2010 Minnesotan oak savannahs u Willis et al. 2010 Floridian oaksa o, u Cavender-Bares et al. 2004a,b Floridian forests u Cavender-Bares et al. 2006 Tropical lnga trees o, u…”
• Testing the ability of functional diversity indices to detect trait convergence and divergence using individual‐based simulation (2016, background): “…British Ecological Society, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 114–126 strongly depends on the environmental heterogeneity of the data sets studied (Willis et al. 2010; De Bello 2012): the power of the tests becomes low if the gradient sampled is short relative to the tolerancewidth of the…”
• Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? (2014, unknown): “…et al. (2009); Poorter et al. (2009); Poorter (2009); Reich et al. (2009); Freschet et al. (2010a, b); Laughlin et al. (2010); Messier et al. (2010); Ordo~ nez et al. (2010a,b); Penuelas et al. (2010a,b); Willis et al. (2010); Wright et al. (2010); Onoda et al. (2011); and Guti errez & Huth (2012).”
• Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better) (2015, background): “smaller range of niche conditions, trait values and lineages than an entire region (Willis et al. 2010).”
• Evidence for scale‐ and disturbance‐dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi‐natural grasslands (2013, methodology): “In contrast to similar species association measures, such as the C-score (Willis et al. 2010), the V-coefficient takes into account joint absences (i.e. the sampling units where both species are absent), which are an important feature when evaluating species co-occurrence patterns (Lep s & Smilauer…”