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

By William K. Cornwell, David D. Ackerly. 2009

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

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TRY – a global database of plant traits (2011, background): “…Jasper Ridge Californian Woody Plants Database W. K. Cornwell, D. D. Ackerly Cornwell et al. (2006), Preston et al. (2006), Ackerly & Cornwell (2007), Cornwell & Ackerly (2009) 34 Roots Of the World (ROW) Database J. M. Craine Craine et al. (2005) Continued r 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd,…”
Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French Alps (2013, background): “Nevertheless, understanding the processes driving the functional structure of ecological communities remains one of the central challenges of community ecology (Grime 2006, Cornwell and Ackerly 2009, Villeger et al. 2010, de Bello 2012).”
SESAM – a new framework integrating macroecological and species distribution models for predicting spatio‐temporal patterns of species assemblages (2011, background): “Nevertheless, this is a reemerging field, and very few examples of studies exist where communities are recomposed from an abiotic habitat-filtered species pool using assembly rules (e.g. Mouillot et al., 2007; Cornwell & Ackerly, 2009; Ingram & Shurin, 2009).”
Regeneration: an overlooked aspect of trait‐based plant community assembly models (2016, background): “Specifically, many examinations of community assembly have focused on seed mass as the primary trait representing a plant’s regeneration strategy (e.g. Funk et al. 2008; Kraft, Valencia & Ackerly 2008; Cornwell & Ackerly 2009).”
Changing drivers of species dominance during tropical forest succession (2014, positive): “Cornwell and Ackerly (2010) have shown that spe-”
Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory (2012, background): “For example, SLA values in central Californian plant communities were more evenly spaced than expected (Cornwell & Ackerly 2009), potentially reflecting competitive interactions between species with similar SLA values.”
Hypervolume concepts in niche‐ and trait‐based ecology (2018, methodology): “This work has also resulted in various tests using character displacement as a proxy for niche differentiation (Stubbs and Bastow Wilson 2004, Huntley et al. 2008, Cornwell and Ackerly 2009, Götzenberger et al. 2012).”
The Jungle of Methods for Evaluating Phenotypic and Phylogenetic Structure of Communities (2010, background): “…is lower (species are spaced more evenly), or when the kurtosis of the distribution of trait values is smaller than the expected value in randomly assembled communities from the regional pool (figure 2; Ricklefs and Travis 1980, Kraft et al. 2008, Cornwell and Ackerly 2009, Ingram and Shurin 2009).”
Contrasting effects of productivity and disturbance on plant functional diversity at local and metacommunity scales (2013, background): “…conditions Journal of Vegetation Science 6 Doi: 10.1111/jvs.12044© 2012 International Association for Vegetation Science to persist in the community (Van der Valk 1981; Weiher & Keddy 1995; Weiher et al. 1998; Cornwell et al. 2006; Kraft et al. 2008; Cornwell & Ackerly 2009; Ingram& Shurin 2009).”
Plant traits co-vary with altitude in grasslands and forests in the European Alps (2010, background): “This phenomenon is sometimes compared to a ‘‘filter’’ that removes the species that lack the necessary biological traits (e.g. Weiher and Keddy 1995; Dı́az et al. 1998; Cornwell and Ackerly 2009).”