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Fundamental trade-offs generating the worldwide leaf economics spectrumBill Shipley
Departement de Biologie, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Ecology 87:535-41. 2006....
Quantifying the importance of local niche-based and stochastic processes to tropical tree community assemblyBill Shipley
Departement de Biologie, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1K 2R1, Canada
Ecology 93:760-9. 2012..Our method allows one to quantify the relative importance of local niche-based and meta-community processes and demographic stochasticity during community assembly across spatial and temporal scales...
Confirmatory path analysis in a generalized multilevel contextBill Shipley
Departement de Biologie, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec JIK 2R1, Canada
Ecology 90:363-8. 2009..The test is a generalization of Shipley's d-sep test and can be conducted using standard statistical programs capable of fitting generalized mixed models...
Inferential permutation tests for maximum entropy models in ecologyBill Shipley
Departement de Biologie, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1K 2R1, Canada
Ecology 91:2794-805. 2010..The test is illustrated using two empirical data sets to test the community assembly model of B. Shipley, D. Vile, and E. Garnier and the species abundance distribution models of S. Pueyo, F. He, and T. Zillio...
Comparative plant ecology as a tool for integrating across scalesBill Shipley
Ann Bot (Lond) 99:965-6. 2007
From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversityBill Shipley
Departement de Biologie, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1K 2R1, Canada
Science 314:812-4. 2006....
A strong test of a maximum entropy model of trait-based community assemblyBill Shipley
Department de Biologie, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec JIK2R1 Canada
Ecology 92:507-17. 2011..05, and the median predicted relative abundance of species actually absent from a quadrat was 5 x 10(-5)...
Prediction of in situ root decomposition rates in an interspecific context from chemical and morphological traitsMaurice Aulen
Departement de Biologie, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1K2R1, Canada
Ann Bot 109:287-97. 2012....
Plasticity in relative growth rate after a reduction in nitrogen availability is related to root morphological and physiological responsesAntonio Useche
Departement de Biologie, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
Ann Bot 106:617-25. 2010....
Interspecific correlates of plasticity in relative growth rate following a decrease in nitrogen availabilityAntonio Useche
Departement de Biologie, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke QC J1K 2R1, Canada
Ann Bot 105:333-9. 2010....
Forest floor bacterial community composition and catabolic profiles in relation to landscape features in Québec's southern boreal forestJosyanne Lamarche
Laboratoire d écologie des sols, Departement de Biologie, Universite de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l Universite, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, J1K 2R1
Microb Ecol 54:10-20. 2007..In light of our results, we suggest that future research examine whether bacterial community composition or CLCPs can be used to detect latent environmental changes across landscape units...
Ecosystem productivity can be predicted from potential relative growth rate and species abundanceDenis Vile
Centre d Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UMR 5175 CNRS, 1919, route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Ecol Lett 9:1061-7. 2006..Our study shows that scaling-up from the potential properties of individual species is possible, and that information on potential and realized species traits can be integrated to predict ecosystem functioning...
"Diminishing returns" in the scaling of functional leaf traits across and within species groupsKarl J Niklas
Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:8891-6. 2007..We argue that this set reflects a fundamental property of all plants and helps to explain why annual growth fails to keep pace with increases in total body mass across species...
A structural equation model to integrate changes in functional strategies during old-field successionDenis Vile
Centre d Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive UMR 5175, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montpellier, France
Ecology 87:504-17. 2006..Maximum plant height and seed mass were major determinants of reproductive phenology. Our results show that beyond verbal conceptualization, plant ecological strategies can be quantified and modeled...
Specific leaf area and dry matter content estimate thickness in laminar leavesDenis Vile
Centre d Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS, UMR 5175, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Ann Bot 96:1129-36. 2005..SLA and LDMC are two leaf traits that are both more easily measurable and often reported in the literature...
