D D AckerlySummaryAffiliation: Stanford University Country: USA Publications
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Optimal reproductive allocation in annuals and an informational constraint on plasticityTheodore G Wong
Department of Biology, Bryn Mawr College, 101 North Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010, USA
New Phytol 166:159-71. 2005....- Taxon sampling, correlated evolution, and independent contrastsD D Ackerly
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California 94305, USA
Evolution 54:1480-92. 2000..These results provide guidance for selecting species and applying comparative methods to optimize the performance of statistical tests of trait associations... - Adaptation, niche conservatism, and convergence: comparative studies of leaf evolution in the California chaparralDavid D Ackerly
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Am Nat 163:654-71. 2004..These results illustrate how biogeographic history may influence patterns of trait evolution and adaptation and highlight the contribution of ecological sorting processes to the assembly and functional ecology of regional biotas... - Evolution of hydraulic traits in closely related species pairs from Mediterranean and nonMediterranean environments of North AmericaRadika Bhaskar
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
New Phytol 176:718-26. 2007..This response is consistent with a hydraulic strategy of high leaf water supply under high evaporative demand to prevent excessive drops in water potential... 
The velocity of climate changeScott R Loarie
Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Nature 462:1052-5. 2009..Montane landscapes may effectively shelter many species into the next century. Elsewhere, reduced emissions, a much expanded network of protected areas, or efforts to increase species movement may be necessary...- A trait-based test for habitat filtering: convex hull volumeWilliam K Cornwell
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California 94305, USA
Ecology 87:1465-71. 2006..Our results show that observed plant communities occupy less trait space than expected from random assembly, a result consistent with habitat filtering... 
Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forestsIan J Wright
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Ann Bot 99:1003-15. 2007..Here we investigated relationships among several traits, and thus the strategy dimensions they represented, across 2134 woody species from seven Neotropical forests...- The worldwide leaf economics spectrumIan J Wright
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Nature 428:821-7. 2004..Reliable quantification of the leaf economics spectrum and its interaction with climate will prove valuable for modelling nutrient fluxes and vegetation boundaries under changing land-use and climate... - Climate change and the future of California's endemic floraScott R Loarie
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2502. 2008..Protecting these potential future refugia and facilitating species dispersal will be essential to maintain biodiversity in the face of climate change... - Why are evergreen leaves so contrary about shade?Christopher H Lusk
Department of Biological Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Trends Ecol Evol 23:299-303. 2008.... - Factors that shape seed mass evolutionAngela T Moles
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 5304, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:10540-4. 2005..However, these environmental variables had much less explanatory power than did plant traits such as seed dispersal syndrome and plant growth form... - Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forestNathan J B Kraft
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Science 322:580-2. 2008..Our results show that strategy differentiation among species contributes to the maintenance of diversity in one of the most diverse tropical forests in the world... - Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue on plant ecological strategy axes in leaf and wood traitsPeter S Curtis
New Phytol 179:901-3. 2008 - Plant-pollinator interactions and the assembly of plant communitiesRisa D Sargent
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3140, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 23:123-30. 2008..An integrated framework for understanding plant community assembly needs to incorporate abiotic and biotic interactions, including plant-pollinator and other plant-animal interactions... - Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communitiesNathan J B Kraft
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Am Nat 170:271-83. 2007..Our results deepen our understanding of processes that contribute to phylogenetic community structure and provide guidance for the design and interpretation of empirical research... - A brief history of seed sizeAngela T Moles
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 5304, USA
Science 307:576-80. 2005..Cross-species studies and evolutionary theory are consistent with this evidence that growth form and seed size evolve in a coordinated manner... - Salinity and light interactively affect neotropical mangrove seedlings at the leaf and whole plant levelsLaura López-Hoffman
Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ap Post 27 3, Santa María de Guido, 58090, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
Oecologia 150:545-56. 2007..In general, this study demonstrates that environmental effects at the leaf-level also influence whole plant growth in mangroves...