Ecological Responses to Habitat Edges: Mechanisms, Models, and Variability Explained

Edge effects have been studied for decades because they are a key component to understanding how landscape structure influences habitat quality. However, m...

L Ries，RJ Fletcher，J Battin，... - 《Annual Review of Ecology Evolution & Systematics》

Variation partitioning of species data matrices: estimation and comparison of fractions.

Establishing relationships between species distributions and environmental characteristics is a major goal in the search for forces driving species distrib...

PR Peres-Neto，P Legendre，S Dray，... - 《Ecology》

Tropical trees and forests: an architectural analysis

[See FA 33, 397] A comprehensive account in six chapters: Introduction; Elements of tree architecture (apical meristems and buds, extension growth, phyllot...

NM Stark - 《Tropical Trees & Forests An Architectural Analysis》

Interpreting phenotypic variation in plants

Plant ecologists and evolutionary biologists frequently examine patterns of phenotypic variation across variable environments or genetic identities. Too of...

JS Coleman，KDM Mcconnaughay，DD Ackerly - 《Trends in Ecology & Evolution》

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

Despite being recognized as a promoter of diversity and a condition for local coexistence decades ago, the importance of intraspecific variance has been ne...

C Violle，BJ Enquist，BJ Mcgill，... - 《Trends in Ecology & Evolution》

PLANT AS A META-POPULATION

Despite being recognized as a promoter of diversity and a condition for local coexistence decades ago, the importance of intraspecific variance has been ne...

J White - 《Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics》

Isolation by distance in a continuous population: reconciliation between spatial autocorrelation analysis and population genetics models

Analysis of the spatial genetic structure within continuous populations in their natural habitat can reveal acting evolutionary processes. Spatial autocorr...

OJ Hardy，X Vekemans - 《Heredity》

The ecology of restoration: historical links, emerging issues and unexplored realms

Restoration ecology is a young academic field, but one with enough history to judge it against past and current expectations of the science's potential. Th...

TP Young，DA Petersen，JJ Clary - 《Ecology Letters》

The controversy over traits conferring shade-tolerance in trees: Ontogenetic changes revisited

Summary Successional replacement of intolerant species by shade tolerators along gap-understorey gradients is commonly associated with increasingly higher...

LO Niinemets - 《Journal of Ecology》

Significance of Architecture and Allometry in Saplings

Species differences in branching architecture and allometry were analysed for co-occurring forest floor saplings of 10 species of shade-tolerant evergreen ...

Kohyama，T. - 《Functional Ecology》