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Functional Trait Assembly

Functional Trait Assembly is a theoretical framework within community assembly ecology that explains species coexistence and composition patterns through the selection and filtering of species based on their functional traits in response to environmental and biotic constraints.

150

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12.5K

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718

Authors

394

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2017–2026

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Publications

150

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

William K. Cornwell, David D. Ackerly · Ecological Monographs · 2009 · 1.2K citations

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Community Assembly, Niche Conservatism, and Adaptive Evolution in Changing Environments

David D. Ackerly · International Journal of Plant Sciences · 2003 · 894 citations

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Plant DNA barcodes and a community phylogeny of a tropical forest dynamics plot in Panama

W. John Kress, David L. Erickson, F. Andrew Jones et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 727 citations · Full text

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From Plant Traits to Plant Communities: A Statistical Mechanistic Approach to Biodiversity

Bill Shipley, Denis Vile, Éric Garnier · Science · 2006 · 630 citations

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Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

Nathan J. B. Kraft, David D. Ackerly · Ecological Monographs · 2010 · 602 citations

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Authors

718

  1. FD
    Francesco de Bello

    University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czechia

    11 publications · 979 citations

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  2. LG
    Lars Götzenberger

    Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Czechia

    7 publications · 529 citations

    7

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  3. DD
    David D. Ackerly

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    6 publications · 2.9K citations

    6

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  4. VD
    Valério D. Pillar

    Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    4 publications · 474 citations

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  5. NG
    Nathan G. Swenson

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    4 publications · 820 citations

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Institutions

394

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    14 h-index

    42 publications

    7.3K citations

  2. Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany

    Průhonice, Czechia

    10 h-index

    14 publications

    873 citations

  3. University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice

    České Budějovice, Czechia

    10 h-index

    18 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    2.4K citations

  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    7 h-index

    36 publications

    1.9K citations

  6. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

    Leipzig, Germany

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    502 citations

  7. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    419 citations

  8. Czech Academy of Sciences

    Prague, Czechia

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    1.1K citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Ecology

    17 publications · 1.6K citations

    16

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  2. Ecology and Evolution

    12 publications · 289 citations

    11

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  3. Journal of Vegetation Science

    JVS · 9 publications · 449 citations

    9

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  4. Ecology

    8 publications · 938 citations

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  5. Oecologia

    8 publications · 388 citations

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