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List of works by David D. Ackerly

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The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2004)

The velocity of climate change

scientific article

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

scientific article (publication date: June 2010)

Phylogenies and Community Ecology

scholarly article by Campbell O. Webb et al published November 2002 in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

scientific article (publication date: October 2010)

Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest.

scientific article

A trait-based test for habitat filtering: convex hull volume

scientific article published on June 2006

Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities

scientific article

A brief history of seed size

scientific article published in January 2005

Filling key gaps in population and community ecology

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Conservatism and diversification of plant functional traits: Evolutionary rates versus phylogenetic signal

scientific article (publication date: 17 November 2009)

Plant-pollinator interactions and the assembly of plant communities

scientific article published on 11 February 2008

Climate change and the future of California's endemic flora

scientific article

Leaf size, specific leaf area and microhabitat distribution of chaparral woody plants: contrasting patterns in species level and community level analyses.

scientific article published in February 2002

Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forests.

scientific article

Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals

scientific article (publication date: 22 July 2010)

Adaptation, niche conservatism, and convergence: comparative studies of leaf evolution in the California chaparral

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Angiosperm wood structure: Global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relation to wood density and potential conductivity.

scientific article published in February 2010

Factors that shape seed mass evolution

scientific article

Global patterns in seed size

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Flammability and serotiny as strategies: correlated evolution in pines

article published in 2001

The mode and tempo of genome size evolution in eukaryotes.

scientific article published on 9 April 2007

Why are evergreen leaves so contrary about shade?

scientific article published on 23 April 2008

A broader model for C₄ photosynthesis evolution in plants inferred from the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae s.s.)

scientific article (publication date: 22 August 2012)

Self-shading, carbon gain and leaf dynamics: a test of alternative optimality models.

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Leaf dynamics, self-shading and carbon gain in seedlings of a tropical pioneer tree

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Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

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

Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation

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Beyond a warming fingerprint: individualistic biogeographic responses to heterogeneous climate change in California.

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The theory behind, and the challenges of, conserving nature's stage in a time of rapid change

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Twentieth-century shifts in forest structure in California: Denser forests, smaller trees, and increased dominance of oaks

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Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change

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Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages

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Biogeography, changing climates, and niche evolution: Biogeography, changing climates, and niche evolution

scientific article (publication date: 17 November 2009)

A Geographic Mosaic of Climate Change Impacts on Terrestrial Vegetation: Which Areas Are Most at Risk?

scientific article

Hydraulic architecture and the evolution of shoot allometry in contrasting climates

scientific article published in October 2003

Size-dependent variation of gender in high density stands of the monoecious annual, Ambrosia artemisiifolia (Asteraceae).

scientific article published in April 1990

Analysis of leaf and root transcriptomes of soil-grown Avena barbata plants

scientific article

An ecological and evolutionary analysis of photosynthetic thermotolerance using the temperature-dependent increase in fluorescence.

scientific article published on February 2002

Evolution of hydraulic traits in closely related species pairs from Mediterranean and nonMediterranean environments of North America

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Traits, habitats, and clades: identifying traits of potential importance to environmental filtering

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Is there a cost to resprouting? Seedling growth rate and drought tolerance in sprouting and nonsprouting Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae).

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Endemic plant communities on special soils: early victims or hardy survivors of climate change?

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Effect of local community phylogenetic structure on pollen limitation in an obligately insect-pollinated plant.

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Light, leaf age, and leaf nitrogen concentration in a tropical vine.

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The Forest-Cerrado Transition Zone in Southern Amazonia: Results of the 1985 Projeto Flora Amazonica Expedition to Mato Grosso

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

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Spatial phylogenetics of the native California flora.

scientific article published on 26 October 2017