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

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A brief history of seed size

scientific article published in January 2005

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

scientific article (publication date: 22 August 2012)

A link between plant traits and abundance: evidence from coastal California woody plants

scientific article published on 23 April 2010

A minimal model of fire-vegetation feedbacks and disturbance stochasticity generates alternative stable states in grassland–shrubland–woodland systems

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

scientific article published on June 2006

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

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Adapting California's Ecosystems to a Changing Climate

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

scientific article published on February 2002

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

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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

Annual grassland resource pools and fluxes: sensitivity to precipitation and dry periods on two contrasting soils

scientific article published in 2012

Are leaf functional traits ‘invariant’ with plant size and what is ‘invariance’ anyway?

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Assembly of Plant Communities

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Best practices for reporting climate data in ecology

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

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Beyond isohydricity: The role of environmental variability in determining plant drought responses

scientific article published on 07 January 2019

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

scientific article (publication date: 17 November 2009)

Canopy gaps to climate change – extreme events, ecology and evolution

scientific article published in 2003

Carbon assimilation and habitat segregation in resurrection plants: a comparison between desiccation- and non-desiccation-tolerant species of Neotropical Velloziaceae (Pandanales)

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Climate Change Refugia, Fire Ecology and Management

scientific article published on 30 March 2016

Climate change and the future of California's endemic flora

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Climate change, tree demography, and thermophilization in western US forests

scientific article published on 24 April 2023

Climate‐change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane

article by Toni Lyn Morelli et al published June 2020 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

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

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

scientific article published on 19 February 2009

Compound fire-drought regimes promote ecosystem transitions in Mediterranean ecosystems

scientific article published in 2018

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

scientific article (publication date: 17 November 2009)

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

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Cumulative effects of fire and drought in Mediterranean ecosystems

scientific article published in 2017

DEFOLIATION AND GROWTH IN AN UNDERSTORY PALM: QUANTIFYING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF COMPENSATORY RESPONSES

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Defoliation and ENSO effects on vital rates of an understorey tropical rain forest palm

scientific article published in 2009

Defoliation and gender effects on fitness components in three congeneric and sympatric understorey palms

scientific article published in 2012

Ecological release exposes genetically based niche variation.

scientific article published on 17 July 2014

Ecological strategies in California chaparral: interacting effects of soils, climate, and fire on specific leaf area

scientific article published in 2011

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

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Effects of CO2 elevation on canopy development in the stands of two co-occurring annuals.

scientific article published in October 1996

Effects of topoclimatic complexity on the composition of woody plant communities.

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

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Evolution and plasticity of photosynthetic thermal tolerance, specific leaf area and leaf size: congeneric species from desert and coastal environments

scientific article published on 17 October 2003

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

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Evolution, origin and age of lineages in the Californian and Mediterranean floras

scientific article published on 18 May 2009

Evolutionary Diversification of Continuous Traits: Phylogenetic Tests and Application to Seed Size in the California Flora

scientific article published on 16 July 2004

Evolutionary Legacy Effects on Ecosystems: Biogeographic Origins, Plant Traits, and Implications for Management in the Era of Global Change

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Evolutionary relationships between drought-related traits and climate shape large hydraulic safety margins in western North American oaks

scientific article published on 01 March 2021

FUNCTIONAL STRATEGIES OF CHAPARRAL SHRUBS IN RELATION TO SEASONAL WATER DEFICIT AND DISTURBANCE

scientific article published on 06 June 2007

Facets of phylodiversity: evolutionary diversification, divergence and survival as conservation targets

scientific article published on 19 November 2018

Factors that shape seed mass evolution

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Filling key gaps in population and community ecology

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Filtering across Spatial Scales: Phylogeny, Biogeography and Community Structure in Bumble Bees ⬇️

scientific article published on March 27, 2013

Flammability and serotiny as strategies: correlated evolution in pines

article published in 2001

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

scientific article published in 2010

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

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

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Geography, climate, and biodiversity: the history and future of mediterranean-type ecosystems

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Global patterns in seed size

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Global patterns in seed size

scientific article published in 2006

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

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Global wind patterns and the vulnerability of wind-dispersed species to climate change

scientific article published in 2020

Global wind patterns shape genetic differentiation, asymmetric gene flow, and genetic diversity in trees

scientific article published on 19 April 2021

Hydraulic architecture and the evolution of shoot allometry in contrasting climates

scientific article published in October 2003

Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change

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Increases in thermophilus plants in an arid alpine community in response to experimental warming

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Integrating ecology and phylogenetics: the footprint of history in modern-day communities<sup>1</sup>

scientific article published on 03 August 2012

Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue on plant ecological strategy axes in leaf and wood traits

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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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Jasper Ridge Woody Plant Community Database

scientific article published in 2012

Landscape and species-level distribution of morphological and life history traits in a temperate woodland flora

scientific article published on 07 May 2006

Leaf Position, Light Levels, and Nitrogen Allocation in Five Species of Rain Forest Pioneer Trees

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

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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

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

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Limiting similarity and functional diversity along environmental gradients

scientific article published in 2005

Low Vulnerability to Xylem Embolism in Leaves and Stems of North American Oaks

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

Mangrove Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

scientific article published in 1998

Mangrove Seedling Net Photosynthesis, Growth, and Survivorship are Interactively Affected by Salinity and Light1

scholarly article by Laura Lopez-Hoffman et al published September 2006 in Biotropica

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

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Microclimate and demography interact to shape stable population dynamics across the range of an alpine plant

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Mind the gap: the emerging synthesis of plant 'eco-devo'.

scientific article published in January 2006

Mismatch managed? Phenological phase extension as a strategy to manage phenological asynchrony in plant–animal mutualisms

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Multiple axes of ecological vulnerability to climate change

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Natural selection maintains species despite frequent hybridization in the desert shrub <i>Encelia</i>

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

New concepts, models, and assessments of climate-wise connectivity

scientific article published on 11 June 2018

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

scientific article (publication date: October 2010)

No local adaptation in leaf or stem xylem vulnerability to embolism, but consistent vulnerability segmentation in a North American oak

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Optimal reproductive allocation in annuals and an informational constraint on plasticity

scientific article published in April 2005

Phylogenies and Community Ecology

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

Phylogeny and Ecology Reconsidered

scientific article published on 17 June 2006

Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals

scientific article (publication date: 22 July 2010)

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

scientific article (publication date: June 2010)

Plant hydraulic traits reveal islands as refugia from worsening drought

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Plant science decadal vision 2020-2030: Reimagining the potential of plants for a healthy and sustainable future

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Plant-pollinator interactions and the assembly of plant communities

scientific article published on 11 February 2008

Post-fire regeneration strategies and flammability traits of California chaparral shrubs

scientific article published on 05 November 2010

Range dynamics mediated by compensatory life stage responses to experimental climate manipulations

scientific article published on 10 February 2021

Range edges in heterogeneous landscapes: Integrating geographic scale and climate complexity into range dynamics

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Range size, taxon age and hotspots of neoendemism in the California flora

scientific article published in 2010

Reconciling seasonal hydraulic risk and plant water use through probabilistic soil-plant dynamics

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

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Resilience to chronic defoliation in a dioecious understorey tropical rain forest palm

scientific article published in 2012

SPECIES AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF NATIVE AND HUMAN‐DOMINATED PLANT COMMUNITIES

scientific article published on 04 June 2007

Salinity and light interactively affect neotropical mangrove seedlings at the leaf and whole plant levels

scientific article published on 6 October 2006

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

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Significance of leaf longevity in plants

scientific article published on 12 March 2003

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

scientific article published in April 1990

Spatial phylogenetics of the native California flora.

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Species Selection Regime and Phylogenetic Tree Shape

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

Species richness and endemism in the native flora of California

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Sustainability of Mangrove Harvesting: How do Harvesters' Perceptions Differ from Ecological Analysis?

scholarly article by Laura López-Hoffman et al published 2006 in Ecology and Society

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

Targeting climate diversity in conservation planning to build resilience to climate change

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

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

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The assembly and function of Cape plant communities in a changing world

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The ecohydrological context of drought and classification of plant responses

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

The joint evolution of traits and habitat: ontogenetic shifts in leaf morphology and wetland specialization in Lasthenia

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The mode and tempo of genome size evolution in eukaryotes.

scientific article published on 9 April 2007

The relative influence of climate and housing development on current and projected future fire patterns and structure loss across three California landscapes

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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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The velocity of climate change

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The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2004)

Topographic heterogeneity lengthens the duration of pollinator resources

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

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

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

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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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Variation in nuclear DNA content across environmental gradients: a quantile regression analysis

scientific article published on 11 March 2003

Weather underground: Subsurface hydrologic processes mediate tree vulnerability to extreme climatic drought

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Why are evergreen leaves so contrary about shade?

scientific article published on 23 April 2008

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