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A multi-scale approach reveals random phylogenetic patterns at the edge of vascular plant life

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A test of the explanatory power of plant functional traits on the individual and population levels

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Accounting for long‐term directional trends on year‐to‐year synchrony in species fluctuations

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

Analysis of biodiversity experiments: A comparison of traditional and linear-model-based methods

scientific article published in 2015

Applying the dark diversity concept to nature conservation.

scientific article

Are belowground clonal traits good predictors of ecosystem functioning in temperate grasslands?

scientific article published on 18 January 2021

Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?

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Assessing the effects of land-use change on plant traits, communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: a standardized methodology and lessons from an application to 11 European sites

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Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

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Biodiversity promotes resistance but dominant species shape recovery of grasslands under extreme drought

scientific article published on 22 March 2024

Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony

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Changes in the functional trait composition and diversity of meadow communities induced by Rhinanthus minor L

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Changes in trait divergence and convergence along a productivity gradient in wet meadows

Changes of species richness pattern in mountain grasslands: abandonment versus restoration

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Colonising aliens: caterpillars (Lepidoptera) feeding on Piper aduncum and P. umbellatum in rainforests of Papua New Guinea

scholarly article by Vojtěch Novotný et al published December 2003 in Ecological Entomology

Colonization resistance and establishment success along gradients of functional and phylogenetic diversity in experimental plant communities

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Common spatial patterns of trees in various tropical forests: Small trees are associated with increased diversity at small spatial scales

scientific article published in 2021

Communities of different plant diversity respond similarly to drought stress: experimental evidence from field non-weeded and greenhouse conditions

scientific article published on 13 May 2012

Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario

scientific article published in 2022

Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

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Consistent functional response of meadow species and communities to land-use changes across productivity and soil moisture gradients

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Convergence or Divergence: What Should We Expect from Vegetation Succession?

scientific article published in 1991

Cumulative nitrogen enrichment alters the drivers of grassland overyielding

scientific article published on 11 March 2024

Detecting local adaptation in widespread grassland species ? the importance of scale and local plant community

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Determinants of Temporal Variation in Moth Abundance

article by Karel Spitzer et al published July 1988 in Oikos

Determinants of cyanobacterial species composition in the splash zone of two Croatian islands

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Determinants of ecosystem stability in a diverse temperate forest

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Determinants of litter decomposition rates in a tropical forest: functional traits, phylogeny and ecological succession

scholarly article by Piotr Szefer et al published 15 February 2017 in Oikos

Different effects of elevation, habitat fragmentation and grazing management on the functional, phylogenetic and taxonomic structure of mountain grasslands

scholarly article by Matteo Dainese et al published February 2015 in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Different plant trait scaling in dry versus wet Central European meadows

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Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year‐to‐year asynchrony

scientific article published on 21 June 2020

Disentangling the interplay of generative and vegetative propagation among different functional groups during gap colonization in meadows

scientific article published in 2016

Do biodiversity indices behave as expected from traits of constituent species in simulated scenarios?

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Dynamics of Typha domingensis spread in Eleocharis dominated oligotrophic tropical wetlands following nutrient enrichment

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Ecological assembly rules in plant communities--approaches, patterns and prospects

scientific article published on 21 June 2011

Effect of Light and Moisture Conditions and Seed Age on Germination of Three Closely Related Myosotis Species

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Effect of functional group richness and species richness in manipulated productivity–diversity studies: a glasshouse pot experiment

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Effect of litter, leaf cover and cover of basal internodes of the dominant species Molinia caerulea on seedling recruitment and established vegetation

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Effect of plant species richness on invasibility of experimental plant communities

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Effects of disturbance regime on carbohydrate reserves in meadow plants

scientific article published on 27 October 2015

Effects of long- and short-term management on the functional structure of meadows through species turnover and intraspecific trait variability

scientific article published on 2 February 2016

Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding

scientific article published on 7 March 2024

Effects of species and functional group richness on production in two fertility environments: an experiment with communities of perennial plants

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Environmental correlates of growth traits of the stoloniferous plant Potentilla palustris

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Environmental gradients and micro-heterogeneity shape fine-scale plant community assembly on coastal dunes

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Establishment and spatial associations of recruits in meadow gaps

Establishment success of plant immigrants in a new water reservoir

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Evaluating Functional Diversity: Missing Trait Data and the Importance of Species Abundance Structure and Data Transformation

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Evidence for scale- and disturbance-dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi-natural grasslands

scientific article published in 2013

Experimental assessment of biotic and abiotic filters driving community composition

scientific article published on 13 June 2020

Experimental assessment of dispersal and habitat limitation in an oligotrophic wet meadow

scientific article published in 2011

False Head Wing Pattern of the Burmese Junglequeen Butterfly and the Deception of Avian Predators

article by Martin Tonner et al published December 1993 in Biotropica

Food Plants, Species Composition and Variability of the Moth Community in Undisturbed Forest

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Functional differences stabilize beetle communities by weakening interspecific temporal synchrony

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Functional diversity through the mean trait dissimilarity: resolving shortcomings with existing paradigms and algorithms

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

scientific article

Functional trait trade-offs define plant population stability across different biomes

scientific article published in 2023

Grazing effects on the species-area relationship: Variation along a climatic gradient in NE Spain

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Growth, survival and generative reproduction in a population of a widespread annual hemiparasite Melampyrum pratense

Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant-herbivore food webs from a tropical forest

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Habitat Preferences, Distribution and Seasonality of the Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) in a Montane Tropical Rain Forest, Vietnam

scholarly article by Karel Spitzer et al published January 1993 in Journal of Biogeography

Habitat and successional status of plants in relation to the communities of their leaf-chewing herbivores in Papua New Guinea

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How do log characteristics influence the occurrence of wood fungi in a mountain spruce forest?

scientific article published in 2011

How do management and restoration needs of mountain grasslands depend on moisture regime? Experimental study from north-western Slovakia (Western Carpathians)

How does elevated grassland productivity influence populations of root hemiparasites? Commentary on Borowicz and Armstrong (Oecologia 2012).

scientific article published on 27 December 2012

How does surrounding vegetation affect the course of succession: A five-year container experiment

Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use

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Impact of herbivory and competition on lake ecosystem structure: underwater experimental manipulation

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

In memoriam of Professor Miroslav Papáček (1953–2019): biography, memories, bibliography and list of described taxa ⬇️

scientific article published on 29 February 2020

Individual variability and mortality required for constant final yield in simulated plant populations

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Integrating ecology and physiology of root-hemiparasitic interaction: interactive effects of abiotic resources shape the interplay between parasitism and autotrophy

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Interactions of the Hemiparasitic Species Rhinanthus minor with its Host Plant Community at Two Nutrient Levels

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LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots

scientific article published on 30 January 2022

LOTVS: a global collection of permanent vegetation plots

Leaf traits capture the effects of land use changes and climate on litter decomposability of grasslands across Europe

scientific article published in March 2009

Linkage of plant trait space to successional age and species richness in boreal forest understorey vegetation

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Linking Above- and Belowground Responses to 16 Years of Fertilization, Mowing, and Removal of the Dominant Species in a Temperate Grassland

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Linking insect herbivory with plant traits: Phylogenetically structured trait syndromes matter

scientific article published on 10 July 2021

Linking spatiotemporal disturbance history with tree regeneration and diversity in an old-growth forest in northern Japan

scientific article published in 2016

Long-term effectiveness of sowing high and low diversity seed mixtures to enhance plant community development on ex-arable fields

Mathematical modelling of ecological succesion—a review

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Measuring size and composition of species pools: a comparison of dark diversity estimates.

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Modelling the Population Dynamics of Root Hemiparasitic Plants Along a Productivity Gradient

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Models of the development of spatial pattern of an even-aged plant population over time

article by Jan Lepš & Pavel Kindlmann published November 1987 in Ecological Modelling

Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO

scholarly article published 29 May 2003

Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO 5

scholarly article published 2014

Negative Associations Can Reveal Interspecific Competition and Reversal of Competitive Hierarchies during Succession

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Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

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No tree an island: the plant-caterpillar food web of a secondary rain forest in New Guinea

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On the need for phylogenetic ‘corrections’ in functional trait-based approaches

scholarly article by Francesco de Bello et al published 5 October 2015 in Folia Geobotanica

Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

Plant density affects measures of biodiversity effects

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Plant diversity changes during the postglacial in East Asia: insights from Forest Refugia on Halla Volcano, Jeju Island

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Plant species diversity, plant biomass and responses of the soil community on abandoned land across Europe: idiosyncracy or above-belowground time lags

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Positive long-term effect of mulching on species and functional trait diversity in a nutrient-poor mountain meadow in Central Europe

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Potential contribution of natural enemies to patterns of local adaptation in plants

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Predictably simple: assemblages of caterpillars (Lepidoptera) feeding on rainforest trees in Papua New Guinea

scientific article published in November 2002

Prediction of Changes in Ephemeropteran Communities — A Transition Matrix Approach

Procedure for separating the selection effect from other effects in diversity-productivity relationship

scientific article published in 2001

Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

article published in 2010

Re-visiting historical semi-natural grasslands in the Apennines to assess patterns of changes in species composition and functional traits

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ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

scientific article published in March 2024

Relating plant species and functional diversity to community δ13C in NE Spain pastures

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Relative climatic, edaphic and management controls of plant functional trait signatures

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Response of herbaceous vegetation functional diversity to land use change across five sites in Europe and Israel

scholarly article by Sandra Lavorel et al published January 2011 in Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution

Root hemiparasitic plants are associated with high diversity in temperate grasslands

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Seasonality promotes grassland diversity: Interactions with mowing, fertilization and removal of dominant species

scientific article published in 2018

Separating the chance effect from other diversity effects in the functioning of plant communities

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Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old‐field succession

scientific article published on 18 January 2021

Sown species richness and realized diversity can influence functioning of plant communities differently

scientific article published on 15 June 2014

Spatial pattern affects diversity–productivity relationships in experimental meadow communities

scientific article published in 2010

Spatial patterns of tree species distribution in New Guinea primary and secondary lowland rain forest

scholarly article by Pavel Fibich et al published 11 January 2016 in Journal of Vegetation Science

Species pool size and realized species richness affect productivity differently: A modeling study

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Species traits are better determinants of mobility than management in a species‐rich meadow

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Species-area curve, life history strategies, and succession: a field test of relationships

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Stability of environment and of insect populations

article by Henk Wolda et al published December 1992 in Population Ecology

Stabilizing effects in temporal fluctuations: management, traits and species richness in high-diversity communities

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Subjectively sampled vegetation data: Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water

article by Jan Lepš & Petr Šmilauer published June 2007 in Folia Geobotanica

Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Tasty rewards for ants: differences in elaiosome and seed metabolite profiles are consistent across species and reflect taxonomic relatedness

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

Taxonomical and functional diversity turnover in Mediterranean grasslands: interactions between grazing, habitat type and rainfall

scientific article published in 2012

Taylor's Power Law and the Measurement of Variation in the Size of Populations in Space and Time

scientific article published in 1993

Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands

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The Density Awakens: A Reply to Blonder

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

The Time is Ripe for General Theory in Community Ecology

The effect of management on productivity, litter accumulation and seedling recruitment in a Carpathian mountain grassland

scientific article published in 2011

The growth and survival of three closely related Myosotis species in a 3-year transplant experiment

scientific article published in 2013

The legacy of initial sowing after 20 years of ex-arable land colonisation

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

The partitioning of diversity: showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth

The plant functional traits that explain species occurrence across fragmented grasslands differ according to patch management, isolation, and wetness

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The response of arbuscular mycorrhizae to fertilization, mowing, and removal of dominant species in a diverse oligotrophic wet meadow

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The role of biotic interactions in plant community assembly: What is the community species pool?

scientific article published on 08 November 2017

The role of heterotrophic carbon acquisition by the hemiparasitic plant Rhinanthus alectorolophus in seedling establishment in natural communities: a physiological perspective

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The spatial pattern of Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta).

scientific article published in December 1985

Towards a more balanced combination of multiple traits when computing functional differences between species

scientific article published in 2020

Trait probability density (TPD): measuring functional diversity across scales based on TPD with R

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community

scientific article published on 17 May 2021

Transferring biodiversity-ecosystem function research to the management of ‘real-world’ ecosystems

scientific article published in 2019

Trophic gradient is the main determinant of species and large taxonomic groups representation in phytoplankton of standing water bodies

scholarly article by Olga Lepšová-Skácelová et al published February 2018 in Ecological Indicators

Variability in population and community biomass in a grassland community affected by environmental productivity and diversity

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Variance deficit is not reliable evidence for niche limitation

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Variation in plant functional traits is best explained by the species identity: Stability of trait‐based species ranking across meadow management regimes

scientific article published on 20 January 2019

Variations in species and functional plant diversity along climatic and grazing gradients

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Weak coordination between leaf drought tolerance and proxy traits in herbaceous plants

scientific article published on 24 March 2021

What do the biodiversity experiments tell us about consequences of plant species loss in the real world?

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What is stability? a mathematician's and ecologist's point of view

Which randomizations detect convergence and divergence in trait-based community assembly? A test of commonly used null models

article published in 2016

Biostatistika

book edition published in 2016

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