A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

D Mouillot, NAJ Graham, S Villéger… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013‏ - cell.com
Understanding the processes sha** biological communities under multiple disturbances
is a core challenge in ecology and conservation science. Traditionally, ecologists have …

The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly

DC Laughlin - Journal of ecology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plants are multifaceted organisms that have evolved numerous solutions to the problem of
establishing, growing and reproducing with limited resources. The intrinsic dimensionality of …

Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology

B Shipley, F De Bello, JHC Cornelissen, E Laliberté… - Oecologia, 2016‏ - Springer
The promise of “trait-based” plant ecology is one of generalized prediction across
organizational and spatial scales, independent of taxonomy. This promise is a major reason …

Combining the fourth‐corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation

S Dray, P Choler, S Dolédec, PR Peres-Neto… - Ecology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Assessing trait responses to environmental gradients requires the simultaneous analysis of
the information contained in three tables: L (species distribution across samples), R …

Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

M Vellend, DS Srivastava, KM Anderson, CD Brown… - Oikos, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
A central current debate in community ecology concerns the relative importance of
deterministic versus stochastic processes underlying community structure. However, the …

Functional traits, convergent evolution, and periodic tables of niches

KO Winemiller, DB Fitzgerald, LM Bower… - Ecology …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ecology is often said to lack general theories sufficiently predictive for applications. Here, we
examine the concept of a periodic table of niches and feasibility of niche classification …

[ספר][B] Numerical ecology

P Legendre, L Legendre - 2012‏ - books.google.com
The book describes and discusses the numerical methods which are successfully being
used for analysing ecological data, using a clear and comprehensive approach. These …

Multivariate analysis of ecological data with ade4

J Thioulouse, S Dray, AB Dufour, A Siberchicot… - 2018‏ - Springer
This introductory chapter presents the intended readership of the book and a short history of
the ade4 software. It also describes the associated packages of the ade4 family and how to …

The use of multiple biological traits in marine community ecology and its potential in ecological indicator development

O Beauchard, H Veríssimo, AM Queirós… - Ecological indicators, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Biological traits offer valuable approaches to understand species distributions and
underlying mechanisms. Their use has received a growing interest in marine community …

Prediction of the intestinal resistome by a three-dimensional structure-based method

E Ruppé, A Ghozlane, J Tap, N Pons, AS Alvarez… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
The intestinal microbiota is considered to be a major reservoir of antibiotic resistance
determinants (ARDs) that could potentially be transferred to bacterial pathogens via mobile …