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Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands by Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann, Gross, Nicolas, Maestre, Fernando T., Maire, Vincent, de Bello, Francesco, Fonseca, Carlos Roberto, Kattge, Jens, Valencia, Enrique, Leps, Jan, Liancourt, Pierre

“…1. The environmental filtering hypothesis predicts that the abiotic environment selects species with similar trait values within communities. Testing this…”
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Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale by Valencia, Enrique, de Bello, Francesco, Galland, Thomas, Adler, Peter B., Lepš, Jan, E-Vojtkó, Anna, van Klink, Roel, Carmona, Carlos P., Danihelka, Jiří, Dengler, Jürgen, Eldridge, David J., Estiarte, Marc, García-González, Ricardo, Garnier, Eric, Gómez-García, Daniel, Harrison, Susan P., Herben, Tomáš, Ibáñez, Ricardo, Jentsch, Anke, Juergens, Norbert, Kertész, Miklós, Klumpp, Katja, Louault, Frédérique, Marrs, Rob H., Ogaya, Romà, Ónodi, Gábor, Pakeman, Robin J., Pardo, Iker, Pärtel, Meelis, Peco, Begoña, Peñuelas, Josep, Pywell, Richard F., Rueda, Marta, Schmidt, Wolfgang, Schmiedel, Ute, Schuetz, Martin, Skálová, Hana, Šmilauer, Petr, Šmilauerová, Marie, Smit, Christian, Song, MingHua, Stock, Martin, Val, James, Vandvik, Vigdis, Ward, David, Wesche, Karsten, Wiser, Susan K., Woodcock, Ben A., Young, Truman P., Yu, Fei-Hai, Zobel, Martin, Götzenberger, Lars

“…The stability of ecological communities is critical for the stable provisioning of ecosystem services, such as food and forage production, carbon…”
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Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant-herbivore food webs from a tropical forest by Novotny, Vojtech, Miller, Scott E, Baje, Leontine, Balagawi, Solomon, Basset, Yves, Cizek, Lukas, Craft, Kathleen J, Dem, Francesca, Drew, Richard A.I, Hulcr, Jiri, Leps, Jan, Lewis, Owen T, Pokon, Rapo, Stewart, Alan J.A, Allan Samuelson, G, Weiblen, George D

“…1. The extent to which plant-herbivore feeding interactions are specialized is key to understand the processes maintaining the diversity of both tropical…”
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Functional trait trade-offs define plant population stability across different biomes by Conti, Luisa, Valencia, Enrique, Galland, Thomas, Götzenberger, Lars, Lepš, Jan, E-Vojtkó, Anna, Carmona, Carlos P, Májeková, Maria, Danihelka, Jiří, Dengler, Jürgen, Eldridge, David J, Estiarte, Marc, García-González, Ricardo, Garnier, Eric, Gómez, Daniel, Hadincová, Věra, Harrison, Susan P, Herben, Tomáš, Ibáñez, Ricardo, Jentsch, Anke, Juergens, Norbert, Kertész, Miklós, Klumpp, Katja, Krahulec, František, Louault, Frédérique, Marrs, Rob H, Ónodi, Gábor, Pakeman, Robin J, Pärtel, Meelis, Peco, Begoña, Peñuelas, Josep, Rueda, Marta, Schmidt, Wolfgang, Schmiedel, Ute, Schuetz, Martin, Skalova, Hana, Šmilauer, Petr, Šmilauerová, Marie, Smit, Christian, Song, MingHua, Stock, Martin, Val, James, Vandvik, Vigdis, Ward, David, Wesche, Karsten, Wiser, Susan K, Woodcock, Ben A, Young, Truman P, Yu, Fei-Hai, Zobel, Martin, de Bello, Francesco

“…Ecological theory posits that temporal stability patterns in plant populations are associated with differences in species' ecological strategies. However,…”
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Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year‐to‐year asynchrony by Valencia, Enrique, de Bello, Francesco, Lepš, Jan, Galland, Thomas, E‐Vojtkó, Anna, Conti, Luisa, Danihelka, Jiří, Dengler, Jürgen, Eldridge, David J., Estiarte, Marc, García‐González, Ricardo, Garnier, Eric, Gómez, Daniel, Harrison, Susan, Herben, Tomas, Ibáñez, Ricardo, Jentsch, Anke, Juergens, Norbert, Kertész, Miklós, Klumpp, Katja, Louault, Frédérique, Marrs, Rob H., Ónodi, Gábor, Pakeman, Robin J., Pärtel, Meelis, Peco, Begoña, Peñuelas, Josep, Rueda, Marta, Schmidt, Wolfgang, Schmiedel, Ute, Schuetz, Martin, Skalova, Hana, Šmilauer, Petr, Šmilauerová, Marie, Smit, Christian, Song, Ming‐Hua, Stock, Martin, Val, James, Vandvik, Vigdis, Wesche, Karsten, Woodcock, Ben A., Young, Truman P., Yu, Fei‐Hai, Zobel, Martin, Götzenberger, Lars, Hallett, Lauren

“…Questions Compensatory dynamics are described as one of the main mechanisms that increase community stability, e.g., where decreases of some species on a…”
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Scale‐ and time‐dependent effects of fertilization, mowing and dominant removal on a grassland community during a 15‐year experiment by Lepš, Jan, Wan, Shiqiang

“…Multiple land‐use change drivers affect, in most cases negatively, the biodiversity in species‐rich meadows. Empirical data that can help to disentangle the…”
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Differences in trait–environment relationships: Implications for community weighted means tests by Lepš, Jan, de Bello, Francesco

“…Abstract One of J.P. Grime's greatest achievements was demonstrating the importance of the relationship between the environment and plant functional traits for…”
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Towards a better ecological understanding of metacommunity stability: A multiscale framework to disentangle population variability and synchrony effects by Segrestin, Jules, Lepš, Jan

“…Despite great progress in our understanding of the mechanisms governing ecosystem stability in local communities, we still lack knowledge at a larger spatial…”
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Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales by Carmona, Carlos P., de Bello, Francesco, Mason, Norman W.H., Lepš, Jan

“…Owing to the conceptual complexity of functional diversity (FD), a multitude of different methods are available for measuring it, with most being operational…”
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Simple remedy for pitfalls in detecting negative density dependence by Fibich, Pavel, Lepš, Jan

“…Conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) is one of the processes that can maintain high species diversity by decreasing population growth rates at high…”
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Plant diversity changes during the postglacial in East Asia: insights from Forest Refugia on Halla Volcano, Jeju Island by Dolezal, Jiri, Altman, Jan, Kopecky, Martin, Cerny, Tomas, Janecek, Stepan, Bartos, Michael, Petrik, Petr, Srutek, Miroslav, Leps, Jan, Song, Jong-Suk

“…Understanding how past climate changes affected biodiversity is a key issue in contemporary ecology and conservation biology. These diversity changes are,…”
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Detecting local adaptation in widespread grassland species - the importance of scale and local plant community by BISCHOFF, ARMIN, CRÉMIEUX, LISÈLE, SMILAUEROVA, MARIE, LAWSON, CLARE S, MORTIMER, SIMON R, DOLEZAL, JIRI, LANTA, VOJTECH, EDWARDS, ANDREW R, BROOK, ALEX J, MACEL, MIRKA, LEPS, JAN, STEINGER, THOMAS, MÜLLER-SCHÄRER, HEINZ

“…1 Adaptation of plant populations to local environments has been shown in many species but local adaptation is not always apparent and spatial scales of…”
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Methods of species pool determination as predictors of survival in seeding and transplanting experiments by Janíková, Eva, Lepš, Jan

“…Community composition is limited by a species' ability to reach, establish and survive on a site. Establishment and survival are constrained by both abiotic…”
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Towards a more balanced combination of multiple traits when computing functional differences between species by Bello, Francesco, Botta‐Dukát, Zoltán, Lepš, Jan, Fibich, Pavel, Goslee, Sarah

“…Functional trait differences between species are key drivers of community assembly and ecosystem functioning. Quantifying these differences routinely requires…”
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Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario by Lisner, Aleš, Konečná, Marie, Blažek, Petr, Lepš, Jan

“…Revealing the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning (BEF) has been a major focus of ecological research over recent decades. In general, results from…”
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Trait probability density (TPD): measuring functional diversity across scales based on TPD with R by Carmona, Carlos P., de Bello, Francesco, Mason, Norman W. H., Lepš, Jan

“…Functional diversity (FD) has the potential to address many ecological questions, from impacts of global change on biodiversity to ecological restoration…”
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Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects by Götzenberger, Lars, de Bello, Francesco, Bråthen, Kari Anne, Davison, John, Dubuis, Anne, Guisan, Antoine, Lepš, Jan, Lindborg, Regina, Moora, Mari, Pärtel, Meelis, Pellissier, Loic, Pottier, Julien, Vittoz, Pascal, Zobel, Kristjan, Zobel, Martin

“…Understanding how communities of living organisms assemble has been a central question in ecology since the early days of the discipline. Disentangling the…”
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Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects by Lepš, Jan, de Bello, Francesco, Šmilauer, Petr, Doležal, Jiří

“…Ecological communities and their response to environmental gradients are increasingly being described by various measures of trait composition. Aggregated…”
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Seasonality promotes grassland diversity: Interactions with mowing, fertilization and removal of dominant species by Doležal, Jiří, Lanta, Vojtěch, Mudrák, Ondřej, Lepš, Jan, Wilson, Scott

“…Current biodiversity declines in species‐rich grasslands are connected with the cessation of management, eutrophication and the expansion of dominant grass…”
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Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle by de Bello, Francesco, Lavorel, Sandra, Hallett, Lauren M., Valencia, Enrique, Garnier, Eric, Roscher, Christiane, Conti, Luisa, Galland, Thomas, Goberna, Marta, Májeková, Maria, Montesinos-Navarro, Alicia, Pausas, Juli G., Verdú, Miguel, E-Vojtkó, Anna, Götzenberger, Lars, Lepš, Jan

“…Under global change, how biological diversity and ecosystem services are maintained in time is a fundamental question. Ecologists have long argued about…”
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