Search Results - "Shipley, Bill"

The AIC model selection method applied to path analytic models compared using a d-separation test by Shipley, Bill

“…Classical path analysis is a statistical technique used to test causal hypotheses involving multiple variables without latent variables, assuming linearity,…”
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Confirmatory path analysis in a generalized multilevel context by Shipley, Bill

“…This paper describes how to test, and potentially falsify, a multivariate causal hypothesis involving only observed variables (i.e., a path analysis) when the…”
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An experimental test of CSR theory using a globally calibrated ordination method by Li, Yuanzhi, Shipley, Bill

“…Can CSR theory, in conjunction with a recently proposed globally calibrated CSR ordination ("StrateFy"), using only three easily measured leaf traits (leaf…”
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Linking hard and soft traits: Physiology, morphology and anatomy interact to determine habitat affinities to soil water availability in herbaceous dicots by Belluau, Michaël, Shipley, Bill

“…Species' habitat affinities along environmental gradients should be determined by a combination of physiological (hard) and morpho-anatomical (soft) traits…”
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Describing, explaining and predicting community assembly: a convincing trait‐based case study by Shipley, Bill

“…Direct gradient analysis describes community change along abiotic gradients. Baastrup‐Spohr et al., in this issue of the Journal of Vegetation Science, go…”
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Community divergence and convergence along experimental gradients of stress and disturbance by Li, Yuanzhi, Shipley, Bill

“…We created 24 mesocosms containing mixtures of herbaceous species arranged along experimentally maintained gradients of stress (external abiotic constraints…”
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Inter-specific and intra-specific trait variation along short environmental gradients in an old-growth temperate forest by Auger, Sébastien, Shipley, Bill

“…Question: When can we assume that inter-specific trait variation is higher than intra-specific trait variation in plant community ecology? Location: Old-growth…”
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From Plant Traits to Plant Communities: A Statistical Mechanistic Approach to Biodiversity by Shipley, Bill, Vile, Denis, Garnier, Éric

“…We developed a quantitative method, analogous to those used in statistical mechanics, to predict how biodiversity will vary across environments, which plant…”
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Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology by Shipley, Bill, De Bello, Francesco, Cornelissen, J. Hans C, Laliberté, Etienne, Laughlin, Daniel C, Reich, Peter B

“…The promise of “trait-based” plant ecology is one of generalized prediction across organizational and spatial scales, independent of taxonomy. This promise is…”
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A New Inferential Test for Path Models Based on Directed Acyclic Graphs by Shipley, Bill

“…This article introduces a new inferential test for acyclic structural equation models (SEM) without latent variables or correlated errors. The test is based on…”
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Predicting habitat affinities of herbaceous dicots to soil wetness based on physiological traits of drought tolerance by Belluau, Michaël, Shipley, Bill

“…Soil water availability is an important mechanism filtering plant species but the functional basis of this filtering in herbaceous dicots is poorly studied…”
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relationship between functional dispersion of mixed‐species leaf litter mixtures and species' interactions during decomposition by Tardif, Antoine, Shipley, Bill

“…We tested the hypothesis that interactions between plant species during the process of mixed‐species leaf litter decomposition increases with increasing…”
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Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities by de Vries, Franciska T., Manning, Pete, Tallowin, Jerry R. B., Mortimer, Simon R., Pilgrim, Emma S., Harrison, Kathryn A., Hobbs, Phil J., Quirk, Helen, Shipley, Bill, Cornelissen, Johannes H. C., Kattge, Jens, Bardgett, Richard D.

“…The controls on aboveground community composition and diversity have been extensively studied, but our understanding of the drivers of belowground microbial…”
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CATS regression – a model‐based approach to studying trait‐based community assembly by Warton, David I., Shipley, Bill, Hastie, Trevor, O'Hara, Robert B.

“…Summary Shipley, Vile & Garnier (Science 2006; 314: 812) proposed a maximum entropy approach to studying how species relative abundance is mediated by their…”
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Which plant traits determine abundance under long‐term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity? by Laliberté, Etienne, Shipley, Bill, Norton, David A., Scott, David

“…1. Soil resource availability and disturbance are widely recognized as key drivers of plant community structure. However, the relative importance of different…”
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A multigroup extension to piecewise path analysis by Douma, Jacob C., Shipley, Bill

“…Path analysis allows one to test the consistency of data to hypothesized causal relationships between variables. Often, interest lies in how the hypothesized…”
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Prediction of in situ root decomposition rates in an interspecific context from chemical and morphological traits by Aulen, Maurice, Shipley, Bill, Bradley, Robert

“…• Background and Aims We quantitatively relate in situ root decomposition rates of a wide range of trees and herbs used in agroforestry to root chemical and…”
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Quantifying the importance of local niche-based and stochastic processes to tropical tree community assembly by Shipley, Bill, Paine, C. E. Timothy, Baraloto, Christopher

“…Although niche-based and stochastic processes, including dispersal limitation and demographic stochasticity, can each contribute to community assembly, it is…”
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leaf economics spectrum and the prediction of photosynthetic light-response curves by Marino, Giancarlo, Aqil, Marouane, Shipley, Bill

“…1. In this paper we determine whether interspecific variation in entire photosynthetic light-response curves correlates with the leaf traits of the 'leaf…”
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Fundamental trade-offs generating the worldwide leaf economics spectrum by Shipley, Bill, Lechowicz, Martin J., Wright, Ian, Reich, Peter B.

“…Recent work has identified a worldwide "economic" spectrum of correlated leaf traits that affects global patterns of nutrient cycling and primary productivity…”
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