Search Results - "Webb, Campbell O."

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution by Webb, Campbell O., Ackerly, David D., Kembel, Steven W.

“…Motivation: The increasing availability of phylogenetic and trait data for communities of co-occurring species has created a need for software that integrates…”
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Phylogenetic signal in plant pathogen-host range by Gilbert, Gregory S, Webb, Campbell O

“…What determines which plant species are susceptible to a given plant pathogen is poorly understood. Experimental inoculations with fungal pathogens of plant…”
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Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology by Kembel, Steven W., Cowan, Peter D., Helmus, Matthew R., Cornwell, William K., Morlon, Helene, Ackerly, David D., Blomberg, Simon P., Webb, Campbell O.

“…Picante is a software package that provides a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing the phylogenetic and trait diversity of ecological communities. The…”
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Trait Evolution, Community Assembly, and the Phylogenetic Structure of Ecological Communities by Kraft, Nathan J. B., Cornwell, William K., Webb, Campbell O., Ackerly, David D.

“…Taxa co‐occurring in communities often represent a nonrandom sample, in phenotypic or phylogenetic terms, of the regional species pool. While heuristic…”
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Exploring the Phylogenetic Structure of Ecological Communities: An Example for Rain Forest Trees by Webb, Campbell O.

“…Because of the correlation expected between the phylogenetic relatedness of two taxa and their net ecological similarity, a measure of the overall phylogenetic…”
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Exotic taxa less related to native species are more invasive by Strauss, S.Y, Webb, C.O, Salamin, N

“…Some species introduced into new geographical areas from their native ranges wreak ecological and economic havoc in their new environment. Although many…”
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Regional and Phylogenetic Variation of Wood Density across 2456 Neotropical Tree Species by Chave, Jérôme, Muller-Landau, Helene C., Baker, Timothy R., Easdale, Tomás A., ter Steege, Hans, Webb, Campbell O.

“…Wood density is a crucial variable in carbon accounting programs of both secondary and old-growth tropical forests. It also is the best single descriptor of…”
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Evolutionary tools for phytosanitary risk analysis: phylogenetic signal as a predictor of host range of plant pests and pathogens by Gilbert, Gregory S., Magarey, Roger, Suiter, Karl, Webb, Campbell O.

“…Assessing risk from a novel pest or pathogen requires knowing which local plant species are susceptible. Empirical data on the local host range of novel pests…”
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Explosive Radiation of Malpighiales Supports a Mid‐Cretaceous Origin of Modern Tropical Rain Forests by Davis, Charles C., Webb, Campbell O., Wurdack, Kenneth J., Jaramillo, Carlos A., Donoghue, Michael J.

“…Fossil data have been interpreted as indicating that Late Cretaceous tropical forests were open and dry adapted and that modern closed‐canopy rain forest did…”
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brief history of seed size by Moles, A.T, Ackerly, D.D, Webb, C.O, Tweddle, J.C, Dickie, J.B, Westoby, M

“…Improved phylogenies and the accumulation of broad comparative data sets have opened the way for phylogenetic analyses to trace trait evolution in major groups…”
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Factors that shape seed mass evolution by Moles, A.T, Ackerly, D.D, Webb, C.O, Tweddle, J.C, Dickie, J.B, Pitman, A.J, Westoby, M

“…We used correlated divergence analysis to determine which factors have been most closely associated with changes in seed mass during seed plant evolution. We…”
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Plant DNA barcodes, taxonomic management, and species discovery in tropical forests by Dick, Christopher W, Webb, Campbell O

“…DNA barcodes have great potential for species identification and taxonomic discovery in tropical forests. This use of DNA barcodes requires a reference DNA…”
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Biodiversity inventory and informatics in Southeast Asia by Webb, Campbell O, Slik, J. W. Ferry, Triono, Teguh

“…Rapidly changing land use in Southeast Asia threatens plant diversity, and reduces the time we have left to document it. Despite over 200 years of scientific…”
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Habitat Associations of Trees and Seedlings in a Bornean Rain Forest by Webb, Campbell O., Peart, David R.

“…1 In species-rich mixed dipterocarp rain forest in Indonesian Borneo, we evaluated evidence for tree species associations with physical habitat variables…”
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Environmental correlates for tropical tree diversity and distribution patterns in Borneo by Slik, J.W. Ferry, Raes, Niels, Aiba, Shin-Ichiro, Brearley, Francis Q, Cannon, Charles H, Meijaard, Erik, Nagamasu, Hidetoshi, Nilus, Reuben, Paoli, Gary, Poulsen, Axel D, Sheil, Douglas, Suzuki, Eizi, van Valkenburg, Johan L.C.H, Webb, Campbell O, Wilkie, Peter, Wulffraat, Stephan

“…Identify environmental correlates for tropical tree diversity and composition. Borneo, Southeast Asia. A GIS-environmental database with 5 arc minute (c. 10 x…”
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High seed dispersal rates in faunally intact tropical rain forest: theoretical and conservation implications by Webb, Campbell O., Peart, David R.

“…Dispersal limitation may promote high tree‐species diversity in rain forest by slowing local competitive exclusion, but evidence is scarce. By comparing the…”
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A LIKELIHOOD FRAMEWORK FOR INFERRING THE EVOLUTION OF GEOGRAPHIC RANGE ON PHYLOGENETIC TREES by Ree, Richard H, Moore, Brian R, Webb, Campbell O, Donoghue, Michael J

“…At a time when historical biogeography appears to be again expanding its scope after a period of focusing primarily on discerning area relationships using…”
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Topography drives tree-habitat association and functional and phylogenetic structure in the northernmost tropical dry forest of the Americas by Quisehuatl-Medina, Abdieel, Webb, Campbell O., Méndez-Toribio, Moisés, González, Clementina, Hubbell, Stephen P., Lopez-Toledo, Leonel

“…Slope orientation drives the species-habitat association, and functional/phylogenetic structure of the northernmost tropical dry forests on the American…”
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Prolific fruit output by the invasive tree Bellucia pentamera Naudin (Melastomataceae) is enhanced by selective logging disturbance by Dillis, Christopher, Marshall, Andrew J., Webb, Campbell O., Grote, Mark N.

“…Selective logging in tropical rain forests may promote population growth of invasive plants. The ability of invaders to respond, specifically in reproductive…”
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Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology by Gotelli, Nicholas J, Anderson, Marti J, Arita, Hector T, Chao, Anne, Colwell, Robert K, Connolly, Sean R, Currie, David J, Dunn, Robert R, Graves, Gary R, Green, Jessica L, Grytnes, John-Arvid, Jiang, Yi-Huei, Jetz, Walter, Kathleen Lyons, S, McCain, Christy M, Magurran, Anne E, Rahbek, Carsten, Rangel, Thiago F.L.V.B, Soberón, Jorge, Webb, Campbell O, Willig, Michael R

“…Understanding the causes of spatial variation in species richness is a major research focus of biogeography and macroecology. Gridded environmental data and…”
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