Reading the latest + the greatest.
Thursdays 12-1
Organized by Liza Comita & Dan Flynn
Week 1
Petermann, J. S., Fergus, A. J. F., Turnbull, L. A. and Schmid, B. 2008. Janzen-Connell effects are widespread and strong enough to maintain diversity in grasslands. - Ecology 89: 2399-2406.
Harms, K., Wright, S. J., Calderon, O., Hernandez, A. and Herre, E. A. 2000. Pervasive density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest. - Nature 404: 493-495.
Week 2
Catherine H. Graham and Paul V. A. Fine. Phylogenetic beta diversity: linking ecological and evolutionary processes across space in time. In press, Ecology Letters.
Maherali, H. and Klironomos, J. N. 2007. Influence of phylogeny on fungal community assembly and ecosystem functioning. - Science 316: 1746-1748.
Week 3
Kraft, N. J. B., Valencia, R. and Ackerly, D. D. 2008. Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest. - Science 322: 580-582.
Webb, C. O., Ackerly, D. D., McPeek, M. A. and Donoghue, M. J. 2002. Phylogenies and community ecology. - Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33: 475-505.
Week 4
Whitlock, R., Grime, J. P., Booth, R. and Burke, T. 2007. The role of genotypic diversity in determining grassland community structure under constant environmental conditions. - Journal of Ecology 95: 895-907.
Callaway, R. M., Pennings, S. C. and Richards, C. L. 2003. Phenotypic plasticity and interactions among plants. - Ecology 84: 1115-1128.
Week 5
Cadotte M.W., Cardinale B.J. & Oakley T.H. (2008). Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 105, 17012-17017.
Week 6
Callahan H.S., Maughan H. & Steiner U.K. (2008). Phenotypic plasticity, costs of phenotypes, and costs of plasticity. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1133, 44-66.
Callahan H.S. & Pigliucci M. (2002). Shade-induced plasticity and its ecological significance in wild populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. Ecology, 83, 1965-1980.
