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\u00a0111. Theo L Gibbs, Zachary J Gold, Haylee Oyler<\/strong>, Jonathan M Levine, Nathan JB Kraft<\/strong>, 2026. Spatial clustering modifies competition in a diverse annual plant community. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America<\/strong><\/em>, 123: e2516084123. link<\/a><\/div>\n
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110. Laura Matas-Granados, Claire Fortunel, Luis Cayuela, Julia G. de Aledo, Celina Ben Saadi, Nathan J. B. Kraft<\/strong>, Christopher Baraloto, S. Joseph Wright, Jason Vleminckx, Nancy C. Garwood, Peter Hietz, Margaret R. Metz, Frederick C. Draper, Timothy R. Baker, Oliver L. Phillips, Eur\u00eddice N. Honorio Coronado, Kalle Ruokolainen, Roosevelt Garc\u00eda-Villacorta, Katherine H. Roucoux, Maximilien Gu\u00e8ze, Elvis Valderrama Sandoval, Paul V. A. Fine, Carlos A. Amasifuen Guerra, Ricardo Zarate Gomez, Pablo R. Stevenson, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, John Terborgh, Mathias Disney, Roel Brienen, Percy N\u00fa\u00f1ez Vargas, Jhon del Aguila Pasquel, Yadvinder Malhi, Jacob B. Socolar, Gerardo Flores Llampazo, Jim Vega Arenas, Darcy Galiano Cabrera, Javier Silva Espejo, Joey Talbot, Barbara Vinceti, Jos\u00e9 Reyna Huaymacari, Cecilia Ball\u00f3n Falc\u00f3n, Ted R. Feldpausch, Varun Swamy, Julio M. Grandez Rios, Manuel J. Mac\u00eda, 2025. Species functional traits affect regional and local dominance across western Amazonian forests. J<\/strong>ournal of Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 114: e70214. link<\/a><\/div>\n
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109. \u00a0<\/b>Qingpei Yang, Binglin Guo, Mingzhen Lu, Yanjie Liu, Paul Kardol, Peter Reich, Richard Bardgett, Johannes Cornelissen, Nathan Kraft<\/b>, Sandra D\u00edaz, Ian Wright, Nianpeng He, Aaron Hogan, Yuxin Pei, Qinwen Han, Zhenjiang Li, Zheng Wang, Wanqin Yang, Junxiang Ding, Zhongling Yang, Huifang Wu, Carlos Carmona, Oscar Valverde-Barrantes, Dezhu Li, Jie Cai, Hui Zeng, Yue Zhang, Weizheng Ren, Yong Zhao, Xitian Yang, Guoqiang Fan, Junjian Wang, Guoyong Li, Deliang Kong, 2025. Arbuscular mycorrhizal association regulates global root\u2013seed coordination. Nature Plants, <\/i><\/b>11:1759-1768. link<\/div>\n
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108. Kenji Hayashi<\/strong> and Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2025. Competition contributes to quantitative mismatches between plant fitness and occurrence along environmental gradient. Journal of Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 113:2590-2602. link<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

107. Thorsten Wiegand, Xugao Wang, Samuel Fischer, Nathan Kraft<\/b>, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Guanghong Cao, Min Cao, Wirong Chanthorn, Chengjin Chu, Stuart Davies, Sisira Ediriweera, C. V. Savitri Gunatilleke, I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke, Zhanqing Hao, Robert Howe, Mingxi Jiang, Guangze Jin, W. John Kress, Buhang Li, Juyu Lian, Luxiang Lin, Feng Liu, Keping Ma, William McShea, Xiangcheng Mi, Jonathan A. Myers, Anuttara Nathalang, David A. Orwig, Guochun Shen, Sheng-Hsin Su, I-Fang Sun, Xihua Wang, Amy Wolf, Enrong Yan, Wanhui Ye, Yan Zhu, Andreas Huth, 2025. Latitudinal scaling of aggregation with abundance and coexistence in forests. Nature, <\/strong><\/em>640:967\u2013973. link<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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106. Camila D. Medeiros, Santiago Trueba, Christian Henry, Leila Fletcher, James Lutz, Rodrigo M\u00e9ndez Alonzo, Nathan Kraft<\/b>, Lawren Sack, 2025. Simplification of woody plant trait networks among communities along a climatic aridity gradient. Journal of Ecology, <\/i><\/b>113:896\u2013912. <\/i>link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

105. Lucas Dami\u00e1n Gorn\u00e9, Jes\u00fas Aguirre-Guti\u00e9rrez, Fernanda Souza, Nathan Swenson, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Timothy Baker, Renato Ferreira de Lima, Emilio Vilanova, Esteban \u00c1lvarez-D\u00e1vila, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Gerardo Rafael Flores Llampazo, Rubens Manoel dos Santos, Gerhard Boenisch, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Hirma Ram\u00edrez-Angulo, Nayane Cristina dos Santos Prestes, Paulo Morandi, Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro, Wesley Jonatar da Cruz, Mathias Disney, Anthony Di Fiore, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Ted Feldpausch, Yadvinder Malhi, Oliver Phillips, David Galbraith, Sandra D\u00edaz, 2025. Use and misuse of trait imputation in ecology: the problem of using out\u2010of\u2010context imputed values. Ecography. <\/strong><\/em>e07520. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

104. <\/em>Mary Van Dyke, Nathan Kraft, <\/strong>2025. The community impacts of altered rainfall on flowering phenology in an annual grassland. American Journal of Botany, <\/em><\/strong>112: e70000. <\/em>link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

103. Jacob Levine, Ruby Ann, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Stephen Pacala, Jonathan Levine, 2025. Why ecologists struggle to predict coexistence from functional traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, <\/em><\/strong>40:147-158.  link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

102.  Mary Van Dyke<\/strong>, Jonathan Levine, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2024. M.N. Van Dyke et al. reply. Nature<\/strong><\/em>, 632;E21-E29. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

101. Elena Litchman, S\u00e9bastien Vill\u00e9ger, Lucie Zinger, Jean-Christophe Auguet, Wilfried Thuiller, Fran\u00e7ois Munoz, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Laurent Philippot, Cyrille Violle, 2024. Refocusing the microbial rare biosphere concept through a functional lens. Trends in Ecology and Evolution<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>39:923-936. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

100. Jeffrey Wood, Matteo Detto, Marvin Browne, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Alexandra  Konings, Joshua  Fisher, Gregory  Quetin, Anna Trugman, Troy Magney, Camila Medeiros, Nidhi Vinod, Thomas Buckley, Lawren Sack, 2024. The ecosystem as super-organ\/ism, revisited: Scaling hydraulics to forests under climate change. Integrative and Comparative Biology<\/em><\/strong>, 64:424-400. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

99. Fran\u00e7ois Munoz, Christopher Klausmeier, Pierre Ga\u00fcz\u00e8re, Gaurav Kandlikar<\/strong>, Elena Litchman, Nicolas Mouquet, Annette Ostling, Wilfried Thuiller, Adam Algar, Arnaud Auber, Marc Cadotte, Leo Delalandre, Pierre Denelle, Brian Enquist, Claire Fortunel, Matthias Greni\u00e9, Nicolas Loiseau, Lucie Mahaut, Anthony Maire, David Mouillot, Cyrille Violle, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2023. The ecological causes of functional distinctiveness in communities, Ecology Letters<\/strong><\/em>, 26:1452-1465. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

98. Vanessa Cutts, Dagmar Hanz, Martha Paola Barajas\u2010Barbosa, Franziska Schrodt, Manuel Steinbauer, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Pierre Denelle, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez\u2010Palacios, Pierre Ga\u00fcz\u00e8re, Matthias Greni\u00e9, Severin Irl, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Holger Kreft, Brian Maitner, Fran\u00e7ois Munoz, Wilfried Thuiller, Cyrille Violle, Patrick Weigelt, Richard Field, Adam Algar, 2023. Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics, Ecology Letters<\/strong><\/em>, 26:504-515. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

97. Wu-Bing Xu, Wen-Yong Go,  \u2026Nathan Kraft<\/strong>\u2026, Jens-Christian Svenning, Alejandro Ordonez (59 authors total), 2023.  Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change. Science Advances<\/strong><\/em>, 9: article number eadd8553. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

96.  Edwin Pos, Luis de Souza Coelho, \u2026 Nathan Kraft<\/strong>\u2026, Lourens Poorter, Hans ter Steege (214 authors total), 2023. Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology. Scientific Reports<\/strong><\/em>, 13: article number 2859. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

95. Mary Van Dyke<\/b>, Jonathan Levine, <\/span>Nathan Kraft, <\/b>2022. Small rainfall changes drive substantial changes in plant coexistence. <\/span>Nature<\/i><\/b>, 611:507\u2013511. <\/span>link<\/a>; <\/span>news and views<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

94. Sandra Diaz, \u2026 Nathan Kraft<\/strong>\u2026 Gerhard Zotz (147 authors total), 2022. The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset. Scientific Data<\/em><\/strong>, 9:1-18. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

93. Nathan Kraft<\/b>, 2022. Review of \u201cHandbook of Trait-Based Ecology: From Theory to R Tools\u201d, Quarterly Review of Biology<\/i><\/b>, 97:222. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

92. Sebastian Schreiber, Jonathan Levine, Oscar Godoy, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Simon Hart, 2022. Does deterministic coexistence theory matter in a finite world? Ecology<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>e3838. <\/em>link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

91. Andrew Kleinhesselink, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Stephen Pacala, Jonathan Levine, 2022. Detecting and interpreting higher order interactions in ecological communities. Ecology Letters<\/strong><\/em>, 25:1604 \u20131617. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

90. Xiao Feng, Brian Enquist, Daniel Park, Brad Boyle, David Breshears, Rachael Gallagher, Aaron Lien, Erica Newman, Joseph Burger, Brian Maitner, Cory Merow, Yaoqi Li, Kimberly Huynh, Kacey Ernst, Elizabeth Baldwin, Wendy Foden, Lee Hannah, Peter J\u00f8rgensen, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Jon Lovett, Pablo Marquet, Brian McGill, Naia Morueta-Holme, Danilo Neves, Mauricio N\u00fa\u00f1ez-Regueiro, Ary Oliveira-Filho, Robert Peet, Michiel Pillet, Patrick Roehrdanz, Brody Sandel, Josep Serra-Diaz, Irena \u0160\u00edmov\u00e1, Jens-Christian Svenning, Cyrille Violle, Trang Weitemier, Susan Wiser, Laura L\u00f3pez-Hoffman, 2022. A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base. Global Ecology and Biogeography<\/strong><\/em>, 31:1242\u20131260. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

89. Wen-Yong Guo, Josep Serra-Diaz, Franziska Schrodt, Wolf Eiserhardt, Brian Maitner, Cory Merow Cyrille Violle, Madhur Anand, Micha\u00ebl Belluau, Hans Henrik Bruun, Chaeho Byun, Jane A Catford, Bruno Cerabolini, Eduardo Chac\u00f3n-Madrigal, Daniela Ciccarelli, Hans Cornelissen, Anh Tuan Dang-Le, Angel de Frutos, Arildo Dias, Aelton Giroldo, Kun Guo, Alvaro Guti\u00e9rrez, Wesley Hattingh, Tianhua He, Peter Hietz, Nate Hough-Snee, Steven Jansen, Jens Kattge, Tamir Klein, Benjamin Komac, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Koen Kramer, Sandra Lavorel, Christopher Lusk, Adam Martin, Maurizio Mencuccini, Sean Michaletz, Vanessa Minden, Akira Mori, \u00dclo Niinemets, Yusuke Onoda, Josep Pe\u00f1uelas, Val\u00e9rio Pillar, Jan Pisek, Bjorn Robroek, Brandon Schamp, Martijn Slot, Enio Sosinski, Nadejda Soudzilovskaia, Nelson Thiffault, Peter M. van Bodegom, Fons van der Plas, Ian Wright, Wu-Bing Xu, Jingming Zheng, Brian Enquist, Jens-Christian Svenning, 2022. High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/strong><\/em>, 119: e2026733119. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

88. Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Erik Nelson, Jose Eduardo Meireles, Jesse Lasky, Daniela Miteva, David Nowak, William Pearse, Matthew Helmus, Amy Zanne, William Fagan, Christopher Mihiar, Nicholas Muller, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Stephen Polasky, 2022. The hidden value of trees: quantifying the ecosystem services of tree lineages and their major threats across the contiguous US. PLoS Sustainability and Transformation<\/strong><\/em>, 1:e0000010. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

87. Gaurav Kandlikar, Andrew Kleinhesselink, Nathan Kraft, <\/strong>2022. Functional traits predict species responses to environmental variation in a California grassland annual plant community. Journal of Ecology<\/em><\/strong>, 110:833-844. <\/em>link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

86. Gaurav Kandlikar, Xinyi Yan<\/strong>, Jonathan Levine, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2021. Soil microbes generate stronger fitness differences than stabilization among California annual plants. American Naturalist<\/strong><\/em>, 197: E30-E39. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

85. Stuart Graham, Ariel Rokem, Claire Fortunel, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, 2021. Regularized regression: A new tool for investigating and predicting tree growth. Forests, 12, 1283. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

84. Brody Sandel, Claire Pavelka, Thomas Hayashi, Lachlan Charles, Jennifer Funk, Fletcher Halliday, Gaurav Kandlikar, Andrew Kleinhesselink, Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Loralee Larios, Tesa Madsen-McQueen, Marko Spasojevic, 2021. Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California’s grasses. Journal of Ecology,<\/strong><\/em> 109: 2662-2677. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

83. Julia S. Joswig, Christian Wirth, Meredith C. Schuman, Jens Kattge, Bjorn Reu, Ian J. Wright, Sebastian D. Sippel, Nadja Ruger, Ronny Richter, Michael E. Schaepman, Peter van Bodegom, J. H. C. Cornelissen, Sandra Diaz, Wesley N. Hattingh, Koen Kramer, Frederic Lens, Ulo Niinemets, Peter B. Reich, Markus Reichstein, Christine Romermann, Franziska Schrodt, Madhur Anand, Michael Bahn, Chaeho Byun, Giandiego Campetella , Bruno E. L. Cerabolini , Joseph M. Craine, Andres Gonzalez-Melo, Alvaro G. Gutierrez, Tianhua He, Pedro Higuchi, Herve Jactel, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Vanessa Minden, Vladimir Onipchenko, Josep Penuela, Valerio D. Pillar, Enio Sosinski, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Evan R. Weiher, Miguel D. Mahecha, 2021. Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation. Nature Ecology and Evolution, <\/em><\/strong>6:36-50. <\/em><\/strong>link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

82. Bruno X. Pinho,<\/span> Marcelo Tabarelli,<\/span> Cajo J. F. ter Braak,<\/span> S. Joseph Wright<\/span> V\u00edctor Arroyo-Rodr\u00edguez,<\/span> Ma\u00edra Benchimol,<\/span> Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht,<\/span> Simon Pierce,<\/span> Peter Hietz,<\/span> Br\u00e1ulio A. Santos,<\/span> Carlos A. Peres,<\/span> Sandra C. M\u00fcller,<\/span> Ian J. Wright,<\/span> Frans Bongers,<\/span> Madelon Lohbeck,<\/span> \u00dclo Niinemets,<\/span> Martijn Slot,<\/span> Steven Jansen,<\/span> Davi Jamelli,<\/span> Renato A. F. de Lima,<\/span> Nathan Swenson,<\/span> Richard Condit,<\/span> Jos Barlow,<\/span> Ferry Slik,<\/span> Manuel A. Hern\u00e1ndez-Ruedas,<\/span> Gabriel Mendes,<\/span> Miguel Mart\u00ednez-Ramos,<\/span> Nigel Pitman,<\/span> Nathan Kraft<\/strong>,<\/span> Nancy Garwood,<\/span> Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino,<\/span> Deborah Faria,<\/span> Eduardo Chac\u00f3n-Madrigal,<\/span> Eduardo Mariano-Neto,<\/span> Valdecir J\u00fanior,<\/span> Jens Kattge,<\/span> Felipe P. L. Melo, 2021. Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait\u2013climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography,<\/strong><\/em> <\/em>30:1430-1446. link<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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81. <\/span>Rachel Meyer, Miroslava Munguia Ramos, Meixi Lin, Teia Schweizer, Zachary Gold, Dannise Ruiz Ramos, Sabrina Shirazi, Gaurav Kandlikar<\/strong>, Wai-Yin Kwan, Emily Curd, Amanda Freise, Jordan Moberg Parker, Jason Sexton, Regina Wetzer, N. Dean Pentcheff, Adam Wall, Lenore Pipes, Ana Garcia- Vedrenne, Maura Palacios Mejia, Tiara Moore, Chloe Orland, Kimberly Ballare, Anna Worth, Eric Beraut, Emma Aronson, Rasmus Nielsen, Harris Lewin, Paul Barber, Jeff Wall, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Beth <\/span>Shapiro, Robert Wayne, 2021. The CALeDNA program: Citizen scientists and researchers inventory California\u2019s biodiversity. California Agriculture<\/strong><\/em>, 75: 20-32. link<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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80. Lauren Shoemaker, Lauren Sullivan, Ian Donohue, Juliano Cabral, Ryan Williams, Margie Mayfield, Jon Chase, Chengjin Chu, W. Stanley Harpole, Andreas Huth, Janneke HilleRisLambers, Aubrie James, <\/span>Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Felix May, Ranjan Muthukrishnan, Sean Satterlee, Franziska Taubert, Xugao Wang, Thorsten Wiegand, Qiang Yang, and Karen Abbott, 2020. Integrating the underlying structure of stochasticity into community ecology. <\/span>Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 101:e02922. <\/span>link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

79. Jens Kattge, … Nathan Kraft<\/strong>…Ian McFadden<\/strong>… (729 authors total)…. Cristian Wirth, 2020. TRY plant trait database \u2013 enhanced coverage and open access. G<\/strong>lobal Change Biology<\/strong><\/em>, 26, 119-188. link<\/a><\/p>\n

78. Jonas Kuppler, C\u00e9cile H. Albert, Gregory M. Ames, William Scott Armbruster, Gerhard Boenisch, Florian C. Boucher, Diane R. Campbell, Liedson T. Carneiro, Eduardo Chac\u00f3n-Madrigal, Brian J. Enquist, Carlos R. Fonseca, Jos\u00e9 M. G\u00f3mez, Antoine Guisan, Pedro Higuchi, Dirk N. Karger, Jens Kattge, Michael Kleyer, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Anne-Am\u00e9lie C. Larue-Konti\u0107, Amparo L\u00e1zaro, Martin Lechleitner, Deirdre Loughnan, Vanessa Minden, \u00dclo Niinemets, Gerhard E. Overbeck, Amy L. Parachnowitsch, Francisco Perfectti, Val\u00e9rio D. Pillar, David Schellenberger Costa, Nina Sletvold, Martina Stang, Isabel Alves-dos-Santos, Helena Streit, Justin Wright, Marcin Zych, Robert R. Junker, 2020. Global gradients in intraspecific variation in vegetative and floral traits are partially associated with climate and species richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography<\/em><\/strong>, 29, 992-1007. link<\/a><\/p>\n

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77. Gaurav Kandlikar,<\/strong> Christopher Johnson, Xinyi Yan, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Jonathan Levine, 2019. Winning and losing with microbes: how microbially mediated fitness differences influence plant diversity. Ecology Letters<\/strong><\/em>, 22:1178-1191. link<\/a>;  F1000<\/a> recommended<\/a><\/p>\n

76. Ian McFadden<\/strong>, Brody Sandel, Constantinos Tsirogiannis, Naia Morueta-Holme, Jens-Christian Svenning, Brian Enquist, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2019. Temperature shapes opposing latitudinal gradients of plant taxonomic and phylogenetic \u03b2 diversity. Ecology Letters<\/strong><\/em> 22:1126-1135. link<\/a><\/p>\n

75. Claire Fortunel, Ian McFadden<\/strong>, Renato Valencia, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2019. Neither species geographic range size, climatic envelope, nor intraspecific leaf trait variability capture habitat specialization in a hyperdiverse Amazonian forest. Biotropica<\/strong><\/em>, 51:304-310. link<\/a><\/p>\n

74. Ian McFadden<\/strong>, Megan Bartlett, Thorsten Weigand, Benjamin Turner, Lawren Sack, Renato Valencia, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2019. Disentangling the functional trait correlates of spatial aggregation in tropical forest trees. Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 100:e02591. link<\/a><\/p>\n

73. Lei Chen<\/strong>, Yunquan Wang, Xiangcheng Mi, Xiaojuan Liu, Haibao Ren, Jiahua Chen, Keping Ma, and Nathan Kraft<\/strong>. 2019. Neighborhood effects explain increasing asynchronous seedling survival in a subtropical forest. Ecology<\/strong><\/em> 100:e02821. link<\/a><\/p>\n

72. Emily Curd, Zack Gold, Gaurav Kandlikar<\/strong>, Jesse Gomer, Max Ogden, Taylor O\u2019Connell, Lenore Pipes, Teia Schweizer, Laura Rabichow, Meixi Lin, Baochen Shi, Paul Barber, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Robert Wayne, Rachel S. Meyer, 2019. Anacapa Toolkit: An environmental DNA toolkit for processing multilocus metabarcode datasets. Methods in Ecology and Evolution<\/strong><\/em>, 10:1469-1475. link<\/a><\/p>\n

71. Jes\u00fas Aguirre Guti\u00e9rrez, Imma Oliveras, Sami Rifai, Sophie Fauset, Stephen Adu\u2010bredu, Kofi Affum\u2010baffoe, Timothy Baker, Ted Feldpausch, Agne Gvozdevaite, Wannes Hubau, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Simon Lewis, Sam Moore, \u00dclo Niinemets, Theresa Peprah, Oliver Phillips, Kasia Ziemi\u0144ska, Brian Enquist, Yadvinder Malhi. Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long-term drought. Ecology Letters, <\/em><\/strong>22: 855-865. link<\/a><\/p>\n

70. Brian Enquist, Xiao Feng, Brad Boyle, Brian Maitner, Erica Newman, Peter J\u00f8rgensen, Patrick Roehrdanz, Barbara Thiers, Joseph Burger, Richard Corlett, Thomas Couvreur, Gilles Dauby, John Donoghue, Wendy Foden, Jon Lovett, Pablo Marquet, Cory Merow, Guy Midgley, Naia Morueta-Holme, Danilo Neves, Ary Oliveira-Filho, Nathan Kraft<\/strong><\/em>, Daniel Park, Robert Peet, Michiel Pillet, Josep Serra- Diaz, Brody Sandel, Mark Schildhauer, Irena \u0160\u00edmov\u00e1, Cyrille Violle, Jan Wieringa, Susan K. Wiser, Lee Hannah, Jens-Christian Svenning and Brian McGill, 2019. The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants. Science Advances<\/em><\/strong>, 5, eaaz0414. link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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69. Habacuc Flores-Moreno, Farideh Fazayeli, Arindam Banerjee, Abhirup Datta, Jens Kattge, Ethan Butler, Owen Atkin, Kirk Wythers, Ming Chen, Madhur Anand, Michael Bahn, Chaeho Byun, J Hans Cornelissen, Joseph Craine, Andres Gonzalez-Melo, Wesley Hattingh, Steven Jansen, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Koen Kramer, Daniel Laughlin, Vanessa Minden, \u00dclo Niinemets, Vladimir Onipchenko, Josep Pe\u00f1uelas, Nadejda Soudzilovskaia, Rhiannon Dalrymple, Peter Reich, 2019. Robustness of trait connections across environmental gradients and growth forms. Global Ecology and Biogeography<\/strong><\/em>, 28, 1806-1826. link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

68. Irena \u0160\u00edmov\u00e1, Brody Sandel, Brian Enquist, Sean Michaletz, Jens Kattge, Cyrille Violle, Brian McGill, Ben Blonder, Kristina Engemann, Robert Peet, Susan Wiser, Naia Morueta-Holme, Brad Boyle, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, and Jens-Christian Svenning. 2019. The relationship of woody plant size and leaf nutrient content to large-scale productivity for forests across the Americas. Journal of Ecology<\/strong><\/em> 107:2278-2290. link<\/a><\/p>\n

67. Susy Echeverr\u00eda-Londo\u00f1o, Brian Enquist, Danilo Neves, Cyrille Violle, Brad Boyle, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Brian Maitner, Brian McGill, Robert Peet, Brody Sandel, Stephen Smith, Jens-Christian Svenning, Susan Wiser, and Andrew Kerkhoff. 2018. Plant Functional Diversity and the Biogeography of Biomes in North and South America. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution<\/strong><\/em> 6:219. link<\/a><\/p>\n

66. Gaurav Kandlikar<\/strong>, Zachary Gold, Madeline Cowen, Amanda Freise, Rachel Meyer, Jordan Moberg-Parker, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Joshua Sprague, David Kushner, and Emily Curd, 2018. ranacapa: An R package to explore environmental DNA data with exploratory statistics and interactive visualizations. F1000Research<\/strong><\/em>, 7:1734. link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

65. Claire Fortunel<\/strong>, Jesse Lasky, Mar\u00eda Uriarte, Renato Valencia, Joseph Wright, Nancy Garwood, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2018. Topography and neighborhood crowding can interact to shape species growth and distribution in a diverse Amazonian forest. Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 99:2272-2283. <\/em>link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

64. William Petry, Gaurav Kandlikar, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Oscar Godoy, and Jonathan Levine. A competition-defence trade-off both promotes and weakens coexistence in an annual plant community. Journal of Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, <\/em>106(5):1806-1818. <\/em>link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

63. Gaurav Kandlikar, Marcel Vaz<\/strong>, Ricardo Kreibel, German Vargas, Fabi\u00e1n Michelangeli, Roberto Cordero, Frank Almeda, Gerardo Avalos, Ned Fetcher, Nathan Kraft, <\/strong>2018. Contrasting patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional variation along a Costa Rican altitudinal gradient in the plant family Melastomataceae. Journal of Tropical Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, <\/em>34:204-208. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

62. Jeanne Osnas<\/span><\/strong>, Masatoshi Katabuchi<\/span>, Kaoru Kitajima<\/span>, S. Joseph Wright<\/span>, Peter Reich<\/span>, Sunshine Van Bael<\/span>, Nathan Kraft<\/span><\/strong>, Mirna J. Samaniego<\/span>, Stephen Pacala<\/span>, and Jeremy Lichstein, 2018. Divergent drivers of leaf trait variation within species, among species, and among functional groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/strong><\/em>, 115:5480-5485. link<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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61. Irena \u0160\u00edmov\u00e1, Cyrille Violle, Jens\u2010Christian Svenning, Jens Kattge, Kristine Engemann, Brody Sande, Robert Peet, Susan Wiser, Benjamin Blonder, Brian McGill, Brad Boyle, Naia Morueta\u2010Holme, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Peter van Bodegom, Alvaro Guti\u00e9rrez, Michael Bahn, Wim Ozinga, Anna T\u00f3sz\u00f6gyov\u00e1, Brian Enquist, 2018. Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species. Journal of Biogeography<\/strong><\/em>, 45:895-916. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

60. Ethan E Butler, Abhirup Datta, Habacuc Flores-Moreno, Ming Chen, Kirk R Wythers, Farideh Fazayeli, Arindam Banerjee, Owen K Atkin, Jens Kattge, Bernard Amiaud, Benjamin Blonder, Gerhard Boenisch, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Kerry A Brown, Chaeho Byun, Giandiego Campetella, Bruno EL Cerabolini, Johannes HC Cornelissen, Joseph M Craine, Dylan Craven, Franciska T de Vries, Sandra D\u00edaz, Tomas F Domingues, Estelle Forey, Andr\u00e9s Gonz\u00e1lez-Melo, Nicolas Gross, Wenxuan Han, Wesley N Hattingh, Thomas Hickler, Steven Jansen, Koen Kramer, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Hiroko Kurokawa, Daniel C Laughlin, Patrick Meir, Vanessa Minden, \u00dclo Niinemets, Yusuke Onoda, Josep Pe\u00f1uelas, Quentin Read, Lawren Sack, Brandon Schamp, Nadejda A Soudzilovskaia, Marko J Spasojevic, Enio Sosinski, Peter E Thornton, Fernando Valladares, Peter M van Bodegom, Mathew Williams, Christian Wirth, Peter B Reich, 2017. Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/strong><\/em>, 114:E10937. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

59. Brian Maitner, Brad Boyle, Nathan Casler, Rick Condit, John Donoghue II, Sandra M. Dur\u00e1n, Daniel Guaderrama, Cody E. Hinchliff, Peter M. J\u00f8rgensen, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Brian McGill, Cory Merow, Naia Morueta-Holme, Robert K. Peet, Brody Sandel, Mark Schildhauer, Stephen A. Smith, Jens-Christian Svenning, Barbara Thiers, Cyrille Violle, Susan Wiser, Brian J. Enquist, 2018. The bien r package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) database. Methods in Ecology and Evolution<\/strong><\/em>, 9:373-379. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

58. Cyrille Violle, Wilfried Thuiller, Nicolas Mouquet, Fran\u00e7ois Munoz, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Marc Cadotte, Stuart Livingstone, Matthias Grenie, David Mouillot, 2017. A Common Toolbox to Understand, Monitor or Manage Rarity? A Response to Carmona et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution<\/strong><\/em>, <\/em>32:891-893. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

57. Serguei Saavedra, Rudolf Rohr, Jordi Bascompte, Oscar Godoy, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Jonathan Levine, 2017. A structural approach for understanding multi species coexistence. Ecological Monographs<\/strong><\/em> 87:470-486. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

56. Oscar Godoy, Daniel Stouffer, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Jonathan Levine, 2017. Intransitivity is infrequent and fails to promote annual plant coexistence without pairwise niche differences. Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 98:1193-1200. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

55. Cristina Bastias, Claire Fortunel<\/strong>, Fernando Valladares, Christopher Baraloto, Raquel Benavides, William Cornwell, Lars Markesteijn, Alexandre A. de Oliveira, Geronimo Sansevero, Marcel Vaz, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2017. Intraspecific leaf trait variability along a boreal-to-tropical community diversity gradient. PLoS ONE<\/em><\/strong>, 12:e0172495. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

54. Cyrille Violle, Wilfried Thuiller, Nicolas Mouquet, Fran\u00e7ois Munoz, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Marc Cadotte, Stuart Livingstone, David Mouillot, 2017. Functional rarity: the ecology of outliers. Trends in Ecology and Evolution<\/strong><\/em>, 32:356-367. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

53. Thorsten Wiegand, Mar\u00eda Uriarte, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Guochun Shen, Xugao Wang, Fangliane He, 2017. Spatially explicit metrics of species, functional and phylogenetic diversity: insights into plant community assembly processes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics<\/strong><\/em>, 48:329-351. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

52. Sarah Greenwood, Paloma Ruiz-Benito, Jordi Mart\u00ednez-Vilalta, Francisco Lloret, Thomas Kitzberger, Craig Allen, Rod Fensham, Daniel C Laughlin, Jens Kattge, Gerhard B\u00f6nisch, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Alistair Jump, 2017. Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf area. Ecology Letters<\/strong><\/em>, 20:539-553. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

51. Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2017. From ecological strategies to trait ecology. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America<\/strong><\/em>. 98:32-33. (commentary, with Mark Westoby) link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

50. Erik Nelson, Matthew Helmus, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Stephen Polasky, Jesse Lasky, Amy Zanne, Will Pearse, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Daniela Mitzva, Bill Fagan, 2016. Commercial plant production and consumption still follow the latitudinal gradient in species diversity despite economic globalization. PLoS ONE<\/strong><\/em>, 11:e0163002. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

49. Claire Fortunel<\/strong>, Renato Valencia, S Joseph Wright, Nancy Garwood, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2016. Functional trait differences influence neighbourhood interactions in a hyperdiverse Amazonian forest. Ecology Letters<\/strong><\/em>, 19:1062-1070. link<\/a>; F1000 recommended<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

48. Gregory Goldsmith, Naia Morueta\u2010Holme, Brody Sandel, Eric Fitz, Samuel D Fitz, Brad Boyle, Nathan Casler, Kristine Engemann, Peter J\u00f8rgensen, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Brian McGill, Robert Peet, William Piel, Nick Spencer, Jens\u2010Christian Svenning, Barbara Thiers, Cyrille Violle, Susan Wiser, Brian Enquist, 2016. Plant\u2010O\u2010Matic: a dynamic and mobile guide to all plants of the Americas. Methods in Ecology and Evolution<\/strong><\/em>. 7:960-965. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

47. Xugao Wang, Thorsten Wiegand, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Nathan Swenson, Stuart Davies, Zhanqing Hao, Robert Howe, Yiching Lin, Keping Ma, Xiangcheng Mi, Sheng-Hsin Su, I-Fang Sun, Amy Wolf, 2016. Stochastic dilution effects weaken deterministic effects of niche-based processes in species rich forests. Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 97:347-360. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

46. Christopher Doughty, Adam Wolf, Naia Morueta-Holme, Peter J\u00f8rgensen, Brody Sandel, Cyrille Violle, Brad Boyle, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Robert Peet, Brian Enquist, Jens-Christian Svenning, Stephen Blake and Mauro Galetti, 2016. Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests. Ecography<\/i><\/b><\/i>,<\/span> 39:194-203. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

45. Kristine Engemann, Brody Sandel, Brian J. Enquist, Peter M\u00f8ller J\u00f8rgensen, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza, Brian McGill, Naia Morueta-Holme, Robert K. Peet, Cyrille Violle, Susan Wiser andJens-Christian Svenning, 2015. Patterns and drivers of plant functional group dominance across the Western Hemisphere: a macroecological re-assessment based on a massive botanical dataset. Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society<\/strong><\/em>, 180:141-160. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

44. Andrew Siefert, Cyrille Violle, Lo\u00efc Chalmandrier, C\u00e9cile H. Albert, Adrien Taudiere, Alex Fajado, Lonnie W. Aarssen, Christopher Baraloto, Marcos B. Carlucci, Marcus V. Cianciaruso, Vin\u00edcius de L. Dantas, Francesco de Bello, Leandro D. S. Duarte, Carlos R. Fonseca, Gr\u00e9goire T. Freschet, St\u00e9phanie Gaucherand, Nicolas Gross, Kouki Hikosaka, Benjamin Jackson, Vincent Jung, Chiho Kamiyama, Masatoshi Katabuchi, Steven W. Kembel, Emilie Kichenin, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Anna Lagerstr\u00f6m, Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yuanzhi Li, Norman Mason, Julie Messier, Tohru Nakashizuka, Jacob McC. Overton, Duane Peltzer, I. M. P\u00e9rez-Ramos, Val\u00e9rio D. Pillar, Honor C. Prentice, Sarah Richardson, Takehiro Sasaki, Brandon S. Schamp, Christian Sch\u00f6b, Bill Shipley, Maja Sundqvist, Martin T. Sykes, Marie Vandewalle, David A. Wardle, 2015. A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. Ecology Letters<\/strong><\/em>, 18:1406-1419. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

43. Rong Li,<\/strong> Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Heng Li, 2015. Phylogenetic diversity and species richness in conservation planning within a global biodiversity hotspot. Conservation Biology,<\/strong><\/em> 29:1552-1562. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

42. Rong Li, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Jie Yang, Yuhua Wang, 2015. A phylogenetically informed delineation of floristic regions within a biodiversity hotspot in Yunnan, China. Scientific Reports<\/strong><\/em>, 5: article number 9396. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

41. Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Oscar Godoy, Jonathan Levine, 2015. Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/strong><\/em>,112:797-802. pdf<\/a>; F1000 recommended<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

40. Ben Blonder, David Nogu\u00e9s-Bravo, Michael Borregaard, John Donoghue II, Peter J\u00f8rgensen, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Jean-Philippe Lessard, Naia Morueta-Holme, Brody Sandel, Jens-Christian Svenning, Cyrille Violle, Carsten Rahbek, Brian Enquist, 2015. Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework. Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 96:972-985. pdf<\/a>; F1000 recommended<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

39. Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Peter Adler, Oscar Godoy, Emily James, Steve Fuller, Jonathan Levine, 2015. Community assembly, coexistence, and the environmental filtering metaphor. Functional Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 29:592-599. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

38. Mark Vellend, Diane Srivastava, Kathryn Anderson, Carissa Brown, Jill Jankowski, Elizabeth Kleynhans, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Alathea Letaw, Andrew MacDonald, Janet Maclean, Isla Myers-Smith, Andrea Norris, Xinxin Xue, 2014.  Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities. Oikos<\/strong><\/em>, 123:1420-1430. pdf<\/a>; selected as \u201ceditor\u2019s choice\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

37. Christine Lamanna, Benjamin Blonder, Cyrille Violle, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Brody Sandel, Irena Simova, John C. Donoghue II, Jens-Christian Svenning, Brian J. McGill, Brad Boyle, Vanessa Buzzard, Steven Dolins, Peter M. J\u00f8rgensen, Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza, Naia Morueta-Holme, Robert K. Peet, William Piel, Jim Regetz, Mark Schildhauer, Nick Spencer, Barbara M. Thiers, Susan K. Wiser , Brian J. Enquist, 2014. Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/strong><\/em>, 111:13745-13750. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

36. Irena Simova, Cyrille Violle, Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> David Storch, Jens-Christian Svenning, Brad Boyle, John Donoghue, Peter Jorgensen, Brian McGill, Naia Morureta-Holme, Robert Peet, Susan Wiser, William Piel, Jim Regetz, Mark Shildhauer, Barbara Thiers, Brian Enquist, 2014. Shifts in trait means and variances in North American tree assemblages: species richness patterns are loosely related to the functional space. Ecography<\/strong><\/em>, 38:649-658. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

35. Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Gregory Crutsinger, Elisabeth Forrestal, and Nancy Emery, 2014.  Functional trait differences and the outcome of community assembly: an experimental test with vernal pool annual plants. Oikos<\/strong><\/em>,123:1391-1399. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

34. Oscar Godoy, Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Jonathan Levine, 2014. Phylogenetic relatedness and the determinants of competitive outcomes. Ecology Letters<\/strong><\/em>,17:836-844. pdf<\/a>  F1000 recommended<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

33. Rafael Cardenas, Renato Valencia, Adriana Argoti, Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Olivier Dangles, 2014. Plant traits predict inter\u2010 and intraspecific variation in susceptibility to herbivory in a hyperdiverse Neotropical rain forest tree community. Journal of Ecology<\/strong><\/em>,102:939-952. pdf <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

32. Claire Fortunel,<\/strong> C.E. Timothy Paine, Paul V. A. Fine, Nathan Kraft <\/strong>and Christopher Baraloto, 2014. Environmental factors predict community functional composition in Amazonian forests. Journal of Ecology<\/strong><\/em>,102:145-155. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

31. Nathan Kraft<\/strong> and David D. Ackerly, 2014. The assembly of plant communities. In: The Plant Sciences- Ecology and the Environment, R. Monson, ed. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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30. Naia Morueta-Holme, Brian Enquist, Brian McGill, Brad Boyle, Peter Jorgensen, Jeffery Ott, Robert Peet, Irena Simova, Lindsey Sloat, Barbara Theirs, Cyrille Violle, Susan Wiser, Nick Spencer, Steven Dollins, John Donoghue II,\u00a0Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Jim Regetz, Mark Schildhauer, Jens-Christian Svenning, 2013. Habitat area and climate stability determine geographic variation in plant species range sizes.\u00a0\u00a0Ecology Letters<\/strong><\/em>,16:1446-1454.\u00a0pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

29. Jonathan Davies, Elizabeth Wolkovich, Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Nicolas Salamin, Jenica Allen, Toby Ault, Julio Betancourt, Kjell Bolmgrem, Elsa Cleland,  Ben Cook, Theresa Crimmins, Susan Mazer, Gregory McCabe, Stephanie Pau, Jim Regetz, Mark Schwartz, Steven Travers, 2013. Phylogenetic conservatism in plant phenology. Journal of Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 101:1520-1530. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

28. Francesco Pomati, Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Thomas Posch, Bettina Eugster, Jukka Jokela, Bas W. Ibelings, 2013. Size and fluorescence related traits are under selection by biotic and abiotic environmental changes in spring bloom phytoplankton communities of Lake Zurich (Switzerland). PLoS ONE<\/strong><\/em>, 8:e71677. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

27. Peter Adler, Alex Fajardo, Andrew Kleinhesselink, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2013. Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms. Ecology Letters<\/strong><\/em>, 16:1294-1306. pdf<\/a>;  F1000 recommended<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

26. Adam Smith, Brody Sandel, Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Susan Carey, 2013. Characterizing scale-dependent community assembly using the functional-diversity\u2013area relationship. Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 94:2392-2402. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

25. Hiroshi Tomimatsu, Takehiro Sasaki, Hiroko Kurokawa, Jon R. Bridle, Colin Fontaine, Jun Kitano, Daniel B. Stouffer, Mark Vellend, T. Martijn Bezemer, Tadashi Fukami, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Marcel G.A. van der Heijden, Masakado Kawata, Sonia K\u00e9fi, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Kevin S. McCann, Peter J. Mumby, Tohru Nakashizuka, Owen L. Petchey, Tamara N. Romanuk, Katharine N. Suding, Gaku Takimoto, Jotaro Urabe, Shigeo Yachi, 2013. Sustaining ecosystem functions in a changing world: a call for an integrated approach. Journal of Applied Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 50:1124-1130. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

24. Susan Mazer, Steven Travers, Benjamin Cook, T. Jonathan Davies, Kjell Bolmgren, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Nicolas Salamin, David Inouye, 2013. Flowering date of taxonomic families predicts phenological sensitivity to temperature: implications for forecasting the effects of climate change on unstudied taxa. American Journal of Botany<\/strong><\/em>, 100:1381-1397. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

23. James Stegen, Amy Freestone, Thomas Crist, Marti Anderson, Jonathan Chase, Liza Comita, Howard Cornell. Kendi Davies, Susan Harrison, Allen Hurlbert, Brian Inouye, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Jonathan Myers, Nathan Sanders, Nathan Swenson, Mark Vellend, 2013. Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography<\/strong><\/em>, 22:202-212. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

22. Ben Cook, Elizabeth Wolkovich, Jonathan Davies, Toby Ault, Julio Betancourt, Jenica Allen, Kjell Bolmgren, Elsa Cleland, Theresa Crimmins, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Lesley Lancaster, Susan Mazer, Gregory McCabe, Brian McGill, Camille Parmesan, Stephanie Pau, Jim Regetz, Nicholas Salamin, Mark Schwartz, Steven Travers, 2012. Sensitivity of spring phenology to warming across temporal and spatial climate gradients in two independent databases. Ecosystems<\/strong><\/em>,15:1283-1294. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

21. Elizabeth M. Wolkovich, B. I. Cook, J. M. Allen, T. M. Crimmins, S. Travers, S. Pau, J. Regetz, T. J. Davies, J. L. Betancourt, Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> T. R. Ault, K. Bolmgren, S. J. Mazer, G. J. McCabe, B. J. McGill, C. Parmesan, N. Salamin, M. D. Schwartz, E. E. Cleland, 2012. Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change. Nature<\/strong><\/em>, 485:494-497. pdf<\/a>  F1000 recommended<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

20. Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Nate Sanders, James Stegen, Marti Anderson, Tomas Crist, Howard Cornell, Mark Vellend, Jon Chase, Liza Comita, Kendi Davies, Amy Freestone, Susan Harrison, Brian Inouye, Jonathan Myers, Nathan Swenson, 2012. Response to comments on “Disentangling the drivers of beta diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients”. Science<\/strong><\/em>, 335:1573. link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19. Travis Ingram, Richard Svanback, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Pavel Kratina, Laura Southcott and Dolph Schluter, 2012. Intraguild predation drives evolutionary niche shift in threespine stickleback. Evolution<\/strong><\/em>, 66:1819- 1832. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

18. Jonathan Davies, Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Nicolas Salamin, Elizabeth Wolkovich, 2012. Incompletely resolved phylogenetic trees inflate estimates of phylogenetic conservatism. Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 93:242-247. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17. Bradford Hawkins, Christy McCain, Jonathan Davies, Lauren Buckely, Brian Anacker, Howard Cornell, Ellen Damschen, John-Arvid Grytnes, Susan Harrison, Robert Holt, Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Patrick Stephens, 2012. Different evolutionary histories underlie congruent species richness gradients of birds and mammals. Journal of Biogeography<\/strong><\/em>, 39:825-841. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16. Nathan Swenson, Brian Enquist, Jason Pither, Andrew Kerkhoff, Brad Boyle, Michael Weiser, James Elser, William Fagan, Jimena Forero-Monta\u00f1a, Nikolaos Fyllas, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Jeffrey Lake, Angela Moles, Sandra Pati\u00f1o, Oliver Phillips, Charles Price, Peter Reich, Carlos Quesada, James Stegen, Renato Valencia, Ian Wright, S. Joseph Wright, Sandy Andelman, Peter J\u00f8rgensen, Thomas Lacher Jr., Abel Monteagudo, M. Percy N\u00fa\u00f1ez-Vargas, Rodolfo Vasquez-Mart\u00ednez, Kristen Nolting, 2012. The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America. Global Ecology and Biogeography,<\/strong><\/em> 21:798-808. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15. Stephanie Pau, Elizabeth Wolkovich, Benjamin Cook, Jonathan Davies, Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Kjell Bolmgren, Julio Betancourt, and Elsa Cleland, 2011. A framework for predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science. Global Change Biology<\/strong><\/em>, 17:3633-3643. pdf<\/a>
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14.\u00a0Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Liza Comita, Jon Chase, Nathan Sanders, Nathan Swenson, Thomas Crist, James Stegen, Mark Vellend, Brad Boyle, Marti Anderson, Howard Cornell, Kendi Davies, Amy Freestone, Brian Inouye, Susan Harrison, Jonathan Myers, 2011. Disentangling the drivers of beta diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients.\u00a0Science<\/strong><\/em>, 333:755-1758. pdf<\/a>\u00a0cover image<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

13. Jonathan Chase, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Kevin Smith, Mark Vellend, Brian Inouye, 2011. Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in alpha-diversity. Ecosphere<\/strong><\/em>, 2: Article 24. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. Daniel Peppe, Dana Royer, B\u00e1rbara Cariglino, Sofia Oliver, Sharon Newman, Elias Leight, Grisha Enikolopov, Margo Fernandez-Burgos, Fabiany Herrera, Jonathan Adams, Edwin Correa, Ellen Currano, J. Mark Erickson, Luis Felipe Hinojosa, John Hoganson, Ari Iglesias, Carlos Jaramillo, Kirk Johnson, Gregory Jordan, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Elizabeth Lovelock, Christopher Lusk, \u00dclo Niinemets, Josep Pe\u00f1uelas, Gillian Rapson, Scott Wing, and Ian Wright, 2011. Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications. New Phytologist<\/strong><\/em>, 190:724-739. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. Marti Anderson, Thomas Crist, Jonathan Chase, Mark Vellend, Brian Inouye, Amy Freestone, Nathan Sanders, Howard Cornell, Liza Comita, Kendi Davies, Susan Harrison, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, James Stegen and Nathan Swenson, 2011. Navigating the multiple meanings of beta diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist. Ecology Letters<\/strong><\/em>, 14:19-28. pdf<\/a> F1000 recommended<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Nathan Kraft<\/strong>*, Margaret Metz*, Richard Condit and Jerome Chave, 2010. The relationship between wood density and mortality rates in a global tropical forest dataset. New Phytologist<\/strong><\/em>, 188:1124-1136. *equal contribution. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Nathan Kraft<\/strong> and David Ackerly, 2010. Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest. Ecological Monographs<\/strong><\/em>, 80:401-422. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Brody Sandel, Leah Goldstein, Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Jordan Okie, Michal Shuldman, David Ackerly, Elsa Cleland and Katharine Suding, 2010. Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation. New Phytologist<\/strong><\/em>, 188:565-575. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Nathan Kraft,<\/strong> Bruce Baldwin, David Ackerly, 2010. Range size, taxon age, and hotspots of neoendemism in the California flora. Diversity and Distributions<\/strong><\/em>, 16:403-413. pdf<\/a>
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6. S. Joseph Wright, Kaoru Kitajima, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Peter Reich, Ian Wright, Daniel Bunker, Richard Condit, James Dalling, Stuart Davies, Sandra D\u00edaz, Bettina Engelbrecht, Kyle Harms, Stephen Hubbell, Christian Marks, Maria Ruiz-Jaen, Cristina Salvador, Renato Valencia, and Amy Zanne, 2010. Functional traits and the growth- mortality tradeoff in tropical trees. Ecology<\/strong><\/em>, 91:3664-3674. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Lauren Buckley, Jonathan Davies, David Ackerly, Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Susan Harrison, Brian Anacker, Howard Cornell, Ellen Damschen, John-Avid Grytnes, Bradford Hawkins, Christy McCain, Patrick Stephens and John Weins, 2010. Phylogeny, niche conservatism, and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/strong><\/em>, 277:2131-2138. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. David Ackerly, Scott Loarie, Will Cornwell, Stu Weiss, Healy Hamilton, Ryan Branciforte and Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, 2010. The geography of climate change: implications for conservation biogeography. Diversity and Distributions<\/strong><\/em>,16:476-487. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Nathan Kraft<\/strong> and David Ackerly, 2009. Response to comment on “Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest.” Science<\/strong><\/em>, 324:1015-d. web link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, Renato Valencia, and David Ackerly, 2008. Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest. Science<\/strong><\/em>, 322:580-582. pdf<\/a> F1000 recommended<\/a> ; “Reflections on Papers Past” 2018 discussion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Nathan Kraft<\/strong>, William Cornwell, Campbell Webb and David Ackerly, 2007. Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities. The American Naturalist<\/strong><\/em>, 170:271-283. pdf<\/a> *Received the 2008 President’s Award <\/a>from the American Society of Naturalists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

bold for authors who were lab members or visitors when contributing \u00a0111. Theo L Gibbs, Zachary J Gold, Haylee Oyler, Jonathan M Levine, Nathan JB Kraft, 2026. Spatial clustering modifies competition in a diverse annual plant community. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America, 123: e2516084123. link \u00a0 110. Laura Matas-Granados, … <\/p>\n

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