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  1. Temporal dependence of community succession drives ecosystem functioning in natural phytoplankton
  2. Realistic species loss has little effect on local resource depletion and competitive pressure in a temperate wet meadow
  3. Drought resistance drives population temporal stability of annuals in drylands
  4. Reconciling links between diversity and population stability across global plant communities
  5. Intraspecific differences in leaf decomposition and associated traits in closely related Carex species: a microcosm experiment
  6. Variation of seedling recruitment in wet meadow species over 6 years: Positive effects of mowing and negative effects of fertilization
  7. Biodiversity loss disrupts seasonal carbon dynamics in a species‐rich temperate grassland
  8. Resistance and Resilience of Species Composition: Thirty Years of Experimental Mismanagement and Subsequent Restoration in a Species Rich Meadow
  9. Half a Century of Temperate Non‐Forest Vegetation Changes: No Net Loss in Species Richness, but Considerable Shifts in Taxonomic and Functional Composition
  10. Closely related species differ in their traits, but competition induces high intra‐specific variability
  11. Why are plant communities stable? Disentangling the role of dominance, asynchrony and averaging effect following realistic species loss scenario
  12. The convex relationship between plant cover and biomass: Implications for assessing species and community properties
  13. Biodiversity promotes resistance but dominant species shape recovery of grasslands under extreme drought
  14. A unified framework for partitioning the drivers of stability of ecological communities
  15. Cumulative nitrogen enrichment alters the drivers of grassland overyielding
  16. Simple remedy for pitfalls in detecting negative density dependence
  17. Differences in trait–environment relationships: Implications for community weighted means tests
  18. Functional trait trade-offs define plant population stability across different biomes
  19. Methods of species pool determination as predictors of survival in seeding and transplanting experiments
  20. Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario
  21. The functional structure of plant communities drives soil functioning via changes in soil abiotic properties
  22. Functional traits trade-offs define plant population stability worldwide
  23. Towards a better ecological understanding of metacommunity stability: A multiscale framework to disentangle population variability and synchrony effects
  24. Parasitic trophic mode of plant host affects the extent of colonization, but does not induce systematic shifts in the composition of foliar endophytic assemblages in temperate meadow ecosystems
  25. The species richness–productivity relationship varies among regions and productivity estimates, but not with spatial resolution
  26. Linking insect herbivory with plant traits: Phylogenetically structured trait syndromes matter
  27. Common spatial patterns of trees in various tropical forests: Small trees are associated with increased diversity at small spatial scales
  28. Weak coordination between leaf drought tolerance and proxy traits in herbaceous plants
  29. Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community
  30. Anthills as habitat islands in a sea of temperate pasture
  31. Are belowground clonal traits good predictors of ecosystem functioning in temperate grasslands?
  32. Towards a more balanced combination of multiple traits when computing functional differences between species
  33. Everyone makes mistakes: Sampling errors in vegetation analysis - The effect of different sampling methods, abundance estimates, experimental manipulations, and data transformation
  34. Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale
  35. Species traits are better determinants of mobility than management in a species‐rich meadow
  36. Determinants of ecosystem stability in a diverse temperate forest
  37. Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year‐to‐year asynchrony
  38. Experimental assessment of biotic and abiotic filters driving community composition
  39. In memoriam of Professor Miroslav Papáček (1953–2019): biography, memories, bibliography and list of described taxa
  40. Competition among functional groups increases asynchrony of their temporal fluctuations in a temperate grassland
  41. Colonization resistance and establishment success along gradients of functional and phylogenetic diversity in experimental plant communities
  42. Accounting for long‐term directional trends on year‐to‐year synchrony in species fluctuations
  43. A novel method to predict dark diversity using unconstrained ordination analysis
  44. The legacy of initial sowing after 20 years of ex-arable land colonisation
  45. Variation in plant functional traits is best explained by the species identity: Stability of trait‐based species ranking across meadow management regimes
  46. Tasty rewards for ants: differences in elaiosome and seed metabolite profiles are consistent across species and reflect taxonomic relatedness
  47. GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands
  48. Impact of herbivory and competition on lake ecosystem structure: underwater experimental manipulation
  49. Seasonality promotes grassland diversity: Interactions with mowing, fertilization and removal of dominant species
  50. Interaction between habitat limitation and dispersal limitation is modulated by species life history and external conditions: a stochastic matrix model approach
  51. Trophic gradient is the main determinant of species and large taxonomic groups representation in phytoplankton of standing water bodies
  52. A multi-scale approach reveals random phylogenetic patterns at the edge of vascular plant life
  53. Stabilizing effects in temporal fluctuations: management, traits, and species richness in high-diversity communities
  54. The time is ripe for general theory in community ecology
  55. The role of biotic interactions in plant community assembly: What is the community species pool?
  56. Environmental gradients and micro-heterogeneity shape fine-scale plant community assembly on coastal dunes
  57. Determinants of cyanobacterial species composition in the splash zone of two Croatian islands
  58. Determinants of litter decomposition rates in a tropical forest: functional traits, phylogeny and ecological succession
  59. Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands
  60. The plant functional traits that explain species occurrence across fragmented grasslands differ according to patch management, isolation, and wetness
  61. Re-visiting historical semi-natural grasslands in the Apennines to assess patterns of changes in species composition and functional traits
  62. Root hemiparasitic plants are associated with high diversity in temperate grasslands
  63. Disentangling the interplay of generative and vegetative propagation among different functional groups during gap colonization in meadows
  64. The Density Awakens: A Reply to Blonder
  65. Linking Above- and Belowground Responses to 16 Years of Fertilization, Mowing, and Removal of the Dominant Species in a Temperate Grassland
  66. Which randomizations detect convergence and divergence in trait‐based community assembly? A test of commonly used null models
  67. Linking spatiotemporal disturbance history with tree regeneration and diversity in an old-growth forest in northern Japan
  68. Applying the dark diversity concept to nature conservation
  69. Measuring size and composition of species pools: a comparison of dark diversity estimates
  70. Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales
  71. Changes in the functional trait composition and diversity of meadow communities induced by Rhinanthus minor L.
  72. Spatial patterns of tree species distribution in New Guinea primary and secondary lowland rain forest
  73. Response of two hemiparasitic Orobanchaceae species to mowing dates: implications for grassland conservation and restoration practice
  74. Evaluating Functional Diversity: Missing Trait Data and the Importance of Species Abundance Structure and Data Transformation
  75. Effects of long- and short-term management on the functional structure of meadows through species turnover and intraspecific trait variability
  76. Functional diversity through the mean trait dissimilarity: resolving shortcomings with existing paradigms and algorithms
  77. Consistent functional response of meadow species and communities to land‐use changes across productivity and soil moisture gradients
  78. Victims of agricultural intensification: Mowing date affects Rhinanthus spp. regeneration and fruit ripening
  79. On the need for phylogenetic ‘corrections’ in functional trait-based approaches
  80. Linkage of plant trait space to successional age and species richness in boreal forest understorey vegetation
  81. Differential response of communities of plants, snails, ants and spiders to long-term mowing in a small-scale experiment
  82. Root hemiparasites in productive communities should attack competitive host, and harm them to make regeneration gaps
  83. Different effects of elevation, habitat fragmentation and grazing management on the functional, phylogenetic and taxonomic structure of mountain grasslands
  84. Analysis of biodiversity experiments: A comparison of traditional and linear-model-based methods
  85. Plant Functional Traits as Determinants of Population Stability
  86. Integrating ecology and physiology of root‐hemiparasitic interaction: interactive effects of abiotic resources shape the interplay between parasitism and autotrophy
  87. Plant functional traits as determinants of population stability
  88. Sown species richness and realized diversity can influence functioning of plant communities differently
  89. Scale‐ and time‐dependent effects of fertilization, mowing and dominant removal on a grassland community during a 15‐year experiment
  90. Individual variability and mortality required for constant final yield in simulated plant populations
  91. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO 5
  92. Changes in trait divergence and convergence along a productivity gradient in wet meadows
  93. Species richness of limestone grasslands increases with trait overlap: evidence from within‐ and between‐species functional diversity partitioning
  94. Establishment of hemiparasitic Rhinanthus spp. in grassland restoration: lessons learned from sowing experiments
  95. The relationship of diversity and biomass in phytoplankton communities weakens when accounting for species proportions
  96. Serpentine ecotypic differentiation in a polyploid plant complex: shared tolerance to Mg and Ni stress among di- and tetraploid serpentine populations of Knautia arvensis (Dipsacaceae)
  97. Which trait dissimilarity for functional diversity: trait means or trait overlap?
  98. Evidence for scale‐ and disturbance‐dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi‐natural grasslands
  99. The growth and survival of three closely related Myosotis species in a 3-year transplant experiment
  100. Diversity and Ecosystem Function
  101. Are clonal traits and their response to defoliation good predictors of grazing resistance?
  102. How does elevated grassland productivity influence populations of root hemiparasites? Commentary on Borowicz and Armstrong (Oecologia 2012)
  103. Growth, survival and generative reproduction in a population of a widespread annual hemiparasite Melampyrum pratense
  104. Establishment and spatial associations of recruits in meadow gaps
  105. Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly
  106. Taxonomical and functional diversity turnover in Mediterranean grasslands: interactions between grazing, habitat type and rainfall
  107. Do climate, resource availability, and grazing pressure filter floristic composition and functioning in Alpine pastures?
  108. Communities of different plant diversity respond similarly to drought stress: experimental evidence from field non-weeded and greenhouse conditions
  109. Plant density affects measures of biodiversity effects
  110. Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?
  111. Plant Diversity Changes during the Postglacial in East Asia: Insights from Forest Refugia on Halla Volcano, Jeju Island
  112. Different plant trait scaling in dry versus wet Central European meadows
  113. Positive long-term effect of mulching on species and functional trait diversity in a nutrient-poor mountain meadow in Central Europe
  114. The effect of management on productivity, litter accumulation and seedling recruitment in a Carpathian mountain grassland
  115. A test of the explanatory power of plant functional traits on the individual and population levels
  116. Do biodiversity indices behave as expected from traits of constituent species in simulated scenarios?
  117. Ecological assembly rules in plant communities—approaches, patterns and prospects
  118. How do log characteristics influence the occurrence of wood fungi in a mountain spruce forest?
  119. The role of heterotrophic carbon acquisition by the hemiparasitic plant Rhinanthus alectorolophus in seedling establishment in natural communities: a physiological perspective
  120. Response of herbaceous vegetation functional diversity to land use change across five sites in Europe and Israel
  121. Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects
  122. Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities
  123. Experimental assessment of dispersal and habitat limitation in an oligotrophic wet meadow
  124. Species pool size and realized species richness affect productivity differently: A modeling study
  125. Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity
  126. The partitioning of diversity: showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth
  127. Modelling the Population Dynamics of Root Hemiparasitic Plants Along a Productivity Gradient
  128. Interactions of the Hemiparasitic Species Rhinanthus minor with its Host Plant Community at Two Nutrient Levels
  129. Guild‐specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant–herbivore food webs from a tropical forest
  130. Dynamics of Typha domingensis spread in Eleocharis dominated oligotrophic tropical wetlands following nutrient enrichment
  131. Spatial pattern affects diversity–productivity relationships in experimental meadow communities
  132. How does surrounding vegetation affect the course of succession: A five‐year container experiment
  133. How do management and restoration needs of mountain grasslands depend on moisture regime? Experimental study from north‐western Slovakia (Western Carpathians)
  134. Relating plant species and functional diversity to community δ13C in NE Spain pastures
  135. Effect of Light and Moisture Conditions and Seed Age on Germination of Three Closely Related Myosotis Species
  136. Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence
  137. Leaf traits capture the effects of land use changes and climate on litter decomposability of grasslands across Europe
  138. Relative climatic, edaphic and management controls of plant functional trait signatures
  139. Potential contribution of natural enemies to patterns of local adaptation in plants
  140. Changes of species richness pattern in mountain grasslands: abandonment versus restoration
  141. Positive relationship between plant palatability and litter decomposition in meadow plants
  142. Effect of plant species richness on invasibility of experimental plant communities
  143. Environmental correlates of growth traits of the stoloniferous plant Potentilla palustris
  144. Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use
  145. Importance of species abundance for assessment of trait composition: an example based on pollinator communities
  146. Effects of species and functional group richness on production in two fertility environments: an experiment with communities of perennial plants
  147. Subjectively sampled vegetation data: Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water
  148. Assessing the Effects of Land-use Change on Plant Traits, Communities and Ecosystem Functioning in Grasslands: A Standardized Methodology and Lessons from an Application to 11 European Sites
  149. Long‐term effectiveness of sowing high and low diversity seed mixtures to enhance plant community development on ex‐arable fields
  150. Grazing effects on the species‐area relationship: Variation along a climatic gradient in NE Spain
  151. Grazing effects on the species-area relationship: Variation along a climatic gradient in NE Spain
  152. Long-term effectiveness of sowing high and low diversity seed mixtures to enhance plant community development on ex-arable fields
  153. Variations in species and functional plant diversity along climatic and grazing gradients
  154. Detecting local adaptation in widespread grassland species – the importance of scale and local plant community
  155. Effect of functional group richness and species richness in manipulated productivity–diversity studies: a glasshouse pot experiment
  156. Predictive value of plant traits to grazing along a climatic gradient in the Mediterranean
  157. Effect of litter, leaf cover and cover of basal internodes of the dominant species Molinia caerulea on seedling recruitment and established vegetation
  158. What do the biodiversity experiments tell us about consequences of plant species loss in the real world?
  159. No tree an island: the plant–caterpillar food web of a secondary rain forest in New Guinea
  160. Variability in population and community biomass in a grassland community affected by environmental productivity and diversity
  161. Variability of seedling recruitment under dominant, moss, and litter removal over four years
  162. Equivalence of competitor effects and tradeoff between vegetative multiplication and generative reproduction: case study with Lychnis flos-cuculi and Myosotis nemorosa
  163. Influence of soil heterogeneity and competition on growth features of three meadow species
  164. Colonising aliens: caterpillars (Lepidoptera) feeding on Piper aduncum and P. umbellatum in rainforests of Papua New Guinea
  165. Plant species diversity, plant biomass and responses of the soil community on abandoned land across Europe: idiosyncracy or above‐belowground time lags
  166. Preface
  167. Experimental design
  168. Classification methods
  169. Regression methods
  170. Vocabulary
  171. Plant Functional Types in relation to disturbance and land use: Introduction
  172. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO
  173. Species and Spatial Structure of Forests on the Southeastern Slope of Paektu-san, North Korea
  174. Plant Functional Types in relation to disturbance and land use: Introduction
  175. Predictably simple: assemblages of caterpillars (Lepidoptera) feeding on rainforest trees in Papua New Guinea
  176. Successful invasion of the neotropical species Piper aduncum in rain forests in Papua New Guinea
  177. Successful invasion of the neotropical species Piper aduncum in rain forests in Papua New Guinea
  178. Procedure for separating the selection effect from other effects in diversity–productivity relationship
  179. Habitat and successional status of plants in relation to the communities of their leaf‐chewing herbivores in Papua New Guinea
  180. Species-pool hypothesis: Limits to its testing
  181. Separating the chance effect from other diversity effects in the functioning of plant communities
  182. The Response of Arbuscular Mycorrhizae to Fertilization, Mowing, and Removal of Dominant Species in a Diverse Oligotrophic Wet Meadow
  183. Early succession on plots with the upper soil horizon removed
  184. Nutrient status, disturbance and competition: an experimental test of relationships in a wet meadow
  185. Comparative ecology of seedling recruitment in an oligotrophic wet meadow
  186. Mechanistic explanations of community structure: Introduction
  187. Food Plants, Species Composition and Variability of the Moth Community in Undisturbed Forest
  188. Sensitivity of seedling recruitment to moss, litter and dominant removal in an oligotrophic wet meadow
  189. Effect of small-scale disturbance on butterfly communities of an Indochinese montane rainforest
  190. Spatial dynamics of forest decline: the role of neighbouring trees
  191. Establishment ofPicea abiesseedlings in a central European mountain grassland: an experimental study
  192. Negative Associations Can Reveal Interspecific Competition and Reversal of Competitive Hierarchies during Succession
  193. Regeneration of a Gentiana pneumonanthe population in an oligotrophic wet meadow
  194. Variance deficit is not reliable evidence for niche limitation
  195. Use of paired plots and multivariate analysis for the determination of goat grazing preference
  196. Variation in Structure of Larix olgensis Stands along the Altitudinal Gradient on Paektu-san, Changbai-shan, North Korea
  197. Establishment success of plant immigrants in a new water reservoir
  198. False Head Wing Pattern of the Burmese Junglequeen Butterfly and the Deception of Avian Predators
  199. Taylor's Power Law and the Measurement of Variation in the Size of Populations in Space and Time
  200. Habitat Preferences, Distribution and Seasonality of the Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) in a Montane Tropical Rain Forest, Vietnam
  201. Stability of environment and of insect populations
  202. How reliable are our vegetation analyses?
  203. Convergence or Divergence: What Should We Expect from Vegetation Succession?
  204. Response of a weed community to nitrogen fertilization: a multivariate analysis
  205. Synthesis
  206. Summary
  207. Introduction
  208. Succession in Abandoned Fields
  209. Species-area curve, life history strategies, and succession: a field test of relationships
  210. Prediction of Changes in Ephemeropteran Communities — A Transition Matrix Approach
  211. Dynamics of populations and communities
  212. Species-area curve, life history strategies, and succession: a field test of relationships
  213. Mathematical modelling of ecological succesion—a review
  214. Determinants of Temporal Variation in Moth Abundance
  215. Changes in the horizontal structure in a spruce forest over a 9-year period of pollutant exposure in the Krkonoše mountains, Czechoslovakia
  216. Models of the development of spatial pattern of an even-aged plant population over time
  217. Vegetation dynamics in early old field succession: a quantitative approach
  218. Why There are So Few Species of Aphids, Especially in the Tropics
  219. The spatial pattern of Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta)
  220. Bimodality in single even-aged population: A simulation study
  221. What is stability? a mathematician's and ecologist's point of view
  222. Vegetation of the Rozkoš reservoir near Česká Skalice II. The formation and differentiation of communities of flooded soils (Agropyro-rumicion crispi)
  223. Increase of stability with connectance in model competition communities
  224. Community stability, complexity and species life history strategies
  225. A simple mathematical model of the secondary succession of shrubs
  226. Vegetation of the Rozkoŝ reservoir near Ĉeská Skalice (East Bohemia) 1. The vegetation development during the first five years after its filling
  227. Similarity measures
  228. Introduction and data manipulation
  229. Basics of gradient analysis
  230. Constrained ordination and permutation tests
  231. Advanced use of ordination
  232. Visualizing multivariate data
  233. Sample datasets and projects
  234. Overview of available software
  235. Classification methods
  236. Regression methods
  237. Advanced use of ordination
  238. Visualising multivariate data
  239. Experimental design
  240. Basics of gradient analysis
  241. Permutation tests and variation partitioning
  242. Using the Canoco for Windows 4.5 package
  243. Interpreting community composition with functional traits