D. Craven

WITHIN AND ACROSS SPECIES VARIATION IN PLANT TRAITS IN RESPONSE TO LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTAL HERBIVORE EXCLUSION IN A SEMI-ARID SHRUBLAND

This study examines how herbivore exclusion affects plant trait variation and ecological strategies in a semi-arid shrubland, revealing shifts in resource use and intraspecific diversity.

Biogeographic context mediates multifaceted diversity-productivity relationships in island and mainland forests

The paper examines how biogeographic context influences diversity-productivity relationships in island and mainland forests, finding that non-native species enhance productivity in island forests.

Tree demographic strategies largely overlap across succession in Neotropical wet and dry forest communities

The paper assesses demographic strategy overlap across succession in Neotropical forests and finds strategies largely overlap, with early stages covering old-growth diversity.

Latitude influences stability via stabilizing mechanisms in naturally-assembled forest ecosystems at different spatial grains

The paper examines how latitude affects ecosystem stability in forests across different spatial scales, finding that species asynchrony and stability play key roles, with latitude influencing these mechanisms to counteract species richness effects.

Interacting abiotic and biotic drivers shape woody invasions across Hawaiian forests

The paper identifies factors shaping alien woody species richness and abundance in Hawaiian forests, finding environmental filtering influences colonization but not dominance.

Assembly of functional diversity in an oceanic island flora

The paper analyzes the functional trait space of Tenerife's flora, finding that long-distance dispersal and speciation processes drive functional divergence, while cladogenesis leads to functional convergence.

Trash-basket epiphytes as secondary foundation species: a review of their distribution and effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functions

This paper reviews the distribution and ecological roles of trash-basket epiphytes, highlighting their contributions to biodiversity and ecosystem functions across tropical and temperate forests.

Non-structural carbohydrate concentrations in woody organs, but not leaves, of temperate and tropical tree angiosperms are independent of the "fast-slow" plant economic spectrum

A cross-scale assessment of productivity-diversity relationships

This study examines how productivity influences diversity (NPP→S) and diversity influences productivity (S→NPP) across different spatial scales in North American forests.

Biotic and abiotic drivers of soil microbial functions across tree diversity experiments

This study examines how tree diversity and environmental factors influence soil microbial functions across global experiments, finding that abiotic factors like soil water content are more significant than tree diversity in the short term.

A framework for disentangling ecological mechanisms underlying the island species-area relationship

This paper introduces a framework to disentangle ecological mechanisms underlying the island species-area relationship using sampling-explicit parameters from rarefaction curves.