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List of works by Bill Shipley

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The global spectrum of plant form and function

scientific article

From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity

scientific article published on 5 October 2006

Confirmatory path analysis in a generalized multilevel context

scientific article published in February 2009

Fundamental trade-offs generating the worldwide leaf economics spectrum

scientific article published on March 2006

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities

scientific article

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities.

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

Specific leaf area and dry matter content estimate thickness in laminar leaves

scientific article

Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

"Diminishing returns" in the scaling of functional leaf traits across and within species groups

scholarly article

A structural equation model to integrate changes in functional strategies during old-field succession

scientific article published in February 2006

Ecosystem productivity can be predicted from potential relative growth rate and species abundance

scientific article published on September 2006

Predicting invertebrate herbivory from plant traits: evidence from 51 grassland species in experimental monocultures

scientific article

Quantifying the importance of local niche-based and stochastic processes to tropical tree community assembly.

scientific article published on April 2012

Which plant traits determine abundance under long-term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity?

article

A strong test of a maximum entropy model of trait-based community assembly

scientific article published in February 2011

Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution

article

CATS regression - a model-based approach to studying trait-based community assembly

article

Predicting invertebrate herbivory from plant traits: polycultures show strong nonadditive effects

scientific article published in July 2013

Secondary sexual characters signal fighting ability and determine social rank in Alpine ibex (Capra ibex)

scientific article published in 2010

A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

article

Testing models for the leaf economics spectrum with leaf and whole-plant traits in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

Simple measures of climate, soil properties and plant traits predict national-scale grassland soil carbon stocks

article

Prediction of in situ root decomposition rates in an interspecific context from chemical and morphological traits

scientific article published on October 16, 2011

The individualistic and community-unit concepts as falsifiable hypotheses

scientific article published in 1987

Tree communities rapidly alter soil microbial resistance and resilience to drought

article published in 2014

Using the biomass-ratio and idiosyncratic hypotheses to predict mixed-species litter decomposition

scientific article published on November 6, 2012

Inferential permutation tests for maximum entropy models in ecology

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Plasticity in relative growth rate after a reduction in nitrogen availability is related to root morphological and physiological responses

scientific article published on 16 July 2010

Forest floor bacterial community composition and catabolic profiles in relation to landscape features in Québec's southern boreal forest

scientific article published on 18 May 2007

Quantifying trait selection driving community assembly: a test in herbaceous plant communities under contrasted land use regimes

article

Interspecific correlates of plasticity in relative growth rate following a decrease in nitrogen availability

scientific article published on 25 November 2009

Habitat filtering determines the functional niche occupancy of plant communities worldwide

article

Predicting habitat affinities of herbaceous dicots to soil wetness based on physiological traits of drought tolerance

scientific article

Partitioning the effect of composition and diversity of tree communities on leaf litter decomposition and soil respiration

article

Explaining ontogenetic shifts in root-shoot scaling with transient dynamics

scientific article

Comparative plant ecology as a tool for integrating across scales

scientific article published on May 2007

Community divergence and convergence along experimental gradients of stress and disturbance

scientific article published on 27 January 2018

Interspecific prediction of photosynthetic light response curves using specific leaf mass and leaf nitrogen content: effects of differences in soil fertility and growth irradiance

scientific article published on 22 March 2012

Another one bites the dust: Does incisor-arcade size affect mass gain and survival in grazing ungulates?

scientific article published in 2003

Linking hard and soft traits: Physiology, morphology and anatomy interact to determine habitat affinities to soil water availability in herbaceous dicots.

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

A traits-based test of the home-field advantage in mixed-species tree litter decomposition

scientific article published on 10 July 2015

Can the biomass-ratio hypothesis predict mixed-species litter decomposition along a climatic gradient?

scientific article

Predicting habitat affinities of plant species using commonly measured functional traits

article

An experimental test of CSR theory using a globally calibrated ordination method

scientific article

Direct and indirect effects of regional and local climatic factors on trophic interactions in the Arctic tundra

scientific article published on 11 October 2019

The measurement and quantification of generalized gradients of soil fertility relevant to plant community ecology

article

Occupancy and overlap in trait space along a successional gradient in Mediterranean old fields

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

Above‐ and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America

scientific article published on 20 April 2022

Causal hypotheses accounting for correlations between decomposition rates of different mass fractions of leaf litter

scientific article published on 20 September 2020