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List of works by Nathan G. Swenson

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Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist.

scientific article

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

scientific article published on 20 February 2009

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scientific article with two erratum

Plant DNA barcodes and a community phylogeny of a tropical forest dynamics plot in Panama

scientific article

Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients.

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Clustering of contact zones, hybrid zones, and phylogeographic breaks in North America

scientific article

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Global patterns in plant height

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Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Ecological and evolutionary determinants of a key plant functional trait: wood density and its community-wide variation across latitude and elevation

scientific article

Opposing assembly mechanisms in a neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology

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The problem and promise of scale dependency in community phylogenetics

scientific article published in October 2006

The influence of spatial and size scale on phylogenetic relatedness in tropical forest communities

scientific article published in July 2007

Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

scientific article published on 5 November 2010

Phylogenetic resolution and quantifying the phylogenetic diversity and dispersion of communities

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Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity

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Advances in the use of DNA barcodes to build a community phylogeny for tropical trees in a Puerto Rican forest dynamics plot

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The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

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Testing the metabolic theory of ecology

scientific article published on 30 August 2012

A general integrative model for scaling plant growth, carbon flux, and functional trait spectra

scientific article published in September 2007

Taller plants have lower rates of molecular evolution

scientific article published on January 2013

Phylogenetic Beta Diversity Metrics, Trait Evolution and Inferring the Functional Beta Diversity of Communities

scientific article published on June 24, 2011

Deterministic tropical tree community turnover: evidence from patterns of functional beta diversity along an elevational gradient

scientific article published on 22 September 2010

Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

scientific article

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

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Plant geography upon the basis of functional traits: an example from eastern North American trees.

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The role of evolutionary processes in producing biodiversity patterns, and the interrelationships between taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic biodiversity

scientific article published on February 17, 2011

Do suture zones exist?

scientific article published in November 2004

Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients

scientific article published in 2011

Convergent effects of elevation on functional leaf traits within and among species

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Exploring tree-habitat associations in a Chinese subtropical forest plot using a molecular phylogeny generated from DNA barcode loci

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Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach

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Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities

scientific article published in 2012

Functional beta-diversity patterns reveal deterministic community assembly processes in eastern North American trees

scientific article published in 2012

Commonness, rarity, and intraspecific variation in traits and performance in tropical tree seedlings

scientific article published on September 28, 2015

Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities

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The relationship between stem and branch wood specific gravity and the ability of each measure to predict leaf area

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The contribution of rare species to community phylogenetic diversity across a global network of forest plots

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Phylogenetic analysis of local-scale tree soil associations in a lowland moist tropical forest

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Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

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Covariation in plant functional traits and soil fertility within two species-rich forests

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High plant endemism in China is partially linked to reduced glacial-interglacial climate change

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Tree height-diameter allometry across the United States

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Above-ground forest biomass is not consistently related to wood density in tropical forests

scientific article published in 2009

Why Functional Traits Do Not Predict Tree Demographic Rates

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Closely-related taxa influence woody species discrimination via DNA barcoding: evidence from global forest dynamics plots

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Linking individual-level functional traits to tree growth in a subtropical forest

scientific article published on September 2016

Phylogenetic and functional diversity area relationships in two temperate forests

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