Díaz, Sandra et al. The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset. Scientific Data. ISSN (online) 2052-4463 (In Press)
Maynard, Daniel S, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Constantin M Zohner, Colin Averill, Johan van den Hoogen, Haozhi Ma, Lidong Mo, Gabriel Reuben Smith, Alicia TR Acosta, Isabelle Aubin, Erika Berenguer, Coline CF Boonman, Jane A Catford, Bruno EL Cerabolini, Arildo S Dias, Andrés González-Melo, Peter Hietz, Christopher H Lusk, Akira S Mori, Ülo Niinemets, Valério D Pillar, Bruno X Pinho, Julieta A Rosell, Frank M Schurr, Serge N Sheremetev, Ana Carolina da Silva, Ênio Sosinski, Peter M van Bodegom, Evan Weiher, Gerhard Bönisch, Jens Kattge, and Thomas W Crowther Global relationships in tree functional traits. Nature Communications 13: 1-12. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30888-2
Joswig, Julia J, Christian Wirth, Meredith C Schuman, Jens Kattge, Björn Reu, Ian J Wright, Sebastian D Sippel, Nadja Rüger, Ronny Richter, Michael E Schaepman, Peter M van Bodegom, Johannes HC Cornelissen, Sandra Díaz, Wesley N Hattingh, Koen Kramer, Frederic Lens, Ülo Niinemets, Peter B Reich, Markus Reichstein, Christine Römermann, Franziska Schrodt, Madhur Anand, Michael Bahn, Chaeho Byun, Giandiego Campetella, Bruno EL Cerabolini, Joseph M Craine, Andres Gonzalez-Melo, Alvaro G Gutiérrez, Tianhua He, Pedro Higuchi, Hervé Jactel, Nathan JB Kraft, Vanessa Minden, Vladimir Onipchenko, Josep Peñuelas, Valério D Pillar, Ênio Sosinski, Nadejda A Soudzilovskaia, Evan Weiher, and Miguel D Mahecha Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6: 36-50. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01616-8
2021
Prinzing, A., S. Pavoine, H. Jactel, J.Hortal, S. Henneken, W. Ozinga, I. Bartish, R.M. Helmus, I. Kühn, D.S. Moen, E. Weiher, M. Brändle, M. Winter, C. Violle, P. Venail, O. Purschke, and Yguel, B. Disturbed habitats locally reduce the signal of deep evolutionary history in functional traits of plants. New Phytologist 232: 1849-1862. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17705
2020
Wellnitz, T., J.L. Barlow, C.M. Dick, T.R. Shaurette, B.M. Johnson, T. Wesley, and E. Weiher. Campsites, forest fires, and entry point distance affect earthworm abundance in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. PeerJ 8:e8656 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8656
Kattge, J., et al. TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology 26: 119-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904
2019
Bruelheide, H. et al. sPlot - a new tool for global vegetation analyses. Journal of Vegetation Science 30: 161-186. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12710
2018
Bruelheide, H. et al. Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 1906-1917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8
Bjorkman, A.D. et al. Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. Nature 562: 57-62. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7
Henning, J.A., E. Weiher, T.D Lee, D. Freund, A. Stefanski, and S.P. Bentivenga. Mycorrhizal fungal spore community structure in a manipulated prairie. Restoration Ecology 26: 124-133. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12548
2017
Garnier, E., U. Stahl, M‐A. Laporte, J. Kattge, I. Mougenot, I. Kühn, B. Laporte, B. Amiaud, F.S. Ahrestani, G. Bönisch, D.E. Bunker, J.H.C. Cornelissen, S. Díaz, B.J. Enquist, S. Gachet, P. Jaureguiberry, M. Kleyer, S. Lavorel, L. Maicher, N. Pérez‐Harguindeguy, H. Poorter, M. Schildhauer, B. Shipley, C. Violle, E. Weiher, C. Wirth, I.J. Wright, and S.Klotz. Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution. Journal of Ecology 105: 298-309. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12698/full
Pierce, S., D. Negreiros, B. Cerebolini, J. Kattge, S. Díaz, M. Kleyer, B. Shipley, N. Soudzilovskia, V. Onipchenko, C. Frenette-Dousault, E. Weiher, B. Pinho, J. Cornelissen, P. Grime, K. Thompson, R. Hunt, P. Wilson, G. Buffa, O. Nyakunga, P. Reich, M. Caccianiga, R. Ceriani, A. Luzzaro, G. Brusa, A. Siefert, N. Barbosa, F.S. Chapin, W. Cornwell, J. Fang, G.W. Fernandes, E. Garnier, S. Le Stradic, F. Melo, A. Slaviero, M. Tabarelli, and D. Tampucci. A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes worldwide. Functional Ecology 31: 444-457. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12722/full
2016
Yguel, B., H. Jactel, I. Pearse, D. Moen, M. Winter, J. Hortal, R.M. Helmus, I. Kühn, S. Pavoine, O. Purschke, E. Weiher, C. Violle, W. Ozinga, M. Brändle, I. Bartish, and A. Prinzing. The evolutionary legacy of diversification predicts ecosystem function. The American Naturalist 188: 398-410. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/687964
Negoita, L., J. Fridley, M. Lomolino, G. Mittelhauser, J. Craine, and E. Weiher. Isolation-driven functional assembly of plant communities on islands. Ecography 39: 1066-1077. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.01551/abstract
Lonzarich, D., E. Weiher, R. Cronje, and J. Kraker. Course scaffolding for research practicums. CUR Quarterly 37: 59-60.
2015
Hipp, A., M. Bowles, M. Cadotte, D. Larkin, B. Scharenbroch, E. Weiher, and E. Williams. Phylogeny in the service of ecological restoration. American Journal of Botany 102: 647-648. doi: 0.3732/ajb.1500119 http://www.amjbot.org/content/102/5/647 Newbold, T., L. Hudson, S.L.L. Hill, S. Contu, I. Lysenko, R.A. Senior, L. Börger, D. Bennett, A. Choimes, B. Collen, J. Day, A. De Palma, S. Díaz, S. Echeverria-Londoño, M. Edgar, A. Feldman, M. Garon, M.L.K. Harrison, D.J. Ingram, Y. Itescu, J. Kattge, V. Kemp, L. Kirkpatrick, M. Kleyer, D.L.P. Correia, C. Martin, S. Meiri, M. Novosolov, Y. Pan, H.R.P. Phillips, D.W. Purves, A. Robinson, J. Simpson, S. Tuck, E. Weiher, H.J. White, R.M. Ewers, G.M. Mace, J.P.W. Scharlemann, and A. Purvis. Global human impacts on local terrestrial biodiversity. Nature 520: 45-50. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7545/full/nature14324.html
2014
Moles, A.T., S. Perkins, S. Laffan, M. Awasthy, H. Flores-Moreno, M. Tindall, A. Pitman, J. Kattge, F. Hui, L. Aarssen, L. Alexander, M. Anand, M. Bahn, B. Blonder, W. Bond, S.P. Bonser, J. Cavender-Bares, H. Cornelissen, W. Cornwell, J. Craine, S. Diaz, J. Dickie, G. Freschet, E. Garnier, J. Griffiths, A. Gutteirrez, F. Hemmings, T. Hickler, T.D. Hitchcock, M. Kleyer, H. Kurokawa, Daniel Laughlin, Michelle Leishman, Kenwin Liu, Jon Lloyd, F. Louault, B. Medlyn, J. Messier, U. Niinemets, Y. Onoda, J. Ordonez, J. Peñuelas, V. Pillar, H. Poorter, L. Poorter, P. Reich, L. Sack, S. Shiodera, B. Shipley, A. Siefert, E. Slavich, E. Sosinski, N. Soudzilovskaia, E. Swaine, N. Swenson, P. van Bodegom, L. Warman, D. Warton, E. Weiher, S.J. Wright, B. Yguel, A. Zanne, H. Zhang, M. Zobel, and I.J. Wright. Which is more important for plants: temperature, or precipitation? Journal of Vegetation Science 25: 1167-1180. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12190
Flores, O., E. Garnier, I.J. Wright, P.B. Reich, S. Pierce, S. Dìaz, R.J. Pakeman, G.M. Rusch, M. Bernard-Verdier, B. Testi, J.P. Bakker, R.M. Bekker, B.E.L. Cerabolini, R.M. Ceriani, G. Cornu, P. Cruz, M. Delcamp, J. Dolezal, O. Eriksson, A. Fayolle, H. Freitas, C. Golodets, S. Gourlet-Fleury, J.G. Hodgson, G. Brusa, M. Kleyer, D. Kunzmann, S. Lavorel, V.P. Papanastasis, N. Pérez-Harguindeguy, F. Vendramini, and E. Weiher. An evolutionary perspective on leaf economics: phylogenetics of leaf mass per area in vascular plants. Ecology and Evolution 14: 2799-2811.
2012
Ames, S., K. Pischke, N. Schoenfuss, Z. Snobl, J. Soine, E. Weiher, and T. Wellnitz. Biogeographic patterns of lichens and trees on islands of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Bios 83: 145-154.
2011
Weiher, E., D. Freund, T. Bunton, A. Stefanski, T. Lee, and S. Bentivenga. Advances, challenges, and a developing synthesis of ecological community assembly theory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 2403-2413. (Invited) http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1576/2403
Kattge, J., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I. C., Leadley, P., Bönisch, G., Garnier, E., Westoby, M., Reich, P. B., Wright, I. J., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Violle, C., Harrison, S. P., van Bodegom, P. M., Reichstein, M., Enquist, B. J., Soudzilovskaia, N. A., Ackerly, D. D., Anand, M., Atkin, O., Bahn, M., Baker, T. R., Baldocchi, D., Bekker, R., Blanco, C. C., Blonder, B., Bond, W. J., Bradstock, R., Bunker, D. E., Casanoves, F., Cavender-Bares, J., Chambers, J. Q., Chapin III, F. S., Chave, J., Coomes, D., Cornwell, W. K., Craine, J. M., Dobrin, B. H., Duarte, L., Durka, W., Elser, J., Esser, G., Estiarte, M., Fagan, W. F., Fang, J., Fernández-Méndez, F., Fidelis, A., Finegan, B., Flores, O., Ford, H., Frank, D., Freschet, G. T., Fyllas, N. M., Gallagher, R. V., Green, W. A., Gutierrez, A. G., Hickler, T., Higgins, S. I., Hodgson, J. G., Jalili, A., Jansen, S., Joly, C. A., Kerkhoff, A. J., Kirkup, D., Kitajima, K., Kleyer, M., Klotz, S., Knops, J. M. H., Kramer, K., Kühn, I., Kurokawa, H., Laughlin, D., Lee, T. D., Leishman, M., Lens, F., Lenz, T., Lewis, S. L., Lloyd, J., Llusià, J., Louault, F., Ma, S., Mahecha, M. D., Manning, P., Massad, T., Medlyn, B. E., Messier, J., Moles, A. T., Müller, S. C., Nadrowski, K., Naeem, S., Niinemets, Ü., Nöllert, S., Nüske, A., Ogaya, R., Oleksyn, J., Onipchenko, V. G., Onoda, Y., Ordoñez, J., Overbeck, G., Ozinga, W. A., Patiño, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G., Peñuelas, J., Phillips, O. L., Pillar, V., Poorter, H., Poorter, L., Poschlod, P., Prinzing, A., Proulx, R., Rammig, A., Reinsch, S., Reu, B., Sack, L., Salgado-Negret, B., Sardans, J., Shiodera, S., Shipley, B., Siefert, A., Sosinski, E., Soussana, J.-F., Swaine, E., Swenson, N., Thompson, K., Thornton, P., Waldram, M., Weiher, E., White, M., White, S., Wright, S. J., Yguel, B., Zaehle, S., Zanne, A. E. and Wirth, C. TRY – a global database of plant traits. Global Change Biology 17: 2905–2935.
2010
Weiher, E. A primer of trait and functional diversity. In: A. E. Magurran and B. J. McGill, editors. Biological Diversity: Frontiers in Measurement and Assessment. Oxford University Press, pp. 175-193. (Invited)
2008
Chalcraft, D., S.B. Cox, C. Clark, E.E. Cleland, K.N. Suding, E. Weiher and D. Pennington. Scale-dependent responses of plant biodiversity to nitrogen enrichment. Ecology 89: 2165–2171.
2007
Grace, J.B., T.M. Anderson, M.D. Smith, E. Seabloom, S.J. Andelman, G. Meche, E. Weiher, L.K. Allain, H. Julita, M. Sankaran, J. Knops, M. Ritchie, and M.R. Willig. Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities? Ecology Letters 10: 680-689.
Weiher, E. On the status of restoration ecology: obstacles and opportunities. Restoration Ecology 15: 340-343. (Invited)
2006
McGill, B., B.J. Enquist, E. Weiher, and M. Westoby. Response to Kearney and Porter: Both functional and community ecologists need to do more for each other. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 482-483.
McGill, B., B.J. Enquist, E. Weiher, and M. Westoby. Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 178-185. (invited)
2004
Weiher, E., S. Forbes, T. Schauwecker, and J.B. Grace. Multivariate control of plant species richness and biomass in blackland prairie. Oikos 106: 151-157.
Weiher, E. Why should we constrain stress and limitation? -- Why conceptual terms deserve broad definitions. Journal of Vegetation Science 15: 569-571. (invited)
2003
Weiher, E. and A. Howe. Scale effects on species richness patterns in oak savannas. Journal of Vegetation Science 14: 917-920.
Weiher, E. Species richness along multiple gradients: testing a general multivariate model in oak savannas. Oikos 101: 311-316.
Weiher, E., S. Peot, and K. Voss. Experimental restoration of lake shoreland in western Wisconsin. Ecological Restoration 21: 186-190.
2002
Meisel, J., Trushenski, N. and E. Weiher. A gradient analysis of oak savanna community composition in western Wisconsin. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 129: 115-124.
Nielsen, K.A., P.A. Keddy, E. Weiher and R. Lawson. A comparative study of relative competitive performance and plant traits in 63 terrestrial herbaceous plant species. Journal of Vegetation Science 13: 5-16.
2001
Forbes, S.P., T. Schauwecker, and E. Weiher. Rarefaction does not eliminate the species richness – biomass relationship in calcareous blackland prairies. Journal of Vegetation Science 12: 525-532.
1999
Weiher, E. The combined effects of scale and productivity on species richness. Journal of Ecology 87: 1005-1011.
Weiher, E., A. van der Werf, K. Thompson, M. Roderick, E. Garnier, and O. Eriksson. Challenging Theophrastus: a common core list of plant traits for functional ecology. Journal of Vegetation Science 10: 609-620.
Weiher, E. and P.A. Keddy. Relative abundance and evenness patterns along diversity and biomass gradients. Oikos 87: 355-361.
Weiher, E. and P.A. Keddy (editors.) Ecological Assembly Rules Cambridge University Press.
Weiher, E. and P.A. Keddy. Assembly rules as trait-based constraints on community composition. In: Weiher, E. and P.A. Keddy (eds.) Ecological Assembly Rules, pp. 251-271. Cambridge University Press.
Keddy, P.A. and E. Weiher. Goals, obstacles, and opportunities for community ecology. In: Weiher, E. and P.A. Keddy (eds.) Ecological Assembly Rules, pp. 1-20. Cambridge University Press.
Buddington, R.K. and E. Weiher. The application of ecological principles and fermentable fibers to manage the gastrointestinal tract ecosystem. Journal of Nutrition 129: 1446-1450.
1998
Weiher, E., G.D.P. Clarke, and P.A. Keddy. Community assembly rules, morphological dispersion, and the coexistence of plant species. Oikos 81: 309-322.
1996
Weiher, E., I.C. Wisheu, P.A. Keddy, and D.R.J. Moore. Establishment, persistence, and management implications of experimental wetland plant communities. Wetlands 16: 208-218.
1995
Weiher, E. and P.A. Keddy Assembly rules, null models, and trait dispersion: new questions from old patterns. Oikos: 74: 159-164.
Weiher, E. and P.A. Keddy. The assembly of experimental wetland plant communities. Oikos 73: 323-335.
1994
Weiher, E. and C.W. Boylen. Patterns and prediction of a and b diversity of aquatic plants in Adirondack (New York) lakes. Canadian Journal of Botany 72:1797-1804.
Weiher, E.R., C.W. Boylen, and P.A. Bukaveckas. Alterations in aquatic plant community structure following liming of an acidic Adirondack lake. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51: 20-24.
1987
Welch, E.B. and E.R. Weiher. Improvement in Moses Lake quality from dilution and sewage diversion. Lake and Reservoir Management 3: 58-65.