Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and environmental gradients to understand community organization at local and continental scales

Publications:

1) Cavender-Bares, J., K. Kozak, P. Fine, and S. Kembel. Phylogenetic approaches in community ecology. invited review for Ecology Letters.

2) Willis, C. G., M. Halina, C. Lehman, P. B. Reich, A. Keen, S. McCarthy J. Cavender-Bares. (2010). Community phylogenetic structure in Minnesota oak savanna is influenced by spatial extent and environmental heterogeneity. Ecography 32: 565-577.

3)Cavender-Bares, Jeannine, David D. Ackerly, and Kenneth H. Kozak. 2012. Integrating ecology and phylogenetics: the footprint of history in modern-day communities1. Ecology 93:S1–S3

4)Beaulieu, Jeremy M., Richard H. Ree, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, George D. Weiblen, and Michael J. Donoghue. 2012. Synthesizing phylogenetic knowledge for ecological research. Ecology 93:S4–S13

5)Peres-Neto, Pedro R., Mathew A. Leibold, and Stéphane Dray. 2012. Assessing the effects of spatial contingency and environmental filtering on metacommunity phylogenetics. Ecology 93:S14–S30

6)Helmus, Matthew R., and Anthony R. Ives. 2012. Phylogenetic diversity–area curves. Ecology 93:S31–S43

7)Knapp, Sonja, Lucy Dinsmore, Cinzia Fissore, Sarah E. Hobbie, Ina Jakobsdottir, Jens Kattge, Jennifer Y. King, Stefan Klotz, Joseph P. McFadden, and Jeannine Cavender-Bares. 2012. Phylogenetic and functional characteristics of household yard floras and their changes along an urbanization gradient. Ecology 93:S83–S98

8)Savage, Jessica A., and Jeannine Cavender-Bares. 2012. Habitat specialization and the role of trait lability in structuring diverse willow (genus Salix) communities. Ecology 93:S138–S150

9) Cadotte, Marc W., Russell Dinnage, and David Tilman. 2012. Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability. Ecology 93:S223–S233

10)Cavender-Bares, J., K. Kozak, P. Fine, and S. Kembel. (2009). The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology. (Review and Synthesis) /Ecology Letters, /12: 693-715

Other products:

11)Press Release for article on “Merging community ecology and phylogenetic biology” Cavender-Bares et al 2009; Science Direct, Cedar Creek website, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis website, Ecology Letters website

12) Funded NCEAS working group: $120,000 (see report at: http://ecophylogenetics.nceas.ucsb.edu/.) One graduate student and three post-docs are participating in this working group.

13) An Encyclopedia of Life workshop to train students in "megaphylogeny" assembly, held at the Field Museum in Chicago, April 2008 (http://ecophylogenetics.nceas.ucsb.edu/documents/megatree-grafting-works... ).

14) A software tool "Phylografter" (Richard Ree) for building well-documented "megaphylogenies" was also developed.

Media/Internet Coverage

15)Tale of Two Scientific Fields--Ecology and Phylogenetics--Offers New Views of Earth's Biodiversity

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=125048

16)Ecology branches into the tree of life

http://www.esa.org/esablog/research/ecology-branches-into-the-tree-of-life/

17)Backyard Biodiversity

https//www.cbs.umn.edu/cbs-highlights/field/backyard-biodiversity

18)Live Fast, Die Young: Urban Plants Are More Closely Related and Live Shorter Lives Than Plants in the Countryside

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120418095311.htm

19)News From the Field: Live Fast, Die Young

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=123978&org=EF&from=news

20)Live fast, die young

http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2012/UR_CONTENT_382621.html

http://www.peer.eu/news-events/detail/?tx_list_pi1[uid]=242

http://www.biotechmashup.com/beta/Biology/Live_fast_die_young/related_links

http://www.handsnet.org/live-fast-die-young/

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/fisica_teorica/WmaGYMVY6pk

http://english.scienceweek.cz/live-fast-die-young-iid-394128

http://www.agrotimes.com/Tags/plants_April_2012.asphttp://www.agrotimes.com/research/Live_fast_die_young.asp

http://www.agrotimes.com/Archives/April_2012.asp

http://environment.umn.edu/news_events/index.html

21)Access Minnesota Television interview: Differences Between Rural and Urban Plant Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-2FruAq66w

22)Online interview for Science Watch: “Jeannine Cavender-Bares on Ecology & Phylogenetic Biology”, New Hot Paper Commentary, September 2010

http://www.sciencewatch.com/dr/nhp/2010/10sepnhp/10sepnhpCave/

23)Press Release for article on “Merging community ecology and phylogenetic biology” Cavender-Bares et al 2009; Science Direct, Cedar Creek website, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis website, Ecology Letters website http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519075422.htm

24)Interview (Jul., 2009) Stephanie Xenos, College of Biological Science, for article on community ecology and phylogenetic biology