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Ackerly, D. D. 2000. Taxon sampling, correlated evolution, and independent contrasts. Evolution 54:1480-1492. PDF

*Ackerly, D. D. 2003. Community assembly, niche conservatism and adaptive evolution in changing environments. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164:S165-S184.PDF

Ackerly, D. D. 2004. Adaptation, niche conservatism, and convergence: Comparative studies of leaf evolution in the California chaparral. American Naturalist 163:654-671. PDF

Ackerly, D. D., and R. Nyffeler. 2004. Evolutionary diversification of continuous traits: phylogenetic tests and application to seed size in the California flora. Evolutionary Ecology 18:249-272.

Ackerly, D. D., D. W. Schwilk, and C. O. Webb. 2006. Niche evolution and adaptive radiation: Testing the order of trait divergence. Ecology 87:S50-S61.

Ackerly, D. D., and P. B. Reich. 1999. Convergence and correlations among leaf size and function in seed plants: A comparative test using independent contrasts. American Journal of Botany 86:1272-1281.

Cavender-Bares, J., D. D. Ackerly, D. A. Baum, and F. A. Bazzaz. 2004. Phylogenetic overdispersion in Floridian oak communities. American Naturalist 163:823-843. PDF

*Cavender-Bares, J., A. Keen, and B. Miles. 2006. Phylogenetic structure of Floridian plant communities depends on taxonomic and spatial scale. Ecology 87:S109-S122. PDF

Cavender-Bares, J., and A. Wilczek. 2003. Integrating micro- and macroevolutionary processes in community ecology. Ecology 84:592-597.

Davies, T., S. Meiri, T. Barraclough, and J. Gittleman. 2007. Species co-existence and character divergence across carnivores. Ecology Letters 10:146-152.

Davies, T. J. 2006. Evolutionary ecology: When relatives cannot live together. Current Biology 16:R645-R647.PDF

Fine, P. V. A., D. C. Daly, G. V. Munoz, I. Mesones, and K. M. Cameron. 2005. The contribution of edaphic heterogeneity to the evolution and diversity of Burseraceae trees in the western Amazon. Evolution 59:1464-1478. PDF

Fine, P. V. A., and R. H. Ree. 2006. Evidence for a Time-Integrated Species-Area Effect on the Latitudinal Gradient in Tree Diversity. American Naturalist 168:796-804. PDF

Gilbert, G. S., and C. O. Webb. 2007. Phylogenetic signal in plant pathogen–host range. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104:4979–4983. PDF

Givnish, T. J., T. M. Evans, M. L. Zjhra, T. B. Patterson, P. E. Berry, and K. J. Sytsma. 2000. Molecular evolution, adaptive radiation, and geographic diversification in the amphiatlantic family Rapateaceae: Evidence from ndhF sequences and morphology. Evolution 54:1915-1937.

Givnish, T. J., K. C. Millam, T. M. Evans, J. C. Hall, J. C. Pires, P. E. Berry, and K. J. Sytsma. 2004. Ancient vicariance or recent long-distance dispersal? Inferences about phylogeny and South American-African disjunctions in rapateaceae and bromeliaceae based on ndhF sequence data. International Journal of Plant Sciences 165:S35-S54.

Givnish, T. J., R. A. Montgomery, and G. Goldstein. 2004. Adaptive radiation of photosynthetic physiology in the Hawaiian lobeliads: Light regimes, static light responses, and whole-plant compensation points. American Journal of Botany 91:228-246.

Hardy OJ & Senterre B (2007) Characterizing the phylogenetic structure of communities by an additive partitioning of phylogenetic diversity. Journal of Ecology, 95, 493–506. PDF

Holt, R. D. 2006. Emergent neutrality. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 21:531-533. PDF

Johnson, M. T. J., and J. R. Stinchcombe. 2007. An emerging synthesis between community ecology and evolutionary biology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. PDF

Kembel, S., and S. P. Hubbell. 2006. The phylogenetic structure of a neotropical forest tree community. Ecology 87.

Losos, J., T. Jackman, A. Larson, K. DeQueiroz, and L. Rogriguez-Schettino. 1998. Contingency and determinism in replicated adaptive radiations of island lizards. Science 279.

Losos, J. B. 1996. Dynamics of range expansion by three introduced species of Anolis lizards on Bermuda. Journal of Herpetology 30:204-210.

Losos, J. B. 1996. Phylogenetic perspectives on community ecology. Ecology 77:1344-1354.

Losos, J. B. 2000. Ecological character displacement and the study of adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97:5693-5695.

Losos, J. B., R. E. Glor, J. J. Kolbe, and K. Nicholson. 2006. Adaptation, speciation, and convergence: A hierarchical analysis of adaptive radiation in Caribbean Anolis lizards. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 93:24-33.

Losos, J. B., M. Leal, R. E. Glor, K. de Queiroz, P. E. Hertz, L. R. Schettino, A. C. Lara, T. R. Jackman, and A. Larson. 2003. Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community. Nature 424:542-545.

Losos, J. B., and D. B. Miles. 2002. Testing the hypothesis that a clade has adaptively radiated: Iguanid lizard clades as a case study. American Naturalist 160:147-157.

Losos, J. B., and D. Schluter. 2000. Analysis of an evolutionary species-area relationship. Nature 408:847-850.

Slingsby, and Verboom. 2006. Phylogenetic relatedness limits co-occurrence at fine spatial scales: evidence from the schoenoid sedges (Cyperaceae: Schoeneae) of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. American Naturalist 168:14-27. PDF

*Strauss, S. Y., C. O. Webb, and N. Salamin. 2006. Exotic taxa less related to native species are more invasive. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103:5841-5845. PDF

Swenson, N., B. Enquist, J. Pither, J. Thompson, and J. K. Zimmerman. 2006. The problem and promise of scale dependency in community phylogenetics. Ecology 87:2418-2424. PDF

Webb, C., J. B. Losos, and A. A. Agrawal. 2006. Integrating phylogenies into community ecology. Ecology 87:S1-2.

Webb, C. O. 2000. Exploring the phylogenetic structure of ecological communtities: an example for rain forest trees. The American Naturalist 156:145-155. PDF

*Webb, C. O., D. D. Ackerly, M. A. McPeek, and M. J. Donoghue. 2002. Phylogenies and community ecology. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33:475-505. PDF

Webb, C. O., and M. J. Donoghue. 2005. Phylomatic: tree assembly for applied phylogenetics. Molecular Ecology Notes 5:181.

Webb, C. O., and G. S. Gilbert. 2006. Phylodiversity dependent seedling mortality, size structure, and disease in a Bornean rain forest. Ecology Supplement.

Westoby, M. 2006. Phylogenetic ecology at world scale, a new fusion between ecology and evolution. Ecology 87:150-162.

*Wiens, J., and C. Graham. 2005. Niche conservatism: Integrating evolution, ecology, and conservation biology. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 36:519-539. PDF

Wiens, J. J. 2004. Speciation and ecology revisited: phylogenetic niche conservatism and the origin of species. Evolution 58:193-197. PDF

Wiens, J. J., and M. J. Donoghue. 2004. Historical biogeography, ecology and species richness. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:639-644.

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