Nathan Kraft
Assistant Professor
Contact
Email: nkraft@umd.edu
Phone: 301.405.0148
Office: 3110 Bioscience Research Building
URL: http://life.umd.edu/biology/kraftlab
Research Interests
I study the ecological and evolutionary forces that structure communities, particularly plant systems. Projects in the lab integrate aspects of community ecology, biogeography, ecophysiology, and phylogenetics. Recent projects have centered on the forests of lowland Amazonia and annual plant communities in California. In addition to a focus on species coexistence, research in the lab also addresses plant responses to climate change, the distribution of diversity at broad spatial scales, and the assembly of regional biotas.
For more information, please see: http://life.umd.edu/biology/kraftlab
Selected Publications
Nathan Kraft, Gregory Crutsinger, Elisabeth Forrestal, and Nancy Emery. Functional trait differences and the outcome of community assembly: an experimental test with vernal pool annual plants. Oikos, in press.
Oscar Godoy, Nathan Kraft, Jonathan Levine. Phylogenetic relatedness and the determinants of competitive outcomes.Ecology Letters, in press.
Rafael Cardenas, Renato Valencia, Adriana Argoti, Nathan Kraft, Olivier Dangles. Plant traits predicting herbivory in a highly diverse Neotropical rainforest. Journal of Ecology, in press.
Claire Fortunel, C.E. Timothy Paine, Paul V. A. Fine, Nathan Kraft and Christopher Baraloto, 2014. Environmental factors predict community functional composition in Amazonian forests. Journal of Ecology, 102:145-155.
Naia Morueta-Holme, Brian Enquist, Brian McGill, Brad Boyle, Peter Jorgensen, Jeffery Ott, Robert Peet, Irena Simova, Lindsey Sloat, Barbara Theirs, Cyrille Violle, Susan Wiser, Nick Spencer, Steven Dollins, John Donoghue II, Nathan Kraft, Jim Regetz, Mark Schildhauer, Jens-Christian Svenning, 2013. Habitat area and climate stability determine geographic variation in plant species range sizes. Ecology Letters, 16:1446-1454.
Nathan Kraft and David D. Ackerly, 2013. The assembly of plant communities. In: The Plant Sciences- Ecology and the Environment, R. Monson, ed. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, in press.
Jonathan Davies, Elizabeth Wolkovich, Nathan Kraft, Nicolas Salamin, Jenica Allen, Toby Ault, Julio Betancourt, Kjell Bolmgrem, Elsa Cleland, Ben Cook, Theresa Crimmins, Susan Mazer, Gregory McCabe, Stephanie Pau, Jim Regetz, Mark Schwartz, Steven Travers, 2013. Phylogenetic conservatism in plant phenology. Journal of Ecology, 101:1520-1530.
Francesco Pomati, Nathan Kraft, Thomas Posch, Bettina Eugster, Jukka Jokela, Bas W. Ibelings, 2013. Size and fluorescence related traits are under selection by biotic and abiotic environmental changes in spring bloom phytoplankton communities of Lake Zurich (Switzerland). PLoS ONE, 8:e71677.
Peter Adler, Alex Fajardo, Andrew Kleinhesselink, Nathan Kraft, 2013. Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms.Ecology Letters, 16:1294-1306.
Adam B. Smith, Brody Sandel, Nathan Kraft, Susan Carey, 2013. Characterizing scale-dependent community assembly using the functional-diversity -area relationship. Ecology, 94: 2392-2402.
Hiroshi Tomimatsu, Takehiro Sasaki, Hiroko Kurokawa, Jon R. Bridle, Colin Fontaine, Jun Kitano, Daniel B. Stouffer, Mark Vellend, T. Martijn Bezemer, Tadashi Fukami, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Marcel G.A. van der Heijden, Masakado Kawata, Sonia Kéfi, Nathan Kraft, Kevin S. McCann, Peter J. Mumby, Tohru Nakashizuka, Owen L. Petchey, Tamara N. Romanuk, Katharine N. Suding, Gaku Takimoto, Jotaro Urabe, Shigeo Yachi, 2013. Sustaining ecosystem functions in a changing world: a call for an integrated approach. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50:1124-1130
Susan J. Mazer, Steven E. Travers, Benjamin I. Cook, T. Jonathan Davies, Kjell Bolmgren, Nathan Kraft, Nicolas Salomin, David W. Inouye. 2013. Flowering date of taxonomic families predicts phenological sensitivity to temperature: implications for forecasting the effects of climate change on unstudied taxa. American Journal of Botany, 100:1381-1397.
Ben Cook, Elizabeth Wolkovich, Jonathan Davies, Toby Ault, Julio Betancourt, Jenica Allen, Kjell Bolmgren, Elsa Cleland, Theresa Crimmins, Nathan Kraft, Lesley Lancaster, Susan Mazer, Gregory McCabe, Brian McGill, Camille Parmesan, Stephanie Pau, Jim Regetz, Nicholas Salamin, Mark Schwartz, Steven Travers, 2012. Sensitivity of spring phenology to warming across temporal and spatial climate gradients in two independent databases. Ecosystems, 15:1283-1294.
E. M. Wolkovich, B. I. Cook, J. M. Allen, T. M. Crimmins, S. Travers, S. Pau, J. Regetz, T. J. Davies, J. L. Betancourt, Nathan Kraft, T. R. Ault, K. Bolmgren, S. J. Mazer, G. J. McCabe, B. J. McGill, C. Parmesan, N. Salamin, M. D. Schwartz, E. E. Cleland, 2012. Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change. Nature, 485:494-497.
J. C. Stegen, A. L. Freestone, T. O. Crist, M. J. Anderson, J. M. Chase, L. S. Comita, H. V. Cornell, K. F. Davies, S. P. Harrison, A. H. Hurlbert, B. D. Inouye, Nathan Kraft, J. A. Myers, N. J. Sanders, N. G. Swenson, M. Vellend, 2012. Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22:202-212
Travis Ingram, Richard Svanback, Nathan Kraft, Pavel Kratina, Laura Southcott, Dolph Schluter, 2012. Intraguild predation drives evolutionary niche shift in threespine stickleback. Evolution, 66:1819-1832.
Bradford Hawkins, Christy McCain, Jonathan Davies, Lauren Buckley, Brian Anacker, Howard Cornell, Ellen Damschen, John-Avid Grytnes, Susan Harrison, Robert Holt, Nathan Kraft and Patrick Stephens, 2012. Different evolutionary histories underlie congruent species richness gradients of birds and mammals. Journal of Biogeography, 39:825-841
Jonathan Davies, Nathan Kraft, Nicolas Salamin and Elizabeth Wolkovich, 2012. Incompletely resolved phylogenetic trees inflate estimates of phylogenetic conservatism. Ecology, 93:242-247.
Nathan Swenson, Brian Enquist, Jason Pither, Andrew Kerkhoff, Brad Boyle, Michael Weiser, James Elser, William Fagan, Jimena Forero-Montaña, Nikolaos Fyllas, Nathan Kraft, Jeffrey Lake, Angela Moles, Sandra Patiño, Oliver Phillips, Charles Price, Peter Reich, Carlos Quesada, James Stegen, Renato Valencia, Ian Wright, S. Joseph Wright, Sandy Andelman, Peter Jørgensen, Thomas Lacher Jr., Abel Monteagudo, M. Percy Núñez-Vargas, Rodolfo Vasquez-Martínez, Kristen Nolting, 2012. The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21:798-808.
Nathan Kraft, Liza Comita, Jon Chase, Nathan Sanders, Nathan Swenson, Thomas Crist, James Stegen, Mark Vellend, Brad Boyle, Marti Anderson, Howard Cornell, Kendi Davies, Amy Freestone, Brian Inouye, Susan Harrison, Jonathan Myers, 2011. Disentangling the drivers of beta diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients. Science, 333:1755-1758.
Stephanie Pau, Elizabeth Wolkovich, Benjamin Cook, Jonathan Davies, Nathan Kraft, Kjell Bolmgren, Julio Betancourt and Elsa Cleland, 2011. Predicting phenology: Integrating climatology and evolution to improve forecasting in ecology.Global Change Biology, 17:3633-3643.
Jonathan Chase, Nathan Kraft, Kevin Smith, Mark Vellend, Brian Inouye, 2011. Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in alpha-diversity. Ecosphere, 2:article 24.
Daniel Peppe, Dana Royer, Bárbara Cariglino, Sofia Oliver, Sharon Newman, Elias Leight, Grisha Enikolopov, Margo Fernandez-Burgos, Fabiany Herrera, Jonathan Adams, Edwin Correa, Ellen Currano, J. Mark Erickson, Luis Felipe Hinojosa, John Hoganson, Ari Iglesias, Carlos Jaramillo, Kirk Johnson, Gregory Jordan, Nathan Kraft, Elizabeth Lovelock, Christopher Lusk, Ülo Niinemets, Josep Peñuelas, Gillian Rapson, Scott Wing, and Ian Wright, 2011. Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications. New Phytologist, 190:724-739.
Marti Anderson, Thomas Crist, Jonathan Chase, Mark Vellend, Brian Inouye, Amy Freestone, Nathan Sanders, Howard Cornell, Liza Comita, Kendi Davies, Susan Harrison, Nathan Kraft, James Stegen and Nathan Swenson, 2011. Navigating the multiple meanings of beta diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist. Ecology Letters, 14:19-28.
Nathan Kraft, Margaret Metz, Richard Condit, and Jerome Chave, 2010. The relationship between wood density and mortality in a global tropical forest dataset. New Phytologist, 188:1124-1136.
Nathan Kraft and David Ackerly, 2010. Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest. Ecological Monographs, 80:401-422.
Nathan Kraft, Bruce Baldwin and David Ackerly, 2010. Range size, taxon age, and hotspots of neoendemism in the California flora. Diversity and Distributions, 16:403-413.
Brody Sandel, Leah Goldstein, Nathan Kraft, Jordan Okie, Michal Shuldman, David Ackerly, Elsa Cleland and Katharine Suding, 2010. Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation.New Phytologist, 188:565-575.
S. Joseph Wright, Kaoru Kitajima, Nathan Kraft, Peter Reich, Ian Wright, Daniel Bunker, Richard Condit, James Dalling, Stuart Davies, Sandra Díaz, Bettina Engelbrecht, Kyle Harms, Stephen Hubbell, Christian Marks, Maria Ruiz-Jaen, Cristina Salvador, Renato Valencia, and Amy Zanne, 2010. Functional traits and the growth- mortality tradeoff in tropical trees.Ecology, 91:3664-3674.
Lauren Buckley, Jonathan Davies, David Ackerly, Nathan Kraft, Susan Harrison, Brian Anacker, Howard Cornell, Ellen Damschen, John-Avid Grytnes, Bradford Hawkins, Christy McCain, Patrick Stephens, John Wiens, 2010. Phylogeny, niche conservatism, and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 277:2131-2138.
David Ackerly, Scott Loarie, Will Cornwell, Stu Weiss, Healy Hamilton, Ryan Branciforte and Nathan Kraft, 2010. The geography of climate change: implications for conservation biogeography. Diversity and Distributions, 16:476-487.
Nathan Kraft, David Ackerly, and Renato Valencia, 2008. Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest. Science, 322:580-582.
Nathan Kraft, Will Cornwell, Cam Webb and David Ackerly, 2007. Trait conservatism, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities. The American Naturalist, 170:271-283.
Awards
2012 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize, University of British Columbia.
President's Award, The American Society of Naturalists, for the best paper published in American Naturalist in 2007 for:Nathan Kraft, William Cornwell, Campbell Webb and David Ackerly, 2007. Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities. The American Naturalist, Vol. 170(2), pp. 271-283.
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008.
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, 2009-2011.
Contact
Email: nkraft@umd.edu
Phone: 301.405.0148
Office: 3110 Bioscience Research Building
URL: http://life.umd.edu/biology/kraftlab
Research Interests
I study the ecological and evolutionary forces that structure communities, particularly plant systems. Projects in the lab integrate aspects of community ecology, biogeography, ecophysiology, and phylogenetics. Recent projects have centered on the forests of lowland Amazonia and annual plant communities in California. In addition to a focus on species coexistence, research in the lab also addresses plant responses to climate change, the distribution of diversity at broad spatial scales, and the assembly of regional biotas.
For more information, please see: http://life.umd.edu/biology/kraftlab
Selected Publications
Nathan Kraft, Gregory Crutsinger, Elisabeth Forrestal, and Nancy Emery. Functional trait differences and the outcome of community assembly: an experimental test with vernal pool annual plants. Oikos, in press.
Oscar Godoy, Nathan Kraft, Jonathan Levine. Phylogenetic relatedness and the determinants of competitive outcomes.Ecology Letters, in press.
Rafael Cardenas, Renato Valencia, Adriana Argoti, Nathan Kraft, Olivier Dangles. Plant traits predicting herbivory in a highly diverse Neotropical rainforest. Journal of Ecology, in press.
Claire Fortunel, C.E. Timothy Paine, Paul V. A. Fine, Nathan Kraft and Christopher Baraloto, 2014. Environmental factors predict community functional composition in Amazonian forests. Journal of Ecology, 102:145-155.
Naia Morueta-Holme, Brian Enquist, Brian McGill, Brad Boyle, Peter Jorgensen, Jeffery Ott, Robert Peet, Irena Simova, Lindsey Sloat, Barbara Theirs, Cyrille Violle, Susan Wiser, Nick Spencer, Steven Dollins, John Donoghue II, Nathan Kraft, Jim Regetz, Mark Schildhauer, Jens-Christian Svenning, 2013. Habitat area and climate stability determine geographic variation in plant species range sizes. Ecology Letters, 16:1446-1454.
Nathan Kraft and David D. Ackerly, 2013. The assembly of plant communities. In: The Plant Sciences- Ecology and the Environment, R. Monson, ed. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, in press.
Jonathan Davies, Elizabeth Wolkovich, Nathan Kraft, Nicolas Salamin, Jenica Allen, Toby Ault, Julio Betancourt, Kjell Bolmgrem, Elsa Cleland, Ben Cook, Theresa Crimmins, Susan Mazer, Gregory McCabe, Stephanie Pau, Jim Regetz, Mark Schwartz, Steven Travers, 2013. Phylogenetic conservatism in plant phenology. Journal of Ecology, 101:1520-1530.
Francesco Pomati, Nathan Kraft, Thomas Posch, Bettina Eugster, Jukka Jokela, Bas W. Ibelings, 2013. Size and fluorescence related traits are under selection by biotic and abiotic environmental changes in spring bloom phytoplankton communities of Lake Zurich (Switzerland). PLoS ONE, 8:e71677.
Peter Adler, Alex Fajardo, Andrew Kleinhesselink, Nathan Kraft, 2013. Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms.Ecology Letters, 16:1294-1306.
Adam B. Smith, Brody Sandel, Nathan Kraft, Susan Carey, 2013. Characterizing scale-dependent community assembly using the functional-diversity -area relationship. Ecology, 94: 2392-2402.
Hiroshi Tomimatsu, Takehiro Sasaki, Hiroko Kurokawa, Jon R. Bridle, Colin Fontaine, Jun Kitano, Daniel B. Stouffer, Mark Vellend, T. Martijn Bezemer, Tadashi Fukami, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Marcel G.A. van der Heijden, Masakado Kawata, Sonia Kéfi, Nathan Kraft, Kevin S. McCann, Peter J. Mumby, Tohru Nakashizuka, Owen L. Petchey, Tamara N. Romanuk, Katharine N. Suding, Gaku Takimoto, Jotaro Urabe, Shigeo Yachi, 2013. Sustaining ecosystem functions in a changing world: a call for an integrated approach. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50:1124-1130
Susan J. Mazer, Steven E. Travers, Benjamin I. Cook, T. Jonathan Davies, Kjell Bolmgren, Nathan Kraft, Nicolas Salomin, David W. Inouye. 2013. Flowering date of taxonomic families predicts phenological sensitivity to temperature: implications for forecasting the effects of climate change on unstudied taxa. American Journal of Botany, 100:1381-1397.
Ben Cook, Elizabeth Wolkovich, Jonathan Davies, Toby Ault, Julio Betancourt, Jenica Allen, Kjell Bolmgren, Elsa Cleland, Theresa Crimmins, Nathan Kraft, Lesley Lancaster, Susan Mazer, Gregory McCabe, Brian McGill, Camille Parmesan, Stephanie Pau, Jim Regetz, Nicholas Salamin, Mark Schwartz, Steven Travers, 2012. Sensitivity of spring phenology to warming across temporal and spatial climate gradients in two independent databases. Ecosystems, 15:1283-1294.
E. M. Wolkovich, B. I. Cook, J. M. Allen, T. M. Crimmins, S. Travers, S. Pau, J. Regetz, T. J. Davies, J. L. Betancourt, Nathan Kraft, T. R. Ault, K. Bolmgren, S. J. Mazer, G. J. McCabe, B. J. McGill, C. Parmesan, N. Salamin, M. D. Schwartz, E. E. Cleland, 2012. Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change. Nature, 485:494-497.
J. C. Stegen, A. L. Freestone, T. O. Crist, M. J. Anderson, J. M. Chase, L. S. Comita, H. V. Cornell, K. F. Davies, S. P. Harrison, A. H. Hurlbert, B. D. Inouye, Nathan Kraft, J. A. Myers, N. J. Sanders, N. G. Swenson, M. Vellend, 2012. Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22:202-212
Travis Ingram, Richard Svanback, Nathan Kraft, Pavel Kratina, Laura Southcott, Dolph Schluter, 2012. Intraguild predation drives evolutionary niche shift in threespine stickleback. Evolution, 66:1819-1832.
Bradford Hawkins, Christy McCain, Jonathan Davies, Lauren Buckley, Brian Anacker, Howard Cornell, Ellen Damschen, John-Avid Grytnes, Susan Harrison, Robert Holt, Nathan Kraft and Patrick Stephens, 2012. Different evolutionary histories underlie congruent species richness gradients of birds and mammals. Journal of Biogeography, 39:825-841
Jonathan Davies, Nathan Kraft, Nicolas Salamin and Elizabeth Wolkovich, 2012. Incompletely resolved phylogenetic trees inflate estimates of phylogenetic conservatism. Ecology, 93:242-247.
Nathan Swenson, Brian Enquist, Jason Pither, Andrew Kerkhoff, Brad Boyle, Michael Weiser, James Elser, William Fagan, Jimena Forero-Montaña, Nikolaos Fyllas, Nathan Kraft, Jeffrey Lake, Angela Moles, Sandra Patiño, Oliver Phillips, Charles Price, Peter Reich, Carlos Quesada, James Stegen, Renato Valencia, Ian Wright, S. Joseph Wright, Sandy Andelman, Peter Jørgensen, Thomas Lacher Jr., Abel Monteagudo, M. Percy Núñez-Vargas, Rodolfo Vasquez-Martínez, Kristen Nolting, 2012. The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21:798-808.
Nathan Kraft, Liza Comita, Jon Chase, Nathan Sanders, Nathan Swenson, Thomas Crist, James Stegen, Mark Vellend, Brad Boyle, Marti Anderson, Howard Cornell, Kendi Davies, Amy Freestone, Brian Inouye, Susan Harrison, Jonathan Myers, 2011. Disentangling the drivers of beta diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients. Science, 333:1755-1758.
Stephanie Pau, Elizabeth Wolkovich, Benjamin Cook, Jonathan Davies, Nathan Kraft, Kjell Bolmgren, Julio Betancourt and Elsa Cleland, 2011. Predicting phenology: Integrating climatology and evolution to improve forecasting in ecology.Global Change Biology, 17:3633-3643.
Jonathan Chase, Nathan Kraft, Kevin Smith, Mark Vellend, Brian Inouye, 2011. Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in alpha-diversity. Ecosphere, 2:article 24.
Daniel Peppe, Dana Royer, Bárbara Cariglino, Sofia Oliver, Sharon Newman, Elias Leight, Grisha Enikolopov, Margo Fernandez-Burgos, Fabiany Herrera, Jonathan Adams, Edwin Correa, Ellen Currano, J. Mark Erickson, Luis Felipe Hinojosa, John Hoganson, Ari Iglesias, Carlos Jaramillo, Kirk Johnson, Gregory Jordan, Nathan Kraft, Elizabeth Lovelock, Christopher Lusk, Ülo Niinemets, Josep Peñuelas, Gillian Rapson, Scott Wing, and Ian Wright, 2011. Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications. New Phytologist, 190:724-739.
Marti Anderson, Thomas Crist, Jonathan Chase, Mark Vellend, Brian Inouye, Amy Freestone, Nathan Sanders, Howard Cornell, Liza Comita, Kendi Davies, Susan Harrison, Nathan Kraft, James Stegen and Nathan Swenson, 2011. Navigating the multiple meanings of beta diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist. Ecology Letters, 14:19-28.
Nathan Kraft, Margaret Metz, Richard Condit, and Jerome Chave, 2010. The relationship between wood density and mortality in a global tropical forest dataset. New Phytologist, 188:1124-1136.
Nathan Kraft and David Ackerly, 2010. Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest. Ecological Monographs, 80:401-422.
Nathan Kraft, Bruce Baldwin and David Ackerly, 2010. Range size, taxon age, and hotspots of neoendemism in the California flora. Diversity and Distributions, 16:403-413.
Brody Sandel, Leah Goldstein, Nathan Kraft, Jordan Okie, Michal Shuldman, David Ackerly, Elsa Cleland and Katharine Suding, 2010. Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation.New Phytologist, 188:565-575.
S. Joseph Wright, Kaoru Kitajima, Nathan Kraft, Peter Reich, Ian Wright, Daniel Bunker, Richard Condit, James Dalling, Stuart Davies, Sandra Díaz, Bettina Engelbrecht, Kyle Harms, Stephen Hubbell, Christian Marks, Maria Ruiz-Jaen, Cristina Salvador, Renato Valencia, and Amy Zanne, 2010. Functional traits and the growth- mortality tradeoff in tropical trees.Ecology, 91:3664-3674.
Lauren Buckley, Jonathan Davies, David Ackerly, Nathan Kraft, Susan Harrison, Brian Anacker, Howard Cornell, Ellen Damschen, John-Avid Grytnes, Bradford Hawkins, Christy McCain, Patrick Stephens, John Wiens, 2010. Phylogeny, niche conservatism, and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 277:2131-2138.
David Ackerly, Scott Loarie, Will Cornwell, Stu Weiss, Healy Hamilton, Ryan Branciforte and Nathan Kraft, 2010. The geography of climate change: implications for conservation biogeography. Diversity and Distributions, 16:476-487.
Nathan Kraft, David Ackerly, and Renato Valencia, 2008. Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest. Science, 322:580-582.
Nathan Kraft, Will Cornwell, Cam Webb and David Ackerly, 2007. Trait conservatism, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities. The American Naturalist, 170:271-283.
Awards
2012 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize, University of British Columbia.
President's Award, The American Society of Naturalists, for the best paper published in American Naturalist in 2007 for:Nathan Kraft, William Cornwell, Campbell Webb and David Ackerly, 2007. Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities. The American Naturalist, Vol. 170(2), pp. 271-283.
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008.
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, 2009-2011.