Selected Ackerly Lab Publications

Other topics: Phylogenetics, Niche Evolution and Community Assembly / Ecological Strategies / Physiological Ecology / Seed Size / Comparative Methods / Miscellaneous

Climate Change and the California Flora

Swarbreck, S.M., E.A. Sudderth, S.B. St.Clair, R. Salve, C. Castanha, M.S. Torn, D.D. Ackerly and G.L. Andersen. 2011. Linking leaf level transcripts to whole plant analyses provides mechanistic insights to the impact of warming and altered water availability on an annual grass. Global Change Biology, 4: 1577-1586, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02359.x.

Sandel, B., L.J. Goldstein, N.J.B Kraft, J.G. Okie, M.I. Shuldman, D.D. Ackerly, E.E. Cleland, and K.N. Suding. 2010. Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation. New Phytologist 188: 565-575 (doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03382.x)

Ackerly, D.D., S.R. Loarie, W. Cornwell, S.B. Weiss, H. Hamilton, R. Branciforte, and N.J.B. Kraft. 2010. The geography of climate change: implications for conservation biogeography. Diversity and Distributions 16: 476-587. [pdf]

Kraft, N.P.R., B. Baldwin, and D.D. Ackerly. 2010. Range size, taxon age and hotspots of neoendemism in the California flora. Diversity and Distributions 16: 403-413.

Loarie, S.R., P.B. Duffy, H. Hamilton, G. Asner, C.B. Field, and D.D. Ackerly. 2009. The velocity of climate change. Nature 462: 1052-1055.

St. Clair, S.B., E. Sudderth, D. Castanha, M. Torn, and D.D. Ackerly. 2009. Variation in soil moisture and N availability alter plant productivity and species diversity in a model California grassland. J. Vegetation Science 20: 860-870.

St. Clair, S.B., E. Sudderth, M. Fischer, M. Torn, S. Stuart, R. Salve, D. Eggett, and D.D. Ackerly. 2009. Variation in soil moisture and N availability modulates carbon and water exchange in a California grassland experiment. Global Change Biology, early view

Loarie, S.R., B. Carter, K. Hayhoe, R. Moe, C.A. Knight, and D.D. Ackerly. 2008.Climate change and the future of California's endemic flora. PLoS ONE 3: e2502.

Phylogenetics, Niche Evolution and Community Assembly

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Sargent, R.D., S. Kembel, N.C. Emery, E. Forrestel and D.D. Ackerly. 2011. Effect of local community phylogenetic structure on pollen limitation in an obligately insect-pollinated plant. American Journal of Botany 98: 283-289

Wiens, J.J., D.D. Ackerly, A.P. Allen, B.L. Anacker, L.B. Buckley, H.V. Cornell, E.I. Damschen, T.J. Davies, J.-A. Grytnes, S.P. Harrison, B.A. Hawkins, R.D. Holt, C.M. McCain, & P.R. Stephens. 2010. Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology. Ecology Letters 13: 1310-1324 (doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01515.x).

Cornwell, W.K. and D.D. Ackerly. 2010. A link between plant traits and abundance: evidence from coastal California woody plants. J. Ecol. 98: 814-821.

Buckley, L.B., T.J. Davies, D.D. Ackerly, N.J.B. Kraft, S.P. Harrison, B.L. Anacker, H.W. Cornell, E.I. Damschen, J.A. Grytnes, B.A. Hawkins, C.M. McCain, P.R. Stephens, and J.J. Wiens. 2010. Mammalian climate-diversity gradients: an inevitable product of aggregating clades with distinct evolutionary histories? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Ser. B 277:2131-2138.

Kraft, N.P.R. and D.D. Ackerly. 2010. Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest. Ecological Monographs 80: 401-422

Kembel, S.W., P.D. Cowan, M.R. Helmus, W.K. Cornwell, H. Morlon, D.D. Ackerly, S.P. Blomberg, and C.O. Webb. 2010. Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology. Bioinformatics 26: 1463-1464.

Ackerly, D.D. 2009. Conservatism and diversification of plant functional traits: evolutionary rates vs. phylogenetic signal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 19699-19706.

Wake, D.B., E.A. Hadly, and D.D. Ackerly. 2009. Biogeography, changing climates and niche evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 19631-19636.

Kembel, S.W. 2009. Disentangling niche and neutral influences on community assembly: assessing the performance of community phylogenetic structure tests. Ecology Letters 12: 949-960.

Mayfield, M.M., M.F. Boni, D.D. Ackerly. 2009. Traits, habitats and clades: Identifying traits of potential importance to environmental filtering. American Naturalist 174: E1-E22

Ackerly, D.D. 2009. Evolution, origin and age of lineages in the Californian and Mediterranean floras. J. Biogeography, early view (special issue on "Origin and Evolution of Biota in Mediterranean Climate Zones: an integrative vision")

Cornwell, W.K. and D.D. Ackerly. 2009. Community assembly and shifts in the distribution of functional trait values across an environmental gradient in coastal California. Ecological Monographs 79: 109-126.

Kraft, N.J.B., R. Valencia, and D.D. Ackerly. 2008. Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest. Science 322: 580-582 (Faculty of 1000, 'must read') (Also see comment and response in Science, 2009)

Webb, C.O., D.D. Ackerly, and S.W. Kembel. 2008. Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution. Bioinformatics 24: 2098-2100.

Sargent, R. and D.D. Ackerly. 2008. Plant-pollinator interactions and community assembly. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 123-130.

Kraft, N.J.B., W.K. Cornwell, C.O. Webb, and D.D. Ackerly. 2007. Trait evolution, community assembly and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities. American Naturalist 170: 271-283. (winner, 2008 President's Award from the American Society of Naturalists, for the best paper in American Naturalist in 2007)

Ackerly, D.D. and W.K. Cornwell. 2007. A trait-based approach to community assembly: partitioning of species trait values into within- and among-community components. Ecology Letters 10: 135-145.

Mayfield, M., G. Daily, D.D. Ackerly. 2006. The functional diversity and conservation of herbaceous and shrubby plant communities in human-dominated landscapes. Journal of Ecology 94: 522-536.

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 (for Special Issue on Phylogenetics and Community Ecology).

Cornwell, W.K., D.W. Schwilk, and D.D. Ackerly. 2006. A trait-based test for habitat filtering: convex hull volume. Ecology 87: 1465-1471

Mayfield, M., M. Boni, G. Daily, D.D. Ackerly. 2005. Species and functional diversity of native and human-dominated plant communities. Ecology 86: 2365-2372.

Schwilk, D.W. and D.D. Ackerly. 2005. Limiting similarity and functional diversity along environmental gradients. Ecology Letters, 8: 272-281.

Cavender-Bares, J., D.D. Ackerly, D. Baum, F.A. Bazzaz. 2004. Phylogenetic repulsion in the assembly of Floridean oak communities. American Naturalist 163: 823-843.

Ackerly, D.D. 2004. Evolution of leaf form in the California chaparral: Adaptation and community assembly. American Naturalist 163: 654-671.

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

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

Mabry, C., D.D. Ackerly and F. Gerhardt. 2000. Landscape and species-level distribution of morphological and life history traits in a temperate woodland flora. Journal of Vegetation Science 11: 213-224.

Ecological Strategies

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Cowan, P.D. and D.D. Ackerly. 2010. Life history strategy and flammability traits of California chaparral. Int. J. Wildland Fire 19: 984-989.

Zanne, A.E., M. Westoby, D.S. Falster, D.D. Ackerly, S.R. Loarie, S.E.J. Arnold, and D.A. Coomes. 2010. Angiosperm wood structure: global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relationship to wood density and lumen conductivity. Amer. J. Bot. 97: 207-215.

Poorter, L., S.J. Wright, H. Paz, D.D. Ackerly, R. Condit, G. Ibarra-Manriquez, K.E. Harms, J.C. Licona, M. Martinez-Ramos, S.J. Mazer, H. Muller-Landau, M. Pena-Claros, C.O. Webb, I. Wright. 2008. Are functional traits good predictors of demographic rates? Evidence from five Neotropical forests. Ecology 89: 1908-1920.

Bolmgren, K., Cowan, P.D. 2008. Time - size tradeoffs: a phylogenetic comparative study of flowering time, plant height and seed mass in a north-temperate flora. Oikos 117: 424-429.

Lopez-Hoffman, L., D.D. Ackerly, N.P.R. Anten, J.L. DeNoyer and M. Martinez-Ramos. 2007. Gap-dependence in mangrove life history strategies: A consideration of the entire life cycle and patch dynamics. Journal of Ecology 95: 1222-1233.

Bhaskar, R. A. Valiente-Banuet, D.D. Ackerly. 2007. Evolution of hydraulic traits in closely related species pairs from mediterranean and non-mediterranean environments of North America. New Phytologist 176 :718-26.

Wright, I.J., D.D. Ackerly, F. Bongers, K.E. Harms, G. Ibarra-Manriquez, M. Martinez-Ramos, S.J. Mazer, H.C. Muller-Landau, H. Paz, N.C.A. Pitman, L. Poorter, M.R. Silman, C.F Vriesendorp, C.O. Webb, M. Westoby, S.J. Wright. 2007. Relationships among key dimensions of plant trait variation in seven Neotropical forests. Annals of Botany 99: 1003-1015.

Preston, K.A., W.K. Cornwell. and J. Denoyer. 2006. Wood density and vessel traits as distinct correlates of ecological strategy in 51 California coast range angiosperms. New Phytologist 170: 807-818

Wong, T.G. and D.D. Ackerly. 2005. Optimal reproductive allocation in annuals and an informational constraint on plasticity. New Phytologist 166: 159-172.

Wright, I.J., P.B. Reich, M. Westoby, D.D. Ackerly, et al. 2004. The leaf economic spectrum world-wide. Nature 428: 821-827.

Ackerly, D.D. 2004. Functional traits of chaparral shrubs in relation to seasonal water deficit and disturbance. Ecological Monographs 74: 25-44. (featured in Science 303: 1948, Editor's Choice: Highlights of the Recent Literature)

Knight, C.A. and D.D. Ackerly. 2002. Genome size variation across environmental gradients in the California flora. Ecology Letters 5: 66-76.

Ackerly, D.D., C.A. Knight, S.B. Weiss, K. Barton, and K.P. Starmer. 2002. Leaf size, specific leaf area and microhabitat distribution of chaparral woody plants: contrasting patterns in species level and community level analyses. Oecologia 130: 449-457.

Schwilk, D. and D.D. Ackerly. 2001. Flammability and serotiny as strategies: correlated evolution in pines. Oikos 94: 326-336.

Knight, C.A. and D.D. Ackerly. 2001. Correlated evolution of chloroplast heat shock protein expression in closely related plant species. American Journal of Botany 88: 411-418.

Bazzaz, F.A., D.D. Ackerly and E. Reekie. 2000. Reproductive effort and reproductive allocation in plants. Pp. 1-29 in M. Fenner (ed.), Seeds: The ecology of regeneration in plant communities, 2nd ed. C. A. B. International, Oxon, U.K. (revision of Bazzaz and Ackerly 1992)

Kikuzawa, K. and D.D. Ackerly. 1999. Significance of leaf longevity in plants. Plant Species Biology 14: 39-45.

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.

Ackerly, D.D. and M.J. Donoghue. 1998. Leaf size, sapling allometry and Corner's rules: a phylogenetic study of correlated evolution in maples (Acer). American Naturalist 152: 767-791.

Physiological Ecology

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Swarbreck, S.M., E.A. Lindquist, D.D. Ackerly, and G.L. Andersen. Analysis of leaf and root transcriptome of soil grown Avena barbata plants. Plant and Cell Physiology, 52: 317-332. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcq188

Ackerly, D.D. and S.A. Stuart. 2009. Plant physiological ecology. Pages 20-26 in S. Levin, ed. Guide to Ecology. Princeton Univ. Press.

Martinez-Ramos, M., N.P.R. Anten, and D.D. Ackerly. 2009. Defoliation and ENSO effects on vital rates of an understory palm. Journal of Ecology 97: 1050-1061.

Lusk, C.H., P.B. Reich, R. Montgomery, D.D. Ackerly, and J. Cavender-Bares. 2008. The paradox of SLA: counter-gradient responses to light. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 299-303.

Lopez-Hoffman, L., N.P.R. Anten, M. Martinez-Ramos and D.D. Ackerly. 2006. Salinity and light interactively affect Neotropical mangrove seedlings at the leaf and whole plant levels. Oecologia 150: 545-556.

Bhaskar, R. and D.D. Ackerly. 2006. Ecological relevance of minimum seasonal water potentials. Physiol. Plant. 127: 353-359.

Lopez-Hoffman, L., J.L. DeNoyer, I.E. Monroe, N.P.R. Anten, M. Martinez-Ramos, and D.D. Ackerly. 2006. Rhizophora mangle, Mangrove seedling net photosynthesis, growth, and survivorship are interactively affected by salinity and light. Biotropica 38: 606-616.

Schwilk, D.W. and D.D. Ackerly. 2005. Is there a cost to resprouting? Seedling growth rate and drought tolerance in sprouting and non-sprouting Ceanothus. American Journal of Botany 92: 404-410.

Anten, N.P.R., M. Martinez-Ramos and D.D. Ackerly. 2003. Compensatory growth in a tropical understory palm subjected to repeated defoliation events. Ecology 84: 2905-2918.

Knight, C.A. and D.D. Ackerly. 2003. Evolution and plasticity of photosynthetic thermal tolerance, specific leaf area and leaf size: congeneric species from desert and coastal environments. New Phytologist 160: 337-347.

Preston, K.A. and D.D. Ackerly. 2003. Hydraulic architecture and the evolution of shoot allometry in chaparral shrubs. American Journal of Botany 90: 1502-1512.

Knight, C.A. and D.D. Ackerly. 2003. Small heat shock protein responses of a closely related pair of desert and coastal Encelia. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164: 53-60.

Knight, C.A. and D.D. Ackerly. 2002. An ecological and evolutionary analysis of photosynthetic thermotolerance using the temperature dependent increase in fluorescence. Oecologia 130: 505-514.

Anten, N.P.R. and D.D. Ackerly. 2001. A new method of growth analysis for plants that experience periodic losses of leaf mass. Functional Ecology 15: 804-811.

Anten, N.P.R. and D.D. Ackerly. 2001. Canopy-level photosynthetic compensation after defoliation in a tropical understorey palm. Functional Ecology 15: 252-262.

Ackerly, D.D., S.A. Dudley, S.E. Sultan, J. Schmitt, J.S. Coleman, R. Linder, D.R. Sandquist, M.A. Geber, A.S. Evans, T.E. Dawson, and M.J. Lechowicz. 2000. The evolution of plant ecophysiological traits: recent advances and future directions. Bioscience 50: 979-995.

Ackerly, D. D. 1999. Self-shading, carbon gain and leaf dynamics: a test of alternative optimality models. Oecologia 119: 300-310.

Evoluton of Seed Size

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Moles, A.T., D.D. Ackerly, J.C. Tweddle, J.B. Dickie, R. Smith, M.R. Leishman, M.M. Mayfield, A. Pitman, J.T. Wood, M. Westoby. 2007. Global patterns in seed size. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 109-116.

Moles, A.T., D.D. Ackerly, C.O. Webb, J.C. Tweddle, J.B. Dickie, A.J. Pitman and M. Westoby. 2005. Factors that shape seed size evolution. Proc. National Academy of Science 102: 10540-10554.

Moles, A.T., D.D. Ackerly, C.O. Webb, J.C. Tweddle, J.B. Dickie, M. Westoby. 2005. A brief history of seed size. Science 307: 576-580.

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

Comparative Methods

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Ackerly, D.D. 2009. Phylogenetics and comparative methods. Pages 117-125 in S. Levin, ed. Guide to Ecology. Princeton Univ. Press.

Ackerly, D.D. 2009. Phylogenetic methods in ecology. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.

Oliver, M.J., D. Petrov, D.D. Ackerly, P.G. Falkowski, O.M. Schofield. 2007. The mode and tempo of genome size evolution in eukaryotes. Genome Research 17: 594-601.

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

Ackerly. D. D. 1999. Phylogeny and the comparative method in plant functional ecology. Pp. 391-413 in M. Press, J. D. Scholes and M.G. Barker (eds.), Plant physiological ecology. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.

Miscellaneous

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Agrawal, A.A., D.D. Ackerly, F. Adler, E. Arnold, C. Caceres, D. Doak, E. Post, P. Hudson, J. Maron, K. Mooney, M. Power, D. Schemske, J. Stachowicz, S. Strauss, M. Turner, E. Werner. 2007. Frontiers in population and community ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 5: 145-152.

Ackerly, D.D. and S.E. Sultan. 2006. Mind the gap: the emerging synthesis of plant 'eco-devo'. New Phytologist 170: 648-653.

Preston, K.A. and D.D. Ackerly. 2004. Allometry and evolution in modular organisms. Pp. 80-106 in M. Pigliucci and K.A. Preston (eds.), Modularity and Phenotypic Complexity. Oxford University Press.

Ackerly, D.D. 2003. Canopy gaps to climate change - extreme events, ecology and evolution. New Phytologist 160: 2-4.

Ackerly, D.D. and R. Monson. 2003. Waking the sleeping giant: the evolutionary foundations of plant function. International J. Plant Sciences 164: S1-S6. (Introduction to Special issue on Evolution of Plant Functional Traits, ed. by D.D. Ackerly and R. Monson).