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David D. Ackerly

Researcher at University of California, Berkeley

Publications -  193
Citations -  44534

David D. Ackerly is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 73, co-authored 182 publications receiving 38691 citations. Previous affiliations of David D. Ackerly include Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & Stanford University.

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The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

TL;DR: Reliable quantification of the leaf economics spectrum and its interaction with climate will prove valuable for modelling nutrient fluxes and vegetation boundaries under changing land-use and climate.
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Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

TL;DR: Picante is a software package that provides a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing the phylogenetic and trait diversity of ecological communities and performs tests for phylogenetic signal in trait distributions, community structure and species interactions.
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Phylogenies and Community Ecology

TL;DR: A common pattern of phylogenetic conservatism in ecological character is recognized and the challenges of using phylogenies of partial lineages are highlighted and phylogenetic approaches to three emergent properties of communities: species diversity, relative abundance distributions, and range sizes are reviewed.
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TRY - a global database of plant traits

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TL;DR: TRY as discussed by the authors is a global database of plant traits, including morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and their organs, which can be used for a wide range of research from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology to biogeography.
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The velocity of climate change

TL;DR: A new index of the velocity of temperature change (km yr-1), derived from spatial gradients and multimodel ensemble forecasts of rates of temperature increase in the twenty-first century, indicates management strategies for minimizing biodiversity loss from climate change.