Hector

Original journal articles

  1. O’Brien, M.J., Christopher D. Philipson, Glen Reynolds, Dzaeman Dzulkifli, Jake Snaddon, Robert Ong and Andy Hector (2019) Positive effects of liana cutting on seedlings are reduced during El Niño-induced drought. Journal of Applied Ecology (in press).
  2. Hautier Y, Vojtech E, Hector A. (2018) The importance of competition for light depends of productivity and disturbance. Ecology & Evolution 8: 10655-10661. [Editor’s Choice: https://ecologyandevolution.blog/2019/02/22/editors-choice-highlighted-ecology-evolution-articles-from-2018/]
  3. Hautier, Yann, Forest Isbell, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, W. Stanley Harpole, Eric M. Lind, Andrew S. MacDougall, Carly J. Stevens, Peter B. Adler, Juan Alberti, Jonathan D. Bakker, Lars A. Brudvig, Yvonne M. Buckley, Marc Cadotte, Maria C. Caldeira, Enrique J. Chaneton, Chengjin Chu, Pedro Daleo, Christopher R. Dickman, John M. Dwyer, Anu Eskelinen, Philip A. Fay, Jennifer Firn, Nicole Hagenah, Helmut Hillebrand, Oscar Iribarne, Kevin P. Kirkman, Johannes M. H. Knops, Kimberly J. La Pierre, Rebecca L. McCulley, John W. Morgan, Meelis Pärtel, Jesus Pascual, Jodi N. Price, Suzanne M. Prober, Anita C. Risch, Mahesh Sankaran, Martin Schuetz, Rachel J. Standish, Risto Virtanen, Glenda M. Wardle, Laura Yahdjian, Andy Hector (2018) Local loss and spatial homogenization of biodiversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature Ecology & Evolution (https://doi.org/10.1038).
  4. O’Brien, M., Reynolds, G., Ong, R. and Hector, A. (2017) Resistance of tropical seedlings to drought is mediated by neighbourhood diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1:1643–1648.
  5. Trogisch, Stefan; Schuldt, Andreas; Bauhus, Jürgen; Blum, Juliet; Both, Sabine; Buscot, François; Castro-Izaguirre, Nadia; Chesters, Doug; Durka, Walter; Eichenberg, David; Erfmeier, Alexandra; Fischer, Markus; Geißler, Christian; Germany, Markus; Goebes, Philipp; Gutknecht, Jessica; Hahn, Christoph; Haider, Sylvia; Härdtle, Werner; He, Jin-Sheng; Hector, Andy; Hönig, Lydia; Huang, Yuanyuan; Klein, Alexandra-Maria; Kühn, Peter; Kunz, Matthias; Leppert, Katrin; Li, Ying;  Liu, Xiaojuan; Niklaus, Pascal; Pei, Zhiqin; Pietsch, Katherina; Prinz, Ricarda; Proß, Tobias; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael; Schmidt, Karsten; Scholten, Thomas; Seitz, Steffen; Song, Zhengshan; Staab, Michael; von Oheimb, Goddert; Weißbecker, Christina; Welk, Erik; Wirth, Christian; Wubet, Tesfaye; Yang, Bo; Yang, Xuefei; ZHU, Chao-Dong; Schmid, Bernhard; Ma, Keping; Bruelheide, Helge. (2017). Towards a methodical framework for comprehensively assessing forest multifunctionality. Ecology & Evolution 7(24), 10652-10674.
  6. Guerrero Ramírez, Nathaly, Dylan Craven, Peter Reich, John Ewel, Forest Isbell, Julia Koricheva, John Parrotta, Harald Auge, Heather Erickson, David Forrester, Andy Hector, Jasmin Joshi, Florencia Montagnini, Cecilia Palmborg, Daniel Piotto, Catherine Potvin, Christiane Roscher, Jasper van Ruijven, David Tilman, Brian Wilsey, and Nico Eisenhauer (In Press) Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems. (2017). Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1639–1642.
  7. Adams H.D., Zeppel M.J.B., Anderegg W.R.L., Hartmann H., Landhausser S.M., Tissue D.T., Huxman T.E., Hudson P.J., Franz T.E., Allen C.D., Anderegg L.D.L., Barron-Gafford G.A., Beerling D.J., Breshears D.D., Brodribb T.J., Bugmann H., Cobb R.C., Collins A.D., Dickman L.T., Duan H., Ewers B.E., Galiano L., Galvez D.A., Garcia-Forner N., Gaylord M.L., Germino M.J., Gessler A., Hacke U.G., Hakamada R., Hector A., Jenkins M.W., Kane J.M., Kolb T.E., Law D.J., Lewis J.D., Limousin J-M., Love D.M., Macalady A.K., Marti­nez-Vilalta J., Mencuccini M., Mitchell P.J., Muss J.D., O’Brien M.J., O’Grady A.P., Pangle R.E., Pinkard E.A., Piper F.I., Plaut J.A., Pockman W.T., Quirk J., Reinhardt K., Ripullone F., Ryan M.G., Sala A., Sevanto S., Sperry J.S., Vargas R., Vennetier M., Way D.A., Xu C., Yepez E.A., and McDowell N.G. (2017) A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1285-1291.
  8. Isbell, F., Gonzalez, A., Loreau, M., Cowles, J., Diaz, S., Hector, A., Georgina M. Mace, David A. Wardle, Mary I. O’Connor, J. Emmett Duffy, Lindsay A. Turnbull, Patrick L. Thompson & Anne Larigauderie (2017) Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales. Nature 546: 65-72.
  9. Ang, Cheng Choon, Michael J. O’Brien, Kevin Kit Siong Ng, Ping Chin Lee, Andy Hector, Bernhard Schmid & Kentaro K. Shimizu (2017): Genetic diversity of two tropical tree species of the Dipterocarpaceae following logging and restoration in Borneo: high genetic diversity in plots with high species diversity. Plant Ecology & Diversity 9: 459 – 469.
  10. Hill, L., Hector, A., Hemery, G., Smart, S., Tanadini, M. & Nick Brown (2017) Abundance distributions for tree species in Great Britain:
 A two-stage approach to modeling abundance using species distribution modeling and random forest. Ecology and Evolution 7: 1043 –1056.
  11. Chamagne, J., Matteo Tanadini, David Frank, Radim Matula, C. E. Timothy Paine, Christopher D. Philipson, Martin Svátek, Lindsay A. Turnbull, Daniel Volařík, & Hector. (2017) Forest diversity promotes individual tree growth in central European forest stands. Journal of Applied Ecology 54: 74-79.
  12. Turnbull, LA, Isbell F, Purves DW, Loreau M, Hector A. (2016) Understanding the value of plant diversity for ecosystem functioning through niche theory. R. Soc. B 283: 20160536.
  13. Trogisch, S., He, J.S., Hector, A. & Scherer-Lorenzen (2016) Impact of species diversity, stand age and environmental factors on leaf litter decomposition in subtropical forests in China. Plant & Soil 400: 337-350.
  14. Trogisch, S., Salmon, Y, He, J.S., Hector, A. & Scherer-Lorenzen (2016) Spatio-temporal water uptake patterns of tree saplings are not altered by interspecific interaction in the early stage of a subtropical forest. Forest Ecology and Management 367: 52–61.
  15. Saner, P., Christopher D. Philipson, Shaun Peters, Felix Keller, Laurent Bigler, Lindsay A. Turnbull & Andy Hector (2016) Growth rates and relative change in non-structural carbohydrates of dipterocarp seedlings in response to light acclimation. Plant Ecology & Diversity 9: 491-504.
  16. Brearley, F.Q., Saner, P., Uchida, A., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Hector, A., Nilus, R., Scholes, J.D., and Egli, S. (2016). Testing the importance of a common ectomycorrhizal network for dipterocarp seedling growth and survival in tropical forests of Borneo. Plant Ecology & Diversity 9: 563-576.
  17. Tuck SL, O’Brien MJ, Philipson CD, Saner P, Tanadini M, Dzulkifli D, Godfray HC, Godoong E, Nilus R, Ong RC, Schmid B, Sinun W, Snaddon JL, Snoep M, Tangki H, Tay J, Ulok P, Wai YS, Weilenmann M, Reynolds G & Hector (2016) The value of biodiversity for the functioning of tropical forests: insurance effects during the first decade of the Sabah biodiversity experiment. Proc. R. Soc. B 283: 20161451.
  18. Chamagne, J., E. Timothy Paine, Donald Schoolmaster, Robert Stejskal, Daniel Volařík, Jan Šebesta, Filip Trnka, Tomáš Koutecký, Petr Švarc, Martin Svátek, Andy Hector and Radim Matula (2016). Do the rich get richer? Varying effects of tree species identity and diversity on the richness of understory taxa. Ecology 97: 2634-73.
  19. Craven, D., Forest Isbell, Pete Manning, John Connolly, Helge Bruelheide, Anne Ebeling, Christiane Roscher, Jasper van Ruijven, Alexandra Weigelt, Brian Wilsey, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Enrica de Luca, John N. Griffin, Yann Hautier, Andy Hector, Anke Jentsch, Jürgen Kreyling, Vojtech Lanta, Michel Loreau, Sebastian T. Meyer, Akira S. Mori, Shahid Naeem, Cecilia Palmborg, H. Wayne Polley, Peter B. Reich, Bernhard Schmid, Alrun Siebenkas, Eric Seabloom, Madhav P. Thakur, David Tilman, Anja Vogel and Nico Eisenhauer (2016). Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought. Trans. R. Soc. B, 371: 1694.
  20. Grace, James B. T. Michael Anderson, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, Peter B. Adler, W. Stanley Harpole, Yann Hautier, Helmut Hillebrand, Eric M. Lind, Meelis Pärtel, Jonathan D. Bakker, Yvonne M. Buckley, Michael J. Crawley, Ellen I. Damschen, Kendi F. Davies, Philip A. Fay, Jennifer Firn, Daniel S. Gruner, Andy Hector, Johannes M. H. Knops, Andrew S. MacDougall, Brett A. Melbourne, John W. Morgan, John L. Orrock, Suzanne M. Prober & Melinda D. Smith (2016) Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness. Nature 529: 390-393.
  21. van der Plas, F. Fons, Manning, Peter, Allan, Eric, Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael, Verheyen, Kris, Wirth, Christian, Zavala, Miguel A., Hector, Andy, Ampoorter, Evy, Baeten, Lander, Barbaro, Luc, Bauhus, Jürgen, Benavides, Raquel, Benneter, Adam, Berthold, Felix, Bonal, Damien, Bouriaud, Olivier, Bruelheide, Helge, Bussotti, Filippo, Carnol, Monique, Castagneyrol, Bastien, Charbonnier, Yohan, Coomes, David, Coppi, Andrea, Bastias, Cristina C., Dawud, Seid Muhie, De Wandeler, Hans, Domisch, Timo, Finér, Leena, Gessler, Arthur, Granier, André, Grossiord, Charlotte, Guyot, Virginie, Hättenschwiler, Stephan, Jactel, Hervé, Jaroszewicz, Bogdan, Joly, François-Xavier, Jucker, Tommaso, Koricheva, Julia, Milligan, Harriet, Müller, Sandra, Muys, Bart, Nguyen, Diem, Pollastrini, Martina, Raulund-Rasmussen, Karsten, Selvi, Federico, Stenlid, Jan , Valladares, Fernando, Vesterdal, Lars, Zielínski, Dawid, Fischer, Markus (2016) Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests. Nature Communications 7:11109.
  22. Verheyen, K., Margot Vanhellemont, Harald Auge, Lander Baeten, Christopher Baraloto, Nadia Barsoum, Simon Bilodeau-Gauthier, Helge Bruelheide, Bastien Castagneyrol, Douglas Godbold, Josephine Haase, Andy Hector, Hervé Jactel, Julia Koricheva, Michel Loreau, Simone Mereu, Christian Messier, Bart Muys, Philippe Nolet, Alain Paquette, John Parker, Mike Perring, Quentin Ponette, Catherine Potvin, Peter Reich, Andy Smith, Martin Weih, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen (2016) Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations. Ambio 45: 29-41.
  23. Tredennick, Andrew T., Peter B. Adler, James B. Grace, W. Stanley Harpole, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, T. Michael Anderson, Jonathan D. Bakker, Lori A. Biederman, Cynthia S. Brown, Yvonne M. Buckley, Chengjin Chu, Scott L. Collins, Michael J. Crawley, Philip A. Fay, Jennifer Firn, Daniel S. Gruner, Nicole Hagenah, Yann Hautier, Andy Hector, Helmut Hillebrand, Kevin Kirkman, Johannes M. H. Knops, Ramesh Laungani, Eric M. Lind, Andrew S. MacDougall, Rebecca L. McCulley, Charles E. Mitchell, Joslin L Moore, John W. Morgan, John L. Orrock, Pablo L. Peri, Suzanne M. Prober, Anita C. Risch, Martin Schütz, Karina L. Speziale, Rachel J. Standish, Lauren L. Sullivan, Glenda M. Wardle, Ryan J. Williams, Louie H. Yang (2016) Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness. Science 351: 457-457.
  24. Oliver, T. H., Matthew S. Heard, Nick J.B. Isaac, David B. Roy, Deborah Procter, Felix Eigenbrod, Rob Freckleton, Andy Hector, David L. Orme, Owen L. Petchey, Vânia Proença, David Raffaelli, K. Blake Suttle, Georgina M. Mace, Berta Martín-López, Ben A. Woodcock, James M. Bullock (2016). A synthesis is emerging between biodiversity–ecosystem function and ecological resilience research. Trends in ecology & evolution 31: 89.
  25. Oliver, T.H. Matthew S. Heard, Nick J.B. Isaac, David B. Roy, Deborah Procter, Felix Eigenbrod, Rob Freckleton, Andy Hector, C. David L. Orme, Owen L. Petchey, Vânia Proença, David Raffaelli, K. Blake Suttle, Georgina M. Mace, Berta Martín-López, Ben A. Woodcock, James M. Bullock (2015) Biodiversity and the resilience of ecosystem services. Trends in ecology & evolution 30, 673–684.
  26. Isbell, F. Dylan Craven, John Connolly, Michel Loreau, Bernhard Schmid, Carl Beierkuhnlein, T. Martijn Bezemer, Catherine Bonin, Helge Bruelheide, Enrica de Luca, Anne Ebeling, John N. Griffin, Qinfeng Guo, Yann Hautier, Andy Hector, Anke Jentsch, Jürgen Kreyling, Vojtěch Lanta, Pete Manning, Sebastian T. Meyer, Akira S. Mori, Shahid Naeem, Pascal A. Niklaus, H. Wayne Polley, Peter B. Reich, Christiane Roscher, Eric W. Seabloom, Melinda D. Smith, Madhav P. Thakur, David Tilman, Benjamin F. Tracy, Wim H. van der Putten, Jasper van Ruijven, Alexandra Weigelt, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Brian Wilsey & Nico Eisenhauer (2015). Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes. Nature 526: 574-77.
  27. Paine, C.E.T., Amissah, L., Auge, H., Baraloto, C., Baruffol, M., Bourland, N., Bruelheide, H., Daïnou, K., de Gouvenain, R. C., Doucet, J.-L., Doust, S., Fine, P. V. A., Fortunel, C., Haase, J., Holl, K. D., Jactel, H., Li, X., Kitajima, K., Koricheva, J., Martínez-Garza, C., Messier, C., Paquette, A., Philipson, C., Piotto, D., Poorter, L., Posada, J. M., Potvin, C., Rainio, K., Russo, S. E., Ruiz-Jaen, M., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Webb, C. O., Wright, S. J., Zahawi, R. A. & Hector (2015) Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why. Journal of Ecology 103: 978–89.
  28. Slik, J.W.F. Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez, Shin-Ichiro Aiba, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Luciana F. Alves, Peter Ashton, Patricia Balvanera, Meredith Bastian, Peter J. Bellingham, Eduardo van den Berg, Luis Bernacci, Polyanna da Conceição Bispo, Lilian Blanc, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Pascal Boeckx, Frans Bongers, Brad Boyle, Matt Bradford, Francis Q. Brearley, Mireille Breuer Ndoundou Hockemba, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Darley Calderado Leal Matos, Miguel Castillo-Santiago, Eduardo L. M. Catharino, Shauna-Lee Chai, Yukai Chen, Robert Colwell, Robin Chazdon, Connie Clark, David B. Clark, Deborah A. Clark, Heike Culmsee, Kipiro Damas, Handanakere S. Dattaraja, Gilles Dauby, Priya Davidar, Saara J. DeWalt, Jean-Louis Doucet, Alvaro Duque, Giselda Durigan, Karl Eichhorn, Pedro V. Eisenlohr, Eduardo Eler, Corneille Ewango, Nina Farwig, Ken Feeley, Leandro Ferreira, Richard Field, Ary T. de Oliveira Filho, Christine Fletcher, Olle Forshed, Geraldo Franco, Gabriella Fredriksson, Thomas Gillespie, Jean-François Gillet, Giriraj Amarnath, Daniel M. Griffith, James Grogan, Nimal Gunatilleke, David Harris, Rhett Harrison, Andy Hector, Jürgen Homeier, Nobuo Imai, Akira Itoh, Patrick A. Jansen, Carlos A. Joly, Bernardus H.J. de Jong, Kuswata Kartawinata, Elizabeth Kearsley, Daniel L. Kelly, David Kenfack, Michael Kessler, Kanehiro Kitayama, Robert Kooyman, Eileen Larney, Yves Laumonier, Susan Laurance, William Laurance, Michael J. Lawes, Ieda Leao do Amaral, Susan G. Letcher, Jeremy Lindsell, Xinghui Lu, Asyraf Mansor, Antti Marjokorpi, Emanuel H. Martin, Henrik Meilby, Felipe P. L. Melo, Dan Metcalfe, Vincent P. Medjibe, Jean Paul Metzger, Jerome Millet, D. Mohandass, Juan Carlos Montero, Márcio de Morisson Valeriano, Badru Mugerwa, Hidetoshi Nagamasu, Rueben Nilus, Susana Ochoa-Gaona, Onrizal, Navendu Page, Pia Parolin, Marc Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Ekananda Paudel, Andrea Permana, Maria T. F. Piedade, Nigel Pitman, Lourens Poorter, Axel Poulsen, John Poulsen, Jennifer Powers, Rama Chandra Prasad, Jean-Philippe Puyravaud, Jean-Claude Razafimahaimodison, Jan Reitsma, João Roberto dos Santos, Wilson Roberto Spironello, Hugo Romero-Saltos, Francesco Rovero, Andes Rozak, Kalle Ruokolainen, Ervan Rutishauser, Felipe Saiter, Philippe Saner, Braulio A. Santos, Fernanda Santos, Swapan Kumar Sarker, Manichanh Satdichanh, Christine B. Schmitt, Jochen Schöngart, Mark Schulze, Marcio Seiji Suganuma, Douglas Sheil, Eduardo da Silva Pinheiro, Plinio Sist, Tariq Stevart, Raman Sukumar, Fang Sun, Terry Sunderland, H.S. Suresh, Eizi Suzuki, Marcelo Tabarelli, Jangwei Tang, Natália Targhetta, Ida Theilade, Duncan W. Thomas, Peguy Tchouto, Johanna Hurtado, Renato Valencia, Johan van Valkenburg, Tran Van Do, Rodolfo Vasquez, Hans Verbeeck, Victor Adekunle, Simone A. Vieira, Campbell Webb, Timothy Whitfeld, Serge Wich, John Williams, Florian Wittmann, Hannsjoerg Wöll, Xiaobo Yang, C. Yves Adou Yao, Sandra Yap, Tsuyoshi Yoneda, Rakan A. Zahawi, Rahmad Zakaria, Runguo Zang (2015) An estimate of the number of tropical tree species. PNAS 112: 7472–77.
  29. Lefcheck, J.S., Byrnes, J.E.K., Isbell, F., Gamfeldt, L., Griffin, J.N. Eisenhauer, N., Hensel, M.J.S., Hector, A., Cardinale, B.J., & J. Emmett Duffy (2015). Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats. Nature Communications 6: 6936.
  30. Seabloom, E., Elizabeth T Borer, Yvonne M Buckley, Elsa E Cleland, Kendi F Davies, Jennifer Firn, W Stanley Harpole, Yann Hautier, Eric M Lind, Andrew S MacDougall, John L Orrock, Suzanne M Prober, Peter B Adler, T Michael Anderson, Jonathan D Bakker, Lori A Biederman, Dana M Blumenthal, Cynthia S Brown, Lars A Brudvig, Marc Cadotte, Chengjin Chu, Kathryn L Cottingham, Michael J Crawley, Ellen I Damschen, Carla M Dantonio, Nicole M DeCrappeo, Guozhen Du, Philip A Fay, Paul Frater, Daniel S Gruner, Nicole Hagenah, Andy Hector, Helmut Hillebrand, Kirsten S Hofmockel, Hope C Humphries, Virginia L Jin, Adam Kay, Kevin P Kirkman, Julia A Klein, Johannes MH Knops, Kimberly J La Pierre, Laura Ladwig, John G Lambrinos, Qi Li, Wei Li, Robin Marushia, Rebecca L McCulley, Brett A Melbourne, Charles E Mitchell, Joslin L Moore, John Morgan, Brent Mortensen, Lydia R O’halloran, David A Pyke, Anita C Risch, Mahesh Sankaran, Martin Schuetz, Anna Simonsen, Melinda D Smith, Carly J Stevens, Lauren Sullivan, Elizabeth Wolkovich, Peter D Wragg, Justin Wright, Louie Yang (2015) Plant species’ origins predict dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. Nature Communications 6: 7710.
  31. O’Brien, M. J., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Caduff, A., Tay, J. and Hector, A. (2015) Contrasting nonstructural carbohydrate dynamics of tropical tree seedlings under water deficit and variability. New Phytologist 205: 1083–94.
  32. Lüscher, G, Philippe Jeanneret, Manuel K. Schneider, Andrew Hector, Michaela Arndorfer, Katalin Balazs, Andras Baldi, Debra Bailey, Jean-Philippe Choisis, Peter Dennis, Sebastian Eiter, Zoltan Elek, Wendy Fjellstad, Phillipa K. Gillingham, Maximilian Kainz, Aniko Kovacs-Hostyanszki, Kurt-Jurgen Hulsbergen, Maurizio G. Paoletti, Susanne Papaja-Hulsbergen, Jean-Pierre Sarthou, Norman Siebrecht, Sebastian Wolfrum, Felix Herzog (2015) Strikingly high effect of geographic location on fauna and flora of European agricultural grasslands. Basic and Applied Ecology 16: 281–90.
  33. O’Brien, M.J., Leuzinger, S., Philipson, C.D., Tay, J. & Hector (2014) Drought survival of tropical tree seedlings enhanced by non-structural carbohydrate levels. Nature Climate Change 4, 710-14.
  34. Hautier, Y, Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Adler PB, Harpole WS, Hillebrand H, Lind EM, MacDougall AS, Stevens CJ, Bakker JD, Buckley YM, Chu C, Collins SL, Daleo P, Damschen EI, Davies KF, Fay PA, Firn J, Gruner DS, Jin VL, Klein JA, Knops JMH, La Pierre KJ, Li W, McCulley RL, Melbourne BA, Moore JL, O’Halloran LR, Prober SM, Risch AC, Sankaran M, Schuetz M, Hector A (2014) Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. Nature 528, 521–26 [doi:10.1038/Nature13014].
  35. Schneider, M.K, Lüscher G., Jeanneret P., Arndorfer M., Ammari Y., Bailey D., Balázs K., Báldi A., Choisis J.-P., Dennis P., Eiter S., Fjellstad W., Fraser M. D., Frank T., Friedel J. K., Garchi S., Geijzendorffer I. R., Gomiero T., Gonzalez-Bornay G., Hector A., Jerkovich G., Jongman R. H. G., Kakudidi E., Kainz M., Kovács-Hostyánszki A., Moreno G., Nkwiine C., Opio J., Oschatz M.-L., Paoletti M. G., Pointereau P., Pulido F. J., Sarthou J.-P., Siebrecht N., Sommaggio D., Turnbull L. A., Wolfrum S., Herzog F. (2014) Nature Communications 5, article 4151, 1-9.
  36. Borer, ET, Borer ET, Seabloom EW, Gruner DS, Harpole WS, Hillebrand H, Lind EM, Adler PB, Alberti J, Anderson TM, Bakker JD, Biederman L, Blumenthal D, Brown CS, Brudvig LA, Buckley YM, Cadotte M, Chu C, Cleland EE, Crawley MJ, Daleo P, Damschen EI, Davies KF, DeCrappeo NM, Du G, Firn J, Hautier Y, Heckman RW, Hector A, HilleRisLambers J, Iribarne O, Klein JA, Knops JMH, La Pierre KJ, Leakey ADB, Li W, MacDougall AS, McCulley RL, Melbourne BA, Mitchell CE, Moore JL, Mortensen B, O’Halloran LR, Orrock JL, Pascual J, Prober SM, Pyke DA, Risch AC, Schuetz M, Smith MD, Stevens CJ, Sullivan LL, Williams RJ, Wragg PD, Wright JP, Yang LH (2014) Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature 508: 517-520 [doi:10.1038/Nature13144].
  37. Byrnes, J.E., Gamfeldt, L., Isbell, F., Lefcheck, J.S., Griffin. J.N., Hector, A., Cardinale, B.J., Hooper, D.U., Dee, L.E. & J. Emmett Duffy (2014). Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5, 111–124.
  38. Turnbull, A., Levine, J.M., Loreau, M. & Hector, A. (2013) Coexistence, niches, and biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning. Ecology Letters 16, 116–127.
  39. O’Brien MJ, Philipson CD, Tay J, Hector A (2013) The Influence of Variable Rainfall Frequency on Germination and Early Growth of Shade-Tolerant Dipterocarp Seedlings in Borneo. PLoS ONE 8(7): e70287.
  40. Barrufol M., Schmid B., Bruelheide H., Chi X., Hector A., Ma K., Michalski S., Tang Z., Niklaus P.A. (2013) Biodiversity Promotes Tree Growth during Succession in Subtropical Forest. PLoS ONE 8(11): e81246.
  41. Seabloom EW et al. (2013) Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? Global Change Biology 19, 3677–3687.
  42. Baeten, L., Verheyen, K., Wirth, C., Bruelheide, H., Bussottie, F., Finér, L., Jaroszewicz, B., Selvie, F., Valladaresh, F., Allan, E., Ampoortera, E., Auge, H., Avacariei, D.,Barbaro, L., Barnoaiea, I., Bastias, C.C., Bauhus, J., Beinhoff, C., Benavides, R., Benneter, A., Berger, S., Berthold, F. Boberg, J., Bonalp, D., Brüggemann, W., Carnol, M., Castagneyrol, B., Charbonnier, Y., Checko, E., Coomes, D., Coppie, A., Dalmaris, E., Danila, G., Dawud, S.M., de Vries, W., De Wandeler, H. Deconchat, M., Domisch, T., Duduman, G., Fischer, M., Fotelli, M., Gesslery, A., Gimenoz, T.E., Granier, A., Grossiord, C., Guyot, V., Hantsch, L., Hättenschwiler, S., Hector, A., Hermy, M., Holland, V., Jactel, H., Joly, F-X., Jucker, T., Kolb, S., Koricheva, J., Lexer, M.J., Liebergesell, M., Milligan, H., Müller, S., Muys, B., Nguyen, D., Nichiforel, L., Pollastrini, M., Proulx, R., Rabasa, S., Radoglou, K., Ratcliffe, S., Raulund-Rasmussen, K., Seiferling, I., Stenlid, J., Vesterdal, L., von Wilpert, K., Zavala, M.A., Zielinski, D., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., (2013) A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 15, 281–291.
  43. Steudel, B., Hector, A., Friedl, T., Löfke, C., Lorenz, M., Wesche, M., Kessler, M. (2012) Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning weaken with increasing environmental stress. Ecology Letters 15, 1397-1405.
  44. Hector, A., von Felten, S., Hautier, Y., Weilenmann, M. & Bruelheide, (2012) Effects of dominance and diversity on productivity along Ellenberg’s experimental water table gradients. PLoS ONE 7, e43358.
  45. Loreau, M., Sapijanskas, J., Isbell, F. & Hector, A. Niche and fitness differences relate the maintenance of diversity to ecosystem function: Comment. (2012) Ecology 93, 1482–1487.
  46. Turnbull, L.A., Philipson, C.D., Purves, D.W., Atkinson, R.L., Cunniff, J., Goodenough, A., Hautier, Y., Houghton, J., Marthews, T.R., Osborne, C.P., Paul-Victor, C., Rose, K.E., Saner, P., Taylor, S.E., Woodward, F.I., Hector, A. & Rees, M. (2012) Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation. Ecology, 93, 1283-1289.
  47. Von Felten, S., Niklaus, P.A., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Hector, A. & N. Buchmann (2012). Do grassland plant communities profit from N partitioning by soil depth? Ecology 93, 2386-2396.
  48. Zuël, N., Griffiths, C.J., Hector, A., Hansen, D.M., Jones, C.G. & Albrecht, M. (2012) Ingestion by an endemic frugivores enhances seed germination of endemic plant species but decreases seedling survival of exotics. Journal of Biogeography 39, 2012-2030.
  49. Grace J.B., Adler, P.B., Seabloom, E.W., Borer, E.T., Hillebrand, H., Hautier, Y., Hector, A., Harpole, W.S., O’Halloran, L.R., Anderson, T.M., Bakker, J.D., Brown, C.S., Buckley, Y.M., Collins, S.L., Cottingham, K.L., Crawley, M.J., Damschen, E.I., Davies, K.F., DeCrappeo, N.M., Fay, P.A., Firn, J., Gruner, D.S., Hagenah, N., Jin, V.L., Kirkman, K.P., Knops, J.M.H., La Pierre, K.J., Lambrinos, J.G., Melbourne, B.A., Mitchell, C.E., Moore, J.L., Morgan, J.W., Orrock, J.L., Prober, S.M., Stevens, C.J., Wragg, P.D. & Yang, L.H. (2012) Response to comments on “Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness”. Science, 335, 1441.
  50. Paine, C.E.T., Stenflo, M., Philipson, C., Bagchi, R., Saner, P. & Hector, A. (2012). Differential growth responses in seedlings of ten species of Dipterocarpaceae to experimental shading and defoliation. Journal of Tropical Ecology 28, 377-384.
  51. Saner, P., Loh, Y. Y., Ong R. O. & Hector, A. (2012) Carbon stocks and flows in tropical lowland Dipterocarp rainforests in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. PLoS ONE 7, e29642.
  52. Adler, P. B., Seabloom, E. W., Borer, E. T., Hillebrand, H., Hautier, Y., Hector, A., Harpole, W. S., O’Halloran, L. R., Grace, J. B., Anderson, T. M., Bakker, J. D., Biederman, L. A., Brown, C. S., Buckley, Y. M., Calabrese, L. B., Chu, C.-J., Cleland, E. E., Collins, S. L., Cottingham, K. L., Crawley, M. J., Damschen, E. I., Davies, K. F., DeCrappeo, N. M., Fay ,P. A., Firn, J., Frater, P., Gasarch, E. I., Gruner, D. S., Hagenah, N., Hille Ris Lambers, J., Humphries, H., Jin, V. L., Kay, A. D., Kirkman, K. P., Klein, J. A., Knops, J. M. H., La Pierre, K. J., Lambrinos, J. G., Li, W., MacDougall, A. S., McCulley, R. L., Melbourne, B. A., Mitchell, C. E., Moore, J. L., Morgan, J. W., Mortensen, B., Orrock, J. L., Prober, S. M., Pyke, D. A., Risch, A. C., Schuetz, M., Smith, M. D., Stevens, C. J., Sullivan, L. L., Wang, G., Wragg, P. D., Wright, J. P. & Yang, L. H. (2011) Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness. Science, 333, 1750-1753.
  53. Bagchi, R., Philipson, C. D., Slade, E. M., Hector, A., Phillips, S., Villanueva, J. F., Lewis, O. T., Lyal, C. H. C., Nilus, R., Madran, A., Scholes, J. D. & Press, M. C. (2011) Impacts of logging on density-dependent predation of dipterocarp seeds in a South East Asian rainforest. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366, 3246-3255.
  54. Bruelheide, H., Böhnke, M., Both, S., Fang, T., Assmann, T., Baruffol, M., Bauhus, J., Buscot, F., Chen, X.-Y., Ding, B.-Y., Durka, W., Erfmeier, A., Fischer, M., Geissler, C., Guo, D., Guo, L.-D., Härdtle, W., He, J.-S., Hector, A., Kröber, W., Kühn, P., Lang, A.C., Nadrowski, K., Pei, K., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Shi, X., Scholten, T., Schuldt, A., Trogisch, S., von Oheimb, G., Welk, E., Wirth, C., Wu, Y.-T., Yang, X., Zeng, X., Zhang, S., Zhou, H., Ma, K. & Schmid, B. (2011) Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest. Ecological Monograph, 81, 25-41.
  55. Connolly J, Hautier Y, Bell T, Isbell F, Hector A (2011) Comment on original PLoS ONE article: BUGS in the Analysis of Biodiversity Experiments: Species Richness and Composition Are of Similar Importance for Grassland Productivity PLoS ONE 6, e17434.
  56. Ewers, R. M., Didham, R. K., Fahrig, L., Ferraz, G., Hector, A., Holt, R. D., Kapos, V., Reynolds, G., Sinun, W., Snaddon, J. L. & Turner, E. C. (2011) A large-scale forest fragmentation experiment: the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems Project. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366, 3292-3302.
  57. Hector, A. (2011) Ecology: Diversity favours productivity. Nature (News and Views), 472, 45-46.
  58. Hector, A., Bell ,T., Hautier, Y., Isbell, F., Kéry, M., Reich, P. B., van Ruijven, J. & Schmid, B. (2011) BUGS in the Analysis of Biodiversity Experiments: Species Richness and Composition are of Similar Importance for Grassland Productivity. PLoS ONE 6, e17434.
  59. Hector, A., Fowler, D., Nussbaum, R., Weilenmann, M. & Walsh, R. P. D. (eds.) (2011a) The theme issue: The future of South East Asian rainforests in a changing landscape and climate. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366, pp.193.
  60. Hector, A., Fowler, D., Nussbaum, R., Weilenmann, M. & Walsh, R. P. D. (2011b) The future of South East Asian rainforests in a changing landscape and climate. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366, 3165-3167.
  61. Hector, A., Philipson, C., Saner, P., Chamagne, J., Dzulkifli, D., O’Brien, M., Snaddon, J. L., Ulok, P., Weilenmann, M., Reynolds, G. & Godfray, H. C. J. (2011) The Sabah Biodiversity Experiment: a long-term test of the role of tree diversity in restoring tropical forest structure and functioning. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366, 3303-3315.
  62. Isbell, F., Calcagno, V., Hector, A., Connolly, J., Harpole, W. S., Reich, P. B., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Tilman, D., van Ruijven, J., Weigelt, A., Wilsey, B. J., Zavaleta, E. S. & Loreau, M. (2011) High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services. Nature, 477, 199-202.
  63. Kettle, C. J., Ghazoul, J., Ashton, P., Cannon, C. H., Chong, L., Diway, B., Faridah, E., Harrison, R., Hector, A., Hollingsworth, P., Koh, L. P., Khoo, E., Kitayama, K., Kartawinata, K., Marshall, A. J., Maycock, C., Nanami, S., Paoli, G., Potts, M. D., Samsoedin, I., Sheil, D., Tan, S., Tomoaki, I., Webb, C., Yamakura, T. & Burslem, D.F.R.P. (2011) Seeing the fruit for the trees in Borneo. Conservation Letters, 4, 184-191.
  64. Paine, C. E. T., Marthews, T., Vogt, D. R., Purves, D., Rees, M., Hector, A. & Turnbull, L. A. (2011) How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, in press.
  65. Philipson, C. D., Saner, P., Marthews, T. R., Nilus, R., Reynolds, G., Turnbull, L. A. & Hector, A. (2011) Light-based regeneration niches: Evidence from 21 Dipterocarp species using size-specific RGR’s. Biotropica, 44, 627-636.
  66. Saner, P., Philipson, C., Ong, R. C., Majalap, N., Egli, S. & Hector, A. (2011) Positive effects of ectomycorrhizal colonization on growth of seedlings of a tropical tree across a range of forest floor light conditions. Plant and Soil, 338, 411-421.
  67. Steudel, B., Hautier, Y., Hector, A. & Kessler, M. (2011) Diverse marsh plant communities are more consistently productive across a range of different environmental conditions through functional complementarity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48, 1117-1124.
  68. Walsh, R. P. D., Nussbaum, R., Fowler, D., Weilenmann, M. & Hector, A. (2011) Conclusion: applying South East Asia Rainforest Research Programme science to land-use management policy and practice in a changing landscape and climate. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366, 3354-3358.
  69. Hautier, Y., Hector, A., Vojtech, E., Purves, D. & Turnbull, L. (2010) Modelling the growth of parasitic plants. Journal of Ecology, 98, 857-866.
  70. Hautier, Y., Saner, P., Philipson, C., Bagchi, R., Ong, R. C. & Hector, A. (2010) Effects of seed predators of different body size on seed mortality in Bornean logged forest. PLoS ONE, 5, e11651.
  71. Hector, A., von Felten, S. & Schmid, B. (2010) Analysis of variance with unbalanced data: An update for ecology & evolution. Journal of Animal Ecology, 79, 308-316.
  72. Hector, A., Hautier, Y., Saner, P., Wacker, L., Bagchi, R., Joshi, J., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Spehn, E. M., Bazeley-White, E., Weilenmann, M., Caldeira, M. C., Dimitrakopoulos, P. G., Finn, J. A., Huss-Danell, K., Jumpponen, A., Mulder, C. P. H., Palmborg, C., Pereira, J. S., Siamantziouras, A. S. D., Terry, A. C., Troumbis, A. Y., Schmid, B. & Loreau, M. (2010) General stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding. Ecology, 91, 2213-2220.
  73. Turnbull, L. & Hector, A. (2010) Applied ecology: How to get even with pests. Nature (News & Views), 466, 36-37.
  74. Saner, P., Lim, R., Burla, B., Ong, R. C., Scherer-Lorenzen, M. & Hector, A. (2009) Reduced soil respiration in gaps in logged lowland dipterocarp forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 258, 2007-2012.
  75. Bell, T., Lilley, A. K., Hector, A., Schmid, B., King, L. & Newman, J. A. (2009) A linear model method for biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments. American Naturalist,174, 836-849.
  76. Díaz, S., Hector, A. & Wardle, A. (2009) Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1, 55–60.
  77. Hautier, Y., Niklaus, P. A. & Hector, A. (2009) Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss after eutrophication. Science, 324, 636-638.
  78. von Felten, S., Hector, A., Buchmann, N., Niklaus, P. A., Schmid, B. & Scherer-Lorenzen, M. (2009) Belowground nitrogen partitioning in experimental grassland plant communities of varying species richness. Ecology, 90, 1389-1399.
  79. Schmid, B., Hector, A., Saha, P. & Loreau, M. (2008) Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding. Journal of Plant Ecology, 1, 95-102.
  80. Vojtech, E., Loreau, M., Yachi, S., Spehn, E. M. & Hector, A. (2008) Light partitioning in experimental grass communities. Oikos, 117, 1351-1361.
  81. Hector, A. & Bagchi, R. (2007) Biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature 448, 188.
  82. Cardinale, B. J., Wright, J. P., Cadotte, M. W., Carroll, I. T., Hector, A., Srivastava, D. S., Loreau, M., & Weis, J. J. (2007) Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time due to species complementarity: A meta-analysis of 44 experiments. Proceedings of the National Academy of the USA, 104, 18123.
  83. Vojtech, E., Turnbull, L. A. & Hector, A. (2007) Differences in light interception in grass monocultures predict short-term competitive outcomes under productive conditions. Public Library of Science One 2, e499.
  84. Hector, A., Joshi, J., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Spehn, E. M., Wacker, L., Weilenmann, M., Bazeley-White, E., Beierkuhnlein, C., Caldeira, M. C., Dimitrakopoulos, P. G., Finn, J., Huss-Danell, K., Jumpponen, A., Leadley, P. W., Loreau, M., Mulder, C. P. H., Neßhöver, C., Palmborg, C., Read, D. J., Siamantziouras, A.-S. D., Terry, A. C. & Troumbis, A. Y. (2007) Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: reconciling the results of experimental and observational studies. Functional Ecology 21, 998-1002.
  85. Hector A. (2006) Overyielding and the maintenance of biodiversity. New Phytologist 172, 1-3.
  86. Turnbull, L. A., Santamaria, L., Martorell, T., Rallo, J. & Hector, A. (2006) Seed-size variability: from carob to carats. Biology Letters 2, 397-400.
  87. Wright, J. P., Naeem, S., Hector, A., Lehman, C., Reich, P. B., Schmid, B. & Tilman, D. (2006) Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning. Ecology Letters 9, 111-120.
  88. Caldeira, M., Hector, A., Loreau, M. & Pereira, J. S. (2005) Species richness, temporal variability and resistance of biomass production in a Mediterranean grassland. Oikos 110, 115-123.
  89. Hector, A., Bazeley-White, E., Spehn, E. M., Joshi, J., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Beierkuhnlein, C., Caldeira, M. C., Diemer, M., Dimitrakopoulos, P. G., Finn, J., Freitas, H., Giller, P. S., Good, J., Harris, R., Högberg, P., Huss-Danell, K., Jumpponen, A., Koricheva, J., Körner, C., Leadley, P. W., Loreau, M., Minns, A., Mulder, C. P. H., O’Donovan, G., Otway, S. J., Palmborg, C., Pereira, J. S., Pfisterer, A. B., Prinz, A., Read, D. J., Schulze, E.-D., Siamantziouras, A.-S. D., Terry, A. C., Troumbis, A. Y., Woodward, F. I., Yachi, S. & Lawton, J. H. (2005) Ecosystem effects of the manipulation of plant diversity in European grasslands: data from the BIODEPTH project. Ecological Archives M075-001-S1.
  90. Hooper, D. U., Ewel, J. J., Hector, A., Inchausti, P., Lavorel, S., Lawton, J. H., Lodge, D., Loreau, M., Naeem, S., Schmid, B., Setälä, H., Symstad, A. J., Vandermeer, J. & Wardle, D. A. (2005) Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge and needs for future research. Ecological Monographs 75, 3-36.
  91. Otway, S., Hector, A. & Lawton, J. H. (2005) Resource dilution effects on specialist herbivore abundance in a grassland biodiversity experiment. Journal of Animal Ecology 74, 234-240.
  92. Spehn, E. M., Hector, A., Joshi, J., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Bazeley-White, E., Beierkuhnlein, C., Caldeira, M. C., Diemer, M., Dimitrakopoulos, P. G., Finn, J., Freitas, H., Giller, P. S., Good, J., Harris, R., Högberg, P., Huss-Danell, K., Jumpponen, A., Koricheva, J., Leadley, P. W., Loreau, M., Minns, A., Mulder, C. P. H., O’Donovan, G., Otway, S. J., Palmborg, C., Pereira, J. S., Pfisterer, A. B., Prinz, A., Read, D. J., Schulze, E.-D., Siamantziouras, A.-S. D., Terry, A. C., Troumbis, A. Y., Woodward, F. I., Yachi, S. & Lawton, J. H. (2005) Ecosystem effects of the manipulation of plant diversity in European grasslands. Ecological Monographs 75, 37-63.
  93. Hector, A., Wilby, A., Latsch, O. G. & Brown, V. K. (2004) Phyto-activity of biocides used to manipulate herbivory: tests of three pesticides on fourteen plant species. Basic & Applied Ecology 5, 313-320.
  94. Mulder, C. P. H., Bazeley-White, E., Dimitrakopoulos, P. G., Hector, A., Scherer-Lorenzen, M. & Schmid, B. (2004) Species Evenness and Productivity in Experimental Plant Communities. Oikos 107, 50-63.
  95. Petchey, O. L., Hector, A. & Gaston, K. J. (2004) How do different measures of functional diversity perform? Ecology 85, 847-857.
  96. Schmid, B. & Hector, A. (2004) The value of biodiversity experiments. Basic & Applied Ecology 5, 535-542.
  97. Turnbull, L. A., Coomes, D., Hector, A. & Rees, M. (2004) Seed mass and the competition/colonization trade-off: Quantifying competitive effects in a guild of annual plants. Journal of Ecology 92, 97-109.
  98. Hector, A. & Hooper, R. E. (2002) Darwin and the First Ecological Experiment. Science, 295, 639.
  99. Hector A., Bazeley-White E., Loreau M., Otway S. & Schmid B. (2002) Overyielding in plant communities: testing the sampling effect hypothesis with replicated biodiversity experiments. Ecology Letters 5, 502-51.
  100. Catovsky, S., Bradford, M. A. & Hector, A. (2002) Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity: implications for carbon storage. Oikos, 97, 443.
  101. Spehn, E. M., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Hector, A., Caldeira, M. C., Dimitrakopoulos, P. G., Finn, J. A., Jumpponen, A., O’Donnovan, G., Pereira, J. S., Schulze, E.-D., Troumbis, A. Y. & Körner, C. (2002) The role of legumes as a component of biodiversity in a cross-European study of grassland biomass nitrogen. Oikos, 98, 205-211.
  102. Hector, A., Dobson, K., Minns, A., Bazeley-White, E. & Lawton, J. H. (2001) Community diversity and invasion resistance: an experimental test in a grassland ecosystem and a review of comparable studies. Ecological Research, 16, 5, 819-831.
  103. Hector, A., Joshi, J., Lawler, S. P., Spehn, E. & Wilby, A. (2001) Conservation implications of the link between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Oecologia, 129, 624-628.
  104. Joshi, J., Schmid, B., Caldeira, M. C., Dimitrakopoulos, P. G., Good, J., Harris, R., Hector, A., Huss-Danell, K., Jumpponen, A., Minns, A., Mulder, C. P. H., Pereira, J. S., Prinz, A., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Siamantziouras, A. S., Terry, A. C., Troumbis, A. & Lawton, J. H. (2001) Local adaptation enhances performance of common plant species. Ecology Letters, 4, 536-544.
  105. Loreau, M. & Hector, A. (2001) Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments. Nature, 412, 72-76.
  106. Loreau, M., Naeem, S., Inchausti, P., Bengtsson, J., Grime, J. P., Hector, A., Hooper, D. U., Huston, M. A., Raffaelli, D., Schmid, B., Tilman, D. & Wardle, D. A. (2001) Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: current knowledge and future challenges. Science, 294, 804-809.
  107. Minns, A., Finn, J., Hector, A., Caldeira, M., Joshi, J., Palmborg, C., Schmid, B., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Spehn, E. & Troumbis, A. (2001) The functioning of European grassland ecosystems: potential benefits of biodiversity to agriculture. Outlook on Agriculture, 30, 179-185.
  108. Hector, A., Beale, A., Minns, A., Otway, S. & Lawton, J. H. (2000) Consequences of loss of plant diversity for litter decomposition: mechanisms of litter quality and microenvironment. Oikos, 90, 357-371.
  109. Hector, A. (2000) Developments in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Progress in Environmental Science, 2, 155-162.
  110. Purvis, A. & Hector, A. (2000) Getting the measure of biodiversity. Nature, 405, 212 – 219.
  111. Hector, A., Schmid, B., Beierkuhnlein, C., Caldeira, M. C., Diemer, M., Dimitrakopoulos, P. G., Finn, J. A., Freitas, H., Giller, P. S., Good, J., Harris, R., Hogberg, P., Huss-Danell, K., Joshi, J., Jumpponen, A., Körner, C., Leadley, P.,W., Loreau, M., Minns, A., Mulder, C. P. H., O’Donovan, G., Otway, S. J., Pereira, J. S., Prinz, A., Read, D. J., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schulze, E.-D., Siamantziouras, A. S. D., Spehn, E., Terry, A. C., Troumbis, A. Y., Woodward, F. I., Yachi, S. & Lawton, J. H. (2000) No Consistent Effect of Plant Diversity on Productivity? Response. Science, 289, 1255a.
  112. Hector, A., Schmid, B., Beierkuhnlein, C., Caldeira, M. C., Diemer, M., Dimitrakopoulos, P., Finn, J., Freitas, H., Giller, P. S., Good, J., Harris, R., Högberg, P., Huss-Danell, K., Joshi, J., Jumpponen, A., Körner, C., Leadley, P. W., Loreau, M., Minns, A., Mulder, C. P .H., O’Donovan, G., Otway, S. J., Pereira, J. S., Prinz, A., Read, D. J., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schulze, E.-D., Siamantziouras, A.-S. D., Spehn, E. M., Terry, A. C., Troumbis, A. Y., Woodward, F. I., Yachi, S. & Lawton, J. H. (1999) Plant diversity and productivity experiments in European grasslands. Science, 286, 1123-1127.
  113. Hector, A. (1998) The effect of diversity on productivity: detecting the role of species complementarity. Oikos, 82, 597-599.
  114. Lawton, J. H., Naeem, S., Thompson, L. J., Hector, A. & Crawley, M. J. (1998) Biodiversity and ecosystem function: getting the Ecotron experiment in its correct context. Functional Ecology, 12, 848-852.

Books and Book Chapters

  1. Hector, A. (2015) The New Statistics with R, Oxford University Press, Oxford (In Press).
  2. Hector, A., Bell, T., Connolly, J., Finn, J., Fox, J., Kirwan, L., Loreau, M., McLaren, J., Schmid, B., & Weigelt, A. (2009) The analysis of biodiversity experiments: From pattern toward mechanism. In: S. Naeem, D.E. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau, & C. Perrings (eds.) Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing: An ecological and economic perspective, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 94-104
  3. Hector, A. (2009) Darwin’s „principle of divergence“ and the link between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. In: J. Stöcklin & E. Höxtermann (eds.), Darwin und die Botanik. Beiträge eines Symposiums der Schweizerischen Botanischen Gesellschaft und der Basler Botanischen Gesellschaft zum Darwin-Jahr 2009, Basilisken-Presse im Verlag Natur & Text, Regensdorf, pp. 182-191.
  4. Hector, A. & Wilby, A. (2009) Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. In: S. A. Levin (chief ed.), The Princeton Guide to Ecology, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, pp. 367-375.
  5. Naeem, S., Bunker, D. E., Hector, A., Loreau, M. & Perrings, C. (eds.) (2009) Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing: An ecological and economic perspective, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  6. Díaz, S., Wardle, D. A. & Hector, A. (2009) Incorporating biodiversity in climate change mitigation initiatives. In: S. Naeem, D.E. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau, & C. Perrings (eds.) Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing: An ecological and economic perspective, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 149-166.
  7. Naeem, S., D. E. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau, and C. Perrings. (2009a) The ecological and social implications of changing biodiversity: An overview of a decade of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research. In: S. Naeem, D. E. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau & C. Perrings (eds), Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 3-13.
  8. Naeem, S., D. E. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau, and C. Perrings. (2009b). Can we predict the effects of global change on biodiversity loss and ecosystem functioning? In: S. Naeem, D.E. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau, & C. Perrings (eds.) Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing: An ecological and economic perspective, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 290-298.
  9. Wilby, A & Hector, A (2008) The Role of Biodiversity. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (eLS).
  10. Hector, A. & Loreau, M. (2007) Large-scale biodiversity experiments. In: S. A. Levin (chief ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Biodiversity, Elsevier, New York, pp. 1-9.
  11. Hector, A. (2005) Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: experimental systems. In: W. Barthlott, K. E. Linsenmair, & S. Porembski (eds.), Biodiversity: Structure and Function, Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), developed under the auspices of the UNESCO. Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK. [http://www.eolss.net].
  12. Hector, A. & Loreau, M. (2005) Relationships between biodiversity and production in grasslands at local and regional scales. In: D. A. McGilloway (ed.), Grassland – A Global Resource. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen.
  13. Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Potvin, C., Koricheva, J., Bornik, Z., Hector, A., Reynolds, G. & Schmid, B. (2005) The design of experimental tree plantations for functional biodiversity research. In: M. Scherer-Lorenzen, C. Körner & -D. Schulze (eds.), The Functional Significance of Forest Diversity (Ecological Studies 174), pp. 347-376. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  14. Joshi, J., Otway, S. J., Koricheva, J., Pfisterer, A. B., Alphei, J., Roy, B. A., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Spehn, E. M. & Hector, A. (2004) Bottom-up effects and feedbacks in simple and diverse experimental plant communities. In: W. Weisser & E. Seimann (eds.), Insects & Ecosystem Function (Ecological Studies 173), pp.115-134. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
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REPORTS, LETTERS ETC.

  1. Kettle, C. J., Ghazoul, J., Ashton, P. S., Cannon, C. H., Chong, L., Diway, B., Faridah, E., Harrison, R., Hector, A., Hollingsworth, P., Koh, L.P., Khoo, E., Kitayama, K., Kartawinata, K., Marshall, A. J., Maycock, C. R., Nanami, S., Paoli, G., Potts, M. D., Sheil, D., Tan, S., Tomoaki, I., Webb, C., Yamakura, T. & Burslem, D. F. R. P. (2010) Mass fruiting in borneo: A missed opportunity. Science (Letters) 330, 584.
  2. De Meester, L., van Tienderen, P., Werger, M., Hector, A., Wörheide, G, Aguilar, A, Smets, E, Godfray, C, Sutherland, W, Bauhus, J, Courchamp, F, Gandini, G, Koch, M, Le Maho, Y, Manuel, M, Pawlowski, J, Quéinnec, E , Owens, I. (2010) Challenges for biodiversity research in Europe. In: League of European Research Universities Advice Paper Number 4.
  3. Godfray, C.C.J. & Hector, A. (2002) Biodiversity Metrics (Report to B.P. on quantifying biodiversity impacts in business).