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S103: Wilson, J.B., Steel, J.B. & Steel, S.-L.K. (2007) Do plants ever compete for space? Folia Geobotanica, 42, 431-436.

S102: Wilson, J.B. (2007) Trait-divergence assembly rules have been demonstrated: limiting similarity lives! A reply to Grime. Journal of Vegetation Science, 18, 461-452.

S101:    Mouillot, D., Mason, N.W.H. & Wilson, J.B. (2007) Is the abundance of species determined by their functional traits? A new method with a test using plant communities. Oecologia, 152, 729-737 .

S100:    Wilson, J.B., Spijkerman, E. & Huisman, J. (2007) Is there really insufficient support for Tilman’s R* concept? A comment on Miller et al. American Naturalist, 169, 700-706.

S99:   Mason, N.W.H. & Wilson, J.B. & Steel, J.B. (2007) Are alternative stable states more likely in high stress environments? Logic and available evidence do not support Didham et al. 2005. Oikos, 116, 353-357.

S98:   Mason, N.W.H. & Wilson, J.B. (2006) Mechanisms of coexistence in a lawn community: mutual corroboration between two independent assembly rules. Community Ecology, 7, 109-116.

S97:   King, W.McG. & Wilson, J.B. (2006) Differentiation between native and exotic plant species in a dry grassland: realised responses to perturbation, and comparison with fundamental responses. Austral Ecology, 31, 984-995.

S96:   Mark, A.F. & Wilson, J.B. (2005) Tempo and mode of vegetation dynamics over 50 years in a New Zealand alpine cushion/tussock community. Journal of Vegetation Science, 16, 227-236.

S95:   Russell, L.K., Evans, S.J., Smith, L., Bevers, C.M., Luxford, A.P., Stubbs, W.J. & Wilson, J.B. (in press) Distribution / abundance relations in a New Zealand grassland landscape. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 29, 61-68.

S94:   Wilson, J.B., Agnew, A.D.Q. & Sykes, M.T. (2004) Ecology or mythology? Are Whittaker's "gradient analysis" curves reliable evidence of continuity in vegetation? Preslia, 76, 245-253.

S93:   Chiarucci, A., Alongi, C. & Wilson, J.B. (2004) Competitive exclusion and the No-Interaction model operate simultaneously in microcosm plant communities. Journal of Vegetation Science, in press.

S92:   Stubbs, W.J. & Wilson, J.B. (2004) Evidence for limiting similarity in a sand dune community. Journal of Ecology, 92, 557-567.

S91:   Ohlemüller, R., Bannister, P., Dickinson, K.J.M., Walker, S, Anderson, B.J. & Wilson, J.B. (2004) Correlates of plant species richness in fragmented indigenous forests: assessing the role of local and regional factors. Community Ecology, 5, 45-54.

S90: Steel, J.B., Wilson, J.B., Anderson, B.J., Lodge, R.H.E. & Tangney, R.S. (2004) Are bryophyte communities different from higher-plant communities?: Abundance relations. Oikos, 104, 479-486.

S89: Roxburgh, S.H., Shea, K. & Wilson, J.B. (2004) The Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis: Patch dynamics and mechanisms of species coexistence. Ecology, 85, 359-371.

S88:   Watkins, A.J. & Wilson, J.B. (2003)  Local texture convergence: a new approach to seeking assembly rules.  Oikos, 102, 525-532.

S87:   Stowe, C., Kissling, W.D., Ohlemüller, R. & Wilson, J.B. (2003)  Are ecotone properties scale-dependent?  A test from a Nothofagus treeline in southern New Zealand.  Community Ecology, 4, 35-42.

S86:   Wilson, J.B. (2002)  The ‘emergent property’ of Anand and Li is a mathematical artefact.  Emergent properties do not exist.  Community Ecology, 3, 47-48.

S85:   Wilson, J.B. (2003)  The deductive method in community ecology.  Oikos, 101, 216-218.

S84:   Mason, N.W.H.; MacGillivray, K.; Steel, J.B. & Wilson, J.B. (2002)   Do plant modules describe community structure better than biomass?  A comparison of three abundance measures.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 13, 185-190.

S83:   Smith, B. & Wilson, J.B. (2002)  Community convergence: ecological and evolutionary.  Folia Geobotanica, 37, 171-183.

S82:   Matsui, T., Dougherty, N.J., Loughnan, A.E., Swaney, J.K., Laurence, B.L., Lloyd, K.M. &  Wilson, J.B. (2002)  Local texture convergence within three communities in Fiordland, New Zealand.  New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 26, 15-22

S81:   Walker, S. & Wilson, J.B. (2002)  Tests for nonequilibrium, instability and stabilizing processes in semiarid plant communities.  Ecology, 83, 809-822.

S80:   Wilson, J.B. & Smith, B. (2001)  Methods for testing for texture convergence using abundance data: a randomisation test and a method for comparing the shape of distributions.  Community Ecology, 2, 57-66.

S79:   Wilson, J.B. & Chiarucci, A. (2001)  Self-similarity and phantoms: a response to Hill.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 12, 299.

S78:   Wilson, J.B. & Chiarucci, A. (2000)  Do plant communities exist?  Evidence from scaling-up local species-area relations to the regional level.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 11, 773-775.

S77:   Wilson, J.B. & Anderson, B.J. (2001)  Species-pool relations: like a wooden light bulb?  Folia Geobotanica, 36, 35-44.

S76:   Mistral, M., Buck, O., Meier-Behrmann, D.C., Burnett, D.A., Barnfield, T.E., Scott, A.J., Anderson, B.J. & Wilson, J.B. (2000)  Direct measurement of spatial autocorrelation at the community level in four plant communities.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 11, 911-916.

S75:   Lloyd, K.M., McQueen, A.A.M., Lee, B.J., Wilson, R.C.B., Walker, S. & Wilson, J.B. (2000)  Evidence on ecotone concepts from switch, environmental and anthropogenic ecotones.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 11, 903-910.

S74:   Lord, J.M., Wilson, J.B., Steel, J.B. & Anderson, B.J. (2000)  Community reassembly: a test using limestone grassland in New Zealand.  Ecology Letters, 3, 213-218.

S73:   Wilson, J.B. & Lee, W.G. (2000)  C-S-R Triangle theory: community-level predictions, tests, evaluation of criticisms, and relation to other theories.  Oikos, 91, 77-96.

S72:   Wilson, J.B., Steel, J.B., Dodd, M.E., Anderson, B.J. Ullmann, I. & Bannister, P. (2000)  A test of community re-assembly using the exotic communities of New Zealand roadsides, in comparison to British roadsides.  Journal of Ecology, 88, 757-764.

S71:   Wilson, J.B., Steel, J.B., Newman, J.E. & King, W.McG. (2000)  Quantitative aspects of community structure, examined in a semi-arid grassland.  Journal of Ecology, 88, 749-756.

S70:   Wilson, J.B. & Roxburgh, S.H. (2001)  Intrinsic guild structure: determination from competition experiments.  Oikos, 92, 189-192.

S69:   Roxburgh, S.H. & Wilson, J.B. (2000)  Stability and coexistence in a lawn community: experimental assessment of the stability of the actual community.  Oikos, 88, 409-423.

S68:   Roxburgh, S.H. & Wilson, J.B. (2000)  Stability and coexistence in a lawn community: mathematical prediction of stability using a community matrix with parameters derived from competition experiments.  Oikos, 88, 395-408.

S67:   Wilson, J.B. (1999)  Assembly rules in plant communities. In: Ecological Assembly Rules: Perspectives, Advances, Retreats (eds E. Weiher & P.A. Keddy), pp. 130-164.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

S66:   Walker, S., Wilson, J.B. & Mark, A.F. (1999)  Seasonal changes in semi-arid vegetation of Central Otago, New Zealand.  New Zealand Journal of Botany, 37, 479-493. 

S65:   Wilson, J.B. & Gitay, H. (1999)  Alternative classifications in the intrinsic guild structure of a New Zealand tussock grassland.  Oikos, 86, 566-572.

S64:   Wilson, J.B. (1999)  Guilds, functional types and ecological groups.  Oikos, 86, 507-522.

S63:   Wilson, J.B., Steel, J.B., King, W.McG. & Gitay, H. (1999)  The effect of spatial scale on evenness.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 10, 463-468.

S62:   Thomas, K.R., Munro, C.L., Graeme, C.B., Steel, J.B. & Wilson, J.B. (1999)  Application and evaluation of Dale's non-parametric method for detecting community structure through zonation.  Oikos, 84, 261-265.

S60:   Silvertown, J. & Wilson, J.B. (2000)  Spatial interactions among grassland plant populations.  In: The Geometry of Ecological Interactions: Simplifying Spatial Complexity (eds. U. Dieckmann, R. Law & J.A.J. Metz), 28-47.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

S61:   Wilson, J.B., Gitay, H. Steel, J.B. & King, W.McG. (1998)  Relative abundance distributions in plant communities: the effects of species richness and of spatial scale.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 9, 213-220.

S59:   Drobner, U., Bibby, J., Smith, B. & Wilson, J.B. (1998)  The relation between community biomass and evenness: what does community theory predict, and can these predictions be tested?  Oikos, 82, 295-302.

S58:   Wilson, J.B., Wells, T.C.E. Trueman, I.C., Jones, G., Atkinson, M.D., Crawley, M.J., Dodd, M.E. & Silvertown, J. (1996)  Are there assembly rules for plant species abundance: an investigation in relation to soil resources and successional trends.  Journal of Ecology, 84, 527-538.

S57:   Wilson, J.B., Allen, R.B. & Hewitt, A.E. (1996)  A test of the humped-back theory of species richness in New Zealand native forest.  New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 20, 173-177.

S56:   Wilson, J.B., Crawley, M.J., Dodd, M.E. & Silvertown, J. (1996)  Evidence for constraint on species coexistence in vegetation of the Park Grass experiment.  Vegetatio, 124, 183-190.

S55:   Wilson, J.B., Lines, C.E.M. & Silvertown, J. (1996)  Grassland community structure under different grazing regimes, with a method for examining species associations when local richness is constrained.  Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, 31, 197-206.

S54:   Wilson, J.B., Ullmann, I. & Bannister, P. (1996)  Do species assemblages recur ?  Journal of Ecology, 84, 471-474.

S53:   Wilson, J.B. (1995)  Fox and Brown's 'random data sets' are not random.  Oikos, 74, 543-544.

S52:   Smith, B. & Wilson, J.B. (1996)  A consumer's guide to evenness indices.  Oikos, 76, 70-82.

S51:   Smith, B., Mark, A.F. & Wilson, J.B. (1995)  A functional analysis of New Zealand alpine vegetation: variation in canopy roughness and functional diversity in response to an experimental wind barrier.  Functional Ecology, 9, 904-912.

S50:   Wilson, J.B. (1996)  The myth of constant predator:prey ratios.  Oecologia, 106, 272-276.

S49:   Wilson, J.B., Steel, J.B., Newman, J.E. & Tangney, R.S. (1995)  Are bryophyte communities different?  Journal of Bryology, 18, 689-705.

S48:   Wilson, J.B. (1995)  Hypothesis testing, intrinsic guilds and assembly rules.  Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, 30, 535-536.

S47:   Wilson, J.B. (1995)  Testing for community structure: a Bayesian approach.  Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, 30, 461-469.

S46:   Wilson, J.B. (1995)  Variance in species richness, niche limitation, and vindication of patch models.  Oikos, 73, 277-279.

S45:   Wilson, J.B. & Whittaker, R.J. (1995)  Assembly rules demonstrated in a saltmarsh community.  Journal of Ecology, 83, 801-807.

S44:   Wilson, J.B., Peet, R.K. & Sykes, M.T. (1995)  What constitutes evidence of community structure?.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 6, 753-758.

S43:   Wilson, J.B., Sykes, M.T. & Peet, R.K. (1995)  Time and space in the community structure of a species-rich grassland.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 6, 729-740.

S42:   Allen, R.B., Wilson, J.B. & Mason, C.R. (1995)  Vegetation change following exclusion of grazing animals in depleted grassland, Central Otago, New Zealand.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 6, 615-626.

S41:   Wilson, J.B. & Gitay, H. (1995)  Limitations to species coexistence: evidence for competition from field observations, using a patch model.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 6, 369-376.

S40:   Gitay, H. & Wilson, J.B. (1995)  Post-fire changes in community structure of tall tussock grasslands: a test of alternative models of succession.  Journal of Ecology, 83, 775-782.

S39:   Wilson, J.B. & Gitay, H. (1995)  Community structure and assembly rules in a dune slack: variance in richness, guild proportionality, biomass constancy and dominance/ diversity relations.  Vegetatio, 116, 93-106. 

S38:   Wilson, J.B. (1995)  Null models for assembly rules: the Jack Horner effect is more insidious than the Narcissus effect.  Oikos, 72, 139-143.

S37:   Wilson, J.B., Allen, R.B. & Lee, W.G. (1995)  An assembly rule in the ground and herbaceous strata of a New Zealand rainforest.  Functional Ecology, 9, 61-64.

S36:   Wilson, J.B. (1994)  The 'Intermediate disturbance hypothesis' of species coexistence is based on patch dynamics.  New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 18, 176-181.

S35:   Wilson, J.B. & Watkins, A.J. (1994)  Guilds and assembly rules in lawn communities.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 5, 591-600.

S34:   Smith, B., Moore, S.H., Grove, P.B., Harris, N.S., Mann, S. & Wilson, J.B. (1994)  Vegetation texture as an approach to community structure: community-level convergence in a New Zealand temperate rainforest.  New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 18, 41-50.

S33:   Wilson, J.B. (1994)  Who makes the assembly rules?  Journal of Vegetation Science, 5, 275-278.

S32:   Wilson, J.B., Agnew, A.D.Q. & Partridge, T.R. (1994)  Carr texture in Britain and New Zealand: Community convergence compared with a null model.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 5, 109-116.

S31:   Wilson, J.B. & Roxburgh, S.H. (1994)  A demonstration of guild-based assembly rules for a plant community, and determination of intrinsic guilds.  Oikos, 69, 267-276.

S30:   Watkins, A.J. & Wilson, J.B. (1994)  Plant community structure, and its relation to the vertical complexity of communities: dominance/diversity and spatial rank consistency.  Oikos, 70, 91-98.

S29:   Wilson, J.B. & Lee, W.G. (1994)  Niche overlap of congeners: a test using plant altitudinal distribution.  Oikos, 69, 469-475.

S28:   Silvertown, J. & Wilson, J.B. (1994)  Community structure in a desert perennial community.  Ecology, 75, 409-417.

S27:   Bycroft, C.M., Nicolaou, N., Smith, B. & Wilson, J.B. (1993)  Community structure (niche limitation and guild proportionality) in relation to the effect of spatial scale, in a Nothofagus forest sampled with a circular transect.  New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 17, 95-101.

S26:   Roxburgh, S.H., Watkins, A.J. & Wilson, J.B. (1993)  Lawns have vertical stratification.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 4, 699-704.

S25:   Agnew, A.D.Q., Wilson, J.B. & Sykes, M.T. (1993)  A vegetation switch as the cause of a forest/mire ecotone in New Zealand.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 4, 273-278.

S24:   Wilson, J.B. (1993)  Would we recognise a Broken-Stick community if we found one?  Oikos, 67, 181-183.

S23:   Wilson, J.B., Roxburgh, S.H. & Watkins, A.J. (1992)  Limitation to plant species coexistence at a point: a study in a New Zealand lawn.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 3, 711-714.

S22:   Wilson, J.B., James, R.E., Newman, J.E. & Myers, T.E. (1992)  Rock pool algae: species composition determined by chance?  Oecologia, 91, 150-152.

S21:   Wilson, J.B. & Roxburgh, S.H. (1992)  Application of ­Com­munity Matrix theory to plant competition data.  Oikos, 65, 343-349.

S20:   Watkins, A.J. & Wilson, J.B. (1992)  Fine-scale community structure of lawns.  Journal of Ecology, 80, 15-24.

S19:   Wilson, J.B., Gitay, H., Roxburgh, S.H., King, W.McG. & Tangney, R.S. (1992)  Egler's concept of 'Initial Floristic Composition' in succession - ecologists citing it don't agree what it means.  Oikos, 64, 591-593.

S18:   Wilson, J.B. & Agnew, A.D.Q. (1992)  Positive-feedback switches in plant communities.  Advances in Ecological Research, 23, 263-336.

S17:   Wilson, J.B. (1991)  Does vegetation science exist?  Journal of Vegetation Science, 2, 289-290.

S16:   Wilson, J.B. & Allen, R.B. (1990)  Deterministic versus Individualistic community structure: a test from invasion by Nothofagus menziesii in southern New Zealand.  Journal of Vegetation Science, 1, 467-474. 

S15:   Wilson, J.B. (1990)  Mechanisms of species coexistence: twelve explanations for Hutchinson's 'Paradox of the Plankton': evidence from New Zealand plant communities.  New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 13, 17-42. 

S14:   Wilson, J.B., Lee, W.G. & Mark, A.F. (1990)  Species diversity in relation to ultramafic substrate and to altitude in southwestern New Zealand.  Vegetatio, 86, 15-20. 

S13:   Kelly, B.J., Wilson, J.B. & Mark, A.F. (1989)  Causes of the species/area relation: a study of islands in Lake Manapouri, New Zealand.  Journal of Ecology, 71, 1021- 1028. 

S12:   Wilson, J.B. (1989)  Relations between native and exotic plant guilds in the Upper Clutha, New Zealand.  Journal of Ecology, 77, 223-235. 

S11:   Wilson, J.B. (1989)  A null model of guild ­proport­ionality, applied to stratif­ication of a New Zealand temperate rain forest.  Oecologia, 80, 263-267. 

S10:   Bee, M.W., Wilson, J.B. & Mark, A.F. (1989)  Stratification in a New Zealand rain forest.  Vegetatio, 79, 33-39. 

S9:     Wilson, J.B., Hubbard, J.C.E. & Rapson, G.L. (1988)  A comparison of the realised niche relations of species in New Zealand and Britain.  Oecologia, 76, 106-110. 

S8:     Wilson, J.B. (1988)  Community structure in the flora of islands in Lake Manapouri, New Zealand.  Journal of Ecology, 76, 1030-1042. 

S7:     Wilson, J.B. & Sykes, M.T. (1988)  Some tests for niche limitation by examination of species diversity in the Dunedin area, New Zealand.  New Zealand Journal of Botany, 26, 237-244. 

S6:     Wilson, J.B. & Lee, W.G. (1988)  The -3/2 law applied to some gorse communities.  New Zealand Journal of Botany, 26, 193-196. 

S5:     Wilson, J.B. (1987)  Methods for detecting non-random­ness in species co-occurrences: a contribution.  Oecologia, 73, 579-582. 

S4:     Wilson, J.B., Agnew, A.D.Q. & Gitay, H. (1987)  Does niche limitation exist?.  Functional Ecology, 1, 391-397. 

S3:     Weir, D.A. & Wilson, J.B. (1987)  Micro-pattern in an area of New Zealand alpine vegetation.  Vegetatio, 73, 81-88. 

S2:     Lough, T.L., Wilson, J.B., Mark, A.F. & Evans, A.C. (1987)  Succession in a New Zealand alpine cushion community: a Markovian model.  Vegetatio, 71, 129-138.

S1:     Sommerville, P., Mark, A.F. & Wilson, J.B. (1982)  Plant succession on moraines of the upper Dart Valley, southern South Island, N.Z..  New Zealand Journal of Botany, 20, 227-244. 

J. Bastow Wilson

Publications: Community structure