Bill Shipley

Université de Sherbrooke — Canada

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

60h-index23.9kcitations214works6.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(92), Plant and animal studies(50), Species Distribution and Climate Change(30), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics(20), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(19)

Publications212 total

pwSEM: Piecewise Structural Equation Modelling
2025Open Access
Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research
2025Open Access
Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology
Ecological Monographs·2025· 20 citedOpen Access
The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset
Scientific Data·2022· 106 citedOpen Access
Testing Model Fit in Path Models with Dependent Errors Given Non-Normality, Non-Linearity and Hierarchical Data
Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Above‐ and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America
Journal of Ecology·2022· 18 citedOpen Access
Exploring trait–performance relationships of tree seedlings along experimentally manipulated light and water gradients
Ecology·2022· 29 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Above‐ and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America"
2022Open Access
Peer Review #1 of "Devil in the details: how can we avoid potential pitfalls of CATS regression when our data do not follow a Poisson distribution? (v0.1)"
2022Open Access
Testing Model Fit in Path Models with Dependent Errors Given Non-Normality, Non-Linearity and Hierarchical Data
Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling·2022Open Access
Multifunctionality in practice: Measuring differences in urban woodland ecosystem properties via functional traits
Urban forestry & urban greening·2021· 12 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Above‐ and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America"
2021Open Access
A measure of generalized soil fertility that is largely independent of species identity
Annals of Botany·2021· 21 citedOpen Access
Explaining variation in productivity requires intraspecific variability in plant height among communities
Journal of Plant Ecology·2021· 5 citedOpen Access
Quantifying the relationship linking the community‐weighted means of plant traits and soil fertility
Ecology·2021· 24 citedOpen Access
Nitrogen Addition in a Tibetan Alpine Meadow Increases Intraspecific Variability in Nitrogen Uptake, Leading to Increased Community-level Nitrogen Uptake
Ecosystems·2021· 8 cited
Crop functional diversity drives multiple ecosystem functions during early agroforestry succession
Journal of Applied Ecology·2021· 30 cited
Dataset and R code - Crop functional diversity drives multiple ecosystem functions during early agroforestry succession
Figshare·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Dataset and R code - Crop functional diversity drives multiple ecosystem functions during early agroforestry succession
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2021Open Access
A multigroup extension to piecewise path analysis
Ecosphere·2021· 13 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jens Kattge(9), Paul A. Keddy(9), Éric Garnier(8), Johannes H. C. Cornelissen(6), Hendrik Poorter(5), Ian J. Wright(4), Michael Kleyer(4), Christian Wirth(4), Gerhard Bönisch(4), Peter B. Reich(4), Christopher Baraloto(4), Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini(4), Franciska T. de Vries(4), Peter Manning(4), Denis Vile(4), Sandra Lavorel(3), Mark Westoby(3), S. Joseph Wright‬(3), Simon Pierce(3), Andrew Siefert(3)