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Climate Influences the Demography of Three Dominant Sagebrush Steppe Plants (with Harmony Dalgleish, David Koons, Melvin Hooten, and Corey Moffet), Ecology (2011)

Climate change could alter the population growth of dominant species, leading to profound effects on...

 

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Global Patterns of Leaf Mechanical Properties (with Yusuke Onoda, Mark Westoby, Amy M.F. Choong, Fiona J. Clissold, Johannes H.C. Cornelissen, Sandra Díaz, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Alison Elgart, Lucas Enrico, Paul V.A. Fine Fine, Jerome J. Howard, Adel Jalili, Kaoru Kitajima, Hiroko Kurokawa, Clare McArthur, Peter W. Lucas, Lars Markesteijn, Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy, Lourens Poorter, Lora Richards, Louis S. Santiago, Enio E. Sosinski Jr., Sunshine A. Van Bael, David I. Warton, Ian J. Wright, S. Joseph Wright, and Nayuta Yamashita), Ecology Letters (2011)

Leaf mechanical properties strongly influence leaf lifespan, plant–herbivore interactions, litter decomposition and nutrient cycling, but...

 

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Can Life History Traits Predict the Vulnerability of Forb Populations to Changes in Climate Variability? (with Harmony J. Dalgleish and David N. Koons), Journal of Ecology (2010)

1. Climate change will cause changes in average temperature and precipitation as well as increased...

 

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Coexistence in a Perennial Plant Community: An Embarrassment of Niches (with Stephen P. Ellner and Jonathan M. Levine), Ecology Letters (2010)

Despite decades of research documenting niche differences between species, we lack a quantitative understanding of...

 

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Drought Tolerance in Two Perennial Bunchgrasses Used for Restoration in the Intermountain West, USA (with Jayanti Ray Mukherjee, Thomas A. Jones, and Thomas A. Monaco), Plant Ecology (2010)

An ideal restoration species for the semi-arid Intermountain West, USA would be one that grows...

 

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Climate variability has a stabilizing effect on the coexistence of prairie grasses (with Janneke HilleRisLambers, Phaedon C. Kyriakidis, Qingfeng Guan, and Jonathan M. Levine), Papers in Natural Resources (2006)

How expected increases in climate variability will affect species diversity depends on the role of...