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List of works by James David Bever

A conceptual framework for the evolution of ecological specialisation

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A cooperative virulence plasmid imposes a high fitness cost under conditions that induce pathogenesis

scientific article published on November 23, 2011

A meta-analysis of context-dependency in plant response to inoculation with mycorrhizal fungi

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A novel theory to explain species diversity in landscapes: positive frequency dependence and habitat suitability

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A nucleation framework for transition between alternate states: short-circuiting barriers to ecosystem recovery

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Abiotic and biotic context dependency of perennial crop yield

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Acaulospora colossica sp. nov. from an Old Field in North Carolina and Morphological Comparisons with Similar Species, A. laevis and A. koskei

scientific article published in 1999

Acaulospora mendoncae (Acaulosporaceae), a new fungal species in the Glomeromycota from maritime sand dunes from southern Brazil

scientific article published on 15 August 2022

Adaptation of plant‐mycorrhizal interactions to moisture availability in prairie restoration

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Advancing Synthetic Ecology: A Database System to Facilitate Complex Ecological Meta-Analyses

scientific article published in April 2010

Analogous effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the laboratory and a North Carolina field.

scientific article published on 15 July 2008

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Taxa Show Variable Patterns of Micro-Scale Dispersal in Prairie Restorations

scientific article published in 2022

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species suppress inducible plant responses and alter defensive strategies following herbivory

scientific article published on May 2009

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi do not enhance nitrogen acquisition and growth of old-field perennials under low nitrogen supply in glasshouse culture

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: hyphal fusion and multigenomic structure

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Are two strategies better than one? Manipulation of seed density and soil community in an experimental prairie restoration

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Beyond the black box: promoting mathematical collaborations for elucidating interactions in soil ecology

scientific article published in July 2019

Biochar soil amendments in prairie restorations do not interfere with benefits from inoculation with native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

scientific article published on 12 January 2019

Biogeography of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota): a phylogenetic perspective on species distribution patterns

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

Biotic interactions and plant invasions

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Can Nucleation Bridge to Desirable Alternative Stable States? Theory and Applications

scientific article published in 2021

Carbon allocation and competition maintain variation in plant root mutualisms.

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Celebrating INVAM: 35 years of the largest living culture collection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Climate Affects Plant-Soil Feedback of Native and Invasive Grasses: Negative Feedbacks in Stable but Not in Variable Environments

scientific article published in 2019

Coevolution of symbiotic mutualists and parasites in a community context

scientific article published on 29 November 2006

Coexistence and relative abundance in plant communities are determined by feedbacks when the scale of feedback and dispersal is local

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Community context for mechanisms of disease dilution: insights from linking epidemiology and plant-soil feedback theory

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

Connections and Feedback: Aquatic, Plant, and Soil Microbiomes in Heterogeneous and Changing Environments

scientific article published on 29 March 2020

Consequences of simultaneous interactions of fungal endophytes and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with a shared host grass

scientific article published in 2012

Conspecific negative density dependence and forest diversity.

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Crop Productivity Boosters: Native Mycorrhizal Fungi from an Old-Growth Grassland Benefits Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and Pepper (Capsicum annuum) Varieties in Organically Farmed Soils

scientific article published in 2023

Dilution of specialist pathogens drives productivity benefits from diversity in plant mixtures

scientific article published in 2023

Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis

scientific article published in April 2007

Dispersal and spatial heterogeneity allow coexistence between enemies and protective mutualists

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Distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in stands of the wetland grass Panicum hemitomon along a wide hydrologic gradient

scientific article published in June 1999

Disturbance reduces the differentiation of mycorrhizal fungal communities in grasslands along a precipitation gradient

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Divergent phenologies may facilitate the coexistence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a North Carolina grassland

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Dominant mycorrhizal association of trees alters carbon and nutrient cycling by selecting for microbial groups with distinct enzyme function

scientific article published on 5 December 2016

Ecological dynamics and complex interactions of Agrobacterium megaplasmids

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Ecology of Floristic Quality Assessment: testing for correlations between coefficients of conservatism, species traits and mycorrhizal responsiveness

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Effect of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) maize cultivation history on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization, spore abundance and diversity, and plant growth

scientific article published in 2014

Effects of the soil microbiome on the demography of two annual prairie plants

scientific article published on 14 June 2020

Enriched CO2 and Root-Associated Fungi (Mycorrhizae) Yield Inverse Effects on Plant Mass and Root Morphology in Six Asclepias Species

scientific article published on 17 November 2021

Erratum: Author Correction: Evolutionary history of plant hosts and fungal symbionts predicts the strength of mycorrhizal mutualism

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Evidence for the evolution of native plant response to mycorrhizal fungi in post‐agricultural grasslands

scientific article published in 2022

Evidence for the evolution of reduced mycorrhizal dependence during plant invasion

scientific article published in April 2009

Evidence of Adaptation of Little Bluestem to the Local Environment of Central Kansas

scientific article published in 2021

Evolutionary change in agriculture: the past, present and future

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Evolutionary history of plant hosts and fungal symbionts predicts the strength of mycorrhizal mutualism

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Evolutionary history shapes patterns of mutualistic benefit in Acacia-rhizobial interactions.

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

Forces that structure plant communities: quantifying the importance of the mycorrhizal symbiosis

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Frequency-dependent feedback constrains plant community coexistence

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From Lilliput to Brobdingnag: Extending Models of Mycorrhizal Function across Scales

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Glomus candidum , a new species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from North American grassland

scientific article published on 15 October 2010

Home-field advantage? evidence of local adaptation among plants, soil, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through meta-analysis

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

Host discrimination in modular mutualisms: a theoretical framework for meta-populations of mutualists and exploiters

scientific article published in January 2016

Host-Dependent Sporulation and Species Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in a Mown Grassland

scientific article published in 1996

Inoculation with a Native Soil Community Advances Succession in a Grassland Restoration

scientific article published on 09 December 2010

Introducing desirable patches to initiate ecosystem transitions and accelerate ecosystem restoration

scientific article published on 11 October 2023

Joint evolution of kin recognition and cooperation in spatially structured rhizobium populations

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Keeping it cool: Soil sample cold pack storage and DNA shipment up to 1 month does not impact metabarcoding results

scientific article published on 31 March 2020

Kin competition and the evolution of cooperation

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Large Deletions in the pAtC58 Megaplasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Can Confer Reduced Carriage Cost and Increased Expression of Virulence Genes

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Local adaptation in the Linum marginale-Melampsora lini host-pathogen interaction

scientific article published in July 2002

Local adaptation of mycorrhizae communities changes plant community composition and increases aboveground productivity

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Locally adapted arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve vigor and resistance to herbivory of native prairie plant species

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Maintenance of Plant Species Diversity by Pathogens

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Manipulating plant microbiomes in the field: Native mycorrhizae advance plant succession and improve native plant restoration

scientific article published on 24 September 2021

Microbial mediators of plant community response to long‐term N and P fertilization: Evidence of a role of plant responsiveness to mycorrhizal fungi

scientific article published on 20 January 2022

Microbial phylotype composition and diversity predicts plant productivity and plant–soil feedbacks

scientific article published on December 6, 2012

Microbial population and community dynamics on plant roots and their feedbacks on plant communities

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Multilevel and kin selection in a connected world

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Mutualisms weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands

scientific article published in 2024

MycoDB, a global database of plant response to mycorrhizal fungi

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Mycorrhizal Symbioses and Plant Invasions

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Mycorrhizal composition influences plant anatomical defense and impacts herbivore growth and survival in a life-stage dependent manner

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Mycorrhizal densities decline in association with nonnative plants and contribute to plant invasion

scientific article published in February 2009

Mycorrhizal fungal identity and richness determine the diversity and productivity of a tallgrass prairie system

scientific article published in January 2006

Mycorrhizal fungi influence global plant biogeography

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Mycorrhizal response trades off with plant growth rate and increases with plant successional status

scientific article published on July 2015

Mycorrhizal species differentially alter plant growth and response to herbivory

scientific article published on January 2007

Mycorrhizal types influence island biogeography of plants

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Native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi promote native grassland diversity and suppress weeds 4 years following inoculation

scientific article published in 2022

Native plant abundance, diversity, and richness increases in prairie restoration with field inoculation density of native mycorrhizal amendments

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

Negative feedback within a mutualism: host-specific growth of mycorrhizal fungi reduces plant benefit

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Negative plant-phyllosphere feedbacks in native Asteraceae hosts - a novel extension of the plant-soil feedback framework

scientific article published on 4 July 2017

Negative plant-soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

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Nitrogen-fixing bacteria, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and the productivity and structure of prairie grassland communities

scientific article published on June 10, 2012

Non-additive costs and interactions alter the competitive dynamics of co-occurring ecologically distinct plasmids

scientific article published on 5 February 2014

Non-native plants and soil microbes: potential contributors to the consistent reduction in soil aggregate stability caused by the disturbance of North American grasslands

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Partner diversity and identity impacts on plant productivity in<i>Acacia</i>-rhizobial interactions

scientific article published in 2014

Pathogens and Mutualists as Joint Drivers of Host Species Coexistence and Turnover: Implications for Plant Competition and Succession

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Phylogenetically Structured Differences in rRNA Gene Sequence Variation among Species of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Their Implications for Sequence Clustering

scientific article published on 03 June 2016

Plant preferential allocation and fungal reward decline with soil phosphorus: implications for mycorrhizal mutualism

scientific article published on 06 June 2016

Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems

scientific article published in March 2022

Plant-soil feedback contributes to intercropping overyielding by reducing the negative effect of take-all on wheat and compensating the growth of faba bean

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Plant-soil feedbacks as drivers of succession: evidence from remnant and restored tallgrass prairies

scientific article published in September 2015

Plant-soil feedbacks promote coexistence and resilience in multi-species communities

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Plant-soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges

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Preferential allocation to beneficial symbiont with spatial structure maintains mycorrhizal mutualism

scientific article published on 21 October 2008

Preferential allocation, physio-evolutionary feedbacks, and the stability and environmental patterns of mutualism between plants and their root symbionts

scientific article published on 05 January 2015

Rapid differentiation of soil and root microbiomes in response to plant composition and biodiversity in the field

scientific article published on 19 April 2023

Reduced drought tolerance during domestication and the evolution of weediness results from tolerance-growth trade-offs

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Relative importance of competition and plant-soil feedback, their synergy, context dependency and implications for coexistence

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Resource and competitive dynamics shape the benefits of public goods cooperation in a plant pathogen

scientific article published on February 14, 2012

Root pathogen diversity and composition varies with climate in undisturbed grasslands, but less so in anthropogenically disturbed grasslands

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

Selection for agronomic traits in intermediate wheatgrass increases responsiveness to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

scientific article published on 6 November 2024

Sensitivity to AMF species is greater in late-successional than early-successional native or nonnative grassland plants

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Shading decreases plant carbon preferential allocation towards the most beneficial mycorrhizal mutualist

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

Soil aggregate stability increase is strongly related to fungal community succession along an abandoned agricultural field chronosequence in the B olivian A ltiplano

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Soil microbial legacy drives crop diversity advantage: Linking ecological plant–soil feedback with agricultural intercropping

scientific article published in 2020

Soil microbiome mediates positive plant diversity-productivity relationships in late successional grassland species

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Spatial heterogeneity in soil microbes alters outcomes of plant competition

scientific article published on 6 May 2015

Spatial soil heterogeneity has a greater effect on symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities and plant growth than genetic modification with Bacillus thuringiensis toxin genes.

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

Spatio-temporal community dynamics induced by frequency dependent interactions

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Specificity between Neotropical tree seedlings and their fungal mutualists leads to plant–soil feedback

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Symbionts as Filters of Plant Colonization of Islands: Tests of Expected Patterns and Environmental Consequences in the Galapagos

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Symbiosis research, technology, and education: Proceedings of the 6th International Symbiosis Society Congress held in Madison Wisconsin, USA, August 2009

scientific article published on 30 June 2010

Synergism and context dependency of interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobia with a prairie legume

scientific article published in April 2014

The Effect of Restoration Methods on the Quality of the Restoration and Resistance to Invasion by Exotics

scientific article published on 02 February 2009

The Plant Microbiome and Native Plant Restoration: The Example of Native Mycorrhizal Fungi

scientific article published on 19 October 2018

The coexistence of hosts with different abilities to discriminate against cheater partners: an evolutionary game-theory approach

scientific article published on 11 April 2014

The interactive effects of plant microbial symbionts: a review and meta-analysis

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The missing link in grassland restoration: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculation increases plant diversity and accelerates succession

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

Three-way interactions among mutualistic mycorrhizal fungi, plants, and plant enemies: hypotheses and synthesis

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Trade-offs between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal competitive ability and host growth promotion in Plantago lanceolata

scientific article published on 18 April 2009

Utility of LSU for environmental sequencing of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: a new reference database and pipeline

scientific article published on 15 November 2020

Variable responses of old-field perennials to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and phosphorus source

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When and where plant-soil feedback may promote plant coexistence: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 31 May 2019