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List of works by Christopher J. Lortie

14. Publication and Related Biases

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20. Quality Standards for Research Syntheses

21. Graphical Presentation of Results

23. Role of Meta-analysis in Interpreting the Scientific Literature

24. Using Meta-analysis to Test Ecological and Evolutionary Theory

<i>Python</i> and <i>R</i> for the Modern Data Scientist

scientific article published on 13 July 2022

A checklist for choosing between R packages in ecology and evolution

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

A comment on computational biology and connecting the dots

A comment on computational biology and connecting the dots

A comment on the protect–manage–then‐restore workflow

scientific article published on 07 March 2022

A contrast of meta and metafor packages for meta-analyses in R

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

A cost–benefit model for plant–plant interactions: a density-series tool to detect facilitation

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A global analysis of bidirectional interactions in alpine plant communities shows facilitators experiencing strong reciprocal fitness costs

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A global meta-analytic contrast of cushion-plant effects on plants and on arthropods

scientific article published on 27 February 2014

A meta-analysis contrasting active versus passive restoration practices in dryland agricultural ecosystems

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

A meta-analysis of plant facilitation in coastal dune systems: responses, regions, and research gaps

scientific article

A picture is worth a thousand data points: an imagery dataset of paired shrub-open microsites within the Carrizo Plain National Monument

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A portfolio effect of shrub canopy height on species richness in both stressful and competitive environments

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A review of R for Data Science: key elements and a critical analysis

scholarly article published 14 March 2017

A review of R for Data Science: key elements and a critical analysis

scholarly article published 14 March 2017

A synthesis of local adaptation to climate through reciprocal common gardens

scientific article published on 03 April 2021

A systematic review and conceptual framework for the mechanistic pathways of nurse plants

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A systematic review of arthropod community diversity in association with invasive plants

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A systematic review of the attractant-decoy and repellent-plant hypotheses: do plants with heterospecific neighbours escape herbivory?

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A systematic review of the direct and indirect effects of herbivory on plant reproduction mediated by pollination

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

A test for pre-adapted phenotypic plasticity in the invasive tree Acer negundo L ⬇️

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A test of desert shrub facilitation via radiotelemetric monitoring of a diurnal lizard

scientific article published on 16 November 2018

A test of the reserve meristem hypothesis using Verbascum thapsus (Scrophulariaceae).

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A trail camera imagery dataset of contrasting shrub and open microsites within the Carrizo Plain National Monument, San Luis Obispo County, California

A workflow for selecting seeding density in desert species experiments

Advancing plant ecology through meta-analyses

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Allelopathy

scholarly article

Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in global change experiments

article by J Adam Langley et al published 18 October 2018 in Global Change Biology

An ecological tardis: the implications of facilitation through evolutionary time

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An experimental test of lignocellulosic fabrics for potential use in artificial habitat construction in deserts.

scholarly article published in April 2024

An ontology for landscapes

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An unfortunate alliance: Native shrubs increase the abundance, performance, and apparent impacts of Bromus tectorum across a regional aridity gradient

scientific article published in 2021

Apical Dominance as an Adaptation in Verbascum thapsus: Effects of Water and Nutrients on Branching

scientific article published in 1997

Assessing the accuracy of paired and random sampling for quantifying plant–plant interactions in natural communities

scientific article published on 11 August 2022

Back to the basics: using density series to test regulation versus limitation for invasive plants

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Behind the shroud: a survey of editors in ecology and evolution

scientific article published in 2010

Better late than never: a synthesis of strategic land retirement and restoration in California

scientific article published in 2018

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Have our experiments and indices been underestimating the role of facilitation?

scientific article

Biogeographic differences in the allelopathy of leaf surface extracts of an invasive weed

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Biogeographical contrasts to assess local and regional patterns of invasion: a case study with two reciprocally introduced exotic maple trees

scholarly article by Laurent J. Lamarque et al published 20 January 2012 in Ecography

Book Review: Applied Time Series Analysis With R. Second Edition

Book Review: Applied Time Series Analysis With R. Second Edition

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Cage matching: head to head competition experiments of an invasive plant species from different regions as a means to test for differentiation ⬇️

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Characterizing a scientific elite (B): publication and citation patterns of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology

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Characterizing a scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology

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Climatic drivers of plant–plant interactions and diversity in alpine communities

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Competition does not come at the expense of colonization in seed morphs with increased size and dispersal

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Competition, facilitation and environmental severity shape the relationship between local and regional species richness in plant communities

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Competitive effects of an invasive grass on native annuals are species-specific and independent of water availability

scientific article published in 2023

Creativity in the review of science

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Cushion plants are foundation species with positive effects extending to higher trophic levels

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Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change

scientific article published on 25 June 2021

Disentangling direct and indirect effects of a legume shrub on its understorey community

scientific article published in 2015

Do biotic interactions shape both sides of the humped-back model of species richness in plant communities?

scientific article published in July 2006

Do citations and impact factors relate to the real numbers in publications? A case study of citation rates, impact, and effect sizes in ecology and evolutionary biology

scientific article published on 28 August 2012

Does it pay to have a “bigwig” as a co-author?

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Does publication in top-tier journals affect reviewer behavior?

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Don't diss integration: a comment on Ricklefs's disintegrating communities

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Don’t Diss Integration: A Comment on Ricklefs’s Disintegrating Communities

scientific article published in 2009

Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors.

scientific article published on 25 October 2007

Drivers of plant individual-based pollinator visitation network topology in an arid ecosystem

scientific article published in June 2022

Ecological Synthesis and Its Role in Advancing Knowledge

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Ecological implications of reduced pollen deposition in alpine plants: a case study using a dominant cushion plant species.

scientific article

Ecological implications of reduced pollen supply in the alpine: a case study using a dominant cushion plant species

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Ecosystem services of pollinator diversity: a review of the relationship with pollen limitation of plant reproduction1This article is part of a Special Issue entitled “Pollination biology research in Canada: Perspectives on a mutualism at different

scholarly article by Yvonne C. Davila et al published July 2012 in Botany

Editorial - Synthesis in ecology

scientific article published in 2012

Effects of a directional abiotic gradient on plant community dynamics and invasion in a coastal dune system

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Ending elitism in peer-review publication

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Establishment of a desert foundation species is limited by exotic plants and light but not herbivory or water

scientific article

Evaluating the popularity of R in ecology

scientific article published in 2019

Experimental admixture among geographically disjunct populations of an invasive plant yields a global mosaic of reproductive incompatibility and heterosis

scientific article published on 14 February 2021

Extensive analysis of native and non-native Centaurea solstitialis L. populations across the world shows no traces of polyploidization. ⬇️

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Facilitation and the Organization of Communities

Facilitation costs and benefits function simultaneously on stress gradients for animals

scientific article published on 22 August 2018

Facilitation promotes plant invasions and indirect negative interactions

scientific article published on 12 April 2021

Facilitation with a grain of salt: reduced pollinator visitation is an indirect cost of association with the foundation species creosote bush (Larrea tridentata)

scientific article published on 26 September 2020

Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

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Finding a clear signal: a systematic review of desert radio telemetry research

Finding a clear signal: a systematic review of desert radio telemetry research

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Finding the bees knees: A conceptual framework and systematic review of the mechanisms of pollinator-mediated facilitation

scientific article published on 29 December 2018

Fitness consequences of branching in Verbascum thapsus (Scrophulariaceae).

scientific article

Fix-it Felix: advances in testing plant facilitation as a restoration tool

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Formalized synthesis opportunities for ecology: systematic reviews and meta-analyses

scholarly article by Christopher J. Lortie published 15 July 2014 in Oikos

Formalized synthesis opportunities for ecology: systematic reviews and meta-analyses

scholarly article published 3 July 2013

Formalized synthesis opportunities for ecology: systematic reviews and meta-analyses

scholarly article published 3 July 2013

Functional assessment of animal interactions with shrub-facilitation complexes: a formal synthesis and conceptual framework

scientific article published in 2015

Genetic differentiation and phenotypic plasticity in life-history traits between native and introduced populations of invasive maple trees

scholarly article by Laurent J. Lamarque et al published 2 October 2014 in Biological Invasions

Germination response of desert annuals to shrub facilitation is species specific but not ecotypic

scientific article published in 2016

Good news for the people who love bad news: an analysis of the funding of the top 1% most highly cited ecologists

article by Christopher J. Lortie et al published 24 April 2012 in Oikos

Hansel und Gretel: The future of publishing wicked witch-free

scientific article published in 2012

How big are bigwigs?: a reply to Havens

scientific article published in 2008

How the ecology and evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic changed learning

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

How to critically read ecological meta-analyses

scientific article published on 19 December 2013

How to critically read ecological meta-analyses

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How to critically read ecological meta-analyses

How “good” is half a fish? Communicating outcomes of quantitative syntheses to decision makers

scientific article published in 2015

Idea farming: it is a good idea to have bad ideas in science

Idea farming: it is a good idea to have bad ideas in science

Idea farming: it is a good idea to have bad ideas in science

Ideas for judging merit in manuscripts and authors

article by Lonnie Aarssen & Christopher J. Lortie published 2010 in Ideas in Ecology and Evolution

Implications of spatial pattern and local density on community-level interactions

scientific article published in 2005

Increasing global aridity destabilizes shrub facilitation of exotic but not native plant species

scientific article published in 2022

Indirect interactions in terrestrial plant communities: emerging patterns and research gaps

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Invasive Acer negundo outperforms native species in non-limiting resource environments due to its higher phenotypic plasticity ⬇️

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Is the cask of facilitation ready for bottling? A symposium on the connectivity and future directions of positive plant interactions.

scientific article published on 17 June 2009

LINKING PATTERNS AND PROCESSES IN ALPINE PLANT COMMUNITIES: A GLOBAL STUDY

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Land management trumps the effects of climate change and elevated CO2on grassland functioning

scholarly article by Aurélie Thébault et al published 23 June 2014 in Journal of Ecology

Letter to the Editor: A global comment on scientific publications, productivity, people, and beer

Light intensity and seed density differentially affect the establishment, survival, and biomass of an exotic invader and three species of native competitors

scientific article

May the odds be ever in your favor: a brief comment on the review games in ecology

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Micro-Climatic Amelioration in a California Desert: Artificial Shelter Versus Shrub Canopy

scientific article published in 2020

Modelling the niche space of desert annuals needs to include positive interactions

scientific article published in 2017

Money for nothing and your referees for free

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Native herbivores and plant facilitation mediate the performance and distribution of an invasive exotic grass

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Net plant interactions are highly variable and weakly dependent on climate at the global scale

scientific article published on 23 April 2022

Non-native earthworms promote plant invasion by ingesting seeds and modifying soil properties

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Non-trophic interactions in deserts: Facilitation, interference, and an endangered lizard species

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Nurse-plant effects on the seed biology and germination of desert annuals

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Online conferences for better learning

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Open Sesame: R for Data Science is Open Science

scholarly article by Christopher J. Lortie published 2017 in Ideas in Ecology and Evolution

Over-Interpretation: Avoiding the Stigma of Non-Significant Results

scientific article published in 1999

Partitioning net interactions among plants along altitudinal gradients to study community responses to climate change

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Plant invasions, generalist herbivores, and novel defense weapons

scientific article

Pollination in Verbascum thapsus (Scrophulariaceae): the advantage of being tall

scientific article published in 1998

Positive associations with native shrubs are intense and important for an exotic invader but not the native annual community across an aridity gradient

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

Positive interactions among alpine plants increase with stress

scientific article

Practical interpretation of ecological meta-analyses

Re-analysis of meta-analysis: support for the stress-gradient hypothesis

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Reciprocal gender effects of a keystone alpine plant species on other plants, pollinators, and arthropods

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RecruitNet: A global database of plant recruitment networks

scientific article published in February 2023

Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

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Reproducibility in ecology and evolution: Minimum standards for data and code

scientific article published in May 2023

Resistance to Centaurea solstitialis invasion from annual and perennial grasses in California and Argentina

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Response to Webb et al.: Double-blind review: accept with minor revisions

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Restoration richness tipping point meta‐analysis: finding the sweet spot

scientific article published on 03 April 2022

Rethinking plant community theory

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Risk of Facilitated Invasion Depends Upon Invader Identity, Not Environmental Severity, Along an Aridity Gradient

scientific article published on 09 May 2022

Roy Turkington and his legacy to the science of plant ecology

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Science Open Reviewed: An online community connecting authors with reviewers for journals

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Screen adaptation theory for humans

scientific article published in 2022

Seed aggregation tips the scale in plant competition

scientific article published on 16 November 2021

Shrub and vegetation cover predict resource selection use by an endangered species of desert lizard

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Shrub density effects on the community structure and composition of a desert animal community

scientific article published on 01 April 2021

Shrub density effects on the presence of an endangered lizard of the Carrizo Plain National Monument, California

scientific article published in May 2023

Shrub-annual facilitation complexes mediate insect community structure in arid environments

article by Ally Ruttan et al published November 2016 in Journal of Arid Environments

Shrubs facilitate native forb re-establishment in an invaded arid shrubland

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

Shrubs indirectly increase desert seedbanks through facilitation of the plant community

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Simple principles for engineering reproducible solutions to environmental management challenges

Simple principles for engineering reproducible solutions to environmental management challenges

Spatial patterns of association at local and regional scales in coastal sand dune communities

Species specificity challenges the predictability of facilitation along a regional desert gradient

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Species-specific positive effects in an annual plant community

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Support for major hypotheses in invasion biology is uneven and declining

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

Sweeping beauty: is grassland arthropod community composition effectively estimated by sweep netting?

scientific article published on 22 August 2013

Synthetic Analysis of the Stress–Gradient Hypothesis

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Systematic variation in reviewer practice according to country and gender in the field of ecology and evolution

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Tabular strategies for metadata in ecology, evolution, and the environmental sciences

scientific article published in 2022

Taxonomic bias and lack of cross-taxonomic studies in invasion biology

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Teach different: The <scp>CREATE</scp> pedagogy for ecology and evolution

scientific article published in January 2023

Ten simple rules for Lightning and PechaKucha presentations

Ten simple rules for Lightning and PechaKucha presentations

Ten simple rules for better running

Ten simple rules for better running

Ten simple rules for better running

Ten simple rules for short and swift presentations

scientific article published on 30 March 2017

Ten simple rules for writing statistical book reviews

article by Christopher J. Lortie, pre-print version from May 2018

Ten simple rules for writing statistical book reviews

article by Christopher J. Lortie published January 2019

The <scp>EICA</scp> is dead? Long live the <scp>EICA</scp>!

scientific article published in 2022

The Groot Effect: Plant facilitation and desert shrub regrowth following extensive damage

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

The Hierarchy-of-Hypotheses Approach: A Synthesis Method for Enhancing Theory Development in Ecology and Evolution

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The Specialization Hypothesis for Phenotypic Plasticity in Plants

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The alpine cushion plant Silene acaulis as foundation species: a bug's-eye view to facilitation and microclimate

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The context dependence of beneficiary feedback effects on benefactors in plant facilitation

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The dark side of facilitation: native shrubs facilitate exotic annuals more strongly than native annuals

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The diversity of diversity studies: retrospectives and future directions

scientific article published in 2015

The early bird gets the return: The benefits of publishing your data sooner

scientific article published on 07 July 2021

The effect of consumer pressure and abiotic stress on positive plant interactions are mediated by extreme climatic events

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The effect of initial seed density on the structure of a desert annual plant community

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The effects of foundation species on community assembly: a global study on alpine cushion plant communities

scientific article published on August 2015

The effects of gerbil foraging on the natural seedbank and consequences on the annual plant community

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The facilitative effects by seeds and seedlings on emergence from the seed bank of a desert annual plant community

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The four pillars of scholarly publishing: The future and a foundation

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The four pillars of scholarly publishing: The future and a foundation

The importance of importance

scientific article published in 2005

The importance of urban backgardens on plant and invertebrate recruitment: a field microcosm experiment

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The small-scale spatiotemporal pattern of a seed bank in the Negev Desert, Israel

scholarly article by Christopher J. Lortie & Roy Turkington published January 2002 in Écoscience

The small-scale spatiotemporal pattern of the seedbank and vegetation of a highly invasive weed,Centaurea solstitialis: strength in numbers

scientific article published in 2010

The value of stress and limitation in an imperfect world: A reply to Körner

Thermal ecology of the federally endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia sila)

scientific article published in 2020

To Name or Not to Name: The Effect of Changing Author Gender on Peer Review

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Too much of a good thing: Shrub benefactors are less important in higher diversity arid ecosystems

scientific article published in 2021

Trait evolution during a rapid global weed invasion despite little genetic differentiation

scientific article published in 2023

Tree invasions: a comparative test of the dominant hypotheses and functional traits

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Two alternatives to the stress-gradient hypothesis at the edge of life: the collapse of facilitation and the switch from facilitation to competition

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What common‐garden experiments tell us about climate responses in plants

scientific article published on 10 May 2022

Why reply (to Hjalten and Price)?

scientific article published in 2000

With great power comes great responsibility: the importance of rejection, power, and editors in the practice of scientific publishing

scientific article

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Short-term Versus Long-term Efficacy of Trait-based Neighbor Selection as a Restoration Tool in Harding Grass Old Fields

scientific article published on 23 March 2022

Zen and the art of ecological synthesis

scientific article published in 2016

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