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List of works by Katharine N. Suding

A recruitment niche framework for improving seed‐based restoration

scientific article published in 2023

A test of the niche dimension hypothesis in an arid annual grassland

scientific article published on October 21, 2010

Altered water and nitrogen input shifts succession in a southern California coastal sage community.

scientific article

Alternative states and positive feedbacks in restoration ecology

scientific article

An overview of research from a high elevation landscape: the Niwot Ridge, Colorado Long Term Ecological Research programme

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Ancient grasslands guide ambitious goals in grassland restoration

scientific article published on 5 August 2022

Applying competition theory to invasion: resource impacts indicate invasion mechanisms in California shrublands

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Assembly of root-associated bacteria communities: interactions between abiotic and biotic factors

scientific article published on February 2015

Author Correction: Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

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Biodiversity in changing environments: An external‐driver internal‐topology framework to guide intervention

scientific article published on 16 July 2024

Biotic constraints on the invasion of diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) in North American grasslands

scientific article published on 10 January 2007

Biotic mechanisms of community stability shift along a precipitation gradient

scientific article published in June 2014

Biotic vs abiotic controls on temporal sensitivity of primary production to precipitation across North American drylands

scientific article published on 2 July 2021

Botany and a changing world: introduction to the special issue on global biological change

scientific article

Bounded ranges of variation as a framework for future conservation and fire management

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Can community structure track sea-level rise? Stress and competitive controls in tidal wetlands.

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Can functional traits predict plant community response to global change?

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Capacity for change: three core attributes of adaptive capacity that bolster restoration efficacy

scientific article published on 11 February 2022

Carbon flux from plants to soil: roots are a below-ground source of phenolic secondary compounds in an alpine ecosystem

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Catchment‐scale observations at the Niwot Ridge long‐term ecological research site

Cattle as Dispersal Vectors of Invasive and Introduced Plants in a California Annual Grassland

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Changes in alpine vegetation over 21 years: Are patterns across a heterogeneous landscape consistent with predictions?

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Climate Variability Structures Plant Community Dynamics in Mediterranean Restored and Reference Tidal Wetlands

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Climate disequilibrium dominates uncertainty in long‐term projections of primary productivity

scientific article published on 21 October 2022

Co-occurrence patterns of plants and soil bacteria in the high-alpine subnival zone track environmental harshness

scientific article published on 11 October 2012

Competition and soil resource environment alter plant-soil feedbacks for native and exotic grasses

scientific article published on 24 November 2014

Competitive impacts and responses of an invasive weed: dependencies on nitrogen and phosphorus availability

scientific article published on 3 August 2004

Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States

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Consequences of plant-soil feedbacks in invasion

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Conservation. Committing to ecological restoration

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Contrasting effects of hemiparasites on ecosystem processes: can positive litter effects offset the negative effects of parasitism?

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Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation

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Cross‐scale facilitation: a framework for microclimate moderation of climate change

scientific article published on 22 November 2023

Dealing With Complexity and Extreme Events Using a Bottom-Up, Resource-Based Vulnerability Perspective

scientific article

Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change

scientific article published on 25 June 2021

Divergent community trajectories with climate change across a fine‐scale gradient in snow depth

scientific article published on 22 November 2023

Do Disturbances Alter Competitive Hierarchies? Mechanisms of Change Following Gap Creation

article by Katharine N. Suding & Deborah Goldberg published August 2001 in Ecology

Do We Practice What We Preach? Goal Setting for Ecological Restoration

scientific article published in 2013

Do individual plant species show predictable responses to nitrogen addition across multiple experiments?

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Do plant–soil interactions influence how the microbial community responds to environmental change?

scientific article published on 09 October 2021

Do trade‐offs govern plant species’ responses to different global change treatments?

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Don't judge species on their origins

scientific article

Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts

article by Nancy Shackelford et al published 22 July 2021 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Ecology: A leak in the loop

scientific article published on 20 November 2013

Ecosystem Stewardship as a Framework for Conservation in a Directionally Changing World

Ecosystem function in complex mountain terrain: Combining models and long-term observations to advance process-based understanding

scholarly article

Effect of propagule pressure on recovery of a California grassland after an extreme disturbance

Effects of Nutrient Manipulations and Grass Removal on Cover, Species Composition, and Invasibility of a Novel Grassland in Colorado

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Embracing variability: environmental dependence and plant community context in ecological restoration

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Environmental and plant community determinants of species loss following nitrogen enrichment

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Erratum: Cooccurrence patterns of plants and soil bacteria in the high-alpine subnival zone track environmental harshness

scientific article published on August 21, 2013

Evaluating ecosystem services provided by non-native species: an experimental test in California grasslands.

scientific article

FACTORS AFFECTING UNDERSTORY ESTABLISHMENT IN COASTAL SAGE SCRUB RESTORATION

scientific article published in 2006

Frequency-dependence stabilizes competitive interactions among four annual plants

scientific article published on 6 October 2007

Functional diversity buffers biomass production across variable rainfall conditions through different processes above‐ versus below‐ground

scientific article published on 17 July 2023

Functional diversity increases ecological stability in a grazed grassland.

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Functional- and abundance-based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to N fertilization

scientific article published on 8 March 2005

Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Grassland Arthropods Are Controlled by Direct and Indirect Interactions with Cattle but Are Largely Unaffected by Plant Provenance.

scientific article published on 9 July 2015

Grassland compost amendments increase plant production without changing plant communities

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Growing season length and soil microbes influence the performance of a generalist bunchgrass beyond its current range

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

High‐resolution spectral data predict taxonomic diversity in low diversity grasslands

scientific article published in July 2024

Historical change in coastal sage scrub in southern California, USA in relation to fire frequency and air pollution

scholarly article by Matt V. Talluto & Katharine N. Suding published 25 June 2008 in Landscape Ecology

Incorporating biotic factors in species distribution modeling: are interactions with soil microbes important?

scientific article published in 2015

Incorporating clonal growth form clarifies the role of plant height in response to nitrogen addition

scientific article published in August 2012

Indirect effects of global change accumulate to alter plant diversity but not ecosystem function in alpine tundra

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Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

scientific article published in 2012

Insights from a Cross-Disciplinary Seminar: 10 Pivotal Papers for Ecological Restoration

scientific article published in 2011

Intra-annual rainfall regime shifts competitive interactions between coastal sage scrub and invasive grasses

scientific article

Intra‐annual precipitation effects on annual grassland productivity and phenology are moderated by community responses

scientific article published on 27 October 2021

Keep ecological restoration open and flexible

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Knowledge sharing for shared success in the decade on ecosystem restoration

scientific article published in January 2022

Lagging behind: have we overlooked previous-year rainfall effects in annual grasslands?

article by Joan C. Dudney et al published 17 October 2016 in Journal of Ecology

Leaf dry matter content and lateral spread predict response to land use change for six subalpine grassland species

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Leaf temperatures mediate alpine plant communities' response to a simulated extended summer.

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

Leveraging plant functional traits in the design of nature‐based solutions: A research agenda

scientific article published on 16 July 2024

Linking individual response to biotic interactions with community structure: a trait-based framework

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Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity?

scientific article published on 9 October 2023

Making research relevant: Sharing climate change research with rangeland advisors to transform results into drought resilience

scientific article published in October 2021

Management of novel ecosystems: are novel approaches required?

article by Timothy R Seastedt et al published December 2008 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems

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Measuring at all scales: sourcing data for more flexible restoration references

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Modifying native and exotic species richness correlations: the influence of fire and seed addition

scientific article published in August 2006

Navigating Novelty and Risk in Resilience Management

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

Neotropical rainforest restoration: comparing passive, plantation and nucleation approaches

scholarly article by Fernando C. Bechara et al published 28 July 2016 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Niche complementarity due to plasticity in resource use: plant partitioning of chemical N forms

scientific article published on November 2010

Nitrogen addition, not heterogeneity, alters the relationship between invasion and native decline in California grasslands

scientific article published on 13 October 2021

Nitrogen deposition alters plant-fungal relationships: linking belowground dynamics to aboveground vegetation change.

scientific article

Nitrogen deposition, plant carbon allocation, and soil microbes: changing interactions due to enrichment

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Nitrogen preferences and plant-soil feedbacks as influenced by neighbors in the alpine tundra

scientific article published on 18 March 2008

Nutrient availability does not explain invasion and dominance of a mixed grass prairie by the exotic forb Centaurea diffusa Lam

article by Katherine D. LeJeune et al published May 2006 in Applied Soil Ecology

On principles and standards in ecological restoration

scientific article published on 24 March 2018

Opportunities and Constraints in Characterizing Landscape Distribution of an Invasive Grass from Very High Resolution Multi-Spectral Imagery

scientific article

Optimizing Available Network Resources to Address Questions in Environmental Biogeochemistry

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PLANT AND MICROBE CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN A DIRECTIONALLY CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

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Patterns of trait convergence and divergence among native and exotic species in herbaceous plant communities are not modified by nitrogen enrichment

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Phenological Changes in Alpine Plants in Response to Increased Snowpack, Temperature, and Nitrogen

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Phosphorus fertilization stimulates nitrogen fixation and increases inorganic nitrogen concentrations in a restored prairie

scientific article published in 2007

Plant colonization of moss-dominated soils in the alpine: Microbial and biogeochemical implications

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Plant community responses to experimental warming across the tundra biome

scientific article

Plant diversity and density predict belowground diversity and function in an early successional alpine ecosystem

scientific article published on 19 July 2018

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

scientific article published in Nature

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Plant uptake of inorganic and organic nitrogen: neighbor identity matters

scientific article published in July 2007

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

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Plant–microbe interactions at multiple scales across a high-elevation landscape

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Plasticity in nitrogen form uptake and preference in response to long-term nitrogen fertilization

article by Ming-Hua Song et al published 27 May 2015 in Plant and Soil

Positive litter feedbacks of an introduced species reduce native diversity and promote invasion in Californian grasslands

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Potential vulnerability of 348 herbaceous species to atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and sulfur in the United States

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Prescribed Fire Effects on Population Dynamics of an Annual Grassland

scientific article published in 2016

Rainfall variability maintains grass-forb species coexistence

scientific article published on 12 July 2019

Rank clocks and plant community dynamics

scientific article

Rapid temporal changes in root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and fine root endophytes, not dark septate endophytes, track plant activity and environment in an alpine ecosystem

scientific article published on 23 August 2018

Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

article by Rachel J. Standish et al published September 2014 in Biological Conservation

Restoration Within Protected Areas: When and How to Intervene to Manage Plant Invasions?

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Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance.

scientific article published on 24 October 2008

SPECIES RESPONSES TO NITROGEN FERTILIZATION IN HERBACEOUS PLANT COMMUNITIES, AND ASSOCIATED SPECIES TRAITSEcological ArchivesE089-070

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Scale-dependent responses of plant biodiversity to nitrogen enrichment

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Scaling up the diversity-resilience relationship with trait databases and remote sensing data: the recovery of productivity after wildfire

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Seed bank bias: Differential tracking of functional traits in the seed bank and vegetation across a gradient

scientific article published on 27 January 2022

Seed supply, recruitment, and assembly: quantifying relative seed and establishment limitation in a plant community context

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Seed-associated fungi in the alpine tundra: Both mutualists and pathogens could impact plant recruitment

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Sensitivity of grassland plant community composition to spatial vs. temporal variation in precipitation

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Separating direct and indirect effects of global change: a population dynamic modeling approach using readily available field data

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Separating sources of density-dependent and density-independent establishment limitation in invading species

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Shrub Expansion Over the Past 62 Years in Rocky Mountain Alpine Tundra: Possible Causes and Consequences

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Single-trait functional indices outperform multi-trait indices in linking environmental gradients and ecosystem services in a complex landscape

scholarly article by Bradley J. Butterfield & Katharine N. Suding published 21 December 2012 in Journal of Ecology

Soil Microbial Networks Shift Across a High-Elevation Successional Gradient

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Species effects on resource supply rates: do they influence competitive interactions?

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Staged invasions across disparate grasslands: effects of seed provenance, consumers and disturbance on productivity and species richness.

scientific article published on 28 January 2014

Strengthening Invasion Filters to Reassemble Native Plant Communities: Soil Resources and Phenological Overlap

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Strong feeding preference of an exotic generalist herbivore for an exotic forb: a case of invasional antagonism

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Stronger effect of gastropods than rodents on seedling establishment, irrespective of exotic or native plant species origin

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Sustaining ecosystem functions in a changing world: a call for an integrated approach

scientific article published in June 2013

Teasing apart plant community responses to N enrichment: the roles of resource limitation, competition and soil microbes

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Temporal variability in production is not consistently affected by global change drivers across herbaceous-dominated ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Testing the Holy Grail framework: using functional traits to predict ecosystem change

scientific article published in January 2008

The abundance of pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophs in the root zone of plant species in invaded coastal sage scrub habitat

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The consequence of species loss on ecosystem nitrogen cycling depends on community compensation

scientific article published on 12 April 2006

The effect of recycling on plant competitive hierarchies

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The effect of spring burning on competitive ranking of prairie species

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The effects of gap creation on competitive interactions: separating changes in overall intensity from relative rankings

article published in 2001

The effects of nitrogen deposition and invasion on litter fuel quality and decomposition in a Stipa pulchra grassland

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

The elusive search for tipping points

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

The impact of invasion and subsequent removal of an exotic thistle, Cynara cardunculus, on CO2 and H2O vapor exchange in a coastal California grassland

article by Daniel L. Potts et al published 31 October 2007 in Biological Invasions

The influence of life‐history strategy on ecosystem sensitivity to resource fluctuations

scientific article published on 10 October 2021

The intervention continuum in restoration ecology: rethinking the active–passive dichotomy

scientific article published on 21 August 2021

The presence of a foreign microbial community promotes plant growth and reduces filtering of root fungi in the arctic-alpine plant <i>Silene acaulis</i>

scientific article published in 2020

The spatial synchrony of species richness and its relationship to ecosystem stability

scientific article

Threshold models in restoration and conservation: a developing framework

scientific article published on 05 March 2009

Toward an Era of Restoration in Ecology: Successes, Failures, and Opportunities Ahead

scientific article published in 2011

Tradeoffs in demographic mechanisms underlie differences in species abundance and stability

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Trait Complementarity Enhances Native Plant Restoration in an Invaded Urban Landscape

scientific article published on 08 November 2017

Transitions and invasion along a grazing gradient in experimental California grasslands.

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Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

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Understanding invasions: the rise and fall of diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) in North America

Using functional diversity patterns to explore metacommunity dynamics: a framework for understanding local and regional influences on community structure

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Variation in the effects of vegetation and litter on recruitment across productivity gradients

scientific article published in 1999

Vegetation change at high elevation: scale dependence and interactive effects on Niwot Ridge

scientific article published in 2015

Warming of alpine tundra enhances belowground production and shifts community towards resource acquisition traits

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Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

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Water the odds? Spring rainfall and emergence‐related seed traits drive plant recruitment

scientific article published on 27 August 2021

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

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

Where and how to restore in a changing world: a demographic-based assessment of resilience

article by Loralee Larios et al published 29 June 2017 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Within-Year Soil Legacies Contribute to Strong Priority Effects of Exotics on Native California Grassland Communities

article by Emily Grman & Katharine N. Suding published September 2010 in Restoration Ecology