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A Multiscale Approach to Plant Disease Using the Metacommunity Concept

scientific article published on 8 June 2016

A New Urban Ecology

article

A continent-wide study reveals clear relationships between regional abiotic conditions and post-dispersal seed predation

A cross-ecosystem comparison of the strength of trophic cascades

scholarly article by Jonathan B Shurin published in November 2002

A cross-system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on producer biomass

scientific article published on 25 April 2008

A decade of insights into grassland ecosystem responses to global environmental change

article

Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities

scientific article published in February 2011

Abundance- and functional-based mechanisms of plant diversity loss with fertilization in the presence and absence of herbivores.

scientific article published on 14 May 2015

Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

African mammals, foodwebs, and coexistence

scientific article

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

scientific article published in June 2015

Anthropogenic-based regional-scale factors most consistently explain plot-level exotic diversity in grasslands

article

Aphid fecundity and grassland invasion: invader life history is the key.

scientific article published in July 2009

Asymmetry in community regulation: effects of predators and productivity

scientific article published in November 2006

Author Correction: General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Author Correction: Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

scientific article published in 2024

Belowground Biomass Response to Nutrient Enrichment Depends on Light Limitation Across Globally Distributed Grasslands

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring

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Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Bridging taxonomic and disciplinary divides in infectious disease

scientific article

Causal networks clarify productivity-richness interrelations, bivariate plots do not

article by James B. Grace et al published 24 March 2014 in Functional Ecology

Change in functional trait diversity mediates the effects of nutrient addition on grassland stability

scientific article published in 2024

Changing elemental cycles, stoichiometric mismatches, and consequences for pathogens of primary producers

scientific article

Characteristics and drivers of plant virus community spatial patterns in US west coast grasslands

article

Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference

scientific article published in 2023

Climate and local environment structure asynchrony and the stability of primary production in grasslands

scientific article published in April 2020

Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment.

scientific article

Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness"

scientific article published in Science

Community change can buffer chronic nitrogen impacts, but multiple nutrients tip the scale

scientific article published in 2021

Compositional variation in grassland plant communities

scientific article published in 2023

Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

scientific article published in September 2015

Consumer versus resource control of producer diversity depends on ecosystem type and producer community structure

scientific article

Consumers indirectly increase infection risk in grassland food webs

scholarly article

Contrasting effects of plant diversity on β- and γ-diversity of grassland invertebrates

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat?

scientific article published on 14 January 2013

Cross-scale dynamics in community and disease ecology: relative timescales shape the community ecology of pathogens

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Dead or alive: carbon as a currency to integrate disease and ecosystem ecology theory

scientific article published on 16 May 2023

Direct and indirect effects of viral pathogens and the environment on invasive grass fecundity in Pacific Coast grasslands

scientific article published in 2009

Disease-mediated ecosystem services: Pathogens, plants, and people

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Disease‐mediated nutrient dynamics: Coupling host‐pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy

scientific article

Distribution of plants in a California serpentine grassland: are rocky hummocks spatial refuges for native species?

article

Diversity and composition of viral communities: coinfection of barley and cereal yellow dwarf viruses in California grasslands

scientific article

Does adding biological detail increase coexistence in an intraguild predation model?

article

Dominant native and non‐native graminoids differ in key leaf traits irrespective of nutrient availability

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands

Ecological Synthesis and Its Role in Advancing Knowledge

scientific article

Effects of long-term consumer manipulations on invasion in oak savanna communities

scientific article

Effects of nutrient supply, herbivory, and host community on fungal endophyte diversity

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Elements of disease in a changing world: modelling feedbacks between infectious disease and ecosystems

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Environmental Nutrient Supply Directly Alters Plant Traits but Indirectly Determines Virus Growth Rate

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass

scientific article published on 31 March 2023

Environmental nutrient supply alters prevalence and weakens competitive interactions among coinfecting viruses

scientific article published on 30 June 2014

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

scientific article published on 16 February 2014

Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity

scientific article published in 2022

Examining the relative importance of spatial and nonspatial coexistence mechanisms

scientific article

Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

scientific article published in 2022

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

Feeding the fever: Complex host‐pathogen dynamics along continuous resource gradients

scientific article published in 2023

Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

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Foliar fungi and plant diversity drive ecosystem carbon fluxes in experimental prairies

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Food webs obscure the strength of plant diversity effects on primary productivity

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Food-web composition and plant diversity control foliar nutrient content and stoichiometry

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General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Genesis, goals and achievements of Long-Term Ecological Research at the global scale: A critical review of ILTER and future directions

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Global Grassland Diazotrophic Communities Are Structured by Combined Abiotic, Biotic, and Spatial Distance Factors but Resilient to Fertilization

scientific article published on 28 March 2022

Global biogeography of autotroph chemistry: is insolation a driving force?

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Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

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 ecosystem recovery after soil disturbance depends on nutrient supply rate

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

scientific article published on 6 July 2015

Herbivore metabolism and stoichiometry each constrain herbivory at different organizational scales across ecosystems

scientific article published on 22 April 2009

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

scientific article published on 9 March 2014

Herbivores safeguard plant diversity by reducing variability in dominance

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Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient.

scientific article published on 31 March 2018

Herbivory and nutrients shape grassland soil seed banks

scientific article published in 2023

Host nutrition mediates interactions between plant viruses, altering transmission and predicted disease spread

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Impacts of nutrient addition on soil carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry and stability in globally-distributed grasslands

scientific article published in 2022

Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: a test of mediation pathways

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands

scientific article published on 21 January 2025

Intraguild predation in larval parasitoids: implications for coexistence

article published in 2002

Invasive annual grasses indirectly increase virus incidence in California native perennial bunchgrasses

scientific article

Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Life-history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth-defence trade-off is the norm

scientific article

Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment

scientific article published on 24 October 2022

Local context drives infection of grasses by vector-borne generalist viruses

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands

Long-term effects of plant diversity and composition on plant stoichiometry

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Methodological Guidelines for Accurate Detection of Viruses in Wild Plant Species

scientific article published on 15 January 2016

Microbial processing of plant remains is co-limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Modeling nutrient and disease dynamics in a plant-pathogen system

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

More salt, please: global patterns, responses and impacts of foliar sodium in grasslands

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Multidimensional responses of grassland stability to eutrophication

scientific article published in 2023

Multiple nutrients and herbivores interact to govern diversity, productivity, composition, and infection in a successional grassland

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Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide

scientific article published on 06 July 2021

Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils

scientific article published on 09 June 2021

Nitrogen but not phosphorus addition affects symbiotic N2 fixation by legumes in natural and semi-natural grasslands located on four continents

scientific article published in 2022

Nitrogen deposition and climate: an integrated synthesis

scientific article published in 2022

Nitrogen increases early‐stage and slows late‐stage decomposition across diverse grasslands

scientific article published on 26 March 2022

No evidence for trade-offs in plant responses to consumer food web manipulations

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Non-random biodiversity loss underlies predictable increases in viral disease prevalence

scientific article

Nothing lasts forever: Dominant species decline under rapid environmental change in global grasslands

scientific article published in 2023

Nutrient addition increases grassland sensitivity to droughts

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Nutrient availability controls the impact of mammalian herbivores on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in grasslands

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities.

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands

scientific article published on 31 October 2021

Nutrient identity modifies the destabilising effects of eutrophication in grasslands

scientific article published on 27 December 2021

Nutrients and environment influence arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization both independently and interactively in Schizachyrium scoparium

Nutrients and herbivores impact grassland stability across spatial scales through different pathways

scientific article published on 18 January 2022

Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

Nutritional constraints on brain evolution: sodium and nitrogen limit brain size

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

Opposing community assembly patterns for dominant and nondominant plant species in herbaceous ecosystems globally

scientific article

Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light and plant diversity

scientific article published in September 2017

Pathogen-induced reversal of native dominance in a grassland community

scientific article

Pathogens manipulate the preference of vectors, slowing disease spread in a multi-host system

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Phylogenetic patterns differ for native and exotic plant communities across a richness gradient in Northern California

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Planning for the future: Grasslands, herbivores, and nature‐based solutions

scientific article published in 2024

Plant diversity and litter accumulation mediate the loss of foliar endophyte fungal richness following nutrient addition

scientific article published on 27 September 2020

Plant diversity controls arthropod biomass and temporal stability

scientific article

Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

scientific article published on 28 November 2014

Plant ecology. Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

scientific article published on April 2015

Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Predator effects on herbivore and plant stability

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Predators indirectly control vector-borne disease: linking predator-prey and host-pathogen models.

scientific article

Predators, parasitoids, and pathogens: a cross-cutting examination of intraguild predation theory.

scientific article

Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Producer nutritional quality controls ecosystem trophic structure

scientific article

Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

scientific article

Provenance, life span, and phylogeny do not affect grass species' responses to nitrogen and phosphorus

scientific article published in September 2011

Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes

scientific article

Realistic rates of nitrogen addition increase carbon flux rates but do not change soil carbon stocks in a temperate grassland

scientific article published in 2022

Reconciling contrasting effects of nitrogen on host immunity and pathogen transmission using stoichiometric models

scientific article published in November 2023

Regional contingencies in the relationship between aboveground biomass and litter in the world's grasslands

scientific article published on 6 February 2013

Response to Comments on "Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness"

scientific article published in Science

Richness and composition of niche-assembled viral pathogen communities

scientific article

Seasonal shifts from plant diversity to consumer control of grassland productivity

scientific article published in 2022

Sensitivity of global soil carbon stocks to combined nutrient enrichment

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Signatures of nutrient limitation and co-limitation: responses of autotroph internal nutrient concentrations to nitrogen and phosphorus additions

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Site-specific responses of foliar fungal microbiomes to nutrient addition and herbivory at different spatial scales

scientific article published on 19 October 2019

Soil carbon stocks in temperate grasslands differ strongly across sites but are insensitive to decade‐long fertilization

scientific article published in 2021

Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

Soil nutrients cause threefold increase in pathogen and herbivore impacts on grassland plant biomass

scientific article published in 2023

Soil properties as key predictors of global grassland production: Have we overlooked micronutrients?

scientific article

Some Simple Guidelines for Effective Data Management

scientific article published on 31 March 2009

Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation

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Spatial turnover of multiple ecosystem functions is more associated with plant than soil microbial β‐diversity

scientific article published on 21 July 2021

Spatiotemporal model of barley and cereal yellow dwarf virus transmission dynamics with seasonality and plant competition

scientific article published on 20 April 2011

Species interactions affect the spread of vector-borne plant pathogens independent of transmission mode

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands

scientific article published in 2021

Species losses, gains, and changes in persistent species are associated with distinct effects on ecosystem functioning in global grasslands

Species origin affects the rate of response to inter-annual growing season precipitation and nutrient addition in four Australian native grasslands

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Stability of grassland production is robust to changes in the consumer food web

scientific article published on 12 February 2019

Strong mineralogic control of soil organic matter composition in response to nutrient addition across diverse grassland sites

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

Strong population structure characterizes weediness gene evolution in the invasive grass species Brachypodium distachyon

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity

scientific article published in 2021

Testing intraguild predation theory in a field system: does numerical dominance shift along a gradient of productivity?

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The community ecology of barley/cereal yellow dwarf viruses in Western US grasslands

scientific article published on 27 May 2011

The community ecology of pathogens: coinfection, coexistence and community composition

scientific article

The influence of balanced and imbalanced resource supply on biodiversity-functioning relationship across ecosystems

scientific article published in May 2016

The influence of host diversity and composition on epidemiological patterns at multiple spatial scales

scientific article

The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

scientific article published on 19 October 2023

The world within: Quantifying the determinants and outcomes of a host's microbiome

scientific article published in 2013

Topological approaches to food web analyses: a few modifications may improve our insights

scientific article published in 2002

Trophic phylogenetics: evolutionary influences on body size, feeding, and species associations in grassland arthropods

scientific article published on April 2015

Viral diversity and prevalence gradients in North American Pacific Coast grasslands

scientific article published in March 2010

WHY SHORT-TERM EXPERIMENTS MAY NOT ALLOW LONG-TERM PREDICTIONS ABOUT INTRAGUILD PREDATION

scientific article published in 2005

What determines the strength of a trophic cascade?

article published in 2005

Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

scientific article published on 5 August 2024

Workflows and extensions to the Kepler scientific workflow system to support environmental sensor data access and analysis

2010 scientific article