List of works - Justin P. Wright

An ecosystem engineer, the beaver, increases species richness at the landscape scale

article

Assessing impacts of ecosystem engineers on community organization: a general approach illustrated by effects of a high-Andean cushion plant

article

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

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

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

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Boom-bust dynamics in biological invasions: towards an improved application of the concept

scientific article

Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in 2005

Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem

scientific article published on 08 May 2003

Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition

scientific article

Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within local species pools across varying environmental conditions?

scientific article published on 09 November 2012

Drivers of secondary succession rates across temperate latitudes of the Eastern USA: climate, soils, and species pools ⬇️

scientific article published on October 19, 2011

Dynamic interactions of life and its landscape: feedbacks at the interface of geomorphology and ecology

scientific article published in 2010

Ecosystem engineers maintain a rare species of butterfly and increase plant diversity

article

Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems

scientific article published in October 2006

Effects of fire frequency on litter decomposition as mediated by changes to litter chemistry and soil environmental conditions

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Effects of silver nanoparticle exposure on germination and early growth of eleven wetland plants

scientific article

Environmental conditions influence the plant functional diversity effect on potential denitrification

scientific article

Evaluating the effects of land-use change and future climate change on vulnerability of coastal landscapes to saltwater intrusion

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

Functional trait similarity predicts survival in rare plant reintroductions

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Functional traits of the understory plant community of a pyrogenic longleaf pine forest across environmental gradients

scientific article published on 5 May 2017

Global Root Traits (GRooT) Database

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Global gradients in intraspecific variation in vegetative and floral traits are partially associated with climate and species richness

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Global root traits (GRooT) database

scientific article

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

scientific article published on 9 March 2014

Impacts of female body size on cannibalism and juvenile abundance in a dominant arctic spider

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity

scientific article

In search of microbial indicator taxa: shifts in stream bacterial communities along an urbanization gradient

scientific article published on 30 June 2019

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

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Intraspecific trait variability shapes leaf trait response to altered fire regimes

scientific article published on 10 October 2020

Intraspecific variability improves environmental matching, but does not increase ecological breadth along a wet-to-dry ecotone

scientific article published on 22 November 2016

Invasive species' leaf traits and dissimilarity from natives shape their impact on nitrogen cycling: a meta-analysis

scientific article

Joint effects of nutrient addition and enemy exclusion on exotic plant success

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Linking populations to landscapes: richness scenarios resulting from changes in the dynamics of an ecosystem engineer

scientific article

Local vs. landscape controls on plant species richness in beaver meadows

scientific article published on 04 June 2007

Long Distance Seed Dispersal by Forest Elephants

scientific article published on 22 December 2021

Low concentrations of silver nanoparticles in biosolids cause adverse ecosystem responses under realistic field scenario

scientific article

Microbial nitrogen limitation in the mammalian large intestine

article

Multiple environmental drivers structure plant traits at the community level in a pyrogenic ecosystem

scientific article published on 10 August 2015

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

scientific article published on 26 March 2022

Nitrogen uptake and biomass resprouting show contrasting relationships with resource acquisitive and conservative plant traits

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

PREDICTING EFFECTS OF ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS ON PATCH-SCALE SPECIES RICHNESS FROM PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY

scientific article published on 04 June 2007

Patch dynamics in a landscape modified by ecosystem engineers

scientific article published on 22 March 2004

Plant community and soil conditions individually affect soil microbial community assembly in experimental mesocosms.

scientific article

Plant controls on post-fire nitrogen availability in a pine savanna

article

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

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Plant trait diversity buffers variability in denitrification potential over changes in season and soil conditions

scientific article (publication date: 16 July 2010)

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

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

scientific article

Pulling apart the urbanization axis: patterns of physiochemical degradation and biological response across stream ecosystems

Rare microbial taxa emerge when communities collide: freshwater and marine microbiome responses to experimental mixing

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem function: will an integrated approach improve results?

Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

scientific article published on 22 April 2016

Salinity thresholds for understory plants in coastal wetlands

scientific article published in 2021

Saltwater intrusion in context: soil factors regulate impacts of salinity on soil carbon cycling

scientific article published in 2021

Site conditions are more important than abundance for explaining plant invasion impacts on soil nitrogen cycling

scientific article published on 28 October 2018

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

article

Species' traits do not converge on optimum values in preferred habitats.

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Succession, regression and loss: does evidence of saltwater exposure explain recent changes in the tree communities of North Carolina’s Coastal Plain?

scientific article published on 6 April 2019

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Temperature accelerates the rate fields become forests

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

The Concept of Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers Ten Years On: Progress, Limitations, and Challenges

scholarly article by JUSTIN P. WRIGHT published in January 2006

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The more things change, the more they stay the same? When is trait variability important for stability of ecosystem function in a changing environment

scientific article

The putative niche requirements and landscape dynamics of Microstegium vimineum: an invasive Asian grass

article

Trait space of rare plants in a fire-dependent ecosystem

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

Urban stream denitrifier communities are linked to lower functional resistance to multiple stressors associated with urbanization

Variation in Plant Response to Herbivory Underscored by Functional Traits

scientific article

Warming reverses top-down effects of predators on belowground ecosystem function in Arctic tundra

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Watershed urbanization alters the composition and function of stream bacterial communities

scientific article

List of works by Justin P. Wright

An ecosystem engineer, the beaver, increases species richness at the landscape scale

Assessing impacts of ecosystem engineers on community organization: a general approach illustrated by effects of a high-Andean cushion plant

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

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

Boom-bust dynamics in biological invasions: towards an improved application of the concept

Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning

Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem

Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition

Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within local species pools across varying environmental conditions?

Drivers of secondary succession rates across temperate latitudes of the Eastern USA: climate, soils, and species pools ⬇️

Dynamic interactions of life and its landscape: feedbacks at the interface of geomorphology and ecology

Ecosystem engineers maintain a rare species of butterfly and increase plant diversity

Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems

Effects of fire frequency on litter decomposition as mediated by changes to litter chemistry and soil environmental conditions

Effects of silver nanoparticle exposure on germination and early growth of eleven wetland plants

Environmental conditions influence the plant functional diversity effect on potential denitrification

Evaluating the effects of land-use change and future climate change on vulnerability of coastal landscapes to saltwater intrusion

Functional trait similarity predicts survival in rare plant reintroductions

Functional traits of the understory plant community of a pyrogenic longleaf pine forest across environmental gradients

Global Root Traits (GRooT) Database

Global gradients in intraspecific variation in vegetative and floral traits are partially associated with climate and species richness

Global root traits (GRooT) database

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

Impacts of female body size on cannibalism and juvenile abundance in a dominant arctic spider

Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity

In search of microbial indicator taxa: shifts in stream bacterial communities along an urbanization gradient

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

Intraspecific trait variability shapes leaf trait response to altered fire regimes

Intraspecific variability improves environmental matching, but does not increase ecological breadth along a wet-to-dry ecotone

Invasive species' leaf traits and dissimilarity from natives shape their impact on nitrogen cycling: a meta-analysis

Joint effects of nutrient addition and enemy exclusion on exotic plant success

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

Linking populations to landscapes: richness scenarios resulting from changes in the dynamics of an ecosystem engineer

Local vs. landscape controls on plant species richness in beaver meadows

Long Distance Seed Dispersal by Forest Elephants

Low concentrations of silver nanoparticles in biosolids cause adverse ecosystem responses under realistic field scenario

Microbial nitrogen limitation in the mammalian large intestine

Multiple environmental drivers structure plant traits at the community level in a pyrogenic ecosystem

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

Nitrogen uptake and biomass resprouting show contrasting relationships with resource acquisitive and conservative plant traits

PREDICTING EFFECTS OF ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS ON PATCH-SCALE SPECIES RICHNESS FROM PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY

Patch dynamics in a landscape modified by ecosystem engineers

Plant community and soil conditions individually affect soil microbial community assembly in experimental mesocosms.

Plant controls on post-fire nitrogen availability in a pine savanna

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

Plant trait diversity buffers variability in denitrification potential over changes in season and soil conditions

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

Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

Pulling apart the urbanization axis: patterns of physiochemical degradation and biological response across stream ecosystems

Rare microbial taxa emerge when communities collide: freshwater and marine microbiome responses to experimental mixing

Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem function: will an integrated approach improve results?

Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

Salinity thresholds for understory plants in coastal wetlands

Saltwater intrusion in context: soil factors regulate impacts of salinity on soil carbon cycling

Site conditions are more important than abundance for explaining plant invasion impacts on soil nitrogen cycling

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

Species' traits do not converge on optimum values in preferred habitats.

Succession, regression and loss: does evidence of saltwater exposure explain recent changes in the tree communities of North Carolina’s Coastal Plain?

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

Temperature accelerates the rate fields become forests

The Concept of Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers Ten Years On: Progress, Limitations, and Challenges

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

The more things change, the more they stay the same? When is trait variability important for stability of ecosystem function in a changing environment

The putative niche requirements and landscape dynamics of Microstegium vimineum: an invasive Asian grass

Trait space of rare plants in a fire-dependent ecosystem

Urban stream denitrifier communities are linked to lower functional resistance to multiple stressors associated with urbanization

Variation in Plant Response to Herbivory Underscored by Functional Traits

Warming reverses top-down effects of predators on belowground ecosystem function in Arctic tundra

Watershed urbanization alters the composition and function of stream bacterial communities