List of works by James F. Cahill

A molecular identification protocol for roots of boreal forest tree species

scientific article published on November 2014

A new method for the rapid characterization of root growth and distribution using digital image correlation

scientific article published on 17 February 2018

A nonlinear regression approach to test for size-dependence of competitive ability

scientific article

Altered expression of maize PLASTOCHRON1 enhances biomass and seed yield by extending cell division duration.

scientific article published on 16 March 2017

An invasive grass and litter impact tree encroachment into a native grassland

scientific article published in October 2021

Antagonistic interactions between competition and insect herbivory on plant growth

article

Antifungal genes expressed in transgenic pea (Pisum sativum L.) do not affect root colonization of arbuscular mycorrhizae fungi

scientific article published on 12 June 2017

Applying behavioral-ecological theory to plant defense: light-dependent movement in Mimosa pudica suggests a trade-off between predation risk and energetic reward

scientific article published in March 2011

Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments.

scientific article

Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities.

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Biotic homogenization within and across eight widely distributed grasslands following invasion by Bromus inermis

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Change in soil fungal community structure driven by a decline in ectomycorrhizal fungi following a mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreak

scientific article

Changes in soil fungal communities following anthropogenic disturbance are linked to decreased lodgepole pine seedling performance

scientific article published in 2020

Changes in soil fungal community composition depend on functional group and forest disturbance type

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Climate change experiments in temperate grasslands: synthesis and future directions.

scientific article

Community-level determinants of smooth brome (Bromus inermis) growth and survival in the aspen parkland

scientific article published in 2016

Consequences of differing competitive abilities between juvenile and adult plants

article

Conservatism of responses to environmental change is rare under natural conditions in a native grassland

article

Context dependence in foraging behaviour of Achillea millefolium.

scientific article published on 24 May 2012

Contrasting impacts of defoliation on root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal and dark septate endophytic fungi of Medicago sativa

scientific article published on 7 November 2013

Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

scientific article published in 2013

Damage to leaf veins suppresses root foraging precision

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

Decline of ectomycorrhizal fungi following a mountain pine beetle epidemic

scientific article

Differential responses of native and exotic plant species to an invasive grass are driven by variation in biotic and abiotic factors

article

Disentangling herbivore impacts on Populus tremuloides: a comparison of native ungulates and cattle in Canada's Aspen Parkland.

scientific article published on 7 May 2013

Disentangling root system responses to neighbours: identification of novel root behavioural strategies

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

Disruption of a belowground mutualism alters interactions between plants and their floral visitors

scientific article published in July 2008

Does phylogenetic relatedness influence the strength of competition among vascular plants?

article

Ecological implications of single and mixed nitrogen nutrition in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article

Ectomycorrhizal fungi mediate indirect effects of a bark beetle outbreak on secondary chemistry and establishment of pine seedlings

scientific article

Effect of aboveground litter on belowground plant interactions in a native Rough Fescue grassland

article

Effects of insects on primary production in temperate herbaceous communities: a meta-analysis

article

Effects of neighbour location and nutrient distributions on root foraging behaviour of the common sunflower

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Evaluating the relationship between competition and productivity within a native grassland

scientific article

Festuca campestris alters root morphology and growth in response to simulated grazing and nitrogen form

scientific article published in 2010

Flowering and floral visitation predict changes in community structure provided that mycorrhizas remain intact

scientific article published on 21 May 2018

Focusing the metaphor: plant root foraging behaviour.

scientific article published on 4 May 2009

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

Implications of Precipitation, Warming, and Clipping for Grazing Resources in Canadian Prairies

article

Improving the scale and precision of hypotheses to explain root foraging ability

scientific article published on 19 April 2008

Increased competition does not lead to increased phylogenetic overdispersion in a native grassland

scientific article published on 11 July 2013

Independent evolution of leaf and root traits within and among temperate grassland plant communities

scientific article

Influence of bark beetle outbreaks on nutrient cycling in native pine stands in western Canada

article

Interactive effects of insects and ungulates on root growth in a native grassland

scientific article published in 2012

Interspecific differences in root foraging precision cannot be directly inferred from species' mycorrhizal status or fine root economics

scientific article published on 22 April 2022

Introduction to the Special Issue: Beyond traits: integrating behaviour into plant ecology and biology

scientific article published on 26 October 2015

Invasion success of three cool‐season grasses in the northern prairie: a test of three hypotheses

scientific article published on 17 January 2024

Is biotic resistance to invaders dependent upon local environmental conditions or primary productivity? A meta-analysis

scientific article published in 2016

Lack of relationship between below-ground competition and allocation to roots in 10 grassland species

article

Large-scale insect outbreak homogenizes the spatial structure of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Light, Wind, and Touch Influence Leaf Chemistry and Rates of Herbivory in Apocynum cannabinum (Apocynaceae)

journal article from 'International Journal of Plant Sciences' published in 2006

Limited effects of above- and belowground insects on community structure and function in a species-rich grassland

Limited impacts of adaptive multi‐paddock grazing systems on plant diversity in the Northern Great Plains

scientific article published in 2022

Limited impacts of extensive human land use on dominance, specialization, and biotic homogenization in boreal plant communities

scientific article

Linkages of plant-soil feedbacks and underlying invasion mechanisms ⬇️

scientific article

Maternal experience and soil origin influence interactions between resident species and a dominant invasive species

scientific article

Mechanical leaf damage causes localized, but not systemic, changes in leaf movement behavior of the Sensitive Plant, Mimosa pudica (Fabaceae) L

article

Methods in belowground botany

scholarly article by Gregory J. Pec published in April 2019

Molecular identification of roots from a grassland community using size differences in fluorescently labelled PCR amplicons of three cpDNA regions

scientific article

Multi‐year drought alters plant species composition more than productivity across northern temperate grasslands

scientific article published in 2021

Neighbourhood-scale diversity, composition and root crowding do not alter competition during drought in a native grassland

article

Neighbouring plants modify maize root foraging for phosphorus: coupling nutrients and neighbours for improved nutrient-use efficiency

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

No silver bullet: different soil handling techniques are useful for different research questions, exhibit differential type I and II error rates, and are sensitive to sampling intensity

scientific article published on 08 August 2016

Not a melting pot: Plant species aggregate in their non‐native range

scientific article

Patterns of phylogenetic diversity are linked to invasion impacts, not invasion resistance, in a native grassland

scholarly article by Jonathan A. Bennett et al published 16 May 2014 in Journal of Vegetation Science

Photosynthetic opportunity cost and energetic cost of a rapid leaf closure behavior in Mimosa pudica

scientific article published on 10 September 2018

Plant Phenotypic Plasticity Belowground: A Phylogenetic Perspective on Root Foraging Trade‐Offs

article

Plant ecology. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on July 2015

Plant genetic diversity yields increased plant productivity and herbivore performance

article

Plant interactions are unimportant in a subarctic-alpine plant community.

scientific article published in September 2009

Plant root growth and the marginal value theorem.

scholarly article

Plants integrate information about nutrients and neighbors

scientific article published in June 2010

Prevalence and predictability of handling effects in field studies: results from field experiments and a meta-analysis

article

Rapid Increases in forest understory diversity and productivity following a mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreak in pine forests

scientific article

Reexamining Sample Size Requirements for Multivariate, Abundance-Based Community Research: When Resources are Limited, the Research Does Not Have to Be

scientific article

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

scientific article published in Science

Root condensed tannins vary over time, but are unrelated to leaf tannins

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Root foraging influences plant growth responses to earthworm foraging

scientific article

Root system size determines plant performance following short-term soil nutrient pulses

article

Roy Turkington and his legacy to the science of plant ecology

article

SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY, NOT VISITATION BIAS, DOMINATES VARIATION IN HERBIVORY: COMMENT

article

Scaling disturbance instead of richness to better understand anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Separate effects of human visitation and touch on plant growth and herbivory in an old-field community

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Shoot competition, root competition and reproductive allocation inChenopodium acuminatum

article

Shoot, but not root, competition reduces community diversity in experimental mesocosms

article

Short-Term Plant Community Responses to Warming and Defoliation in a Northern Temperate Grassland

article

Small-scale bee patch use is affected equally by flower availability and local habitat configuration

scientific article published in 2014

Soil transfers from intact to disturbed boreal forests neither alter ectomycorrhizal fungal communities nor improve pine seedling performance

scientific article published in 2022

Spatial pattern of invasion and the evolutionary responses of native plant species ⬇️

scientific article

THE MARINE AND BRACKISH WATER SPECIES OF VAUCHERIA (TRIBOPHYCEAE, CHRYSOPHYTA) FROM CONNECTICUT

scientific article published in 1993

Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

scientific article

The Behavioral Ecology of Nutrient Foraging by Plants

article

The effects of ectomycorrhizal fungal networks on seedling establishment are contingent on species and severity of overstorey mortality

scientific article published on 22 February 2020

The effects of livestock grazing on biodiversity are multi-trophic: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 05 May 2020

The inevitability of plant behavior

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Using structural equation modelling to test the passenger, driver and opportunist concepts in aPoa pratensisinvasion

scientific article published in 2012

Water and nitrogen addition differentially impact plant competition in a native rough fescue grassland

article

What evidence is necessary in studies which separate root and shoot competition along productivity gradients?

article

When competition does not matter: grassland diversity and community composition

scientific article

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