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List of works by William Stanley Harpole

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

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

scientific article published on October 21, 2010

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

scientific article published in February 2011

Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

An integrative environmental pollen diversity assessment and its importance for the Sustainable Development Goals

scientific article published on 3 November 2021

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

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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

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

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CO2, nitrogen, and diversity differentially affect seed production of prairie plants.

scientific article published in July 2009

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

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

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.

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CoRRE Trait Data: A dataset of 17 categorical and continuous traits for 4079 grassland species worldwide

scientific article published in 2024

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

scientific article published in Science

Consequences of plant-soil feedbacks in invasion

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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

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Cyanobacteria dominance influences resource use efficiency and community turnover in phytoplankton and zooplankton communities

scientific article published on 28 January 2014

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

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

scientific article published on 16 February 2014

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

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Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

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Frequency-dependence stabilizes competitive interactions among four annual plants

scientific article published on 6 October 2007

From selection to complementarity: shifts in the causes of biodiversity-productivity relationships in a long-term biodiversity experiment

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Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems

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

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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 productivity limited by multiple nutrients

scientific article published on 6 July 2015

Grassland species loss resulting from reduced niche dimension

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Herbaceous perennial plants with short generation time have stronger responses to climate anomalies than those with longer generation time

scientific article published on 23 March 2021

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

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

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How does plant chemical diversity contribute to biodiversity at higher trophic levels?

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How to estimate complementarity and selection effects from an incomplete sample of species

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

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

Invasion, competitive dominance, and resource use by exotic and native California grassland species

scientific article

Knowledge sharing for shared success in the decade on ecosystem restoration

scientific article published in January 2022

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

Light competition drives herbivore and nutrient effects on plant diversity

scientific article published on 2 November 2022

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

scientific article published on 24 October 2022

Litter accumulation, not light limitation, drives early plant recruitment

scientific article published in 2023

Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Mammalian Herbivores Alter the Population Growth and Spatial Establishment of an Early-Establishing Grassland Species

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Multiple global change factors cause declines of a temperate bryophyte

scientific article published in 2024

Nitrogen enrichment and plant communities

scientific article published on May 2010

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

scientific article published on 26 March 2022

Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities.

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

Nutrient enrichment alters seasonal <i>β</i>‐diversity in global grasslands

scientific article published in 2023

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

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

scientific article published in September 2017

Phosphorus resource partitioning shapes phosphorus acquisition and plant species abundance in grasslands

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Phylogenetic and metabolic diversity have contrasting effects on the ecological functioning of bacterial communities

scientific article published on 12 February 2021

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

scientific article published on 28 November 2014

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

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Plant water use affects competition for nitrogen: why drought favors invasive species in California

scientific article published on January 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

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Reducing dispersal limitation via seed addition increases species richness but not above-ground biomass

scientific article published on 21 June 2020

Responses of plant diversity to precipitation change are strongest at local spatial scales and in drylands

scientific article published on 03 May 2021

Revealing how species loss affects ecosystem function: the trait-based Price Equation partition

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Separating the influence of resource 'availability' from resource 'imbalance' on productivity-diversity relationships.

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

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

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

scientific article published in 2021

Sustainable land management enhances ecological and economic multifunctionality under ambient and future climate

scientific article published on 10 June 2024

Temperature and stoichiometric dependence of phytoplankton traits

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

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

scientific article published in 2021

The hydrological niche and spatially structured species co-existence

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

scientific article published in May 2016

The recovery of plant community composition following passive restoration across spatial scales

scientific article published on 6 February 2023

Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

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

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Understanding plant communities of the future requires filling knowledge gaps

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

scientific article published on 5 August 2024

gauseR: Simple methods for fitting Lotka-Volterra models describing Gause's "Struggle for Existence"

scientific article published on 26 October 2020