List of works - Kimberly La Pierre

A framework for quantifying the magnitude and variability of community responses to global change drivers

article

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

Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in global change experiments

article by J Adam Langley et al published 18 October 2018 in Global Change Biology

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

Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities.

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

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

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

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above-ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie

article

Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2024

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

scientific article published in September 2015

Defining codominance in plant communities

scholarly article

Demystifying dominant species

scientific article published on 04 May 2019

Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change

scientific article published on 25 June 2021

Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands.

scientific article published on 5 February 2015

Divergent Effects of Nitrogen Addition on Soil Respiration in a Semiarid Grassland

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

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

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Drivers of Variation in Aboveground Net Primary Productivity and Plant Community Composition Differ Across a Broad Precipitation Gradient

article

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

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Effects of white‐tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem

scientific article published in 2020

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 February 2014

Explaining temporal variation in above-ground productivity in a mesic grassland: the role of climate and flowering

scientific article published in 2011

Functional trait expression of grassland species shift with short- and long-term nutrient additions

article

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

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

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

Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: insights from long-term experiments

scientific article

Grand challenges in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research in the era of science–policy platforms require explicit consideration of feedbacks

scientific article

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

scientific article published on 9 March 2014

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

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

scientific article published on 21 January 2025

Invasive legume management strategies differentially impact mutualist abundance and benefit to native and invasive hosts

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Invasive legumes can associate with many mutualists of native legumes, but usually do not. ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 September 2017

Invertebrate, not small vertebrate, herbivory interacts with nutrient availability to impact tallgrass prairie community composition and forb biomass

article

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

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

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

scientific article published on 24 October 2022

Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality ⬇️

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change

scholarly article

More Than a Functional Group: Diversity within the Legume–Rhizobia Mutualism and Its Relationship with Ecosystem Function

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

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

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

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

scientific article published on 06 July 2021

Nitrogen deposition promotes phosphorus uptake of plants in a semi-arid temperate grassland

article

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

scientific article published in 2023

Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains ⬇️

scientific article

Nutrient additions cause divergence of tallgrass prairie plant communities resulting in loss of ecosystem stability

article

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 cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory

scientific article published on 27 November 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

Past, Present, and Future Roles of Long-Term Experiments in the LTER Network

Phytoplankton composition modifies predator-driven life history evolution in Daphnia

article

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

scientific article published on 28 November 2014

Plant functional types drive differential responses of grassland ecosystem functions along a precipitation gradient

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Plant, insect, and soil microbial communities vary across brome invasion gradients in northern mixed‐grass prairies

scientific article published in 2024

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

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

scientific article published in Science

Seasonal, not annual precipitation drives community productivity across ecosystems

scientific article published in 2012

Soil nutrient additions increase invertebrate herbivore abundances, but not herbivory, across three grassland systems

scientific article published on 16 October 2015

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

article

Stoichiometric homeostasis predicts plant species dominance, temporal stability, and responses to global change

scientific article

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

article

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Temporal heterogeneity increases with spatial heterogeneity in ecological communities

scientific article published on 20 January 2018

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

scientific article published in 2021

List of works by Kimberly La Pierre

A framework for quantifying the magnitude and variability of community responses to global change drivers

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

Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in global change experiments

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

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

Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities.

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

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

Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above-ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie

Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments

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

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

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

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

Defining codominance in plant communities

Demystifying dominant species

Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change

Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands.

Divergent Effects of Nitrogen Addition on Soil Respiration in a Semiarid Grassland

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

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

Drivers of Variation in Aboveground Net Primary Productivity and Plant Community Composition Differ Across a Broad Precipitation Gradient

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

Effects of white‐tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands ⬇️

Explaining temporal variation in above-ground productivity in a mesic grassland: the role of climate and flowering

Functional trait expression of grassland species shift with short- and long-term nutrient additions

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

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

Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: insights from long-term experiments

Grand challenges in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research in the era of science–policy platforms require explicit consideration of feedbacks

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

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

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

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

Invasive legume management strategies differentially impact mutualist abundance and benefit to native and invasive hosts

Invasive legumes can associate with many mutualists of native legumes, but usually do not. ⬇️

Invertebrate, not small vertebrate, herbivory interacts with nutrient availability to impact tallgrass prairie community composition and forb biomass

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

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

Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality ⬇️

Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change

More Than a Functional Group: Diversity within the Legume–Rhizobia Mutualism and Its Relationship with Ecosystem Function

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

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

Nitrogen deposition promotes phosphorus uptake of plants in a semi-arid temperate grassland

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

Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains ⬇️

Nutrient additions cause divergence of tallgrass prairie plant communities resulting in loss of ecosystem stability

Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands

Nutrient identity modifies the destabilising effects of eutrophication in grasslands

Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory

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

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

Past, Present, and Future Roles of Long-Term Experiments in the LTER Network

Phytoplankton composition modifies predator-driven life history evolution in Daphnia

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

Plant functional types drive differential responses of grassland ecosystem functions along a precipitation gradient

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

Plant, insect, and soil microbial communities vary across brome invasion gradients in northern mixed‐grass prairies

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

Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

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

Seasonal, not annual precipitation drives community productivity across ecosystems

Soil nutrient additions increase invertebrate herbivore abundances, but not herbivory, across three grassland systems

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

Stoichiometric homeostasis predicts plant species dominance, temporal stability, and responses to global change

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

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

Temporal heterogeneity increases with spatial heterogeneity in ecological communities

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