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A 'Weight of Evidence' approach to evaluating structural equation models

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

A causal examination of the effects of confounding factors on multimetric indices

scientific article published in 2013

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

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A general theory of multimetric indices and their properties

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A graphical causal model for resolving species identity effects and biodiversity–ecosystem function correlations: comment

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A protocol for modelling generalised biological responses using latent variables in structural equation models

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An algorithmic and information-theoretic approach to multimetric index construction

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An integrative paradigm for building causal knowledge

scientific article published in 2024

Associations between Urban Sprawl and Life Expectancy in the United States.

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Beyond just sea-level rise: considering macroclimatic drivers within coastal wetland vulnerability assessments to climate change

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Biodiversity effects on grape quality depend on variety and management intensity

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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

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Biogeographic affinity helps explain productivity-richness relationships at regional and local scales

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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 and plant controls on soil organic matter in coastal wetlands

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Climate change effects on an endemic-rich edaphic flora: resurveying Robert H. Whittaker's Siskiyou sites (Oregon, USA).

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Climatic Controls on the Distribution of Foundation Plant Species in Coastal Wetlands of the Conterminous United States: Knowledge Gaps and Emerging Research Needs

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Climatic controls on the global distribution, abundance, and species richness of mangrove forests

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

scientific article published in Science

Conditions favouring Bromus tectorum dominance of endangered sagebrush steppe ecosystems

article by Michael D. Reisner et al published 13 May 2013 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Context-dependent interactions and the regulation of species richness in freshwater fish.

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Development of a Multimetric Index for Integrated Assessment of Salt Marsh Ecosystem Condition

scholarly article by Jessica L. Nagel et al published 31 July 2017 in Estuaries and Coasts

Direct and indirect influences of macrophyte cover on abundance and growth of juvenile Atlantic salmon

scientific article published in 2022

Disentangling vegetation diversity from climate-energy and habitat heterogeneity for explaining animal geographic patterns

scientific article published on 9 February 2016

Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities?

scientific article published in August 2007

EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON PLANT SPECIES DENSITY: COMPARING PREDICTIONS WITH EXPERIMENTS

scientific article published in 1999

Ecological contingency in the effects of climatic warming on forest herb communities.

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Ecology: Signals of impending change.

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Effects of flooding, salinity and herbivory on coastal plant communities, Louisiana, United States

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

Effects of size and growth rate on vegetative reproduction in Typha

scientific article published in August 1981

Environmental and plant community determinants of species loss following nitrogen enrichment

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Erratum: Corrigendum: Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: Macroclimatic change expected to transform coastal wetland ecosystems this century

scholarly article published in Nature Climate Change

Fatal attraction? Intraguild facilitation and suppression among predators

scientific article published on 13 September 2017

Firelogger user's manual

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From patterns to causal understanding: Structural equation modeling (SEM) in soil ecology

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General guidance for custom-built structural equation models

scientific article published in 2022

Getting the Message Across: Using Ecological Integrity to Communicate with Resource Managers

scientific article published in 2014

Guidelines for a graph-theoretic implementation of structural equation modeling

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HERBIVORE EFFECTS ON PLANT SPECIES DENSITY AT VARYING PRODUCTIVITY LEVELS

scientific article published in 1998

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

scientific article published on 31 March 2018

How does pedogenesis drive plant diversity?

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Hurricane Sandy Effects on Coastal Marsh Elevation Change

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Hurricane Sandy impacts on coastal wetland resilience

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Instrumental variable methods in structural equation models

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Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Invasion in a diversity hotspot: exotic cover and native richness in the Californian serpentine flora.

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Is biotic resistance enhanced by natural variation in diversity?

scientific article published on 05 April 2017

Landscape structure affects specialists but not generalists in naturally fragmented grasslands.

scientific article published in December 2015

Landscape-scale analyses suggest both nutrient and antipredator advantages to Serengeti herbivore hotspots

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Large-scale causes of variation in the serpentine vegetation of California

article published in 2007

Linear and nonlinear effects of temperature and precipitation on ecosystem properties in tidal saline wetlands

scientific article published in 2017

Local richness along gradients in the Siskiyou herb flora: R. H. Whittaker revisited.

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Local versus landscape-scale effects of savanna trees on grasses

article by Corinna Riginos et al published November 2009 in Journal of Ecology

Long-term dynamics of leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) and its biocontrol agent, flea beetles in the genus Aphthona

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Long-term effects of seeding after wildfire on vegetation in Great Basin shrubland ecosystems

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Macroclimatic change expected to transform coastal wetland ecosystems this century

scholarly article by Christopher A. Gabler et al published 23 January 2017 in Nature Climate Change

Migration and transformation of coastal wetlands in response to rising seas

scientific article published in 2022

Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime

scientific article published on 18 August 2023

Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

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Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

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Quantifying relative importance: computing standardized effects in models with binary outcomes

scientific article published in 2018

Quantifying restoration effectiveness using multi-scale habitat models: implications for sage-grouse in the Great Basin

article by Robert S. Arkle et al published March 2014 in Ecosphere

REGIONAL AND LOCAL SPECIES RICHNESS IN AN INSULAR ENVIRONMENT: SERPENTINE PLANTS IN CALIFORNIA

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Rank clocks and plant community dynamics

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Resilience and Resistance of Sagebrush Ecosystems: Implications for State and Transition Models and Management Treatments

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Response of bird community structure to habitat management in piñon-juniper woodland-sagebrush ecotones

scientific article published in 2017

Retracted: Does natural variation in diversity affect biotic resistance?

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Savanna tree density, herbivores, and the herbaceous community: bottom-up vs. top-down effects

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Scientist's guide to developing explanatory statistical models using causal analysis principles

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Short-term disruption of a leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) biocontrol program following herbicide application

Size bias in traditional analyses of substitutive competition experiments

scientific article published in June 1992

Streams in the urban heat island: spatial and temporal variability in temperature

article by Kayleigh A. Somers et al published March 2013 in Freshwater Science

Temporal shifts in top-down vs. bottom-up control of epiphytic algae in a seagrass ecosystem

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The importance of natural versus human factors for ecological conditions of streams and rivers

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

The influence of vines on an oligohaline marsh community: results of a removal and fertilization study

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

The plant diversity sampling design for The National Ecological Observatory Network

scientific article published in February 2019

Untangling the biological contributions to soil stability in semiarid shrublands

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Variations in growth and reproduction within populations of two rhizomatous plant species: Typha latifolia and Typha angustifolia

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