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List of works by Rebecca L McCulley

A continent-wide study reveals clear relationships between regional abiotic conditions and post-dispersal seed predation

A method for simultaneous measurement of soil bacterial abundances and community composition via 16S rRNA gene sequencing

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A method for simultaneous measurement of soil bacterial abundances and community composition via 16S rRNA gene sequencing

article published in 2015

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

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

scientific article published in June 2015

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

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

scientific article published in 2024

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

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

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

scientific article published in 2023

Climate and local environment structure asynchrony and the stability of primary production in grasslands

scientific article published in April 2020

Climate drivers, host identity and fungal endophyte infection determine virus prevalence in a grassland ecosystem

scientific article published in 2014

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published in Science

Compositional differences in simulated root exudates elicit a limited functional and compositional response in soil microbial communities

scientific article

Compositional variation in grassland plant communities

scientific article published in 2023

Conservation of nitrogen increases with precipitation across a major grassland gradient in the Central Great Plains of North America

scientific article published on 26 November 2008

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

scientific article published in September 2015

Cross-biome patterns in soil microbial respiration predictable from evolutionary theory on thermal adaptation

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change

scientific article published on 25 June 2021

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

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Drivers of soil microbial and detritivore activity across global grasslands

scientific article published in December 2023

Effects of multiple climate change factors on the tall fescue-fungal endophyte symbiosis: infection frequency and tissue chemistry

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass

scientific article published on 31 March 2023

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

scientific article published on 16 February 2014

Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity

scientific article published in 2022

Fungal endophyte infection and host genetic background jointly modulate host response to an aphid-transmitted viral pathogen

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

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Global Grassland Diazotrophic Communities Are Structured by Combined Abiotic, Biotic, and Spatial Distance Factors but Resilient to Fertilization

scientific article published on 28 March 2022

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 impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

scientific article published on 6 July 2015

Grazing and no-till cropping impacts on nitrogen retention in dryland agroecosystems

scientific article published in November 2014

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

scientific article published on 9 March 2014

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

scientific article published on 31 March 2018

Impacts of nutrient addition on soil carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry and stability in globally-distributed grasslands

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Infection with a Shoot-Specific Fungal Endophyte (Epichloë) Alters Tall Fescue Soil Microbial Communities

scientific article

Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Microbial processing of plant remains is co-limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

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

scientific article published on 06 July 2021

Nitrogen but not phosphorus addition affects symbiotic N2 fixation by legumes in natural and semi-natural grasslands located on four continents

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published on 26 March 2022

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

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Nutrient availability controls the impact of mammalian herbivores on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in grasslands

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands

scientific article published on 31 October 2021

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

scientific article

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

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

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Predicting the responsiveness of soil biodiversity to deforestation: a cross-biome study.

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Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

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Reconstructing the microbial diversity and function of pre-agricultural tallgrass prairie soils in the United States

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Regional contingencies in the relationship between aboveground biomass and litter in the world's grasslands

scientific article published on 6 February 2013

Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

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

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Spatial turnover of multiple ecosystem functions is more associated with plant than soil microbial β‐diversity

scientific article published on 21 July 2021

Tall Fescue and E. coenophiala Genetics Influence Root-Associated Soil Fungi in a Temperate Grassland

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Tall fescue cultivar and fungal endophyte combinations influence plant growth and root exudate composition

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

scientific article published in 2021

The effect of a quorum-quenching enzyme on leaf litter decomposition

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The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

scientific article published on 19 October 2023

Time in pasture rotation alters soil microbial community composition and function and increases carbon sequestration potential in a temperate agroecosystem

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Warming reduces tall fescue abundance but stimulates toxic alkaloid concentrations in transition zone pastures of the U.S.

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Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

scientific article published on 5 August 2024