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A dispersal-constrained habitat suitability model for predicting invasion of alpine vegetation

scientific article

A framework to predict the effects of livestock grazing and grazing exclusion on conservation values in natural ecosystems in Australia

scientific article published in 2007

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

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

article

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

publication published on 30 September 2021

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

Awn length variation in Australia’s most widespread grass, Themeda triandra, across its distribution

scientific article published in 2024

Biodiversity responds to increasing climatic extremes in a biome-specific manner

Biotic homogenization in an increasingly urbanized temperate grassland ecosystem

scholarly article by Ben J. Zeeman published in March 2017

Can switches in disturbance type improve habitat for grassland birds in semi‐arid grasslands of South‐Eastern Australia?

scientific article published in 2023

Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity

article

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

scientific article published in Science

Conservation challenges for Victorian Banksias: Workshop May 2020

scientific article published on 03 January 2021

Differences in forest plant functional trait distributions across land-use and productivity gradients.

scientific article published on 3 July 2013

Does intraspecific variation in demography have implications for fire management of an obligate‐seeder shrub across its geographic range?

scientific article published on 25 February 2021

Ecological Responses to 52 Years of Experimental Snow Manipulation in High-Alpine Cushionfield, Old Man Range, South-Central New Zealand

article

Effects of drought and fire on resprouting capacity of 52 temperate Australian perennial native grasses

scientific article published on 13 October 2018

Effects of grazing exclusion on plant species richness and phytomass accumulation vary across a regional productivity gradient

scientific article published in 2010

Effects of time-since-fire on the tussock dynamics of a dominant grass (Themeda triandra) in a temperate Australian grassland

scientific article published on 25 July 2002

Enhancing plant diversity in a novel grassland using seed addition

scientific article published on 26 June 2017

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

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Genetic data and climate niche suitability models highlight the vulnerability of a functionally important plant species from south-eastern Australia

scientific article published on 17 April 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

Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

scientific article published on 6 July 2015

How Species Boundaries Are Determined: A Response to Alexander et al.

scientific article published on 18 November 2016

How Species Boundaries Are Determined: A Response to Alexander et al.: (Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32, 7-8, 2017)

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

How widespread is woody plant encroachment in temperate Australia? Changes in woody vegetation cover in lowland woodland and coastal ecosystems in Victoria from 1989 to 2005

article

Increased Soil Frost Versus Summer Drought as Drivers of Plant Biomass Responses to Reduced Precipitation: Results from a Globally Coordinated Field Experiment

article

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

Intraspecific trait variation in alpine plants relates to their elevational distribution

scientific article published on 25 February 2022

Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities

scientific 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

Linking indices for biodiversity monitoring to extinction risk theory

scientific article

Local extinction of grassland plants: the landscape matrix is more important than patch attributes.

scientific article published on December 2006

Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands

Making monitoring work: insights and lessons from Australia's Long Term Ecological Research Network

scientific article published in December 2018

Message in a bottle: Inadvertent loss of seeds of native grassland species as a result of rudimentary long‐term storage

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

Multivariate drivers of diversity in temperate Australian native grasslands

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

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

scientific article published on 26 March 2022

Non-native plant cover and functional trait composition of urban temperate grasslands in relation to local- and landscape-scale road density

scientific article

Nutrient identity modifies the destabilising effects of eutrophication in grasslands

scientific article published on 27 December 2021

Nutrients and herbivores impact grassland stability across spatial scales through different pathways

scientific article published on 18 January 2022

Old field colonization by native trees and shrubs following land use change: Could this be Victoria’s largest example of landscape recovery?

article by Luke S. Geddes et al published 28 March 2011 in Ecological Management and Restoration

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

Overabundant native herbivore impacts on native plant communities in south‐eastern Australia

scientific article published on 03 November 2021

Phytomass and phenology of three alpine snowpatch species across a natural snowmelt gradient

scientific article published in 2007

Plant extinction risk under climate change: are forecast range shifts alone a good indicator of species vulnerability to global warming?

article

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 species and community responses to global change using structured expert judgement: An Australian mountain ecosystems case study

scientific article published on 02 July 2021

Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 12 July 2023

Rapid upwards spread of non-native plants in mountains across continents

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article published on 6 February 2013

Relative contribution of photodegradation to litter breakdown in Australian grasslands

scientific article published in 2023

Richness, not evenness, varies across water availability gradients in grassy biomes on five continents

scientific article published in July 2022

Shrinking opportunities for establishment of native annual forbs in fragmented grassy woodlands

scientific article published on 02 June 2020

Soil seedbank composition and dynamics across alpine summits in south-eastern Australia

scientific article published in 2010

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

article

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

scientific article published in 2021

Species losses, gains, and changes in persistent species are associated with distinct effects on ecosystem functioning in global grasslands

Species origin affects the rate of response to inter-annual growing season precipitation and nutrient addition in four Australian native grasslands

article

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

scientific article published in 2021

The forgotten annual forbs of Victoria’s basalt plains grassland

scientific article published on 14 June 2021

The golf ball method for rapid assessment of grassland structure

scientific article published on 08 April 2017

The importance of small urban reserves for plant conservation

article

Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients

scientific article published on 15 February 2022

Timing of snowmelt affects species composition via plant strategy filtering

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

article

Using plant functional traits to explain community composition across a strong environmental filter in Australian alpine snowpatches

scientific article published on 18 April 2011

Vegetation Changes after 10 Years of Grazing Exclusion and Intermittent Burning in a Themeda triandra (Poaceae) Grassland Reserve in South-eastern Australia

scientific article published in 1999

What does it take to do successful adaptive management? A case study highlighting Coastal Grassy Woodland restoration at Yanakie Isthmus

scientific article published on 31 May 2018