Saving the sagebrush sea: an ecosystem conservation plan for big sagebrush plant communities

KW Davies, CS Boyd, JL Beck, JD Bates… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Vegetation change and anthropogenic development are altering ecosystems and
decreasing biodiversity. Successful management of ecosystems threatened by multiple …

The role of plants in the effects of global change on nutrient availability and stoichiometry in the plant-soil system

J Sardans, J Peñuelas - Plant physiology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The impact on nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycles of human activity is a growing
concern and has several causes and consequences (MacDonald et al., 2011; Peñuelas et …

A functional trait perspective on plant invasion

RE Drenovsky, BJ Grewell, CM D'antonio… - Annals of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background and Aims Global environmental change will affect non-native plant invasions,
with profound potential impacts on native plant populations, communities and ecosystems …

Niche complementarity due to plasticity in resource use: plant partitioning of chemical N forms

IW Ashton, AE Miller, WD Bowman, KN Suding - Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Niche complementarity, in which coexisting species use different forms of a resource, has
been widely invoked to explain some of the most debated patterns in ecology, including …

Conditions favouring Bromus tectorum dominance of endangered sagebrush steppe ecosystems

MD Reisner, JB Grace, DA Pyke… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem invasibility is determined by combinations of environmental variables, invader
attributes, disturbance regimes, competitive abilities of resident species and evolutionary …

Living with exotic annual grasses in the sagebrush ecosystem

KW Davies, EA Leger, CS Boyd, LM Hallett - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Exotic annual grasses dominate millions of hectares and increase fire frequency in the
sagebrush ecosystem of North America. This devastating invasion is so costly and …

Plant community diversity and native plant abundance decline with increasing abundance of an exotic annual grass

KW Davies - Oecologia, 2011 - Springer
Exotic plants are generally considered a serious problem in wildlands around the globe.
However, some argue that the impacts of exotic plants have been exaggerated and that …

Interaction of historical and nonhistorical disturbances maintains native plant communities

KW Davies, TJ Svejcar, JD Bates - Ecological Applications, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Historical disturbance regimes are often considered a critical element in maintaining native
plant communities. However, the response of plant communities to disturbance may be …

Functional composition controls invasion success in a California serpentine grassland

DU Hooper, JS Dukes - Journal of Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Recent debates about the role of biotic resistance in controlling invasion success have
focused on effects of species richness. However, functional composition could be a stronger …

Intra and interspecific competition among invasive and native species during early stages of plant growth

S Mangla, RL Sheley, JJ James, SR Radosevich - Plant Ecology, 2011 - Springer
Plant competition is a primary ecological process limiting grassland restoration success.
Appropriate restoration techniques require an understanding of the degree to which intra …