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Featured Publications
- Allgeier, J. E. et al. Phylogenetic conservatism drives nutrient dynamics of coral reef fishes. Nature Communications 12, 5432 (2021).
- Anoszko, E., Frelich, L. E., Rich, R. L. & Reich, P. B. Wind and fire: Rapid shifts in tree community composition following multiple disturbances in the southern boreal forest. Ecosphere 13, e3952 (2022).
- Au, T. F. et al. Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought. Nature climate change 12, 1168–1174 (2022).
- Avolio, M. L. et al. Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change. Ecology Letters 24, 1892–1904 (2021).
- Avolio, M. L. et al. Making sense of multivariate community responses in global change experiments. Ecosphere 13, e4249 (2022).
- Barry, K. E. et al. A graphical null model for scaling biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Journal of Ecology 109, 1549–1560 (2021).
- Belluau, M. et al. Exotics are more complementary over time in tree biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments. Functional Ecology 35, 2550–2561 (2021).
- Bergmans, R. S. et al. Short-term exposures to atmospheric evergreen, deciduous, grass, and ragweed aeroallergens and the risk of suicide in Ohio, 2007–2015: Exploring disparities by age, gender, and education level. Environmental research 200, 111450 (2021).
- Bermudez, R., Stefanski, A., Montgomery, R. A. & Reich, P. B. Short-and long-term responses of photosynthetic capacity to temperature in four boreal tree species in a free-air warming and rainfall manipulation experiment. Tree physiology 41, 89–102 (2021).
- Berthelot, S. et al. Exotic tree species have consistently lower herbivore load in a cross‐A tlantic tree biodiversity experiment. Ecology 104, e4070 (2023).
- Blondeel, H. et al. Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought. Journal of Ecology (2024).
- Boldorini, G. X. et al. Predators control pests and increase yield across crop types and climates: a meta-analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291, 20232522 (2024).
- Bouchard, E. et al. Global patterns and environmental drivers of forest functional composition. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33, 303–324 (2024).
- Butler, E. E. et al. Increasing functional diversity in a global land surface model illustrates uncertainties related to parameter simplification. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 127, e2021JG006606 (2022).
- Butler, E. E. et al. Updated respiration routines alter spatio-temporal patterns of carbon cycling in a global land surface model. Environmental Research Letters 16, 104015 (2021).
- Cavender-Bares, J. et al. BII-Implementation: The causes and consequences of plant biodiversity across scales in a rapidly changing world. Research Ideas and Outcomes: The Open Science Journal 7, e63850 (2021).
- Cazzolla Gatti, R. et al. The number of tree species on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2115329119 (2022).
- Cesarz, S. et al. Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31, 872–885 (2022).
- Chen, X., Chen, H. Y., Searle, E. B., Chen, C. & Reich, P. B. Negative to positive shifts in diversity effects on soil nitrogen over time. Nature Sustainability 4, 225–232 (2021).
- Chen, X., Reich, P. B., Taylor, A. R., An, Z. & Chang, S. X. Resource availability enhances positive tree functional diversity effects on carbon and nitrogen accrual in natural forests. Nature Communications 15, 8615 (2024).
- Dee, L. E. et al. Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference. Nature Communications 14, 2607 (2023).
- Depauw, L. et al. Enhancing tree performance through species mixing: review of a quarter-century of TreeDivNet experiments reveals research gaps and practical insights. Current Forestry Reports 1–20 (2024).
- Díaz, S. et al. The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset. Scientific Data 9, 755 (2022).
- Dusenge, M. E. et al. Photosynthetic capacity in middle‐aged larch and spruce acclimates independently to experimental warming and elevated CO2. Plant, Cell & Environment (2024).
- Eldridge, D. J. et al. The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services. Nature Geoscience 16, 430–438 (2023).
- Ellsworth, D. S. et al. Convergence in phosphorus constraints to photosynthesis in forests around the world. Nature communications 13, 5005 (2022).
- Engel, T. et al. Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32, 695–706 (2023).
- Flinker, R. H. et al. Promise and pitfalls of modeling grassland soil moisture in a free-air CO2 enrichment experiment (BioCON) using the SHAW model. Pedosphere 31, 783–795 (2021).
- Flores-Moreno, H. et al. Is Australia weird? A cross-continental comparison of biological, geological and climatological features. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11, 1073842 (2023).
- Gao, X. et al. The importance of distinguishing natural forest regrowth from managed tree systems. (2024).
- Gill, A. et al. Soil carbon availability decouples net nitrogen mineralization and net nitrification across United States Long Term Ecological Research sites. Biogeochemistry 162, 13–24 (2023).
- Gold, Z. J. et al. Herbaceous vegetation responses to experimental fire in savannas and forests depend on biome and climate. Ecology letters 26, 1237–1246 (2023).
- Gonçalves‐Souza, T. et al. Bringing light onto the Raunkiæran shortfall: A comprehensive review of traits used in functional animal ecology. Ecology and Evolution 13, e10016 (2023).
- Gonçalves‐Souza, T. et al. ZooTraits: An R shiny app for exploring animal trait data for ecological and evolutionary research. Ecology and Evolution 14, e11334 (2024).
- Gou, X. et al. Leguminous plants significantly increase soil nitrogen cycling across global climates and ecosystem types. Global change biology 29, 4028–4043 (2023).
- Guerrero‐Ramírez, N. R. et al. Global root traits (GRooT) database. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30, 25–37 (2021).
- Harley, G. L. et al. A 561-yr (1461-2022 CE) summer temperature reconstruction for Mid-Atlantic-Northeast USA shows connections to volcanic forcing and atmospheric circulation. Climatic Change 177, 1–23 (2024).
- He, M. et al. Cumulative nitrogen enrichment alters the drivers of grassland overyielding. Communications Biology 7, 309 (2024).
- Hogan, J. A., Domke, G. M., Zhu, K., Johnson, D. J. & Lichstein, J. W. Climate change determines the sign of productivity trends in US forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, e2311132121 (2024).
- Hong, P. et al. Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change. Ecology Letters 25, 555–569 (2022).
- Hordijk, I. et al. Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness. Journal of Ecology 111, 1308–1326 (2023).
- Hu, X. et al. Warming causes contrasting spider behavioural responses by changing their prey size spectra. Nature Climate Change 1–8 (2024).
- Isbell, F. et al. Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 21, 94–103 (2023).
- Jiang, M. et al. Microbial competition for phosphorus limits the CO2 response of a mature forest. Nature 1–6 (2024).
- Jing, X. et al. Spatial turnover of multiple ecosystem functions is more associated with plant than soil microbial β‐diversity. Ecosphere 12, e03644 (2021).
- Jing, X. et al. The influence of aboveground and belowground species composition on spatial turnover in nutrient pools in alpine grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31, 486–500 (2022).
- Joswig, J. S. et al. Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6, 36–50 (2022).
- Journé, V. et al. Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients. Ecology letters 25, 1471–1482 (2022).
- Journé, V. et al. The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates. Ecology Letters 27, e14500 (2024).
- Juno, E. & Ibáñez, I. Biochar application and soil transfer in tree restoration: A meta-analysis and field experiment. Ecological Restoration 39, 158–167 (2021).
- Koltz, A. M. et al. Sublethal effects of parasitism on ruminants can have cascading consequences for ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2117381119 (2022).
- Kong, W. et al. Afforestation can lower microbial diversity and functionality in deep soil layers in a semiarid region. Global change biology 28, 6086–6101 (2022).
- Ladouceur, E. et al. The recovery of plant community composition following passive restoration across spatial scales. Journal of Ecology 111, 814–829 (2023).
- Laughlin, D. C. et al. Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5, 1123–1134 (2021).
- Leão, T. C., Reinhardt, J. R., Nic Lughadha, E. & Reich, P. B. Projected impacts of climate and land use changes on the habitat of Atlantic Forest plants in Brazil. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30, 2016–2028 (2021).
- Lee, B. R. & Ibáñez, I. Improved phenological escape can help temperate tree seedlings maintain demographic performance under climate change conditions. Global Change Biology 27, 3883–3897 (2021).
- Lee, B. R. & Ibáñez, I. Spring phenological escape is critical for the survival of temperate tree seedlings. Functional Ecology 35, 1848–1861 (2021).
- Li, F. et al. Quantifying the role of ozone-caused damage to vegetation in the Earth system: A new parameterization scheme for photosynthetic and stomatal responses. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions 2024, 1–37 (2024).
- Li, J. et al. Divergent intra-and interspecific root order variability identifies a two-dimensional root economics spectrum. Plant and Soil 1–18 (2024).
- Li, J. et al. The intra-annual rhythm of Pinus sylvestris growth-climate responses under a warming climate at its southern distribution limits. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 346, 109871 (2024).
- Li, T. et al. Dendroclimatological study of Sabina saltuaria and Abies faxoniana in the mixed forests of the Qionglai Mountains, eastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Forestry Research 35, 20 (2024).
- Li, T., Peng, J., Au, T. F. & Li, J. April–September minimum temperature reconstruction based on Sabina tibetica ring-width chronology in the central eastern Tibetan Plateau, China. Journal of Forestry Research 35, 37 (2024).
- Li, Y. et al. Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally. Nature Communications 15, 7108 (2024).
- Li, Y. et al. Reservoir regulation-induced variations in water level impacts cyanobacterial bloom by the changing physiochemical conditions. Water Research 259, 121836 (2024).
- Liang, G. et al. Soil respiration response to decade-long warming modulated by soil moisture in a boreal forest. Nature Geoscience 1–7 (2024).
- Liu, X. et al. Long‐term warming increased carbon sequestration capacity in a humid subtropical forest. Global Change Biology 30, e17072 (2024).
- Lobo, D., Reich, P. B. & Ardichvili, A. A. Conservation entrepreneurship: A new frontier in conservation science. Biological Conservation 282, 110078 (2023).
- Maschler, J. et al. Links across ecological scales: Plant biomass responses to elevated CO2. Global Change Biology 28, 6115–6134 (2022).
- Mason, R. E. et al. Evidence, causes, and consequences of declining nitrogen availability in terrestrial ecosystems. Science 376, eabh3767 (2022).
- Maxwell, J. T. et al. Asymmetric effects of hydroclimate extremes on eastern US tree growth: Implications on current demographic shifts and climate variability. Global change biology 30, e17474 (2024).
- McPherson, M. R., Zak, D. R., Ibáñez, I., Upchurch, R. A. & Argiroff, W. A. Arbuscular mycorrhizal diversity increases across a plant productivity gradient driven by soil nitrogen availability. Plant‐Environment Interactions 5, e70002 (2024).
- Meisner, A. et al. Soil microbial legacies differ following drying-rewetting and freezing-thawing cycles. The ISME Journal 15, 1207–1221 (2021).
- Messier, C. et al. For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let’s diversify planted forests! Conservation Letters 15, e12829 (2022).
- Migliavacca, M. et al. The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function. Nature 598, 468–472 (2021).
- Mills, K. L. et al. Dynamic primary resources, not just wild prey availability, underpin lion depredation of livestock in a savanna ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution 14, e70208 (2024).
- Mirabel, A. et al. New tree-ring data from Canadian boreal and hemi-boreal forests provide insight for improving the climate sensitivity of terrestrial biosphere models. Science of the Total Environment 851, 158062 (2022).
- Mohanbabu, N., Isbell, F., Hobbie, S. E. & Reich, P. B. Species interactions amplify functional group responses to elevated CO2 and N enrichment in a 24‐year grassland experiment. Global Change Biology 30, e17476 (2024).
- Mori, A. S. et al. Biodiversity–productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions. Nature Climate Change 11, 543–550 (2021).
- Mori, A. S. et al. Urgent climate action is needed to ensure effectiveness of protected areas for biodiversity benefits. One Earth (2024).
- Nieves, D. J. et al. Ectomycorrhizal fungal community response to warming and rainfall reduction differs between co-occurring temperate-boreal ecotonal Pinus saplings. Mycorrhiza 1–14 (2024).
- O’Connor, M. I. et al. Grand challenges in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research in the era of science–policy platforms require explicit consideration of feedbacks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288, 20210783 (2021).
- Ohlert, T. et al. Exploring the impact of trait number and type on functional diversity metrics in real-world ecosystems. Plos one 17, e0272791 (2022).
- Pan, Y. et al. Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies. Nature ecology & evolution 6, 315–323 (2022).
- Pastore, M. A. et al. Soil microbial legacies influence freeze–thaw responses of soil. Functional Ecology37, 1055–1066 (2023).
- Pastore, M. A., Classen, A. T., D’Amato, A. W., Foster, J. R. & Adair, E. C. Cold‐air pools as microrefugia for ecosystem functions in the face of climate change. Ecology 103, e3717 (2022).
- Pastore, M. A., Hobbie, S. E. & Reich, P. B. Sensitivity of grassland carbon pools to plant diversity, elevated CO2, and soil nitrogen addition over 19 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, e2016965118 (2021).
- Pellegrini, A. F. et al. Consistent physiological, ecological and evolutionary effects of fire regime on conservative leaf economics strategies in plant communities. Ecology letters 26, 597–608 (2023).
- Pellegrini, A. F. et al. Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5, 504–512 (2021).
- Pellegrini, A. F. et al. Disease and fire interact to influence transitions between savanna–forest ecosystems over a multi‐decadal experiment. Ecology letters 24, 1007–1017 (2021).
- Pellitier, P. T., Ibáñez, I., Zak, D. R., Argiroff, W. A. & Acharya, K. Ectomycorrhizal access to organic nitrogen mediates CO2 fertilization response in a dominant temperate tree. Nature Communications 12, 5403 (2021).
- Posch, B. C. et al. Wheat respiratory O2 consumption falls with night warming alongside greater respiratory CO2 loss and reduced biomass. Journal of Experimental Botany 73, 915–926 (2022).
- Potapov, A. M. et al. Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails. Nature Communications 14, 674 (2023).
- Prager, C. M. et al. Climate and multiple dimensions of plant diversity regulate ecosystem carbon exchange along an elevational gradient. Ecosphere 12, e03472 (2021).
- Prager, C. M. et al. Integrating natural gradients, experiments, and statistical modeling in a distributed network experiment: An example from the WaRM Network. Ecology and Evolution 12, e9396 (2022).
- Qiu, L. et al. Erosion reduces soil microbial diversity, network complexity and multifunctionality. The ISME journal 15, 2474–2489 (2021).
- Qu, X. et al. Deforestation impacts soil biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, e2318475121 (2024).
- Raubenheimer, S. L., Venter, N. & Ripley, B. S. Drought susceptibility of southern African C4 grasses: Phylogenetically and photosynthetically determined? Functional Ecology 37, 2029–2039 (2023).
- Reed, S. P. et al. Linked disturbance in the temperate forest: Earthworms, deer, and canopy gaps. Ecology104, e4040 (2023).
- Reich, P. B. et al. Assessing the relevant time frame for temperature acclimation of leaf dark respiration: a test with 10 boreal and temperate species. Global change biology 27, 2945–2958 (2021).
- Reich, P. B. et al. Even modest climate change may lead to major transitions in boreal forests. Nature 608, 540–545 (2022).
- Ren, Y. et al. Reduced global plant respiration due to the acclimation of leaf dark respiration coupled with photosynthesis. New Phytologist 241, 578–591 (2024).
- Revillini, D., Reich, P. B. & Johnson, N. C. Plant diversity and functional identity drive grassland rhizobacterial community responses after 15 years of CO2 and nitrogen enrichment. Journal of Ecology (2024).
- Rewcastle, K. E. et al. Plant removal across an elevational gradient marginally reduces rates, substantially reduces variation in mineralization. Ecology 103, e03546 (2022).
- Rice, K. E., Montgomery, R. A., Stefanski, A., Rich, R. L. & Reich, P. B. Species-specific flowering phenology responses to experimental warming and drought alter herbaceous plant species overlap in a temperate–boreal forest community. Annals of Botany 127, 203–211 (2021).
- Rocci, K. S. et al. Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 189, 109272 (2024).
- Sanaei, A. et al. Corrigendum to “Tree species diversity enhances plant-soil interactions in a temperate forest in northeast China”[For. Ecol. Manage.(2021) 119160](Forest Ecology and Management (2021) 491,(S0378112721002486),(10.1016/j. foreco. 2021.119160)). Forest Ecology and Management 539, 120986 (2023).
- Sanaei, A. et al. Tree species diversity enhances plant-soil interactions in a temperate forest in northeast China. Forest Ecology and Management 491, 119160 (2021).
- Schuster, M. J. et al. Patterns of belowground overyielding and fine‐root biomass in native and exotic angiosperms and gymnosperms. Oikos 2023, e08877 (2023).
- Schuster, M. J. et al. Using plants to control buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica): Improved biotic resistance of forests through revegetation. Ecological Engineering 182, 106730 (2022).
- Schuster, M. J., Wragg, P. D. & Reich, P. B. Phenological niche overlap between invasive buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) and native woody species. Forest Ecology and Management 498, 119568 (2021).
- Sharma, S. et al. North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2116691118 (2022).
- Song, Y. et al. Biological changes, political ideology, and scientific communication shape human perceptions of pollen seasons. bioRxiv 2024–07 (2024).
- Song, Y., Katz, D. S., Zhu, Z., Beaulieu, C. & Zhu, K. Predicting reproductive phenology of wind-pollinated trees via PlanetScope time series. bioRxiv 2024–08 (2024).
- Sotnik, G., Fischer, A. P., Ibáñez, I. & Cousins, S. J. A transdisciplinary typology of change identifies new categories of adaptations and forms of co-adaptation in coupled human and natural systems. Sustainability Science 16, 1609–1623 (2021).
- Stefanski, A., Butler, E. E., Bermudez, R., Montgomery, R. A. & Reich, P. B. Stomatal behaviour moderates the water cost of CO2 acquisition for 21 boreal and temperate species under experimental climate change. Plant, Cell & Environment 46, 3102–3119 (2023).
- Strauss, A. T., Hobbie, S. E., Reich, P. B., Seabloom, E. W. & Borer, E. T. The effect of diversity on disease reverses from dilution to amplification in a 22-year biodiversity× N× CO2 experiment. Scientific reports14, 10938 (2024).
- Tang, Y. et al. Rapid migration of Mongolian oak into the southern Asian boreal forest. Global change biology 30, e17002 (2024).
- Terrer, C. et al. A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2. Nature 591, 599–603 (2021).
- Tobias, J. A. et al. AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25, 581–597 (2022).
- Urgoiti, J. et al. No complementarity no gain—Net diversity effects on tree productivity occur once complementarity emerges during early stand development. Ecology letters 25, 851–862 (2022).
- Van Nuland, M. E., Qin, C., Pellitier, P. T., Zhu, K. & Peay, K. G. Climate mismatches with ectomycorrhizal fungi contribute to migration lag in North American tree range shifts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, e2308811121 (2024).
- Wang, G. et al. Soil enzymes as indicators of soil function: A step toward greater realism in microbial ecological modeling. Global change biology 28, 1935–1950 (2022).
- Wang, M. et al. Molecular-level carbon traits underlie the multidimensional fine root economics space. Nature Plants 1–9 (2024).
- Wang, S. et al. Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony. Ecology 102, e03332 (2021).
- Wang, X. & Ibáñez, I. The contrasting effects of local environmental conditions on tree growth between populations at different latitudes. Forests13, 429 (2022).
- Weeks, B. C. et al. A deep neural network for high‐throughput measurement of functional traits on museum skeletal specimens. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14, 347–359 (2023).
- Weeks, B. C., Naeem, S., Lasky, J. R. & Tobias, J. A. Diversity and extinction risk are inversely related at a global scale. Ecology Letters 25, 697–707 (2022).
- Westerband, A. C. et al. Nitrogen concentration and physical properties are key drivers of woody tissue respiration. Annals of Botany 129, 633–646 (2022).
- Wheeler, K. I. et al. Predicting spring phenology in deciduous broadleaf forests: NEON phenology forecasting community challenge. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 345, 109810 (2024).
- Williams, L. J. et al. Enhanced light interception and light use efficiency explain overyielding in young tree communities. Ecology letters 24, 996–1006 (2021).
- Williams, L. J. et al. Remote spectral detection of biodiversity effects on forest biomass. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5, 46–54 (2021).
- Withington, J. M., Goebel, M., Bułaj, B. & Eissenstat, D. M. Remarkable similarity in timing of absorptive fine-root production across 11 diverse temperate tree species in a common garden. Frontiers in Plant Science 11, 623722 (2021).
- Wragg, P. D. et al. Revegetation to slow buckthorn reinvasion: strengths and limits of evaluating management techniques retrospectively. Restoration Ecology 29, e13290 (2021).
- Yu, Z. et al. Enhanced observations from an optimized soil-canopy-photosynthesis and energy flux model revealed evapotranspiration-shading cooling dynamics of urban vegetation during extreme heat. Remote Sensing of Environment 305, 114098 (2024).
- Zhang, H. et al. Thermal acclimation of stem respiration reduces global carbon burden. bioRxiv 2024–02 (2024).
- Zheng, L. et al. Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding. Nature Communications 15, 2078 (2024).
- Zhu, K. et al. Rapid shifts in grassland communities driven by climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1–13 (2024).
- Zimova, M., Willard, D. E., Winger, B. M. & Weeks, B. C. Widespread shifts in bird migration phenology are decoupled from parallel shifts in morphology. Journal of Animal Ecology 90, 2348–2361 (2021).