Publications
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Featured Publications
Allgeier, J.E., Weeks, B.C., Wenger, S.J., Wale, N., Schiettekatte, N.M.D., Villéger, S, Burkepile, D.E., Munsterman, K.S. #, Parravicini, V. 2021 Phylogenetic conservativism determines nutrient dynamics of coral reef fishes. Nature Communications 12:1-9
Anoszko E, l Frelich, R Rich, PB Reich. 2022. Wind and fire: rapid shifts in community composition following multiple disturbances in the southern boreal forest. Ecosphere 13 (3), e3952
Au, T.F., Maxwell, J.T., Robeson, S.M., Li, J., Siani, S.M., Novick, K.A., Dannenberg, M.P., Phillips, R.P., Li, T., Chen, Z. and Lenoir, J., 2022. Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought. Nature climate change, pp.1-7.
Avolio ML et al. 2022. Making sense of multivariate community responses in global change experiments. Ecosphere.
Avolio ML, KJ Komatsu, et al. 2021. Determinants of plant community compositional change are equally affected by global change. Ecology Letters 24:1892–1904
Barry KE, G Pinter, J Strini, K Yang, I Lauko, S Schnizter, A Clark, J Cowles, A Mori, L Williams, PB Reich, A Wright. 2021. A graphical null model for scaling biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. J Ecology 109:1549-1560
Belluau M, A Paquette, D Gravel, P Reich, A Stefanski, Ch. Messier. 2021. Exotics are more complementary over time in tree biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments. Funct Ecol 35: 2550-2561
Bergmans RS 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, 2021
Butler EE, …..PB Reich. 2022. Increasing functional diversity in a global land surface model illustrates uncertainties related to parameter simplification. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences (in press)
Butler EE, KR Wythers, H Flores-Moreno, M Chen, A Datta, DM Ricciuto, OK Atkin, J Kattge, PE Thornton, A Banerjee, PB Reich. 2021. Updated respiration routines alter spatio-temporal patterns of carbon cycling in a global land surface model. Environ. Res. Lett. 16, 104015
Cavender-Bares J, PB Reich, et al. 2021. BII-Implementation: The causes and consequences of plant biodiversity across scales in a rapidly changing world. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e63850
Cazzolla Gatti R, PB Reich, et al. 2022. The number of tree species on Earth. Proc Nat Acad Sci 119 (6), e2115329119
Cesarz S, et al. 2022. Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments. Global Ecology and Biogeography (in press)
Chen X, HYH Chen, EB Searle, C Chen, PB Reich. 2021. Negative to positive shifts in diversity effects on soil nitrogen over time. Nature Sustainability 4, 225–232 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00641-y
Cline, T. W., and Allgeier, J.E. 2022. Weak evidence for fish community control of coral reef resilience. Nature Ecology and Evolution
Diaz S et al. 2022. The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset. Scientific Data 9 1-18
Dick GJ et al. 2021. The genetic and ecophysiological diversity of Microcystis. Environmental Microbiology 23: 7278-7313.
Ellsworth DS et al. 2022. Convergence in phosphorus constraints to photosynthesis in forests around the world. Nature Communication 13: 1-12.
Esquivel, K., Hasselbarth, M.H. , and Allgeier, J. E. In press. Mechanistic support for increased primary production around artificial reefs. Ecological Applications
Ezenwa V, Civitello D, Classen AT, Barton BT, Becker D, Brenn-White M,Deem SL, Johnson ZE, Kutz S, Malishev M, Penczykowski RM, Preston D, Vannatta JT, Koltz AM (2021) Response to Charlier et al. Climate-disease feedbacks mediated by livestock are plausible. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 36(7):578-579 10.1016/j.tree.2021.04.00
Flinker, RH, MB Cardenas, TG Caldwell, GN Flerchinger, R Rich, PB Reich. 2021. Modeling the effects of atmospheric CO2 on grassland soil moisture at a free-air CO2 enrichment experiment (BioCON) using the Simultaneous Heat and Water (SHAW) model. Pedosphere 31:783-795
Frelich LE, RA Montgomery, PB Reich. 2021. Seven ways a warming climate can kill the southern boreal forest. Forests 12: 5 560 https://doi.org/10.3390/f12050560
Guerrero Martinez NR et al. 2021. Global Root Traits (GRooT) Database. Global Ecol and Biogegraphy 30: 25-37.
Guzman, C. B., Wang, R., Muellerklein, O., Smith, M., & Eger, C. G. (2022). Comparing stormwater quality and watershed typologies across the United States: A machine learning approach. Water Research, 216, 118283.
Hellweger FL, RM Martin, F Eigemann, DJ Smith, GJ Dick, SW Wilhelm 2022. Models predict planned phosphorus load reduction will make Lake Erie more toxic. Science 376: 1001-1005.
Hong P, et al. 2022. Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change. Ecology Letters. 25:555–569.
Jing X, Prager CM, Borer ET, Gotelli NJ, Gruner DS, He JS, Kirkman K, MacDougall AS, McCulley RL, Prober SM, Seablom EW, Stevens CJ, Classen AT, Sanders NJ (2021) Spatial turnover of multiple ecosystem functions is more associated with plant than soil microbial β-diversity. Ecosphere 12(7):e03644. 10.1002/ecs2. 3644
Jing X, Prager CM, Chen L, Chu H, Gotelli NJ, He JS, She Y, Yang T, Zhu B, Classen AT, Sanders NJ (2022) The influence of aboveground and belowground species composition on spatial turnover in nutrient pools in alpine grasslands. Global Ecology & Biogeography 31:486-500. 10.1111/geb.13442
Journe, V., 60 authors, Clark, J.S. 2022. Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients. Ecology Letters. 25:1471-1482
Juno, E. and Ibáñez, I. 2021. Biochar application and soil transfer in tree restoration. A meta-analysis and field experiment. Ecological Restoration 49 (3): 158-167 doi: 10.3368/er.39.3.158
Koltz AM, Civitello D, Becker D, Deem SL, Classen AT, Barton BT, Brenn-White M, Johnson ZE, Kutz S, Malishev M, Preston D, Vannatta JT, Penczykowski RM, Ezenwa V (2022) Sublethal effects of parasitism on ruminants can have cascading consequences for ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academies of the Sciences 119, e2117381119.
Kong W, X Wei, Y Wu, M Shao, Q Zhang, MJ Sadowsky, S Ishii, PB Reich, G Wei, S Jiao, L Qiu, L Liu. 2022. Afforestation can lower microbial diversity and functionality in deep soil layers in a semiarid region. Global Change Biology 28: 6086-6101
Kwon T et al. 2021. Effects of climate and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on early to mid-term stage litter decomposition across biomes. Front. For. Glob. Changes https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.678480
Laughlin D, L Mommer, F Sabatini, et al. 2021. Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5:1123-1134, ff10.1038/s41559-021-01471-7ff. ffhal-03260203f
Leao T, Reinhart J, Lughadha EN, PB Reich. 2021. Projected impacts of climate and land use changes on the habitat of Atlantic Forest plants in Brazil. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 2016-2028
Lee, BR, Ibáñez, I. 2021. Spring phenological escape is critical for the survival of temperate tree seedlings. Funct Ecol. 2021; 00: 1– 14
Liang J et al. 2022. Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients. 2022. Nature Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01831-x
Maschler J, L Bialic‐Murphy, J Wan, LC Andresen, CM Zohner, PB Reich, A Lüscher, MK Schneider, C Müller, G Moser, JS Dukes, I Kappel Schmidt, MC Bilton, K Zhu, TW Crowther. 2022. Links across ecological scales: Plant biomass responses to elevated CO2. Global Change Biology 28:6115–6134.
Mason RE, JM Craine, NK Lany, M Jonard, SV Ollinger, PM Groffman, RW Fulweiler, J Angerer, QD Read, PB Reich, PH Templer, AJ Elmore. 2022. Evidence, causes, and consequences of declining nitrogen availability in terrestrial ecosystems. Science 376 (6590), eabh3767
Mason RE, JM Craine, NK Lany, M Jonard, SV Ollinger, PM Groffman, RW Fulweiler, J Angerer, QD Read, PB Reich, PH Templer, AJ Elmore. 2022. Response to LT on RV "Evidence, Causes, and Consequences of Declining Nitrogen Availability in Terrestrial Ecosystems". Science (in press).
Meisner A, Snoek BL, Nesme J, Dent E, Jaquoid S, Classen AT, Prime A (2021) Soil microbial legacies differ following drying-rewetting and freezing-thawing cycles. ISME 15:1207–1221 10.1038/s41396-020-00844-3
Messier, C., Bauhus, J., Sousa-Silva, R., Auge, H., Baeten, L., Barsoum, N., Bruelheide, H., Caldwell, B., Cavender-Bares, J., Dhiedt, E., Eisenhauer, N., Ganade, G., Gravel, D., Guillemot, J., Hall, J. S., Hector, A., Hérault, B., Jactel, H., Koricheva, J., Holger Kreft, Simone Mereu, Bart Muys, CA. Nock, A Paquette, JD Parker, M P. Perring, Q Ponette, C Potvin, PB Reich, M Scherer-Lorenzen, F Schnabel, K Verheyen, M Weih, M Wollni, DC Zemp. 2022. For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests! Conservation Letters. 2022;15:e12829.https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12829
Migliavacca, M., Musavi, T., Mahecha, M.D. et al. The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function. 2021. Nature 598, 468–472 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03939-9
Mirabel A., Girardin, M.P., Metsaranta, J., Campbell, E., Arsenault, A., Reich, P.B., Way, D. 2022. New tree-ring data from Canadian boreal and hemi-boreal forests provide insight for improving the climate sensitivity of terrestrial biosphere models. Sci of the Total Environment 851, 158062
Mori AS, LE Dee, A Gonzalez, H Ohashi, J Cowles, AJ Wright, M Loreau, Y Hautier, T Newbold, PB Reich, T Matsui, W Takeuchi, K Okada, R Seidl, F Isbell. 2021. Biodiversity-productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions. Nature Climate Change 11, 543-550
O’Connor MI et al. 2021. Grand challenges in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research in the era of science–policy platforms require explicit consideration of feedbacks. Proc Roy Soc B 288: 20210783. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0783
Ohlert T, Kimmel K, Avolio M, Chang C, Forrestel E, Gerstner B, SE Hobbie, K Komatsu, P Reich, K Whitney. 2022. Exploring the impact of trait number and type on functional diversity metrics in real-world ecosystems. PLoS ONE 17(8): e0272791. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272791
Pastore MA, Classen AT, D’Amato AW, Foster JR, Adair EC (2022) Cold air pools as microrefugia for ecosystem functions in the face of climate change. Ecology DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3717
Pastore MA, SE Hobbie, PB Reich. 2021. Plant species richness increased total ecosystem carbon pools more than elevated CO2 or soil nitrogen addition over 19 years. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences 118 No. 17 e2016965118
Pellegrini AFA et al. 2021. Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5: 504-512
Pellegrini AFA, A Hein, J Cavender-Bares, RA Montgomery, CA Staver, F Silla, SE Hobbie, PB Reich. 2021. Disease and fire interact to influence transitions between ecosystem states over a 54-year experiment. Ecology Letters 24: 1007-1017
Posch BC, D Zhai, O Coast, AP Scafaro, H Bramley, PB Reich, Y-L Ruan, R Trethowan, DA Way, OK Atkin. 2022. Wheat respiratory O2 consumption falls with night warming alongside greater respiratory CO2 loss and reduced biomass. J Exp Bot 73:915=926 erab454, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab454
Posch BC, D Zhai, O Coast, AP Scafaro, H Bramley, PB Reich, Y-L Ruan, R Trethowan, DA Way, OK Atkin. 2022. Wheat respiratory O2 consumption falls with night warming alongside greater respiratory CO2 loss and reduced biomass. J Exp Bot 73:915=926 erab454, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab454
Prager CM, Classen AT, Sundqvist MK, Barrios-Garcia MN, Cameron EK, Chen L, Chisholm C, Crowter T, Deslippe JR, Grigulis K, He JS, Henning J, Hoenden M, Hoye TT, Jing X*, Lavorel S, McLaren JR, Metcalfe DB, Newman G, Rixen C, Read QD, Rewcastle KE**, Rodriguez-Cabal MA, Wardle DA, Wipf S, Sanders NJ (in press) Integrating natural gradients, experiments, and statistical modelling in a distributed network experiment: an example from the WaRM Network. Ecology & Evolution
Prager CM, Jing X, Henning JA, Read QD, Meidl P, Lavorel S, Sanders NJ, Sundqvist M, Wardle D, Classen AT (2021) Climate and multiple dimensions of plant diversity regulate ecosystem carbon exchange along an elevational gradient. Ecosphere 12(4):e03472. 10.1002/ecs2.3472
Reich PB et al. 2021. What is the relevant time frame for temperature acclimation of leaf dark respiration: a test with ten boreal and temperate species? Global Change Biology 27: 2945-2958
Reich, PB, R Bermudez, RA Montgomery, RL Rich, KE Rice, SE Hobbie, A Stefanski. 2022. Even modest climate change may lead to major transitions in boreal forests. Nature 608, 540–545
Rewcastle KE, Henning JA, Read QD, Irwin R, Sanders NJ, Classen AT (2022) Plant removal across an elevational gradient marginally reduces rates, substantially reduces variation in mineralization. Ecology 103(1):e03546. doi-org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/10.1002/ecy.3546
Rice K, R Montgomery, A Stefanski, R. Rich, PB Reich. 2021. Species-specific flowering phenology responses to experimental warming and drought alter herbaceous plant species overlap in a temperate-boreal forest community. Ann Botany 127: 203-211
Sanaei A et al. 2021. Tree species diversity enhances plant-soil interactions in a temperate forest in northeast China. Forest Ecology and Management 491, 119160
Santangelo, J. S., et al. 2022. Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science 375:1275-1281.
Schiettekatte, N.M.D. plus 22 other authors including Allgeier, J.E. and K. S. Munsterman# 2022. Biological trade-offs underpin coral reef ecosystem functioning. Nature Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01710-5
Schuster M et al Patterns of belowground overyielding and fine-root biomass in native and exotic angiosperms and gymnosperms. Oikos (in press).
Schuster MJ et al. 2022. Using plants to control buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica): improved biotic resistance of forests through revegetation. Ecological Engineering, 182 106730
Schuster MJ, PD Wragg, PB Reich. 2021. Phenological niche overlap between invasive buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) and native woody species Forest Ecol Management 498, 119568
Sharp, S. J., K. Elgersma, J. P. Martina, and W. S. Currie. 2020. Hydrologic flushing rates drive nitrogen cycling and plant invasion in freshwater coastal wetlands. Ecological Applications in review 2020.
Terrer C, RB Phillips, BA Hungate et al. 2021. A global tradeoff between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2. Nature 591:599-603
Tobias, J.A….B.C. Weeks…et al. 2022. AVONET: Functional traits for the world's birds. Ecology Letters 25(3):
Urgoiti J, C Messier, WS Keeton, PB Reich, D Gravel, A Paquette. 2022. No complementarity no gain—Net diversity effects on tree productivity occur once complementarity emerges during early stand development. Ecol Letters 25 (4), 851-862
Wang G, Q Gao, Y Yang, SE Hobbie, PB Reich, J Zhou. 2022. Soil enzymes as indicators of soil function: a step toward greater realism in microbial ecological modeling. Global Change Biology 28 (5), 1935-1950
Wang S, M Loreau, C de Mazancourt, F Isbell, C Beierkuhnlein, et al. 2021. Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony. Ecology 102 (6), e03332
Wang, X. and Ibáñez, I. 2022. The contrasting effects of local environmental conditions on tree growth between populations at different latitudes. Forests 13, 429 doi.org/10.3390/f13030429
Weeks, B.C., S. Naeem, J.R. Lasky, and J.A. Tobias. 2022. Diversity and extinction risk are inversely related at a global scale. Ecology Letters 25(3): 697-707
Weeks, B.C., Z. Zhou, B.K. O'Brien, R. Darling, M. Dean, T. Dias, G. Hassena, M. Zhang, and D.F. Fouhey. 2022. A deep neural network for high-throughput measurement of functional traits on museum skeletal specimens. Methods in Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13864
Weinstein, C. B., L. L. Bourgeau-Chavez, S. L. Martin, W. S. Currie, K. Grantham, Q. F. Hamlin, D. W. Hyndman, K. P. Kowalski, J. P. Martina, and D. Pearsall. 2021. Enhancing Great Lakes coastal ecosystems research by initiating engagement between scientists and decision-makers. Journal of Great Lakes Research 47:1235-1240.
Westerband AC, IJ Wright, ASD Eller, LA Cernusak, EF Gray, PB Reich, O Perez-Priego, S Chhajed, LB Hutley, CER Lehmann. 2022. Nitrogen concentration and mechanical properties are key drivers of wood respiration. Ann Botany (in press)
Williams LJ, EE Butler, J Cavender-Bares, A Stefanski, KE Rice, C Messier, PB Reich. 2021. Enhanced light interception and light use efficiency explain overyielding in young tree communities. Ecology Letters 24: 996-1006
Williams LJ, J Cavender-Bares, PA Townsend, JJ Couture, Z Wang, A Stefanski, C Messier, A Paquette, PB Reich. 2021. Remote spectral detection of biodiversity effects on forest productivity. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5:46-54
Wragg P, M Schuster, A Roth, P Bockenstedt, L Frelich, PB Reich. 2021. Revegetation to slow buckthorn reinvasion: strengths and limits of evaluating management techniques retrospectively. Restoration Ecology 29: e13290
Yuan, Y., S. J. Sharp, J. P. Martina, K. J. Elgersma, and W. S. Currie. 2021. Sustained-Flux Global Warming Potential Driven by Nitrogen Inflow and Hydroperiod in a Model of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126:e2021JG006242.
Zhang, Yingxiao and A.L. Steiner (2022) Projected climate-driven changes in pollen emission season length and magnitude over the continental United States, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28764-0.
Zimova, M., D.E. Willard, B.M. Winger, and B.C. Weeks. 2021. Widespread shifts in bird migration phenology are decoupled from parallel shifts in morphology. Journal of Animal Ecology. 90(10): 2348-2361
Rocci, K.S. and Cotrufo, M.F. 2023. Soil carbon and nitrogen responses to global change are informed by soil organic matter fractions. Invited oral presentation at: European Geophysical Union General Assembly.
Rocci, K.S., Bird, M., Blair, J.M., Knapp, A.K., Liang, C., Cotrufo, M.F. 2023. Thirty years of increased precipitation modifies soil organic matter fractions but not bulk soil carbon and nitrogen in a mesic grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 185, 109145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109145
Rocci, K.S., Cotrufo, M.F., Baron, J.S. 2023. Proximity to roads does not modify inorganic nitrogen deposition in a topographically complex, high traffic, subalpine forest. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 234, 761. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-023-06762-2
Rocci, K.S., Cleveland, C.C., Eastman, B.A., Georgiou, K., Grandy, A.S., Hartman, M.D., Hauser, E., Holland-Moritz, H., Kyker-Snowman, E., Pierson, D., Reich, P.B., Schlerman, E.P., Wieder, W.R. 2023. Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109272