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Resource colimitation governs plant community responses to altered precipitation by Eskelinen, Anu, Harrison, Susan P.

“…Ecological theory and evidence suggest that plant community biomass and composition may often be jointly controlled by climatic water availability and soil…”
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Climate-driven diversity loss in a grassland community by Harrison, Susan P, Elise S. Gornish, Stella Copeland

“…Local ecological communities represent the scale at which species coexist and share resources, and at which diversity has been experimentally shown to underlie…”
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Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology by Wiens, John J, Ackerly, David D, Allen, Andrew P, Anacker, Brian L, Buckley, Lauren B, Cornell, Howard V, Damschen, Ellen I, Jonathan Davies, T, Grytnes, John-Arvid, Harrison, Susan P, Hawkins, Bradford A, Holt, Robert D, McCain, Christy M, Stephens, Patrick R

“…The diversity of life is ultimately generated by evolution, and much attention has focused on the rapid evolution of ecological traits. Yet, the tendency for…”
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The promise and the perils of resurveying to understand global change impacts by Stuble, Katharine L., Bewick, Sharon, Fisher, Mark, Forister, Matthew L., Harrison, Susan P., Shapiro, Arthur M., Latimer, Andrew M., Fox, Laurel R.

“…Historical data sets can be useful tools to aid in understanding the impacts of global change on natural ecosystems. Resampling of historically sampled sites…”
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Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography by Mittelbach, Gary G, Schemske, Douglas W, Cornell, Howard V, Allen, Andrew P, Brown, Jonathan M, Bush, Mark B, Harrison, Susan P, Hurlbert, Allen H, Knowlton, Nancy, Lessios, Harilaos A, McCain, Christy M, McCune, Amy R, McDade, Lucinda A, McPeek, Mark A, Near, Thomas J, Price, Trevor D, Ricklefs, Robert E, Roy, Kaustuv, Sax, Dov F, Schluter, Dolph, Sobel, James M, Turelli, Michael

“…A latitudinal gradient in biodiversity has existed since before the time of the dinosaurs, yet how and why this gradient arose remains unresolved. Here we…”
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Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals by Buckley, Lauren B., Davies, T. Jonathan, Ackerly, David D., Kraft, Nathan J. B., Harrison, Susan P., Anacker, Brian L., Cornell, Howard V., Damschen, Ellen I., Grytnes, John-Avid, Hawkins, Bradford A., McCain, Christy M., Stephens, Patrick R., Wiens, John J.

“…Biologists have long searched for mechanisms responsible for the increase in species richness with decreasing latitude. The strong correlation between species…”
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Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities by Stegen, James C., Freestone, Amy L., Crist, Thomas O., Anderson, Marti J., Chase, Jonathan M., Comita, Liza S., Cornell, Howard V., Davies, Kendi F., Harrison, Susan P., Hurlbert, Allen H., Inouye, Brian D., Kraft, Nathan J. B., Myers, Jonathan A., Sanders, Nathan J., Swenson, Nathan G., Vellend, Mark

“…Aim: A long-standing challenge in ecology is to identify the suite of factors that lead to turnover in species composition in both space and time. These…”
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Identifying plant traits associated with topographic contrasts in a rugged and diverse region (Klamath-Siskiyou Mts, OR, USA) by Copeland, Stella M., Harrison, Susan P.

“…Rugged topography affects species distributions and community composition by creating contrasting mesic (cool, moist) and xeric (warm, dry) microclimates on…”
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Early- and late-flowering guilds respond differently to landscape spatial structure by Miller, Jesse E. D., Ives, Anthony R., Harrison, Susan P., Damschen, Ellen I.

“…1. Species with unique phenologies have distinct trait syndromes and environmental affinities, yet there has been little exploration of whether community…”
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Two Invasive Plants Alter Soil Microbial Community Composition in Serpentine Grasslands by Batten, K.M, Scow, K.M, Davies, K.F, Harrison, S.P

“…Plant invasions pose a serious threat to native ecosystem structure and function. However, little is known about the potential role that rhizosphere soil…”
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What Are Species Pools and When Are They Important? by Cornell, Howard V, Harrison, Susan P

“…A regional species pool comprises all species available to colonize a focal site. The roots of the concept are imbedded in island biogeography theory,…”
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Climate and the evolution of serpentine endemism in California by Anacker, Brian L., Harrison, Susan P.

“…We asked whether evolutionary transitions to serpentine endemism are associated with transitions to more favorable environments. Theory and observation suggest…”
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Vulnerability and resistance in the spatial heterogeneity of soil microbial communities under resource additions by Gravuer, Kelly, Eskelinen, Anu, Winbourne, Joy B., Harrison, Susan P.

“…Spatial heterogeneity in composition and function enables ecosystems to supply diverse services. For soil microbes and the ecosystem functions they catalyze,…”
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Invasive species interact with climatic variability to reduce success of natives by LaForgia, Marina L., Harrison, Susan P., Latimer, Andrew M.

“…Plants have evolved resource-conservative and resource-acquisitive strategies to deal with variability in rainfall, but interactions with dominant invasive…”
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Climate‐driven diversity change in annual grasslands: Drought plus deluge does not equal normal by Harrison, Susan P., LaForgia, Marina L., Latimer, Andrew M.

“…Climate forecasts agree that increased variability and extremes will tend to reduce the availability of water in many terrestrial ecosystems. Increasingly…”
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Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist by Anderson, Marti J., Crist, Thomas O., Chase, Jonathan M., Vellend, Mark, Inouye, Brian D., Freestone, Amy L., Sanders, Nathan J., Cornell, Howard V., Comita, Liza S., Davies, Kendi F., Harrison, Susan P., Kraft, Nathan J. B., Stegen, James C., Swenson, Nathan G.

“…Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 19–28 A recent increase in studies of β diversity has yielded a confusing array of concepts, measures and methods. Here, we provide…”
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Co‐occurrence patterns at four spatial scales implicate reproductive processes in shaping community assembly in clovers by Christie, Kyle, Harrison, Susan P., Friesen, Maren L., Strauss, Sharon Y.

“…Competition, niche differences and chance all contribute to community assembly; yet, the role of reproductive interactions between species is often less…”
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Extreme pre‐fire drought decreases shrub regeneration on fertile soils by Werner, Chhaya M., Harrison, Susan P., Safford, Hugh D., Bohlman, Gabrielle N., Serata, Rebecca

“…Extreme drought and increasing temperatures can decrease the resilience of plant communities to fires. Not only may extremely dry conditions during or after…”
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Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients by Kraft, Nathan J. B., Comita, Liza S., Chase, Jonathan M., Sanders, Nathan J., Swenson, Nathan G., Crist, Thomas O., Stegen, James C., Vellend, Mark, Boyle, Brad, Anderson, Marti J., Cornell, Howard V., Davies, Kendi F., Freestone, Amy L., Inouye, Brian D., Harrison, Susan P., Myers, Jonathan A.

“…Understanding spatial variation in biodiversity along environmental gradients is a central theme in ecology. Differences in species compositional turnover…”
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Seed banks of native forbs, but not exotic grasses, increase during extreme drought by LaForgia, Marina L., Spasojevic, Marko J., Case, Erica J., Latimer, Andrew M., Harrison, Susan P.

“…Extreme droughts such as the one that affected California in 2012–2015 have been linked to severe ecological consequences in perennial-dominated communities…”
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