Principal Investigator, Senior Scientist
Research Labs
Phone
443-482-2221
Staff Profile
Biography
My research focuses on three main topics: (1) the role of biodiversity in ecological and evolutionary processes, (2) mechanisms and consequences of biological invasions, and (3) consequences of climate change for species' ranges and biotic interactions. I use a diversity of approaches, including field observation and experimentation, laboratory assays, phylogenetics, and synthetic statistics.
Publications
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(2021). Chemical Similarity of Co-occurring Trees Decreases With Precipitation and Temperature in North American Forests. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9 https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.679638
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(2020). Variability in the fundamental versus realized niches of North American mangroves. Journal of Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13990
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(2020). Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth . Nature, 585 (7826) , 545-550. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2686-x
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(2020). Tree diversity promotes growth of late successional species despite increasing deer damage in a restored forest . Ecology, , Article e03063. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3063
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(2020). Foliar water uptake by coastal wetland plants: a novel water acquisition mechanism in arid and humid subtropical mangroves . Journal of Ecology, 108 (6) , 2625-2637. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13398
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(2020). Chemical novelty facilitates herbivore resistance and biological invasions in some introduced plant species . Ecology and Evolution, 10 (16) , 8770-8792. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6575
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(2019). Climate-driven regime shifts in a mangrove-salt marsh ecotone over the past 250 years . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (43) , 21602-21608. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902181116
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(2019). Tree Diversity Reduces Fungal Endophyte Richness and Diversity in a Large-Scale Temperate Forest Experiment . Diversity, 11 (12) , 234. https://doi.org/10.3390/d11120234
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(2018). A regional assessment of white-tailed deer effects on plant invasion. AoB PLANTS, 10 (1) https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plx047
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(2018). Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments . Environmental and experimental botany, 152 , 68-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.12.015
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(2018). Comparative foliar metabolomics of a tropical and a temperate forest community . Ecology, 99 (12) , 2647-2653. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2533
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(2017). Recent advances in plant-herbivore interactions. F1000Research, 6 , 119. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.10313.1
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(2017). Mangrove microclimates alter seedling dynamics at the range edge. Ecology, 98 (10) , 2513-2520. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1979
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(2017). Insect herbivores increase mortality and reduce tree seedling growth of some species in temperate forest canopy gaps. PeerJ, 5 , e3102. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3102
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(2017). Responses of plant phenology, growth, defense, and reproduction to interactive effects of warming and insect herbivory. Ecology, 98 (7) , 1817-1828. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1855
