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| Dana M BlumenthalSummaryAffiliation: Agricultural Research Service Country: USA Publications
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Ecology. Interrelated causes of plant invasionDana Blumenthal
U S Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Rangeland Resources Research Unit, Crops Research Laboratory, 1701 Center Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA
Science 310:243-4. 2005..This hypothesis predicts that high-resource invasive species may be particularly susceptible to biological control and that increases in resource availability will favor exotic plants...- Interactions between resource availability and enemy release in plant invasionDana M Blumenthal
Rangeland Resources Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, 1701 Center Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA
Ecol Lett 9:887-95. 2006.... - Increased plant size in exotic populations: a common-garden test with 14 invasive speciesDana M Blumenthal
USDA Agricultural Research Service, Rangeland Resources Research Unit, 1701 Center Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526, USA
Ecology 88:2758-65. 2007..These results suggest that invasive species may often evolve increased growth, and that increased growth may facilitate adaptation to noncompetitive environments... - Increased snow facilitates plant invasion in mixedgrass prairieD Blumenthlal
USDA ARS Rangeland Resources Research Unit, 1701 Center Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA
New Phytol 179:440-8. 2008..In contrast to seeded invasive species, resident species did not respond to snow addition. These results suggest that increases in snowfall or variability of snowfall may exacerbate forb invasion in the mixedgrass prairie... 
Synergy between pathogen release and resource availability in plant invasionDana Blumenthal
Rangeland Resources Research Unit, U S Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, 1701 Center Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:7899-904. 2009..Consequently, enemy release and increases in resource availability may act synergistically to favor exotic over native species...
C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grasslandJack A Morgan
USDA ARS, Rangeland Resources Research Unit and Northern Plains Area, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526, USA
Nature 476:202-5. 2011..The results indicate that in a warmer, CO(2)-enriched world, both SWC and productivity in semi-arid grasslands may be higher than previously expected...- Elevated CO₂ does not offset greater water stress predicted under climate change for native and exotic riparian plantsLaura G Perry
Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
New Phytol 197:532-43. 2013..Our results suggest that increased aridity will reduce riparian seedling growth despite elevated CO₂, and will reduce growth more for native Salix and Populus than for drought-tolerant exotic species... - Immobilizing nitrogen to control plant invasionLaura G Perry
Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Oecologia 163:13-24. 2010..Therefore, where feasible, the disturbances that result in high N availability should be limited in order to reduce invasions by nitrophilic weeds... - Contrasting effects of elevated CO2 and warming on nitrogen cycling in a semiarid grasslandFeike A Dijkstra
Rangeland Resources Research Unit, USDA ARS, Crops Research Laboratory, 1701 Centre Ave, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA
New Phytol 187:426-37. 2010..Our results indicate a more closed N cycle under elevated CO(2) and a more open N cycle with warming, which could affect long-term N retention, plant productivity, and C sequestration in this semiarid grassland...