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Mechanisms underlying the impacts of exotic plant invasionsJonathan M Levine
Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, 621 Charles E Young Drive South, Box 951606, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Proc Biol Sci 270:775-81. 2003..We encourage future studies that link impacts on community structure to ecosystem processes, and relate the controls over invasibility to the controls over impact...
Competition-defense tradeoffs and the maintenance of plant diversityDavid V Viola
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:17217-22. 2010..In this respect, this study supports an emerging theoretical paradigm in which predation interacts with competition to both enhance and reduce species diversity...
The role of plant-soil feedbacks in driving native-species recoveryStephanie G Yelenik
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Ecology 92:66-74. 2011..We conclude that even when plant-soil feedbacks influence the balance between native and exotic species, their influence may be small relative to other ecological processes...
Seasonal timing of first rain storms affects rare plant population dynamicsJonathan M Levine
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Ecology 92:2236-47. 2011..Our work suggests that, because of species-specific cues for demographic transitions such as germination, changes to discrete climate events may be as, if not more, important than changes to season-long variables...
Density dependence slows invader spread in fragmented landscapesElizaveta Pachepsky
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Am Nat 177:18-28. 2011..Our work suggests that ecologists must consider reproduction at both low and high densities when predicting invader spread...
Abiotic and biotic resistance to grass invasion in serpentine annual plant communitiesBarbara Marie Going
Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, 3132 Wickson Hall, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Oecologia 159:839-47. 2009..Our work suggests that better understanding the relative sensitivities of invaders and residents to the physical environment is critical to predicting how abiotic and biotic factors interact to determine community resistance...
Biological invasionsJonathan M Levine
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Curr Biol 18:R57-60. 2008
The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversityJonathan M Levine
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Nature 461:254-7. 2009..Our work thus provides strong evidence that species differences have a critical role in stabilizing species diversity...
Effects of temporal variability on rare plant persistence in annual systemsJonathan M Levine
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Am Nat 164:350-63. 2004..We conclude that contrary to conventional predictions of conservation and population biology, yearly fluctuations in climate may be essential for the persistence of rare species in invaded habitats...
A niche for neutralityPeter B Adler
Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, 5230 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322, USA
Ecol Lett 10:95-104. 2007....
Climate variability has a stabilizing effect on the coexistence of prairie grassesPeter B Adler
Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, 5230 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 83422, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:12793-8. 2006..Field evidence for positive effects of variability on coexistence also emphasizes the need to consider changes in both climate means and variances when forecasting the effects of global change on species diversity...
