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2025

Gamba, D., M. L. Vahsen, T. M. Maxwell, N. Pirtel, S. Romero, J. J. Van Ee, A. Penn, A. Das, R. Ben-Zeev, O. Baughman, C. S. Blaney, R. Bodkins, S. Budha-Magar, S. M. Copeland, S. L. Davis-Foust, A. Diamond, R. C. Donnelly, P. W. Dunwiddie, D. J. Ensing, T. A. Everest, H. Hoitink, M. C. Holdrege, R. A. Hufbauer, S. Juzėnas, J. M. Kalwij, E. Kashirina, S. Kim, M. Klisz, A. Klyueva, M. Langeveld, S. Lutfy, D. Martin, C. L. Merkord, J. W. Morgan, D. U. Nagy, J. P. Ott, R. Puchalka, L. A. Pyle, L. Rasran, B. G. Rector, C. Rosche, M. Sadykova, R. K. Shriver, A. Stanislavschi, B. M. Starzomski, R. L. Stone, K. G. Turner, A. K. Urza, A. VanWallendael, C.-A. Wegenschimmel, J. Zweck, C. S. Brown, E. A. Leger, D. M. Blumenthal, M. J. Germino, L. M. Porensky, M. B. Hooten, P. B. Adler, and J. R. Lasky. 2025. Local adaptation to climate has facilitated the global invasion of cheatgrass. Nature Communications 16:10203. Link

Evans, M. E. K., P. B. Adler, A. L. Angert, S. M. N. Dey, M. P. Girardin, K. A. Heilman, S. Klesse, D. L. Perret, D. F. Sax, S. N. Sheth, M. Stemkovski, and J. L. Williams. 2025. Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology. Nature Climate Change:1–4. Link

Stemkovski, M., J. R. Bernhardt, B. W. Blonder, J. B. Bradford, K. Clark-Wolf, L. E. Dee, M. E. K. Evans, V. Iglesias, L. C. Johnson, A. J. Lynch, S. L. Malone, B. B. Osborne, M. A. Pastore, M. Paterson, M. L. Pinsky, C. R. Rollinson, O. Selmoni, J. J. Venkiteswaran, A. P. Walker, N. K. Ward, J. W. Williams, C. M. Zarakas, and P. B. Adler. 2025. Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change. Functional Ecology 39:1923–1939. Link

Chen, Q., S. A. Blowes, W. S. Harpole, E. Ladouceur, E. T. Borer, A. MacDougall, J. P. Martina, J. D. Bakker, P. M. Tognetti, E. W. Seabloom, P. Daleo, S. Power, C. Roscher, P. B. Adler, I. Donohue, G. Wheeler, C. Stevens, G. F. C. Veen, A. C. Risch, G. M. Wardle, Y. Hautier, C. Estrada, E. Hersch-Green, Y. Niu, P. L. Peri, A. Eskelinen, D. S. Gruner, H. Olde Venterink, C. D’Antonio, M. W. Cadotte, S. Haider, N. Eisenhauer, J. Catford, R. Virtanen, J. W. Morgan, M. Tedder, S. Bagchi, M. C. Caldeira, M. N. Bugalho, J. M. H. Knops, C. R. Dickman, N. Hagenah, A. Jentsch, P. Macek, B. B. Osborne, L. Laanisto, and J. M. Chase. 2025. Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands. Nature Communications 16:4903. Link

Zhang, P., E. W. Seabloom, J. Foo, A. S. MacDougall, W. S. Harpole, P. B. Adler, Y. Hautier, N. Eisenhauer, M. Spohn, J. D. Bakker, Y. Lekberg, A. L. Young, C. Carbutt, A. C. Risch, P. L. Peri, N. G. Smith, C. J. Stevens, S. M. Prober, J. M. H. Knops, G. M. Wardle, C. R. Dickman, A. Ebeling, C. Roscher, H. M. Martinson, J. P. Martina, S. A. Power, Y. Niu, Z. Ren, G. Du, R. Virtanen, P. Tognetti, M. J. Tedder, A. Jentsch, J. A. Catford, and E. T. Borer. 2025. Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9:924–936. Link

Nelson, R. A., L. L. Sullivan, E. I. Hersch-Green, E. W. Seabloom, E. T. Borer, P. M. Tognetti, P. B. Adler, L. Biederman, M. N. Bugalho, M. C. Caldeira, J. P. Cancela, L. G. Carvalheiro, J. A. Catford, C. R. Dickman, A. J. Dolezal, I. Donohue, A. Ebeling, N. Eisenhauer, K. J. Elgersma, A. Eskelinen, C. Estrada, M. Garbowski, P. Graff, D. S. Gruner, N. Hagenah, S. Haider, W. S. Harpole, Y. Hautier, A. Jentsch, N. Johanson, S. E. Koerner, L. S. Lannes, A. S. MacDougall, H. Martinson, J. W. Morgan, H. Olde Venterink, D. Orr, B. B. Osborne, P. L. Peri, S. A. Power, X. Raynaud, A. C. Risch, M. Shrestha, N. G. Smith, C. J. Stevens, G. F. C. Veen, R. Virtanen, G. M. Wardle, A. A. Wolf, A. L. Young, and S. P. Harrison. 2025. Forb diversity globally is harmed by nutrient enrichment but can be rescued by large mammalian herbivory. Communications Biology 8:1–10. Link

Fay, P. A., L. A. Gherardi, L. Yahdjian, P. B. Adler, J. D. Bakker, S. Bharath, E. T. Borer, W. S. Harpole, E. Hersch-Green, T. E. Huxman, A. S. MacDougall, A. C. Risch, E. W. Seabloom, S. Bagchi, I. C. Barrio, L. Biederman, Y. M. Buckley, M. N. Bugalho, M. C. Caldeira, J. A. Catford, Q. Chen, E. E. Cleland, S. L. Collins, P. Daleo, C. R. Dickman, I. Donohue, M. E. DuPre, N. Eisenhauer, A. Eskelinen, N. Hagenah, Y. Hautier, R. W. Heckman, I. S. Jónsdóttir, J. M. H. Knops, R. Laungani, J. P. Martina, R. L. McCulley, J. W. Morgan, H. Olde Venterink, P. L. Peri, S. A. Power, X. Raynaud, Z. Ren, C. Roscher, M. D. Smith, M. Spohn, C. J. Stevens, M. J. Tedder, R. Virtanen, G. M. Wardle, and G. R. Wheeler. 2025. Interactions among nutrients govern the global grassland biomass–precipitation relationship. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122:e2410748122. Link

Nelson, R. A., L. L. Sullivan, E. I. Hersch-Green, E. W. Seabloom, E. T. Borer, P. M. Tognetti, P. B. Adler, L. Biederman, M. N. Bugalho, M. C. Caldeira, J. P. Cancela, L. G. Carvalheiro, J. A. Catford, C. R. Dickman, A. J. Dolezal, I. Donohue, A. Ebeling, N. Eisenhauer, K. J. Elgersma, A. Eskelinen, C. Estrada, M. Garbowski, P. Graff, D. S. Gruner, N. Hagenah, S. Haider, W. S. Harpole, Y. Hautier, A. Jentsch, N. Johanson, S. E. Koerner, L. S. Lannes, A. S. MacDougall, H. Martinson, J. W. Morgan, H. Olde Venterink, D. Orr, B. B. Osborne, P. L. Peri, S. A. Power, X. Raynaud, A. C. Risch, M. Shrestha, N. G. Smith, C. J. Stevens, G. F. C. Veen, R. Virtanen, G. M. Wardle, A. A. Wolf, A. L. Young, and S. P. Harrison. 2025. Forb diversity globally is harmed by nutrient enrichment but can be rescued by large mammalian herbivory. Communications Biology 8:1–10. Link

Vahsen, M. L., T. M. Maxwell, D. M. Blumenthal, D. Gamba, M. J. Germino, M. B. Hooten, J. R. Lasky, E. A. Leger, N. Pirtel, L. M. Porensky, S. Romero, J. J. Van Ee, S. M. Copeland, D. J. Ensing, and P. B. Adler. 2025. Phenological sensitivity of Bromus tectorum genotypes depends on current and source environments. Ecology 106:e70025. Link

van Cleemput, E., P. B. Adler, K. N. Suding, A. J. Rebelo, B. Poulter, L. E. Dee. 2025. Scaling-up ecological understanding with remote sensing and causal inference. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 40: 122-135. Link

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2024

Terry, T. J., S. P. Hardegree, and P. B. Adler. 2024. Modeling cheatgrass distribution, abundance, and response to climate change as a function of soil microclimate. Ecological Applications 34: e3028. Link

Terry, T. J., S. P. Hardegree, and P. B. Adler. 2024. Modeling cheatgrass distribution, abundance, and response to climate change as a function of soil microclimate. Ecological Applications 34: e3028. Link

Terry, T., O. E. Sala, S. Ferrenberg, S. Reed, B. Osborne, S. Jordan, S. Lee, and P. B. Adler. 2024. Disturbance amplifies sensitivity of dryland productivity to precipitation variability. Science Advances 10: eadm9732. Link

Ellner, S. P., R. E. Snyder, P. B. Adler, C. M. Hernández, and G. Hooker. 2024. It’s about (taking up) space: Discreteness of individuals and the strength of spatial coexistence mechanisms. Ecology 105:e4404. Link

Wilmer, W., D. B. Ferguson, M. Dinan, P. B. Adler, K. B. Walsh, J. B. Bradford, M. Brunson, J. D. Derner, E. Elias, A. Felton, C. Gray, C. Greene, M. McClaran, R. K. Shriver, M. Stephenson, K. N. Suding, and E. Thacker. 2024. Resilience is not enough: Toward a more meaningful rangeland adaptation science. Rangeland Ecology and Management 95: 56-67. Link

Terry, T. and P. B. Adler. 2024. Precipitation seasonality and soil texture interact to shape dryland recovery from severe disturbance. Journal of Ecology, 112:1356–1368. Link

Wang, S., P. Hong, P. B. Adler, E. Allan, Y. Hautier, B. Schmid, J. W. Spaak, and Y. Feng. 2024. Towards mechanistic integration of the causes and consequences of biodiversity change. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 492: 419-422. Link

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2023

Van Cleemput, E., P. B. Adler, and K. N. Suding. 2023. Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity? Global Ecology and Biogeography 32: 2177-2188. Link

Bakker, J. D., J. N. Price, J. A. Henning, E. E. Batzer, T. J. Ohlert, C. E. Wainwright, P. B. Adler, J. Alberti, C. A. Arnillas, L. A. Biederman, E. T. Borer, L. A. Brudvig, Y. M. Buckley, M. N. Bugalho, M. W. Cadotte, M. C. Caldeira, J. A. Catford, Q. Chen, M. J. Crawley, P. Daleo, C. R. Dickman, I. Donohue, M. E. DuPre, A. Ebeling, N. Eisenhauer, P. A. Fay, D. S. Gruner, S. Haider, Y. Hautier, A. Jentsch, K. Kirkman, J. M. H. Knops, L. S. Lannes, A. S. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, R. M. Mitchell, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, B. Mortensen, H. Olde Venterink, P. L. Peri, S. A. Power, S. M. Prober, C. Roscher, M. Sankaran, E. W. Seabloom, M. D. Smith, C. Stevens, L. L. Sullivan, M. Tedder, G. F. (Ciska) Veen, R. Virtanen, and G. M. Wardle. 2023. Compositional variation in grassland plant communities. Ecosphere 14:e4542. Link

Spaak, J., P. B. Adler, and S. P. Ellner. 2023. Continuous assembly required: Perpetual species turnover in two-trophic-level ecosystems. Ecosphere 14:e4614. Link

Chung, Y. A., P-J Ke, and P. B. Adler. 2023. Mechanistic approaches to investigate soil microbe-mediated plant competition. Journal of Ecology 111:1590–1597. Link

Ensley-Field, M., R. Shriver, S. Law, and P. B. Adler. 2023. Combining field observations and remote sensing to forecast fine fuel loads. Rangeland Ecology and Management 90: 245-255. Link

Chung, Y. A., T. A. Monaco, J. B. Taylor, and P. B. Adler. 2023. Do plant–soil feedbacks promote coexistence in a sagebrush steppe? Ecology 104:e4056. Link

Maxwell, T. M., M. J. Germino, S. Romero, L. M. Porensky, D. M. Blumenthal, C. S. Brown, and P. B. Adler. 2023. Experimental manipulation of soil-surface albedo alters phenology and growth of Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass). Plant and Soil 487:325–339. Link

Hernandez, C., S. P. Ellner, P. B. Adler, G. Hooker, and R. E. Snyder. 2023. An exact version of Life Table Response Experiment analysis, and the R package exactLTRE. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14: 939-951. Link

Spaak, J. W., P. B. Adler, and S. P. Ellner. 2023. Mechanistic Models of Trophic Interactions: Opportunities for Species Richness and Challenges for Modern Coexistence Theory. The American Naturalist 202:E1–E16. Link

Dee, L. E., P. J. Ferraro, C. N. Severen, K. A. Kimmel, E. T. Borer, J. E. K. Byrnes, A. T. Clark, Y. Hautier, A. Hector, X. Raynaud, P. B. Reich, A. J. Wright, C. A. Arnillas, K. F. Davies, A. MacDougall, A. S. Mori, M. D. Smith, P. B. Adler, J. D. Bakker, K. A. Brauman, J. Cowles, K. Komatsu, J. M. H. Knops, R. L. McCulley, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, T. Ohlert, S. A. Power, L. L. Sullivan, C. Stevens, and M. Loreau. 2023. Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference. Nature Communications 14:1–12. Link

Zhang, P., E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, M. B. Soons, M. M. Hefting, G. A. Kowalchuk, P. B. Adler, C. Chu, X. Zhou, C. S. Brown, Z. Guo, X. Zhou, Z. Zhao, G. Du, and Y. Hautier. 2023. Space resource utilization of dominant species integrates abundance- and functional-based processes for better predictions of plant diversity dynamics. Oikos 2023: e09519. Link

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2022

Felton, A., R. Shriver, J. Bradford, K. Suding, and P. B. Adler. 2022. Climate disequilibrium dominates uncertainty in long-term projections of primary productivity. Ecology Letters 25: 2688-2698. Link

Ellner, S. P., R. E. Snyder, P. B. Adler, and G. J. Hooker. 2022. Toward a “Modern Coexistence Theory” for the discrete and spatial. Ecological Monographs 92:e1548. Link

Stears, A. E., P. B. Adler, D. M. Blumenthal, J. A. Kray, K. E. Mueller, T. W. Ocheltree, K. R. Wilcox, and D. C. Laughlin. 2022. Water availability dictates how plant traits predict demographic rates. Ecology 103:e3799. Link

Stears, A., P. B. Adler, S. Albeke, D. Atkins, J. Studyvin, D. Laughlin. 2022. plantTracker: An R package to translate chart quadrat maps into demographic data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13: 2129-2137. Link

Gill, A. L., P. B. Adler, E. T. Borer, C. R. Buyarski, E. E. Cleland, C. M. D’Antonio, K. F. Davies, D. S. Gruner, W. S. Harpole, K. S. Hofmockel, A. S. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, B. A. Melbourne, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, A. C. Risch, M. Schütz, E. W. Seabloom, J. P. Wright, L. H. Yang, and S. E. Hobbie. 2022. Nitrogen increases early-stage and slows late-stage decomposition across diverse grasslands. Journal of Ecology 110:1376–1389. Link

Carroll, O., E. Batzer, S. Bharath, E. T. Borer, S. Campana, E. Esch, Y. Hautier, T. Ohlert, E. W. Seabloom, P. B. Adler, J. D. Bakker, L. Biederman, M. N. Bugalho, M. Caldeira, Q. Chen, K. F. Davies, P. A. Fay, J. M. H. Knops, K. Komatsu, J. P. Martina, K. S. McCann, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, T. O. Muraina, B. Osborne, A. C. Risch, C. Stevens, P. A. Wilfahrt, L. Yahdjian, and A. S. MacDougall. 2022. Nutrient identity modifies the destabilising effects of eutrophication in grasslands. Ecology Letters 25:754–765. Link

Sperandii, M. G., F. de Bello, E. Valencia, L. Götzenberger, M. Bazzichetto, T. Galland, A. E-Vojtkó, L. Conti, P. B. Adler, H. Buckley, J. Danihelka, N. J. Day, J. Dengler, D. J. Eldridge, M. Estiarte, R. García-González, E. Garnier, D. Gómez-García, L. Hallett, S. Harrison, T. Herben, R. Ibáñez, A. Jentsch, N. Juergens, M. Kertész, D. M. Kimuyu, K. Klumpp, M. Le Duc, F. Louault, R. H. Marrs, G. Ónodi, R. J. Pakeman, M. Pärtel, B. Peco, J. Peñuelas, M. Rueda, W. Schmidt, U. Schmiedel, M. Schuetz, H. Skalova, P. Šmilauer, M. Šmilauerová, C. Smit, M.-H. Song, M. Stock, J. Val, V. Vandvik, K. Wesche, S. K. Wiser, B. A. Woodcock, T. P. Young, F.-H. Yu, A. A. Wolf, M. Zobel, and J. Lepš. 2022. LOTVS: a global collection of permanent vegetation plots. Journal of Vegetation Science 33: e13115. Link

Ellner, S. P., P. B. Adler, D. Childs, T. Miller, and M. Rees. 2022. A critical comparison of integral projection and matrix projection models for demographic analysis: Comment. Ecology 103: e3605. Link

Ebeling, A., A. T. Strauss, P. B. Adler, C. A. Arnillas, I. C. Barrio, L. A. Biederman, E. T. Borer, M. N. Bugalho, M. C. Caldeira, M. W. Cadotte, P. Daleo, N. Eisenhauer, A. Eskelinen, P. A. Fay, J. Firn, P. Graff, N. Hagenah, S. Haider, K. J. Komatsu, R. L. McCulley, C. E. Mitchell, J. L. Moore, J. Pascual, P. L. Peri, S. A. Power, S. M. Prober, A. C. Risch, C. Roscher, M. Sankaran, E. W. Seabloom, H. Schielzeth, M. Schütz, K. L. Speziale, M. Tedder, R. Virtanen, and D. M. Blumenthal. 2022. Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands. Journal of Ecology 110:327–339. Link

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2021

Christensen, E., D. James, A. Slaughter, C. Maxwell, P. B. Adler, K. Havstad, and B. Bestelmeyer. 2021. Quadrat-based monitoring of desert grassland vegetation at the Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico, 1915-2016. Ecology 102: e03530. Link

Dinan, M., P. B. Adler, J. Bradford, M. Brunson, E. Elias, A. Felton, C. Greene, J. James, K. Suding, and E. Thacker. 2021. Making research relevant: Sharing climate change research with rangeland advisors to transform results into drought resilience. Rangelands 43:185–193. Link

Felton, A. R. Snyder, R. Shriver, K. Suding, P. B. Adler. 2021. The influence of life history strategy on ecosystem sensitivity to resource fluctuations. Journal of Ecology 109: 4081-4091. Access Publication

Xi, N., P. B. Adler, D. Chen, H. Wu, J. A. Catford, P. M. van Bodegom, M. Bahn, K. M. Crawford, and C. Chu. 2021. Relationships between plant–soil feedbacks and functional traits. Journal of Ecology 109: 3411–3423. Access Publication

Wilfahrt, P. A., A. L. Asmus, E. W. Seabloom, J. A. Henning, P. B. Adler, C. A. Arnillas, J. D. Bakker, L. Biederman, L. A. Brudvig, M. Cadotte, P. Daleo, A. Eskelinen, J. Firn, W. S. Harpole, Y. Hautier, K. P. Kirkman, K. J. Komatsu, R. Laungani, A. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, B. Mortensen, R. Ochoa Hueso, T. Ohlert, S. A. Power, J. Price, A. C. Risch, M. Schuetz, L. Shoemaker, C. Stevens, A. T. Strauss, P. M. Tognetti, R. Virtanen, and E. T. Borer. 2021. Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity. Ecology 102:e03504. Access Publication

Seabloom, E. W., E. Batzer, J. M. Chase, W. Stanley Harpole, P. B. Adler, S. Bagchi, J. D. Bakker, I. C. Barrio, L. Biederman, E. H. Boughton, M. N. Bugalho, M. C. Caldeira, J. A. Catford, P. Daleo, N. Eisenhauer, A. Eskelinen, S. Haider, L. M. Hallett, I. Svala Jónsdóttir, K. Kimmel, M. Kuhlman, A. MacDougall, C. D. Molina, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, R. Muthukrishnan, T. Ohlert, A. C. Risch, C. Roscher, M. Schütz, G. Sonnier, P. M. Tognetti, R. Virtanen, P. A. Wilfahrt, and E. T. Borer. 2021. Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands. Ecology Letters 24:2100–2112. Access Publication

Felton, A. J., R. K. Shriver, J. B. Bradford, K. N. Suding, B. W. Allred, and P. B. Adler. 2021. Biotic vs. abiotic controls on temporal sensitivity of primary production to precipitation across North American drylands. New Phytologist 231: 2150-2161. Access Publication

Tredennick, A., G. Hooker, S. P. Ellner, and P. B. Adler. 2021. A practical guide to selecting models for exploration, inference, and prediction in ecology. Ecology 102: e03336. Access Publication

Seabloom, E. W., P. B. Adler, J. Alberti, L. Biederman, Y. M. Buckley, M. W. Cadotte, S. L. Collins, L. Dee, P. A. Fay, J. Firn, N. Hagenah, W. S. Harpole, Y. Hautier, A. Hector, S. E. Hobbie, F. Isbell, J. M. H. Knops, K. J. Komatsu, R. Laungani, A. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, T. Ohlert, S. M. Prober, A. C. Risch, M. Schuetz, C. J. Stevens, and E. T. Borer. 2021. Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time. Ecology 102: e03218. Access Publication

Zimmer, S., G. J. Grosklos, P. B. Adler, and P. Belmont. 2021. Agreement and uncertainty among climate change impact models: A synthesis of sagebrush steppe vegetation predictions. Rangeland Ecology and Management. Rangeland Ecology and Management: 75: 119-129. Access Publication

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2020

Lasky, J. R., M. Hooten, and P. B. Adler. 2020. What processes must we understand to forecast regional scale population dynamics? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: 287: 20202219. Access Publication

Risch, A. C., S. Zimmermann, B. Moser, M. Schütz, F. Hagedorn, J. Firn, P. A. Fay, P. B. Adler, L. A. Biederman, J. M. Blair, E. T. Borer, A. A. D. Broadbent, C. S. Brown, M. W. Cadotte, M. C. Caldeira, K. F. Davies, A. di Virgilio, N. Eisenhauer, A. Eskelinen, J. M. H. Knops, A. S. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, B. A. Melbourne, J. L. Moore, S. A. Power, S. M. Prober, E. W. Seabloom, J. Siebert, M. L. Silveira, K. L. Speziale, C. J. Stevens, P. M. Tognetti, R. Virtanen, L. Yahdjian, and R. Ochoa‐Hueso. 2020. Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties. Global Change Biology 26:7173–7185. Access Publication

Laughlin, D. C., J. R. Gremer, P. B. Adler, R. M. Mitchell, and M. M. Moore. 2020. The net effect of functional traits on fitness. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35: 1037-1047. Access Publication

Brice, E., B. Miller, H. Zhang, K. Goldstein, S. Zimmer, G. Grosklos, P. Belmont, C. Flint, J. Givens, P. B. Adler, M. Brunson, J. Smith. 2020. Impacts of climate change on the management of multiple uses of BLM land in the Intermountain West (USA). Ecosphere 11: e03286. Access Publication

Ellner, S. P., R. E. Snyder, P. B. Adler, G. J. Hooker, and S. Schreiber. 2020. Technical Comment on Pande et al. (2020): Why invasion analysis is important for understanding coexistence. Ecology Letters 23: 1721-1724. Access Publication

Adler, P. B., E. P. White, and M. Cortez. 2020. Matching the forecast horizon with the relevant spatial and temporal processes and datasets. Ecography 43:1729-1739. Access Publication

Valencia, E., F. de Bello, T. Galland, P. B. Adler, J. Lepš, A. E-Vojtkó, R. van KAccess Publication, C. P. Carmona, J. Danihelka, J. Dengler, D. J. Eldridge, M. Estiarte, R. García-González, E. Garnier, D. Gómez‐García, S. P. Harrison, T. Herben, R. Ibáñez, A. Jentsch, N. Juergens, M. Kertész, K. Klumpp, F. Louault, R. H. Marrs, R. Ogaya, G. Ónodi, R. J. Pakeman, I. Pardo, M. Pärtel, B. Peco, J. Peñuelas, R. F. Pywell, M. Rueda, W. Schmidt, U. Schmiedel, M. Schuetz, H. Skálová, P. Šmilauer, M. Šmilauerová, C. Smit, M. Song, M. Stock, J. Val, V. Vandvik, D. Ward, K. Wesche, S. K. Wiser, B. A. Woodcock, T. P. Young, F.-H. Yu, M. Zobel, and L. Götzenberger. 2020. Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117:24345–24351. Access Publication

Gilbert, B., A. S. MacDougall, T. Kadoya, M. Akasaka, J. R. Bennett, E. M. Lind, H. Flores‐Moreno, J. Firn, Y. Hautier, E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, P. B. Adler, E. E. Cleland, J. B. Grace, W. S. Harpole, E. H. Esch, J. L. Moore, J. Knops, R. McCulley, B. Mortensen, J. Bakker, and P. A. Fay. 2020. Climate and local environment structure asynchrony and the stability of primary production in grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29:1177–1188. Access Publication

Sitters, J., E. R. J. Wubs, E. S. Bakker, T. W. Crowther, P. B. Adler, S. Bagchi, J. D. Bakker, L. Biederman, E. T. Borer, E. E. Cleland, N. Eisenhauer, J. Firn, L. Gherardi, N. Hagenah, Y. Hautier, S. E. Hobbie, J. M. H. Knops, A. S. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, J. L. Moore, B. Mortensen, P. L. Peri, S. M. Prober, C. Riggs, A. C. Risch, M. Schütz, E. W. Seabloom, J. Siebert, C. J. Stevens, and G. F. (Ciska) Veen. 2020. Nutrient availability controls the impact of mammalian herbivores on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in grasslands. Global Change Biology 26: 2060–2071. Access Publication

Kulmatiski, A., P. B. Adler, and K. Foley. 2020. Hydrologic niches explain species coexistence and abundance in a shrub-steppe system. J. Ecology 108: 998-1008. Access Publication

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2019

Risch, A. C., S. Zimmermann, R. Ochoa-Hueso, M. Schütz, B. Frey, J. L. Firn, P. A. Fay, F. Hagedorn, E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, W. S. Harpole, J. M. H. Knops, R. L. McCulley, A. A. D. Broadbent, C. J. Stevens, M. L. Silveira, P. B. Adler, S. Báez, L. A. Biederman, J. M. Blair, C. S. Brown, M. C. Caldeira, S. L. Collins, P. Daleo, A. di Virgilio, A. Ebeling, N. Eisenhauer, E. Esch, A. Eskelinen, N. Hagenah, Y. Hautier, K. P. Kirkman, A. S. MacDougall, J. L. Moore, S. A. Power, S. M. Prober, C. Roscher, M. Sankaran, J. Siebert, K. L. Speziale, P. M. Tognetti, R. Virtanen, L. Yahdjian and B. Moser. 2019. Soil net nitrogen mineralisation in global grasslands. Nature Communications 10: 498. Access Publication

James, J., R. Sheley, E. Leger, P. B. Adler, S. Hardegree, E. Gornish, and M. Rinella. 2019. Increased soil temperature and decreased precipitation during early plant life stages constrain grass seedling recruitment in cold desert restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology 56: 2609–2619. Access Publication

Smull, D., N. Pendleton, A. R. Kleinhesselink, and P. B. Adler. 2019. Climate change, snow mold and the Bromus tectorum invasion: mixed evidence for release from cold weather pathogens. AoB Plants11: plz043. Access Publication

Cleland, E. E., E. M. Lind, N. M. DeCrappeo, E. DeLorenze, R. A. Wilkins, P. B. Adler, J. D. Bakker, C. S. Brown, K. F. Davies, E. Esch, J. Firn, S. Gressard, D. S. Gruner, N. Hagenah, W. S. Harpole, Y. Hautier, S. E. Hobbie, K. S. Hofmockel, K. Kirkman, J. Knops, C. W. Kopp, K. J. La Pierre, A. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, B. A. Melbourne, J. L. Moore, S. M. Prober, C. Riggs, A. C. Risch, M. Schuetz, C. Stevens, P. D. Wragg, J. Wright, E. T. Borer, and E. W. Seabloom. 2019. Belowground Biomass Response to Nutrient Enrichment Depends on Light Limitation Across Globally Distributed Grasslands. Ecosystems 22:1466–1477.

Crowther, T. W., C. Riggs, E. M. Lind, E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, S. E. Hobbie, J. Wubs, P. B. Adler, J. Firn, L. Gherardi, N. Hagenah, K. S. Hofmockel, J. M. H. Knops, R. L. McCulley, A. S. MacDougall, P. L. Peri, S. M. Prober, C. J. Stevens, and D. Routh. 2019. Sensitivity of global soil carbon stocks to combined nutrient enrichment. Ecology Letters 22: 936–945. Access Publication

Firn, J., J. M. McGree, E. Harvey, H. Flores-Moreno, M. Schütz, Y. M. Buckley, E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, K. J. La Pierre, A. M. MacDougall, S. M. Prober, C. J. Stevens, L. L. Sullivan, E. Porter, E. Ladouceur, C. Allen, K. H. Moromizato, J. W. Morgan, W. S. Harpole, Y. Hautier, N. Eisenhauer, J. P. Wright, P. B. Adler, C. A. Arnillas, J. D. Bakker, L. Biederman, A. A. D. Broadbent, C. S. Brown, M. N. Bugalho, M. C. Caldeira, E. E. Cleland, A. Ebeling, P. A. Fay, N. Hagenah, A. R. Kleinhesselink, R. Mitchell, J. L. Moore, C. Nogueira, P. L. Peri, C. Roscher, M. D. Smith, P. D. Wragg, and A. C. Risch. 2019. Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs. Nature Ecology and Evolution 3:407–415. Access Publication

Mukherjee, J. R., T. A. Jones, T. A. Monaco, and P. B. Adler. 2019. Relationship between seed mass and young-seedling growth and morphology among nine bluebunch wheatgrass populations. Rangeland Ecology and Management 72:283–291. Access Publication

Barnett, D., P. B. Adler, B. Chemel, J. Clark, P. Duffy, B. Enquist, J. Grace, S. Harrison, R. Peet, D. Schimel, T. Stohlgren, and M. Vellend. 2019. The plant diversity sampling design for The National Ecological Observatory Network. Ecosphere 10(2):e02603. Access Publication

Ellner, S. P., R. Snyder, P. B. Adler and G. Hooker. 2019. An expanded modern coexistence theory for empirical applications. Ecology Letters 22: 3-18. Access Publication

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2018

Tredennick, A. T., B. Teller, P. B. Adler, G. Hooker, and S. P. Ellner. 2018. Size-by-environment interactions: a neglected dimension of species’ responses to environmental variation. Ecology Letters 21:1757–1770. Access Publication

Adler, P. B., D. Smull, K. H. Beard, R. T. Choi, T. Furniss, A. Kulmatiski, J. Meiners, A. T. Tredennick, and K. E. Veblen. 2018. Competition and coexistence in plant communities: intraspecific competition is stronger than interspecific competition. Ecology Letters 21:1319-1329. Access Publication

Hodapp, D., E. T. Borer, W. S. Harpole, E. M. Lind, E. W. Seabloom, P. B. Adler, J. Alberti, C. A. Arnillas, J. D. Bakker, L. Biederman, M. Cadotte, E. E. Cleland, S. Collins, P. A. Fay, J. Firn, N. Hagenah, Y. Hautier, O. Iribarne, J. M. H. Knops, R. L. McCulley, A. MacDougall, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, B. Mortensen, K. J. L. Pierre, A. C. Risch, M. Schütz, P. Peri, C. J. Stevens, J. Wright, and H. Hillebrand. 2018. Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation. Ecology Letters 21:1364–1371. Access Publication

Adler, P. B., A. R. Kleinhesselink, B. Teller, G. Hooker, and S. P. Ellner. 2018. Weak interspecific interactions in a sagebrush steppe: evidence from observations, models, and experiments. Ecology 99: 1621-1632. Access Publication

Kleinhesselink, A. R. and P. B. Adler. 2018. The response of big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) to interannual climate variation changes across its range. Ecology 99: 1139-1149. Access Publication

Tredennick, A. T., A. R. Kleinhesselink, J. Bret Taylor, and P. B. Adler. 2018. Ecosystem functional response across precipitation extremes in a sagebrush steppe. PeerJ 6: e4485. Access Publication

Anderson, T. M., D. M. Griffith, J. B. Grace, E. M. Lind, P. B. Adler, L. A. Biederman, D. M. Blumenthal, P. Daleo, J. Firn, N. Hagenah, W. S. Harpole, A. S. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, S. M. Prober, A. C. Risch, M. Sankaran, M. Schütz, E. W. Seabloom, C. J. Stevens, L. L. Sullivan, P. D. Wragg, and E. T. Borer. 2018. Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient. Ecology 99:822–831. Access Publication

Laughlin, D., R. Strahan, P. B. Adler, and M. Moore. 2018. Vital rates indicate that correlations between community-weighted mean traits and environments are unreliable estimates of the adaptive value of traits. Ecology Letters 21: 411-421. Access Publication

Carlson, L., K. Beard and P. B. Adler. 2018. Direct effects of warming increase woody plant abundance in a subarctic wetland. Ecology and Evolution 8: 2868-2879. Access Publication

Renwick, K., C. Curtis, A. R. Kleinhesselink, D. Schlaepfer, B. Bradley, C. Aldridge, B. Poulter, and P. B. Adler. 2018. Multi-model comparison highlights consistency in predicted effect of warming on a semi-arid shrub. Global Change Biology 24: 424-438. Access Publication

Hautier, Y., F. Isbell, E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, W. S. Harpole, E. M. Lind, A. S. MacDougall, C. J. Stevens, P. B. Adler, J. Alberti, J. D. Bakker, L. A. Brudvig, Y. M. Buckley, M. Cadotte, M. C. Caldeira, E. J. Chaneton, C. Chu, P. Daleo, C. R. Dickman, J. M. Dwyer, A. Eskelinen, P. A. Fay, J. Firn, N. Hagenah, H. Hillebrand, O. Iribarne, K. P. Kirkman, J. M. H. Knops, K. J. L. Pierre, R. L. McCulley, J. W. Morgan, M. Pärtel, J. Pascual, J. N. Price, S. M. Prober, A. C. Risch, M. Sankaran, M. Schuetz, R. J. Standish, R. Virtanen, G. M. Wardle, L. Yahdjian, and A. Hector. 2018. Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:50-56. Access Publication

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2017

Harpole, W. S., L. L. Sullivan, E. M. Lind, J. Firn, P. B. Adler, E. T. Borer, J. Chase, P. A. Fay, Y. Hautier, H. Hillebrand, A. S. MacDougall, E. W. Seabloom, J. D. Bakker, M. W. Cadotte, E. J. Chaneton, C. Chu, N. Hagenah, K. Kirkman, K. J. La Pierre, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, S. M. Prober, A. C. Risch, M. Schuetz, and C. J. Stevens. 2017. Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light and plant diversity. Functional Ecology 31:1839–1846. Access Publication

Tredennick, A., P. B. Adler, and F. R. Adler. 2017. The relationship between species richness and ecosystem variability is shaped by the mechanism of coexistence. Ecology Letters 20: 958-968. Access Publication

Gallien, L., J. M. Levine, N. Zimmerman, and P. B. Adler. 2017. The effects of intransitive competition on coexistence. Ecology Letters 20: 791-800. Access Publication

Levine, J. M., J. Bascompte, P. B. Adler, and S. Allesina. 2017. Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities. Nature 546: 56–64. Access Publication

Yenni, G. M., P. B. Adler, S.K.M. Ernest. 2017. Do persistent rare species experience stronger negative frequency dependence than common species? Global Ecology and Biogeography 26: 513-523. Access Publication

Tredennick, A. T., M. B. Hooten, and P. B. Adler. 2017. Do we need demographic data to forecast plant population dynamics? Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8: 541-551. Access Publication

Tredennick, A. T., C. de Mazancourt, M. Loreau, and P. B. Adler. 2017. Environmental responses, not species interactions, determine synchrony of dominant species in semiarid grasslands. Ecology 98:971–981. Access Publication

Byrne, K. M., W. K. Lauenroth, and P. B. Adler. 2017. Contrasting effects of precipitation manipulations on plant community responses at two sites within the Great Plains, USA. Journal of Vegetation Science 28: 238-249. Access Publication

Kulmatiski, A., P. B. Adler, J. M. Stark and A. T. Tredennick. 2017. Water and nitrogen uptake are better associated with resource availability than root biomass. Ecosphere 8: e01738. Access Publication

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2016

Tredennick, A., M. Hooten, C. Aldridge, C. Homer, A. Kleinhesselink*, and P. B. Adler. 2016. Forecasting climate change impacts on plant populations over large spatial extents. Ecosphere 7: e01525. Link

Ellner, S. P., R. E. Snyder, and P. B. Adler. 2016. How to quantify the temporal storage effect using simulations instead of math. Ecology Letters 19:1333–1342. Link

Harpole, W. S., L. L. Sullivan, E. M. Lind, J. Firn, P. B. Adler, E. T. Borer, J. Chase, P. A. Fay, Y. Hautier, H. Hillebrand, A. S. MacDougall, E. W. Seabloom, R. Williams, J. D. Bakker, M. W. Cadotte, E. J. Chaneton, C. Chu, E. E. Cleland, C. D’Antonio, K. F. Davies, D. S. Gruner, N. Hagenah, K. Kirkman, J. M. H. Knops, K. J. La Pierre, R. L. McCulley, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, S. M. Prober, A. C. Risch, M. Schuetz, C. J. Stevens, and P. D. Wragg. 2016. Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity. Nature 537:93–96. Link

Chu, C., A. R. Kleinhesselink, K. M. Havstad, M. P. McClaran, D. P. Peters, L. T. Vermeire, H. Wei, and P. B. Adler. 2016. Direct effects dominate responses to climate perturbations in grassland plant communities. Nature Communications 7:11766. Link

Iles, D., R. Salguero-Gomez, D. N. Koons, P. B. Adler. 2016. Linking transient dynamics and life history to biological invasion success. Journal of Ecology 104: 399-408. Link

Teller, B., P. B. Adler, C. Edwards, G. Hooker, and S. Ellner. 2016. Linking demography with drivers: climate and competition. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7: 171-183. Link

Tredennick†, A. T., P. B. Adler, J. B. Grace, W. S. Harpole, E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, T. M. Anderson, J. D. Bakker, L. A. Biederman, C. S. Brown, Y. M. Buckley, C. Chu, S. L. Collins, M. J. Crawley, P. A. Fay, J. Firn, D. S. Gruner, N. Hagenah, Y. Hautier, A. Hector, H. Hillebrand, K. Kirkman, J. M. H. Knops, R. Laungani, E. M. Lind, A. S. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, C. E. Mitchell, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, J. L. Orrock, P. L. Peri, S. M. Prober, A. C. Risch, M. Schütz, K. L. Speziale, R. J. Standish, L. L. Sullivan, G. M. Wardle, R. J. Williams, and L. H. Yang. 2016. Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness.” Science 351:457–457. Link

Grace, J. B., T. M. Anderson, E. W. Seabloom, E. T. Borer, P. B. Adler, W. S. Harpole, Y. Hautier, H. Hillebrand, E. M. Lind, M. Pärtel, J. D. Bakker, Y. M. Buckley, M. J. Crawley, E. I. Damschen, K. F. Davies, P. A. Fay, J. Firn, D. S. Gruner, A. Hector, J. M. H. Knops, A. S. MacDougall, B. A. Melbourne, J. W. Morgan, J. L. Orrock, S. M. Prober, and M. D. Smith. 2016. Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness. Nature 529:390–393. Link

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2015

Ray-Mukherjee, J. R., T. A. Jones, P. B. Adler, and T. A. Monaco. 2015. Contrasting mechanisms for recovery from defoliation in two Intermountain-native bunchgrasses. Rangeland Ecology and Management 68: 485-493. Link

Kleinhesselink, A. R. and P. B. Adler. In press. Indirect effects of environmental change in resource competition models. The American Naturalist. Link

Chu, C. J. and P. B. Adler. 2015. Large niche differences emerge at the recruitment stage to stabilize grassland coexistence. Ecological Monographs 85: 373-392. Link

Maricle, B. R., K. L. Caudle, P. B. Adler. 2015. Influence of water availability on photosynthesis, water potential, leaf δ13C, and phenology in dominant C4 grasses in Kansas, USA. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 118: 173-193. Link

Seabloom, E. W., E. T. Borer, Y. M. Buckley, E. E. Cleland, K. F. Davies, J. Firn, W. S. Harpole, Y. Hautier, E. M. Lind, A. S. MacDougall, J. L. Orrock, S. M. Prober, P. B. Adler, T. M. Anderson, J. D. Bakker, L. A. Biederman, D. M. Blumenthal, C. S. Brown, L. A. Brudvig, M. Cadotte, C. Chu, K. L. Cottingham, M. J. Crawley, E. I. Damschen, C. M. Dantonio, N. M. DeCrappeo, G. Du, P. A. Fay, P. Frater, D. S. Gruner, N. Hagenah, A. Hector, H. Hillebrand, K. S. Hofmockel, H. C. Humphries, V. L. Jin, A. Kay, K. P. Kirkman, J. A. Klein, J. M. H. Knops, K. J. La Pierre, L. Ladwig, J. G. Lambrinos, Q. Li, W. Li, R. Marushia, R. L. McCulley, B. A. Melbourne, C. E. Mitchell, J. L. Moore, J. Morgan, B. Mortensen, L. R. O’Halloran, D. A. Pyke, A. C. Risch, M. Sankaran, M. Schuetz, A. Simonsen, M. D. Smith, C. J. Stevens, L. Sullivan, E. Wolkovich, P. D. Wragg, J. Wright, and L. Yang. 2015. Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. Nature Communications 6. Link

Fay, P. A., S. M. Prober, W. S. Harpole, J. M. H. Knops, J. D. Bakker, E. T. Borer, E. M. Lind, A. S. MacDougall, E. W. Seabloom, P. D. Wragg, P. B. Adler, D. M. Blumenthal, Y. M. Buckley, C. Chu, E. E. Cleland, S. L. Collins, K. F. Davies, G. Du, X. Feng, J. Firn, D. S. Gruner, N. Hagenah, Y. Hautier, R. W. Heckman, V. L. Jin, K. P. Kirkman, J. Klein, L. M. Ladwig, Q. Li, R. L. McCulley, B. A. Melbourne, C. E. Mitchell, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, A. C. Risch, M. Schütz, C. J. Stevens, D. A. Wedin, and L. H. Yang. 2015. Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients. Nature Plants 1: 15080. Link

Kraft, N. J. B., P. B. Adler, O. Godoy, E. James, S. Fuller, J. M. Levine. 2015. Community assembly, coexistence, and the habitat filtering metaphor. Functional Ecology 29: 592-599. Link

Prober, S. M., J. W. Leff, S. T. Bates, E. T. Borer, J. Firn, W. S. Harpole, E. M. Lind, E. W. Seabloom, P. B. Adler, J. D. Bakker, E. E. Cleland, N. M. DeCrappeo, E. DeLorenze, N. Hagenah, Y. Hautier, K. S. Hofmockel, K. P. Kirkman, J. M. H. Knops, K. J. La Pierre, A. S. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, C. E. Mitchell, A. C. Risch, M. Schuetz, C. J. Stevens, R. J. Williams, and N. Fierer. 2015. Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide. Ecology Letters 18:85-95. Link

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2014

Compagnoni, A.* and P. B. Adler. 2014. Warming, competition, and Bromus tectorum population growth across an elevation gradient. Ecosphere 5: 121. Link

Ware, I.M.*, P. Terletzky, and P. B. Adler. 2014. Conflicting management objectives on the Colorado Plateau: Understanding the effects of bison and cattle grazing on plant community composition. Journal of Nature Conservation 22: 293-301. Link

Grace, J. B., P. B. Adler, W. S. Harpole, E. T. Borer, and E. W. Seabloom. 2014. Causal networks clarify productivity-richness interrelations, bivariate plots do not. Functional Ecology 28: 787-798. Link

Chu, C., K. M. Havstad, N. Kaplan, W. K. Lauenroth, M. P. McClaran, D. P. Peters, L. T. Vermeire, P. B. Adler. 2014. Life form influences survivorship patterns for 109 herbaceous perennials from six semi-arid ecosystems. Journal of Vegetation Science 25: 947-954. Link

MacDougall, A. S., J. R. Bennett, J. Firn, E. W. Seabloom, E. T. Borer, E. M. Lind, J. L. Orrock, W. S. Harpole, Y. Hautier, P. B. Adler, E. Cleland, K. Davies, B. Melbourne, S. M. Prober, J. D. Bakker, P. A. Fay, V. L. Jin, A. Kendig, K. J. La Pierre, J. Moore, J. Morgan, and C. J. Stevens. 2014. Anthropogenic-based regional-scale factors most consistently explain plot-level exotic diversity in grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23: 802–810. Link

Hsu, J.* and P. B. Adler. 2014. Anticipating changes in variability of grassland production due to increases in interannual precipitation variability. Ecosphere 5: art58. Link

Borer, E. T., E. W. Seabloom, D. S. Gruner, W. S. Harpole, H. Hillebrand, E. M. Lind, P. B. Adler, J. Alberti, T. M. Anderson, J. D. Bakker, L. Biederman, D. Blumenthal, C. S. Brown, L. A. Brudvig, Y. M. Buckley, M. Cadotte, C. Chu, E. E. Cleland, M. J. Crawley, P. Daleo, E. I. Damschen, K. F. Davies, N. M. DeCrappeo, G. Du, J. Firn, Y. Hautier, R. W. Heckman, A. Hector, J. HilleRisLambers, O. Iribarne, J. A. Klein, J. M. H. Knops, K. J. La Pierre, A. D. B. Leakey, W. Li, A. S. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, B. A. Melbourne, C. E. Mitchell, J. L. Moore, B. Mortensen, L. R. O’Halloran, J. L. Orrock, J. Pascual, S. M. Prober, D. A. Pyke, A. C. Risch, M. Schuetz, M. D. Smith, C. J. Stevens, L. L. Sullivan, R. J. Williams, P. D. Wragg, J. P. Wright, and L. H. Yang. 2014. Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature 508: 517-520. Link

Hautier, Y., E. W. Seabloom, E. T. Borer, P. B. Adler, W. S. Harpole, H. Hillebrand, E. M. Lind, A. S. MacDougall, C. J. Stevens, J. D. Bakker, Y. M. Buckley, C. Chu, S. L. Collins, P. Daleo, E. I. Damschen, K. F. Davies, P. A. Fay, J. Firn, D. S. Gruner, V. L. Jin, J. A. Klein, J. M. H. Knops, K. J. La Pierre, W. Li, R. L. McCulley, B. A. Melbourne, J. L. Moore, L. R. O’Halloran, S. M. Prober, A. C. Risch, M. Sankaran, M. Schuetz, and A. Hector. 2014. Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. Nature 508: 521-525. Link

Chu, C. and P. B. Adler. 2014. When should plant populations models include age structure? Journal of Ecology 102: 531-543. Link

Adler, P. B., R. Salguero-Gómez, A. Compagnoni, J. Hsu, J. Ray-Mukherjee, C. Mbeau-Ache, M. Franco. 2014. Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: 740-745. Link

Compagnoni, A. and P. B. Adler. 2014. Warming, soil moisture, and loss of snow increase Bromus tectorum’s population growth rate. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene DOI 10.12952/journal.elementa.000020. 

Borer, E., W.S. Harpole, P. B. Adler, E.M. Lind, J.L. Orrock, E.W. Seabloom, M.D. Smith. 2014. Finding generality in ecology: A model for globally distributed experiments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5: 65-73. 

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2013

Adler, P. B. 2013. Testing the storage effect with long-term, observational data. Pp. 82-101 in: Temporal Dynamics and Ecological Process (eds. Colleen Kelly, Michael Bowler, and Gordon Cox), Cambridge University Press. Link

Seabloom, E. and 72 co-authors including P. B. Adler. 2013. Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? Global Change Biology 19: 3677-3687. Link

Byrne, K., P. B. Adler, and W.K. Lauenroth. 2013. Contrasting effects of precipitation manipulations on production in two sites within the Central Grassland Region, USA. Ecosystems 16: 1039-1051. Link

Adler, P. B., A. Fajardo, A. Kleinhesselink, and N. J. B. Kraft. 2013. Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms. Ecology Letters 16: 1294-1306. Link

Chu, C., J. Norman, R. Flynn, N. Kaplan, W. K. Lauenroth, and P. B. Adler. 2013. Cover, density and demographics of shortgrass steppe plants mapped from 1997-2010 in permanent grazed and ungrazed quadrats. Ecology 94: 1435-1435. Link Data

Adler, P. B., K. Byrne, and J. Leiker. 2013. Can the past predict the future? Experimental tests of historically-based population models. Global Change Biology 19: 1793-1803. Link Highlighted in Nature Climate Change

Lind, E. and 19 co-authors including P. B. Adler. 2013. Life history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth-defense tradeoff is the norm. Ecology Letters 16: 513-521. Link

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2012

HilleRisLambers, J., P. B. Adler, W. S. Harpole, J. M. Levine, M. M. Mayfield. 2012. Rethinking community assembly through the lens of coexistence theory. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 43: 227-248. Link

H. Owens, J. LaFantasie, and P. B. Adler. 2012. Mycorrhization rates of two grasses following alterations in moisture inputs in a southern mixed grass prairie. Applied Soil Ecology 50: 56-60. Link

Anderson, J., M. P. McClaran, and P. B. Adler. 2012. Cover and density of semi-desert grassland plants in permanent quadrats mapped from 1915 to 1947. Ecology 93: 1492. Link Online data

Hsu, J. S., J. Powell, and P. B. Adler. 2012. Sensitivity of mean annual primary production to precipitation. Global Change Biology 18: 2246-2255. Link

Koons, D. N., P. Terletzky, P. B. Adler, M. L. Wolfe, D. Ranglack, F. P. Howe, K. Hersey, W. Paskett, and J. du Toit. 2012. Climate and density-dependent drivers of American Bison reproductive success. Journal of Mammology 93: 475-481. Link

Yenni, G. M., P. B. Adler and S. K. M. Ernest. 2012. Strong self-limitation promotes the persistence of rare species. Ecology 93: 456-461. Link

Grace, J. B., P. B. Adler, E. W. Seabloom, E. T. Borer, et al. 2012. Response to Comments on “Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness”. Science 335:1441–1441. Link

Adler, P. B., H. J. Dalgleish and S. P. Ellner. 2012. Forecasting plant community impacts of climate variability and change: when do competitive interactions matter? Journal of Ecology 100: 478-487. Link Correction!

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2011

Snyder, R., and P. B. Adler. 2011. Coexistence and coevolution in fluctuating environments: Can the storage effect evolve? American Naturalist 178: E78-E84. Link

Adler, P. B., E. W. Seabloom, E. T. Borer, H. Hillebrand, Y. Hautier, A. Hector, W. S. Harpole, L. R. O’Halloran, J. B. Grace, T. M. Anderson, J. D. Bakker, L. A. Biederman, C. S. Brown, Y. M. Buckley, L. B. Calabrese, C.-J. Chu, E. E. Cleland, S. L. Collins, K. L. Cottingham, M. J. Crawley, E. I. Damschen, K. F. Davies, N. M. DeCrappeo, P. A. Fay, J. Firn, P. Frater, E. I. Gasarch, D. S. Gruner, N. Hagenah, J. Hille Ris Lambers, H. Humphries, V. L. Jin, A. D. Kay, K. P. Kirkman, J. A. Klein, J. M. H. Knops, K. J. La Pierre, J. G. Lambrinos, W. Li, A. S. MacDougall, R. L. McCulley, B. A. Melbourne, C. E. Mitchell, J. L. Moore, J. W. Morgan, B. Mortensen, J. L. Orrock, S. M. Prober, D. A. Pyke, A. C. Risch, M. Schuetz, M. D. Smith, C. J. Stevens, L. L. Sullivan, G. Wang, P. D. Wragg, J. P. Wright, and L. H. Yang. 2011. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science 333: 1750-1753. PDF Accompanying perspective piece

Byrne, K. M., W. K. Lauenroth, P. B. Adler and C. M. Byrne. 2011. Estimating aboveground net primary production in grasslands: a comparison of nondestructive methods. Rangeland Ecology and Management 64: 498-505. 

Anderson, J., L. Vermeire, and P.B. Adler. 2011. Fourteen years of mapped, permanent quadrats in a northern mixed prairie, USA. Ecology 92: 1703. Link Online data

Mukherjee, J.Ray, T.A. Jones, P.B. Adler, and T.A. Monaco. 2011. Immature seedling growth of two North American native bunchgrasses and the invasive grass Bromus tectorum. Rangeland Ecology and Management 64: 358-365. 

Maricle, B. R. and P. B. Adler. 2011. Effects of precipitation on photosynthesis and water potential in Andropogon gerardii and Schizachyrium scoparium in a southern mixed grass prairie. Environmental and Experimental Botany 72: 223-231. Link

Dalgleish, H.J., C.A. Moffet, D.N. Koons, M.B. Hooten, and P.B. Adler. 2011. Climate influences the population dynamics of three dominant sagebrush steppe plants. Ecology 92: 75-85. Link.

Mukherjee, J.Ray, T.A. Jones, P.B. Adler, and T.A. Monaco. 2011. Drought tolerance in two perennial bunchgrasses used for restoration in the Intermountain West, USA. Plant Ecology 212: 461-470. 

Firn, J., J. L. Moore, A. S. MacDougall, E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, J. HilleRisLambers, W. S. Harpole, E. E. Cleland, C. S. Brown, J. M. H. Knops, S. M. Prober, D. A. Pyke, K. A. Farrell, J. D. Bakker, L. R. O’Halloran, P. B. Adler, S. L. Collins, C. M. D’Antonio, M. J. Crawley, E. M. Wolkovich, K. J. La Pierre, B. A. Melbourne, Y. Hautier, J. W. Morgan, A. D. B. Leakey, A. Kay, R. McCulley, K. F. Davies, C. J. Stevens, C. Chu, K. D. Holl, J. A. Klein, P. A. Fay, N. Hagenah, K. P. Kirkman, and Y. M. Buckley. 2011. Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities. Ecology Letters 14: 274-281. Link

Onoda, Y., M. Westoby, P. B. Adler, A. M. F. Choong, F. J. Clissold, J. H. C. Cornelissen, S. Díaz, N. J. Dominy, A. Elgart, L. Enrico, P. V. A. Fine, J. J. Howard, A. Jalili, K. Kitajima, H. Kurokawa, C. McArthur, P. W. Lucas, L. Markesteijn, N. Pérez-Harguindeguy, L. Poorter, L. Richards, L. S. Santiago, E. E. Sosinski, S. A. Van Bael, D. I. Warton, I. J. Wright, S. Joseph Wright, and N. Yamashita. 2011. Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties. Ecology Letters 14:301-312. Link

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2010

Zachmann, L. C. Moffet and P. Adler. 2010. Mapped quadrats in sagebrush steppe: long-term data for analyzing demographic rates and plant–plant interactions. Ecology 91:3427. Link Online data

White, E. P., S.K.M. Ernest, P.B. Adler, A.H. Hurlbert, and S.K. Lyons. 2010. Integrating spatial and temporal approaches to understanding species richness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 3633-3643. Link

Adler, P.B., S.P. Ellner and J.M. Levine. 2010. Coexistence of perennial plants: An embarrassment of niches. Ecology Letters 13: 1019-1029. Link

Dalgleish, H.J., Koons, D.N., and P.B. Adler. 2010. Can life history traits predict the vulnerability of forb populations to increased climate variability? Journal of Ecology 98: 209-217. Link

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2009

Adler, P.B., HilleRisLambers, J., and J.M. Levine. 2009. Weak effects of climate variability on coexistence in a sagebrush steppe community. Ecology 90: 3303-3312. Link

Adler, P.B., Leiker, J., and J.M. Levine. 2009. Direct and indirect effects of climate change on a prairie plant community. PLoSONE 4: e6887. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006887 PDF

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2008

Adler, P.B., and J. HilleRisLambers. 2008. The influence of climate and species composition on the population dynamics of ten prairie forbs. Ecology 89: 3049-3060.  Online data

Adler, P.B. and J.M. Drake. 2008. Environmental variation, stochastic extinction, and competitive coexistence. The American Naturalist 172: E186-E195. 

Levine, J.M., P.B. Adler and J. HilleRisLambers. 2008. On testing the role of niche differences in stabilizing coexistence. Functional Ecology 22: 934-936. 

Lauenroth, W.K. and P.B. Adler. 2008. Demography of grassland plants: Survival, life expectancy and life span. Journal of Ecology 96: 1023-1032.  Online data 

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2007

Adler, P.B., Tyburczy, W.R. and W.K. Lauenroth. 2007. Long-term mapped quadrats from Kansas prairie: A unique source of demographic information for herbaceous plants. Ecology 88: 2673. Online data

Adler, P.B., HilleRisLambers, J., and J.M. Levine. 2007. A niche for neutrality. Ecology Letters 10: 95-104. 

Adler, P.B. and J. M. Levine. 2007. Contrasting relationships between precipitation and species richness in space and time. Oikos 116: 221-232. 

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2006

Adler, P.B., HilleRisLambers, J., Kyriakidis, P., Guan, Q., and J.M. Levine. 2006. Climate variability has a stabilizing effect on coexistence of prairie grasses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 12793-12798.  Supporting info

Busby, P.E., Adler, P.B., Warren, T., and F. Swanson. 2006. Fates of live trees retained in forest cutting units, western Cascade Range, Oregon. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 2544-2549. 

White, E.P., Adler, P.B., Lauenroth, W.K., Gill, R.A., Greenberg, D., Kaufman, D.M., Rassweiler, A., Rusak, J.A., Smith, M.D., Steinbeck, J.R., Waide, R.B. and J. Yao.2006. A comparison of the species-time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups. Oikos 112: 185-195. 

Adler, P. B., Garbulsky, M. F., Paruelo, J. M., and W. K. Lauenroth. 2006. Do abiotic differences explain contrasting graminoid functional traits in sagebrush steppe, USA and Patagonian steppe, Argentina? Journal of Arid Environments 65: 62-82. 

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2005

Adler, P. B., White, E. P., Lauenroth, W. K., Kaufman, D.M., Rassweiler, A. and J. A. Rusak. 2005. Evidence for a general species-time-area relationship. Ecology 86: 2032-2039. 

Adler, P.B. and S.A. Hall. 2005. The development of forage production and utilization gradients around livestock watering points. Landscape Ecology 20: 319-333. 

Adler, P.B., D.G. Milchunas, O.E. Sala, I.C. Burke, and W.K. Lauenroth. 2005. Plant traits and ecosystem grazing effects: comparison of US sagebrush steppe and Patagonia steppe. Ecological Applications 15: 774-792. 

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2004 and Earlier