An unfortunate alliance: native shrubs increase the abundance, performance, and apparent impacts of Bromus tectorum across a regional aridity gradient

Long-term evaluation of restoring understories in Wyoming big sagebrush communities with mowing and seeding native bunchgrasses

(2021) Kirk W. Davies et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Facilitation promotes plant invasions and indirect negative interactions

(2021) Christopher J. Lortie et al.   OIKOS

Establishment of a desert foundation species is limited by exotic plants and light but not herbivory or water

(2020) Alessandro Filazzola et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Positive associations with native shrubs are intense and important for an exotic invader but not the native annual community across an aridity gradient

(2020) Jacob E. Lucero et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Remove or retain: ecosystem effects of woody encroachment and removal are linked to plant structural and functional traits

(2020) David J. Eldridge et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Loss of biotic resistance and high propagule pressure promote invasive grass-fire cycles

(2019) Samuel B. St. Clair et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The dark side of facilitation: native shrubs facilitate exotic annuals more strongly than native annuals

(2019) Jacob E. Lucero et al.   NeoBiota

Enemy release from the effects of generalist granivores can facilitate Bromus tectorum invasion in the Great Basin Desert

(2019) Jacob E. Lucero et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Fire, rodent herbivory, and plant competition: implications for invasion and altered fire regimes in the Mojave Desert

(2019) Tara B. B. Bishop et al.   OECOLOGIA

Fire and Grazing Influence Site Resistance to Bromus tectorum Through Their Effects on Shrub, Bunchgrass and Biocrust Communities in the Great Basin (USA)

(2018) Lea A. Condon et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Facilitation beyond species richness

(2018) Julia Vega-Álvarez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The assembly of a plant network in alpine vegetation

(2018) Gianalberto Losapio et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The good with the bad: when ecological restoration facilitates native and non-native species

(2018) Scott R. Abella et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Life in interstitial space: Biocrusts inhibit exotic but not native plant establishment in semi-arid grasslands

(2018) Mandy L. Slate et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evaluating the use of fire to control shrub encroachment in global drylands: A synthesis based on ecosystem service perspective

(2018) Stefani Daryanto et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A test of desert shrub facilitation via radiotelemetric monitoring of a diurnal lizard

(2018) Michael F. Westphal et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The tortoise and the hare: reducing resource availability shifts competitive balance between plant species

(2017) Dean E. Pearson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biocrusts enhance soil fertility and Bromus tectorum growth, and interact with warming to influence germination

(2017) Scott Ferrenberg et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Seed Bank Depletion: The Key to Long-Term Downy Brome ( Bromus tectorum L.) Management

(2017) Derek J. Sebastian et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

The Groot Effect: Plant facilitation and desert shrub regrowth following extensive damage

(2017) Christopher J. Lortie et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Strong genetic differentiation in the invasive annual grass Bromus tectorum across the Mojave–Great Basin ecological transition zone

(2016) Susan E. Meyer et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Quantifying “apparent” impact and distinguishing impact from invasiveness in multispecies plant invasions

(2016) Dean E. Pearson et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Facilitation in communities: underlying mechanisms, community and ecosystem implications

(2016) Richard Michalet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Exotic invasive plants increase productivity, abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and nitrogen availability in intermountain grasslands

(2016) Morgan Luce McLeod et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Soil under nurse plants is always better than outside: a survey on soil amelioration by a complete guild of nurse plants across a long environmental gradient

(2016) M. A. K. Mihoč et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Does the stress-gradient hypothesis hold water? Disentangling spatial and temporal variation in plant effects on soil moisture in dryland systems

(2015) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Stress-gradient hypothesis explains susceptibility toBromus tectoruminvasion and community stability in North America's semi-aridArtemisia tridentata wyomingensisecosystems

(2015) Michael D. Reisner et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Climate Change May Alter Both Establishment and High Abundance of Red Brome (Bromus rubens) and African Mustard (Brassica tournefortii) in the Semiarid Southwest United States

(2015) Caroline A. Curtis et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Increased Primary Production from an Exotic Invader Does Not Subsidize Native Rodents

(2015) Jacob E. Lucero et al.   PLoS One

Grass-Shrub Associations over a Precipitation Gradient and Their Implications for Restoration in the Great Basin, USA

(2015) Maike F. Holthuijzen et al.   PLoS One

Ecosystem engineering effects on species diversity across ecosystems: a meta-analysis

(2014) Gustavo Q. Romero et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Maintaining distances with the engineer: patterns of coexistence in plant communities beyond the patch-bare dichotomy

(2014) David S. Pescador et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Environmental stress, facilitation, competition, and coexistence

(2013) Simon P. Hart et al.   ECOLOGY

Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress

(2013) Qiang He et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Will climate change promote future invasions?

(2013) Celine Bellard et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Tree effects on grass growth in savannas: competition, facilitation and the stress-gradient hypothesis

(2013) Justin Dohn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Facilitation as a ubiquitous driver of biodiversity

(2013) Eliot J. B. McIntire et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980-2009)

(2012) Jennifer K. Balch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Untangling the positive and negative effects of shrubs on herbaceous vegetation in drylands

(2012) Moran Segoli et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Nitrogen limitation, 15N tracer retention, and growth response in intact and Bromus tectorum-invaded Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis communities

(2012) Dana L. Witwicki et al.   OECOLOGIA

Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward

(2012) Daniel Simberloff et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Effects of Bromus tectorum invasion on microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling in two adjacent undisturbed arid grassland communities

(2011) Sean M. Schaeffer et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

(2011) Paolo D'Odorico et al.   Ecohydrology

Disturbance, resource pulses and invasion: short-term shifts in competitive effects, not growth responses, favour exotic annuals

(2011) Levi M. Besaw et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Climate Change in Western US Deserts: Potential for Increased Wildfire and Invasive Annual Grasses

(2011) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Positive effects of native shrubs on Bromus tectorum demography

(2010) Alden B. Griffith   ECOLOGY

Facilitation cascade drives positive relationship between native biodiversity and invasion success

(2010) Andrew H. Altieri et al.   ECOLOGY

Hierarchical spatial models for predicting pygmy rabbit distribution and relative abundance

(2010) Tammy L. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Acer negundo invasion along a successional gradient: early direct facilitation by native pioneers and late indirect facilitation by conspecifics

(2010) Patrick Saccone et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought-induced mortality of a foundation species (Juniperus monosperma) promotes positive afterlife effects in understory vegetation

(2010) J. M. Kane et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Predicting plant invasions in an era of global change

(2010) Bethany A. Bradley et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Conversion of sagebrush shrublands to exotic annual grasslands negatively impacts small mammal communities

(2009) Steven M. Ostoja et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Inclusion of biotic stress (consumer pressure) alters predictions from the stress gradient hypothesis

(2009) Christian Smit et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The role of plant interactions in the restoration of degraded ecosystems: a meta-analysis across life-forms and ecosystems

(2009) Lorena Gómez-Aparicio   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Interaction intensity and importance along two stress gradients: adding shape to the stress-gradient hypothesis

(2009) Peter Christiaan le Roux et al.   OECOLOGIA

Exotic plants increase and native plants decrease with loss of foundation species in sagebrush steppe

(2009) Janet S. Prevéy et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Factors Affecting Bromus Tectorum Seed Bank Carryover in Western Utah

(2008) Duane C. Smith et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Nitrogen Enhances the Competitive Ability of Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) Relative to Native Grasses

(2008) Edward Vasquez et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Plant invasions in dynamic desert landscapes. A field and remote sensing assessment of predictive and change modeling

(2007) E. Sánchez-Flores et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS