Note: Underlined authors are current or former lab members
2018
Harvey E, MacDougall AS. Habitat area alters how local perturbations regulate plant community assembly. Diversity and Distributions
MacDougall A, Harvey E, McCune J, Nilsson K, Firn J, Bennett J, Kelly J, Esch E, et al. Context-dependent species interactions and the regulation of freshwater fish richness. Nature Communications 9: 1-9.
MacDougall AS, McCune J, Eriksson O, Cousins, S, Pärtel M, Firn J, Hierro JL. The Neolithic Plant Invasion Hypothesis: the role of preadaptation and disturbance in grassland invasion. New Phytologist 220: 94-103.
Hautier Y, Isbell F, Borer E, Seabloom E, Harpole S, Lind E, MacDougall, AS, et al. Local loss and spatial homogenization of biodiversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 50-56.
Anderson MT, Griffith DM, Grace JB…MacDougall AS, et al. Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient. Ecology 99: 822-831.
Hodapp D, Borer E, Harpole WS, Lind E, Seabloom E, Adler P, Alberti J, Arnillas C, Bakker J, Biederman L, Cadotte M, Cleland E, Collins S, Fay P, Firn J, Hagenah N, Hautier Y, Iribarne O, Knops J, McCulley R, MacDougall AS, Moore J, Morgan J, Mortensen B, La Pierre Kim, Risch A, Schuetz M, Peri P, Stevens C, Wright J, Hillebrand H. Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilization. Ecology Letters 21: 1364-1371.
2017
Schneider S, Steeves R, Newmaster S, MacDougall AS. Invasive plants, granivory, and the top-down suppression of native diversity in restored prairie. Journal of Applied Ecology 54: 1496-1504.
Mccune J, Van Natto A, MacDougall AS. The efficacy of protected areas versus private land for plant conservation in a fragmented landscape. Landscape Ecology 32: 871-882.
Borer E, Grace J, Harpole S, MacDougall A., Seabloom EW. A decade of insights into grassland responses to global environmental change. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 118.
Harpole WS, Sullivan L, Lind E, Firn J, Adler P, et al. Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitation drives relationships between biomass, light, and plant diversity. Functional Ecology 31: 1839-1846.
2016
Grace J, Anderson TM, Seabloom E, et al. Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity linking plant species richness. Nature 529: 390-393.
Harpole WS, Sullivan L, Lind E., Firn J, Adler P et al. Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity. Nature 537: 93-96.
• press releases on this paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7618/full/537042a.html; https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=36336&webc_pm=32/2016
Tredennick A, Adler PB, Grace J, et al. Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness”. Science 351: 457.
Flores-Moreno H, Reich P, Lind E, Sullivan L, Seabloom E, Yahdjian L, et al. Climate modifies responses of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 371: 20150273.
2015
Duwyn A, MacDougall AS. When anthropogenic-based disturbances overwhelm demographic persistance mechanisms. Journal of Ecology 103: 761-768.
Harvey E, MacDougall AS. Spatially heterogeneous perturbations homogenize the regulation of insect herbivores. The American Naturalist 186: 623-633.
Harvey E, MacDougall AS. Isolation and insect attack in recruiting oaks. American Midland Naturalist 173: 218-228.
Chiuffo M, MacDougall AS, Hierro J. Native and non-native ruderals experience similar plant-soil feedbacks and neighbor effects in a system where they coexist. Oecologia 179(3):843-852.
Seabloom E, et al. Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. Nature Communications 6: 7710.
Fay P, et al. Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients. Nature Plants 1: 15080.
perspective article: http://www.nature.com/articles/nplants201598
Orrock J, et al. A continent-wide study reveals strong relationships between regional abiotic conditions and post-dispersal seed predation. Journal of Biogeography 42: 662-670.
Prober S, Leff JW, Bates ST, et al. Plant diversity predicts beta diversity but not alpha diversity of soil microbes in grasslands worldwide. Ecology Letters 18: 85-95.
Stevens C, Lind E, et al. Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts grassland primary productivity worldwide. Ecology 96: 1459-1465.
2014
Hautier Y, Seabloom E, Borer E, Adler P, Harpole WS, Hillebrand H, Lind E, MacDougall AS, et al. Eutrophication weakens the stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. Nature 508: 521-525.
Borer E, Seabloom E, Gruner D, Harpole WS…MacDougall AS, et al. Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature 508: 517-520.
NSF press release http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=130671&org=NSF
perspective article http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11652878.htm
MacDougall AS, Bennett J, Firn J, Seabloom E, Borer E, Lind E, et al. Anthropogenic-based regional-scale factors most consistently explain plot level exotic diversity in grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23: 802-810.
Harvey E, MacDougall AS. Trophic biogeography drives spatial divergence of community establishment. Ecology 95: 2870-2878.
Thebault A, Mariotte P, Lortie CJ, MacDougall AS. Land management trumps the effects of climate change and elevated CO2 on grassland functioning. Journal of Ecology 102: 896-904.
Drystek E, MacDougall AS. Granivory reduces biomass and lignin concentrations in plant tissue during grassland assembly. Basic and Applied Ecology 15: 142-150.
Vaness B, Wilson S, MacDougall AS. Decreased root heterogeneity and increased root length following grassland invasion. Functional Ecology 28: 1266-1273.
Balogiannia V, Wilson S, Vaness B, MacDougall AS, Pinno B. Different root and shoot responses to mowing and fertility in native and invaded grassland. Rangeland Ecology and Management 67: 39-45.