Publications

Please e-mail Jonathan (jamyers@wustl.edu) for PDFs if you are unable to access them below. PDFs are provided in the spirit of open access to information; please use these for education or research only. Current and former members of our research group in bold. *Undergraduate student.

Submitted Manuscripts

Abercrombie, Ethan, Jonathan A. Myers & Adam Smith. Pervasive but lagged responses in the composition of small mammal communities to a century of climate change. (In Review)    bioRxiv preprint

Baranger, Anne O., James S. Clark, et al. (82 total authors including Jonathan A. Myers). Lower fecundity of European and North American tree species in the cold region of their range. (In Review)

Clark, James S., et al. (76 total authors including Jonathan A. Myers). Continental contrasts in climate extremes that control forest recovery. (In Review)

Farhán-Ríos, William, Jonathan A. Myers, J. Sebastián Tello, Kenneth J. Feeley, Yadvinder Malhi, Oliver Phillips, Timothy Baker, Alex Nina-Quispe, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Sassan Satchi, John Terborgh, Nigel Pitman, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Rodolfo Vasquez, Norma Salinas, Leslie Cayola, Alfredo F. Fuentes, M. Isabel Loza, Terry Irwin, Percy Nuñez Vargas, Fernando Cornejo & Miles R. Silman. Andean and Amazonian tree communities are not tracking current warming. (In Revision)

Henderson, David, J. Sebastian Tello, Leslie Cayola, Alfredo F. Fuentes, Belen Alvestegui, Nathan Muchhala, Brian E. Sedio & Jonathan A. Myers. Testing the role of biotic interactions in shaping elevational-diversity gradients: An ecological metabolomics approach. (In Review)    bioRxiv preprint

Gomes, Paulo Wender P., et al. (91 total authors including David Henderson & Jonathan A. Myers). plantMASST – Community-driven chemotaxonomic digitation of plants. (In Review)     bioRxix preprint

Wiegand, Thorsten, Xugao Wang, Samuel Fischer, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Min Cao, Wirong Chanthorn, Chengjin Chu, Stuart Davies, Sisira Ediriweera, C.V. Savitri Gunatilleke, I.A.U. Nimal Gunatilleke, Zhanqing Hao, Robert Howe, Mingxi Jiang, Guangze Jin, W. John Kress, Buhang Li, Juyu Lian, Luxiang Lin, Feng Liu, Keping Ma, William McShea, Xiangcheng Mi, Jonathan A. Myers, Anuttara Nathalang, David A. Orwig, Guochun Shen, Sheng-Hsin Su, I-Fang Sun, Xihua Wang, Amy Wolf, Enrong Yan, Wanhui Ye, Yan Zhu & Andreas Huth. Latitudinal scaling of aggregation with abundance and its consequences for coexistence in species rich forests. (In Review)     bioRxiv preprint

Zhu, Yan, Meghna Krishnadas, Liwei Ma, Xiangcheng Mi, S. Joseph Wright, David F. R. P. Burslem, Min Cao, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, Lei Chen, Chengjin Chu, Keith Clay, Sisira Ediriweera, Zhanqing Hao, Lucie Houdková, Mingxi Jiang, Guangze Jin, Daniel J. Johnson, Joseph A. LaManna, Jan Leps, Xiankun Li, Juyu Lian, Luxiang Lin, Heming Liu, Margaret Metz, Jonathan A. Myers, Vojtech Novotny, Michael O’Brien, Richard Phillips, Haibao Ren, I-Fang Sun, María Uriarte, Xihua Wang, Xugao Wang, George D Weiblen, Wusheng Xiang, Wanhui Ye, Jess Zimmerman, Keping Ma & Robert Bagchi. Conspecifics reduce seedling survival more strongly in wet and low latitude forests. (In Review)

2024

[83]  Wassel, Anna C. & Jonathan A. Myers.  2024.  Pawpaws prevent predictability: A locally-dominant tree alters understory beta-diversity and community assembly. Ecosphere (In Press)    bioRxiv preprint

[82]  Baldwin, Justin W. & Jonathan A. Myers.  2024.  Avian dispersal ability shapes species-area relationships on islands worldwide. Ecology Letters (In Press)

[80]  LaManna, Joseph A., Florian Hartig, Jonathan A. Myers, Bénédicte Bachelot, Robert Bagchi, Liza S. Comita, David M. DeFilippis, Matteo Detto, Cole J. Doolittle, Robert P. Freckleton, Fiona V. Jevon, Daniel J. Johnson, Meghna Krishnadas, Lisa Hülsmann, Lukas J. Magee, Scott A. Mangan, Valerie R. Milici, Aimé Lucky Barahebuza Murengera, Nohemi Huanca-Nunez, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Daniel J. B. Smith, Claudia Stein, Megan K. Sullivan, Akshay Surendra, Ethan Torres, María Natalia Umaña & Camille S. Delavaux.  2024.  Consequences of local conspecific density effects for plant diversity and community dynamics. Ecology Letters 27:e14506.     Abstract     PDF

[79]  Chisholm, Ryan A., Tak Fung, et al. (45 total authors including Jonathan A. Myers).  2024.  Assessing the spatial scale of synchrony in forest tree population dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291: 20240486.     Abstract     PDF

[78]  Journé, Valentin, Michał Bogdziewicz, Benoit Courbaud, Georges Kunstler, Tong Qiu, Marie-Claire Aravena Acuña, Davide Ascoli, Yves Bergeron, Daniel Berveiller, Thomas Boivin, Raul Bonal, Thomas Caignard, Maxime Cailleret, Rafael Calama, J. Julio Camarero, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, Jerome Chave, Francesco Chianucci, Thomas Curt, Andrea Cutini, Adrian Das, Evangelia Daskalakou, Hendrik Davi, Nicolas Delpierre, Sylvain Delzon, Michael Dietze, Sergio Donoso Calderon, Laurent Dormont, Josep Maria Espelta, William Farfan-Rios, Michael Fenner, Jerry Franklin, Catherine Gehring, Gregory Gilbert, Georg Gratzer, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Arthur Guignabert, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew Hacket-Pain, Arndt Hampe, Qingmin Han, Mick E. Hanley, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Jan Holík, Kazuhiko Hoshizaki, Ines Ibanez, Jill F. Johnstone, Johannes M. H. Knops, Richard K. Kobe, Hiroko Kurokawa, Jonathan Lageard, Jalene LaMontagne, Mateusz Ledwon, François Lefèvre, Theodor Leininger, Jean-Marc Limousin, James Lutz, Diana Macias, Anders Mårell, Eliot McIntire, Emily V. Moran, Renzo Motta, Jonathan A. Myers, Thomas A. Nagel, Shoji Naoe, Mahoko Noguchi, Julian Norghauer, Michio Oguro, Jean-Marc Ourcival, Robert Parmenter, Ian Pearse, Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos, Łukasz Piechnik, Tomasz Podgórski, John Poulsen, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Pavel Samonil, C. Lane Scher, William H. Schlesinger, Barbara Seget, Shubhi Sharma, Mitsue Shibata, Miles Silman, Michael Steele, Nathan Stephenson, Jacob Straub, Samantha Sutton, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Peter A. Thomas, Maria Uriarte, Giorgio Vacchiano, Amy Whipple, Thomas Whitham, S. Joseph Wright, Kai Zhu, Jess Zimmerman, Magdalena Żywiec, James S. Clark.  2024. The relationship between maturation size and maximum tree size from tropical to boreal climates. Ecology Letters 27:e14500.     Abstract     PDF

[77]  Chen, Yue, Zikun Mao, Jonathan A. Myers, Jinghua Yu & Xugao Wang.  2024.  Tree mycorrhizal associations determine how biodiversity, large trees, and environmental factors drive aboveground carbon stock in temperate forests. Forest Ecosystems 11: 100205.     Abstract     PDF

[76]  Chen, Yue, Jonathan A. Myers, Alejandro Ordonez, Jinghua Yu, Ji Ye, Fei Lin, Shuai Fang, Zikun Mao & Xugao Wang.  2024.  Multiple processes jointly determine ecological uniqueness across forest plant life-forms in Northeast China. Journal of Biogeography 51: 1133-1147.    Abstract     PDF

2023

[73]  Qiu, Tong, Marie-Claire Aravena, Davide Ascoli, Yves Bergeron, Michal Bogdziewicz, Thomas Boivin, Raul Bonal, Thomas Caignard, Maxime Cailleret, Rafael Calama, Sergio Donoso Calderon, J. Julio Camarero, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, Jerome Chave, Francesco Chianucci, Benoit Courbaud, Andrea Cutini, Adrian J. Das, Nicolas Delpierre, Sylvain Delzon, Michael Dietze, Laurent Dormont, Josep Maria Espelta, Timothy J. Fahey, William Farfan-Rios, Jerry F. Franklin, Catherine A. Gehring, Gregory S. Gilbert, Georg Gratzer, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Arthur Guignabert, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew Hacket-Pain, Arndt Hampe, Qingmin Han, Jan Holik, Kazuhiko Hoshizaki, Ines Ibanez, Jill F. Johnstone, Valentin Journe, Thomas Kitzberger, Johannes M.H. Knops, Georges Kunstler, Jonathan G.A. Lageard, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Francois Lefevre, Theodor Leininger, Jean-Marc Limousin, James A. Lutz, Diana Macias, Anders Marell, Eliot J.B. McIntire, Christopher M. Moore, Emily Moran, Renzo Motta, Jonathan A. Myers, Thomas A. Nagel, Mahoko Noguchi, Robert Parmenter, Ian S. Pearse, Ignacio M. Perez-Ramos, Lukasz Piechnik, Tomasz Podgorski, John Poulsen, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez, Pavel Samonil, Javier D. Sanguinetti, C. Lane Scher, Barbara Seget, Shubhi Sharma, Miles Silman, Michael A. Steele, Nathan L. Stephenson, Jacob N. Straub, Samantha Sutton, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Peter A. Thomas, Maria Uriarte, Giorgio Vacchiano, Amy V. Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Andreas P. Wion, S. Joseph Wright, Kai Zhu, Jess K. Zimmerman, Magdalena Zywiec & James S. Clark.  2023.  Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients. Nature Plants 9: 1044-1056.     Abstract     PDF     Supplementary Information

News Coverage: “A seed survival story: How trees keep ‘friends’ close and ‘enemies’ guessing” (Penn State News)

Behind the Paper: Unraveling the global patterns of tree seed production (Tong Qiu)

[72]  Bogdziewicz, Michal, Marie-Claire Aravena Acuña, Robert Andrus, Davide Ascoli, Yves Bergeron, Daniel Brveiller, Thomas Boivin, Raul Bonal, Thomas Caignard, Maxime Cailleret, Rafael Calama, Sergio Donoso Calderon, J. Julio Camarero, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, Jerome Chave, Francesco Chianucci, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Benoit Courbaud, Andrea Cutini, Thomas Curt, Adrian J. Das, Hendrik Davi, Nicolas Delpierre, Sylvain Delzon, Michael Dietze, Laurent Dormont, William Farfan-Rios, Catherine A. Gehring, Gregory S. Gilbert, Georg Gratzer, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Arthur Guignabert, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew Hacket-Pain, Arndt Hampe, Qingmin Han, Kazuhiko Hoshizaki, Ines Ibanez, Jill F. Johnstone, Valentin Journé, Thomas Kitzberger, Johannes M.H. Knops, Georges Kunstler, Richard Kobe, Jonathan G.A. Lageard, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Mateusz Ledwon, Theodor Leininger, Jean-Marc Limousin, James A. Lutz, Diana Macias , Anders Marell, Eliot J.B. McIntire, Emily Moran, Renzo Motta, Jonathan A. Myers, Thomas A. Nagel, Shoji Naoe, Kyotaro Noguchi, Michio Oguro, Hiroko Kurokawa, Jean-Marc Ourcival, Robert Parmenter, Ignacio M. Perez-Ramos, Lukasz Piechnik, Tomasz Podgórski, John Poulsen, Tong Qiu, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, Pavel Šamonil , Jan Holik, C. Lane Scher, Harald Schmidt Van Marle, Barbara Seget, Mitsue Shibata , Shubhi Sharma, Miles Silman, Michael A. Steele, Jacob N. Straub, I-Fang Sun, Samantha Sutton, Jennifer J. Swenson, Peter A. Thomas, Maria Uriarte, Giorgio Vacchiano, Thomas T. Veblen, Boyd Wright, S. Joseph Wright, Thomas G. Whitham, Kai Zhu, Jess K. Zimmerman, Magdalna Zywiec & James S. Clark.  2023.  Linking seed size and number to trait syndromes in trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32: 683-694.     Abstract     PDF     Cover Article

2022

[70] *Reu, Jacqueline C., Christopher P. Catano, Marko J. Spasojevic & Jonathan A. Myers. 2022. β-diversity as a driver of forest biomass across spatial scales. Ecology e3774.     Abstract     PDF

News Coverage: “The space between us – Missouri Ozarks study narrows in on spatial aspects of biodiversity, homogenization threat to forest ecosystems” (Washington University Newsroom)

NSF Research News – What’s hot in science and engineering?: “Spatial aspects of biodiversity important for healthy forests“

[67]  Qiu, Tong, Robert Andrus, Marie-Claire Aravena, Davide Ascoli, Yves Bergeron, Roberta Berretti, Daniel Berveiller, Michal Bogdziewicz, Thomas Boivin, Raul Bonal, Don C. Bragg, Thomas Caignard, Rafael Calama, J. Julio Camarero, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Benoit Courbaud, Francois Courbet, Thomas Curt, Adrian J. Das, Evangelia Daskalakou, Hendrik Davi, Nicolas Delpierre, Sylvain Delzon, Michael Dietze, Sergio Donoso Calderon, Laurent Dormont, Josep Espelta, Timothy J. Fahey, William Farfan-Rios, Catherine A. Gehring, Gregory S. Gilbert, Georg Gratzer, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew Hacket-Pain, Arndt Hampe, Qingmin Han, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Kazuhiko Hoshizaki, Ines Ibanez, Jill F. Johnstone, Valentin Journe, Daisuke Kabeya, Christopher L. Kilner, Thomas Kitzberger, Johannes M.H. Knops, Richard K. Kobe, Georges Kunstler, Jonathan G.A. Lageard, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Mateusz Ledwon, Francois Lefevre, Theodor Leininger, Jean-Marc Limousin, James A. Lutz, Diana Macias, Eliot J.B. McIntire, Christopher M. Moore, Emily Moran, Renzo Motta, Jonathan A. Myers, Thomas A. Nagel, Kyotaro Noguchi, Jean-Marc Ourcival, Robert Parmenter, Ian S. Pearse, Ignacio M. Perez-Ramos, Lukasz Piechnik, John Poulsen, Renata Poulton-Kamakura, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez, Javier D. Sanguinetti, C. Lane Scher, William H. Schlesinger, Harald Schmidt Van Marle, Barbara Seget, Shubhi Sharma, Miles Silman, Michael A. Steele, Nathan L. Stephenson, Jacob N. Straub, I-Fang Sun, Samantha Sutton, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Peter A. Thomas, Maria Uriarte, Giorgio Vacchiano, Thomas T. Veblen, Amy V. Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Andreas P. Wion, Boyd Wright, S. Joseph Wright, Kai Zhu, Jess K. Zimmerman, Roman Zlotin, Magdalena Zywiec, and James S. Clark. 2022. Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery. Nature Communications 13: 2381.     Abstract     PDF

News Coverage: “Studies Find the Seeds of a Forest’s Renewal After Wildfire, Drought” (Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment)

[66]  Lembrechts, Jonas J., Johan van den Hoogen […] Ivan Nijs & Jonathan Lenoir [407 total authors including Jonathan A. Myers & Marko J. Spasojevic]. 2022. Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology 28: 3110-3144.     Abstract     PDF

[65]  Burkle, Laura A., R. Travis Belote & Jonathan A. Myers. 2022. Wildfire severity alters drivers of interaction beta-diversity in plant-bee networks. Ecography e05986.     Abstract     PDF     Data

[64]  Sharma, Shubhi, Robert Andrus, Yves Bergeron, Michal Bogdziewicz, Don C. Bragg, Dale Brockway, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Benoit Courbaud, Adrian J. Das, Michael Dietze, Timothy J. Fahey, Jerry F. Franklin, Gregory S. Gilbert, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Qinfeng Guo, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Ines Ibanez, Jill Johnstone, Roland Kays, Christopher L. Kilner, Johannes M.H. Knops, Walter D. Koenig, Georges Kunstler, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Diana Macias, Jonathan A. Myers, Robert Parmenter, Ian S. Pearse, Renata Poulton-Kamakura, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, C. Lane Scher, William H. Schlesinger, Michael Steele, Nathan L. Stephenson, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Thomas T. Veblen, Amy V. Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Andreas P. Wion, Christopher W. Woodall, Roman Zlotin & James S. Clark. 2022. North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East. PNAS 119: e2116691118.     Abstract     PDF     Supplementary Material

News Coverage: “What’s Driving the East-West Divide in Trees’ Response to Climate Change?” (Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment)

News Coverage: “Seed production, recruitment affect how trees are migrating due to climate change” (Washington University Newroom)

2021

[61]  Qiu, Tong, Marie-Claire Aavena Acuna, Robert Andrus, Ascoli Davide, Yves Bergeron, Roberta Berretti, Michał Bogdziewicz, Thomas Boivin, Raul Bonal, Thomas Caignard, Rafael Calama, J. Julio Camarero, Connie J. Clark, Benoit Courbaud, Sylvain Delzone, Sergio Donoso Calderon, William Farfan-Rios, Catherine A. Gehring, Gregory S Gilbert, Cathryn H Greenberg, Qinfeng Guo, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Hoshi Hoshizaki, Inés Ibáñez, Valentin Journé, Christopher L. Kilner, Richard K. Kobe, Walter D. Koenig, Georges Kunstler, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Mateusz Ledwon, James A. Lutz, Renzo Motta, Jonathan A. Myers, Tom Nagel, Chase L. Nuñez, Ian S. Pearse, Łukasz Piechnik, John R. Poulsen, Renata Poulton-Kamakura, Miranda Redmond, chantal reid, Kyle Rodman, C. Lane Scher, Harald Schmidt Van Marle, Barbara Seget, Shubhi Sharma, Miles R. Silman, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret E. Swift, Maria Uriarte, Giorgio Vacchiano, Thomas T. Veblen, Amy V. Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Andreas P. Wion, S. Joseph Wright, Kai Zhu, J. K. Zimmerman, Magdalena Zywiec & James S. Clark. 2021. Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence. PNAS 118: e2106130118.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Information

News Coverage: “For Larger, Older Trees, It’s All Down Hill from Here” (Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment)

[60]  Sedio, Brian E., Marko J. Spasojevic, Jonathan A. Myers, S. Joseph Wright, Maria D. Person, Hamssika Chandrasekaran, Jack H. Dwenger, María Laura Prechi, Christian A. López, David N. Allen, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Norm Bourg, Buck T. Castillo, Nicola J. Day, Emily DeWald-Wang*, Christopher W. Dick, Timothy Y. James, Jordan G. Kueneman, Joseph A. LaManna, James A. Lutz, Ian McGregor, Sean M. McMahon, Geoffrey G. Parker, John D. Parker & John H. Vandermeer. 2021. Chemical similarity of co-occurring trees decreases with precipitation and temperature in North American forests. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 679638.     Abstract     PDF

Invited Paper for Research Topic: Temporal and Large-Scale Spatial Patterns of Plant Diversity and Diversification 

[59]  Zhong, Yonglin, Chengjin Chu, Jonathan A. Myers, Gregory S. Gilbert, James A. Lutz, Jonas Stillhard, Kai Zhu, Jill Thompson, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Fangliang He, Joseph A. LaManna, Stuart J. Davies, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, David F.R.P. Burslem, Alfonso Alonso, Kuo-Jung Chao, Xugao Wang, Lianming Gao, David A. Orwig, Xue Yin, Xinghua Sui, Zhiyao Su, Iveren Abiem, Pulchérie Bissiengou, Norm Bourg, Min Cao, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, Wei-Chun Chao, Hazel Chapman, Yu-Yun Chen, David A. Coomes, Susan Cordell, Alexandre A. de Oliveira, Hu Du, Suqin Fang, Christian P. Giardina, Zhanqing Hao, Andy Hector, Stephen P. Hubbell, David Janík, Patrick A. Jansen, Mingxi Jiang, Guangze Jin, David Kenfack, Kamil Král, Andrew J. Larson, Buhang Li, Xiankun Li, Yide Li, Juyu Lian, Luxiang Lin, Feng Liu, Yankun Liu, Yu Liu, Fuchen Luan, Yahuang Luo, Keping Ma, Yadvinder Malhi, Sean M. McMahon, William McShea, Hervé Memiaghe, Xiangcheng Mi, Mike Morecroft, Vojtech Novotny, Michael J. O’Brien, Jan den Ouden, Geoffrey G. Parker, Xiujuan Qiao, Haibao Ren, Glen Reynolds, Weiguo Sang, Guochun Shen, Zhiqiang Shen, Guo-Zhang Michael Song, I-Fang Sun, Hui Tang, Songyan Tian, Amanda L. Uowolo, María Uriarte, Bin Wang, Xihua Wang, Youshi Wang, George D. Weiblen, Zhihong Wu, Nianxun Xi, Wusheng Xiang, Han Xu, Kun Xu, Nathalie Butt, Wanhui Ye, Mingjian Yu, Fuping Zeng, Minhua Zhang, Yingming Zhang, Li Zhu, and Jess Zimmerman. 2021. Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide. Nature Communications 12: 3137     Abstract     PDF

[58]  Muñoz, Miguel, J. Sebastián Tello, Manuel J. Macía, Jonathan A. Myers, Peter M. Jørgensen, Victoria Cala, Alfredo F. Fuentes, Vania W. Torrez & Gabriel Arellano. 2021. Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta-diversity patterns across biogeographic regions. Journal of Vegetation Science 32: e13032.     Abstract     PDF

[56]  LaManna, Joseph A., Scott A. Mangan & Jonathan A. Myers. 2021. Conspecific negative density dependence and why its study should not be abandoned. Ecosphere 12: e03322.     Abstract     PDF     R code

[55]  LaManna, Joseph A., Laura A. Burkle, R. Travis Belote & Jonathan A. Myers. 2021. Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator community assembly across wildfire gradients. Journal of Ecology 109: 1000-1013.     Abstract     PDF     Data & R code     Supporting Information

News Coverage: “In fire-prone West, plants need their pollinators — and vice versa” (Washington University Newsroom)

[54]  Clark, James S., Robert Andrus, Melaine Aubry-Kientz, Yves Bergeron, Michal Bogdziewicz, Don C. Bragg, Dale Brockway, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Susan Cohen, Benoit Courbaud, Robert Daley, Adrian J. Das, Michael Dietze, Timothy J. Fahey, Istem Fer, Jerry F. Franklin, Catherine A. Gehring, Gregory S. Gilbert, Catheryn H. Greenberg, Qinfeng Guo, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Ines Ibanez, Jill Johnstone, Christopher L. Kilner, Johannes Knops, Walter D. Koenig, Georges Kunstler, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Kristin L. Legg, Jordan Luongo, James A. Lutz, Diana Macias, Eliot J.B. McIntire, Yassine Messaoud, Christopher M. Moore, Emily Moran, Jonathan A. Myers, Orrin B. Myers, Chase Nunez, Robert Parmenter, Scott Pearson, Renata Poulton Kamakura, Ethan Ready, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, C. Lane Scher, William H. Schlesinger, Amanda M. Schwantes, Erin Shanahan, Shubhi Sharma, Michael Steele, Nathan L. Stephenson, Samantha Sutton, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Thomas T. Veblen, Amy V. Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Andreas P. Wion, Kai Zhu & Roman Zlotin. 2021. Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects. Nature Communications 12: 1242.     Abstract     PDF

News Coverage: “Climate Impacts Drive East-West Divide in Forest Seed Production” (Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment)

2020

[52]  Vela Díaz, Dilys M., Leslie Cayola, Alfredo F. Fuentes, Lucio R. Malizia, Cecilia Blundo & Jonathan A. Myers. 2020. Untangling the importance of niche breadth and niche position as drivers of tree species abundance and occupancy across biogeographic regions. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29: 1542:1553.     Abstract     PDF     Data (Missouri Ozarks)   

[51]  Catano, Christopher P., Trevor S. Fristoe, Joseph A. LaManna & Jonathan A. Myers. 2020. Local species diversity, β-diversity, and climate influence the regional stability of bird biomass across North America. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20192520.     Abstract     PDF

News Coverage: “Birds of a feather better not together: Homogenization threatens ecosystems at larger geographic scales” (Washington University Newsroom)

NSF Research News: What’s hot in science? – Noteworthy scientific findings from researchers around the country

[50]  Adu-Oppong, Boahemaa, Scott A. Mangan, Claudia Stein, Christopher P. Catano, Jonathan A. Myers & Gautam Dantas. 2020. Prairie plants harbor distinct and beneficial root-endophytic bacterial communities. PLoS ONE 15: e0234537.     Abstract     PDF

[49]  Future of Fire Consortium — McLauchlan, Kendra K., Philip E. Higuera, Jessica Miesel, Brendan M. Rogers, Jennifer Schweitzer, Jacquelyn K. Shuman, Alan J. Tepley, J. Morgan Varner, Thomas T. Veblen, Solny A. Adalsteinsson, Jennifer K. Balch, Patrick Baker, Enric Batllori, Erica Bigio, Paulo Brando, Megan Cattau, Melissa L. Chipman, Janice Coen, Raelene Crandall, Lori Daniels, Neal Enright, Wendy S. Gross, Brian J. Harvey, Jeff A. Hatten, Rebecca E. Hewitt, Leda N. Kobziar, Jennifer B. Landesmann, Michael M. Loranty, S. Yoshi Maezumi, Linda Mearns, Max Moritz, Jonathan A. Myers, Juli G. Pausas, Adam F. A. Pellegrini, William J. Platt, Jennifer Roozeboom, Hugh Safford, Fernanda Santos, Robert M. Scheller, Rosemary L. Sherriff, Kevin G. Smith, Melinda D. Smith & Adam C. Watts. 2020. Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers. Journal of Ecology 108: 2047-2069.     Abstract     PDF     Supplemental Information

Blog Coverage: Fire as a fundamental ecological process (Journal of Ecology Blog)

[48]  Oberle, Brad, Marissa Lee, Jonathan A. Myers, Oyomoare Osazuwa-Peters, Marko J. Spasojevic, Maranda L. Walton, Darcy F. Young, & Amy E. Zanne. 2020. Accurate forest projections require long-term wood decay experiments because plant trait effects change through time. Global Change Biology 26: 864-875.     Abstract     PDF

2019

[47]  Spasojevic, Marko J., Katherine Harline*, Claudia Stein, Scott A. Mangan & Jonathan A. Myers. 2019. Landscape context mediates the relationship between plant functional traits and decomposition. Plant and Soil 438: 377-391.     Abstract     PDF

[46]  Burkle, Laura A., Michael P. Simanonok, J. Simone Durney, Jonathan A. Myers & R. Travis Belote. 2019. Wildfires influence abundance, diversity, and intraspecific and interspecific trait variation of native bees and flowering plants across burned and unburned landscapes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 252.     Abstract     PDF

Invited Paper for Species Issue: Arthropod Interactions and Responses to Disturbance in a Changing World     

[45]  Menge, Duncan N. L., Ryan A. Chisholm, Stuart J. Davies, Kamariah Abu Salim, David Allen, Mauricio Alvarez, Norm Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Nathalie Butt, Min Cao, Wirong Chanthorn, Wei-Chun Chao, Keith Clay, Richard Condit, Susan Cordell, João Batista da Silva, H. S. Dattaraja, Ana Cristina Segalin de Andrade, Alexandre A. de Oliveira, Jan den Ouden, Michael Drescher, Christine Fletcher, Christian P. Giardina, C. V. Savitri Gunatilleke, I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke, Billy C. H. Hau, Fangliang He, Robert Howe, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Stephen P. Hubbell, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, Patrick A. Jansen, Daniel J. Johnson, Lee Sing Kong, Kamil Král, Chen-Chia Ku, Jiangshan Lai, Andrew J. Larson, Xiankun Li, Yide Li, Luxiang Lin, Yiching Lin, Shirong Liu, Shawn K. Y. Lum, James A. Lutz, Keping Ma, Yadvinder Malhi, Sean McMahon, William McShea, Xiangcheng Mi, Michael Morecroft, Jonathan A. Myers, Anuttara Nathalang, Vojtech Novotny, Perry Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Kassim Abd. Rahman, Lawren Sack, Weiguo Sang, Guochun Shen, Ankur Shringi, Jessica Shue, Sheng-Hsin Su, Raman Sukumar, I-Fang Sun, H. S. Suresh, Sylvester Tan, Sean C. Thomas, Pagi S. Toko, Renato Valencia, Martha I. Vallejo, Alberto Vicentini, Tomáš Vrška, Bin Wang, Xihua Wang, George D. Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Han Xu, Sandra Yap, Li Zhu & Tak Fung. 2019. Patterns of nitrogen-fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America. Journal of Ecology 107: 2598-2610.     Abstract     PDF

[44]  Liang*, Anna J., Claudia Stein, Eleanor Pearson*, Jonathan A. Myers, Raelene M. Crandall & Scott A. Mangan. 2019. Snail herbivory affects seedling establishment in a temperate forest in the Ozark region. Journal of Ecology 107: 1828-1838.     Abstract     PDF

News Coverage: “Snails nibbling on seedlings may shape forests” (Buehler 2019, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment)

Photos: “Snail herbivory in forest communities” (Journal of Ecology Blog)

[43]  Ellison, Aaron M., Hannah L. Buckley, Bradley S. Case, Dairon Cardenas, Alvaro J. Duque, James A. Lutz, Jonathan A. Myers, David A. Orwig & Jess K. Zimmerman. 2019. Species diversity associated with foundation species in temperate and tropical forests. Forests 10: 128.     Abstract     PDF

Invited Paper for Species Issue: Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems

[42]  Chengjin Chu, James A. Lutz, Kamil Král, Tomáš Vrška, Xue Yin, Jonathan A. Myers, Iveren Abiem, Alfonso Alonso, Norm Bourg, David F.R.P. Burslem, Min Cao, Hazel Chapman, Richard Condit, Suqin Fang, Gunter A. Fischer, Lianming Gao, Zhanqin Hao, Billy C.H. Hau, Qing He, Andrew Hector, Stephen P. Hubbell, Mingxi Jiang, Guangze Jin, David Kenfack, Jiangshan Lai, Buhang Li, Xiankun Li, Yide Li, Juyu Lian, Luxiang Lin, Yankun Liu, Yu Liu, Yahuang Luo, Keping Ma, William McShea, Hervé Memiaghe, Xiangcheng Mi, Ming Ni, Michael J. O’Brien, Alexandre A. de Oliveira, David A. Orwig, Geoffrey G. Parker, Xiujuan Qiao, Haibao Ren, Glen Reynold, Weiguo Sang, Guochun Shen, Zhiyao Su, Xinghua Sui, I-Fang Sun, Songyan Tian, Bin Wang, Xihua Wang, Xugao Wang, Youshi Wang, George D. Weiblen, Shujun Wen, Nianxun Xi, Wusheng Xiang, Han Xu, Kun Xu, Wanhui Ye, Bingwei Zhang, Jiaxin Zhang, Xiaotong Zhang, Yingming Zhang, Kai Zhu, Jess Zimmerman, David Storch, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Gary G. Mittelbach & Fangliang He. 2019. Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees. Ecology Letters 22:245-255.     Abstract     PDF

2018

[41]  Spasojevic, Marko J., Christopher P. Catano, Joseph A. LaManna & Jonathan A. Myers. 2018. Integrating species traits into species pools. Ecology 99: 1265-1276.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Information (Metadata & R code)     Concepts & Synthesis Paper

[40]  Hovanes, Katherine, Kyle E. Harms, Paul R. Gagnon, Jonathan A. Myers & Bret D. Elderd. 2018. Overdispersed spatial patterning of dominant bunchgrasses in southeastern pine savannas.  The American Naturalist 191: 658-667.     Abstract     PDF

[39]  LaManna, Joseph A., Scott A. Mangan, Alfonso Alonso, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Li-Wan Chang, Jyh-Min Chiang, George B. Chuyong, Keith Clay, Susan Cordell, Stuart J. Davies, Tucker J. Furniss, Christian P. Giardina, I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke, C. V. Savitri Gunatilleke, Fangliang He, Robert W. Howe, Stephen P. Hubbell, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, David Janík, Daniel J. Johnson, David Kenfack, Lisa Korte, Kamil Král, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé R. Memiaghe, Anuttara Nathalang, Vojtech Novotny, Perry S. Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey G. Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Lawren Sack, I-Fang Sun, J. Sebastián Tello, Duncan W. Thomas, Benjamin L. Turner, Dilys M. Vela Díaz, Tomáš Vrška, George D. Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Sandra Yap & Jonathan A. Myers. 2018. Response to Comment on “Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale”. Science 360: eaar3824     Abstract     PDF     R code

[38]  LaManna, Joseph A., Scott A. Mangan, Alfonso Alonso, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Li-Wan Chang, Jyh-Min Chiang, George B. Chuyong, Keith Clay, Susan Cordell, Stuart J. Davies, Tucker J. Furniss, Christian P. Giardina, I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke, C. V. Savitri Gunatilleke, Fangliang He, Robert W. Howe, Stephen P. Hubbell, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, David Janík, Daniel J. Johnson, David Kenfack, Lisa Korte, Kamil Král, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé R. Memiaghe, Anuttara Nathalang, Vojtech Novotny, Perry S. Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey G. Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Lawren Sack, I-Fang Sun, J. Sebastián Tello, Duncan W. Thomas, Benjamin L. Turner, Dilys M. Vela Díaz, Tomáš Vrška, George D. Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Sandra Yap & Jonathan A. Myers. 2018. Response to Comment on “Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale”. Science 360: eaar5245     Abstract     PDF     R code

[37]  Lutz, James A., Tucker J. Furniss, Daniel J. Johnson, Stuart J. Davies, David Allen, Alfonso Alonso, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Kendall M. L. Becker, Erika M. Blomdahl, Norman A. Bourg, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, David F. R. P. Burslem, C. Alina Cansler, Ke Cao, Min Cao, Dairon Cárdenas, Li-Wan Chang, Kuo-Jung Chao, Wei-Chun Chao, Jyh-Min Chiang, Chengjin Chu, George B. Chuyong, Keith Clay, Richard Condit, Susan Cordell, Handanakere S. Dattaraja, Alvaro Duque, Corneille E. N. Ewango, Gunter A. Fisher, Christine Fletcher, James A. Fruend, Christian Giardina, Sara J. Germain, Gregory S. Gilbert, Billy C. H. Hau, Zhanqing Hao, Terese B. Hart, Fangliang He, Andrew Hector, Robert W. Howe, Yue-Hua Hu, Stephen P. Hubbell, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, Akira Itoh, David Janik, Abdul Rahman Kassim, David Kenfack, Lisa Korte, Kamil Král, Andrew J. Larson, YiDe Li, Yiching Lin, Shirong Liu, Shawn Lum, Keping Ma, Yadvinder Malhi, Jean-Remy Makana, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé R. Memiaghe, Xiangcheng Mi, Michael Morecroft, Paul M. Musili, Jonathan A. Myers, Vojtech Novotny, Alexandre de Oliveira, Perry Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Osterag, Geoffrey G. Parker, Rajit Patankar, Richard P. Phillips, Glen Reynolds, Lawren Sack, Guo-Zhang M. Song, Raman Sukumar, Hebbalalu S. Suresh, Sheng-Hsin Su, I-Fang Sun, Mark E. Swanson, Sylvester Tan, Duncan W. Thomas, Jill Thompson, Maria Uriarte, Renato Valencia, Alberto Vicentine, Tomáš Vrška, Xihua Wang, George D. Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Shu-Hui Wu, Han Xu, Takuo Yamakura, Sandra Yap & J. K. Zimmerman. 2018. Global importance of large-diameter trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 849-864.     Abstract     PDF     Cover Article

News Coverage: “Inequality is normal: Dominance of the big trees“ (EurekAlert!)

[36]  Wang, Xugao, Thorsten Wiegand, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Norman A. Bourg, Zhanqing Hao, Robert Howe, Guangze Jin, David A. Orwig, Marko J. Spasojevic, Shunzhong Wang, Amy Wolf & Jonathan A. Myers. 2018. Ecological drivers of spatial community dissimilarity, species replacement, and species nestedness across temperate forests.  Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 581-592.    Abstract     PDF

[35]  Van Horn*, Thomas R., Solny A. Adalsteinsson, Katie M. Westoby, Elizabeth Biro, Jonathan A. Myers, Marko J. Spasojevic, Maranda L. Walton & Kim A. Medley. 2018. Landscape physiognomy influences abundance of the Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum (Ixodida:Ixodidae), in Ozark Forests. Journal of Medical Entomology 55: 982-988.     Abstract     PDF

News Coverage: “Landscape Terrain Provides New Angle for Measuring Tick Abundance“ (Entomology Today)

News Coverage: “Researchers say tick numbers related to local terrain“ (St. Louis Public Radio)

2017

[34]  LaManna, Joseph A., Scott A. Mangan, Alfonso Alonso, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Li-Wan Chang, Jyh-Min Chiang, George B. Chuyong, Keith Clay, Richard Condit, Susan Cordell, Stuart J. Davies, Tucker J. Furniss, Christian P. Giardina, I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke, C. V. Savitri Gunatilleke, Fangliang He, Robert W. Howe, Stephen P. Hubbell, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, David Janík, Daniel J. Johnson, David Kenfack, Lisa Korte, Kamil Král, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé R. Memiaghe, Anuttara Nathalang, Vojtech Novotny, Perry S. Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey G. Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Lawren Sack, I-Fang Sun, J. Sebastián Tello, Duncan W. Thomas, Benjamin L. Turner, Dilys M. Vela Díaz, Tomáš Vrška, George D. Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Sandra Yap & Jonathan A. Myers. 2017. Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale. Science 356: 1389-1392     Abstract     PDF     Supplementary Material & R code

Commentary: “How latitude affects biotic interactions” (Comita 2017, Science)

News Coverage: “Global forest network cracks the case of tropical biodiversity” (Washington University Newsroom)

News Coverage: “Is this the long-sought answer to the question of tropical biodiversity?” (Smithsonian News Desk)

News Coverage: “Why do we see more species in tropical forests? The mystery may finally be solved” (Smithsonian Magazine)

Responses to Technical Comments:

[39]  LaManna, Joseph A., Scott A. Mangan, Alfonso Alonso, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Li-Wan Chang, Jyh-Min Chiang, George B. Chuyong, Keith Clay, Susan Cordell, Stuart J. Davies, Tucker J. Furniss, Christian P. Giardina, I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke, C. V. Savitri Gunatilleke, Fangliang He, Robert W. Howe, Stephen P. Hubbell, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, David Janík, Daniel J. Johnson, David Kenfack, Lisa Korte, Kamil Král, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé R. Memiaghe, Anuttara Nathalang, Vojtech Novotny, Perry S. Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey G. Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Lawren Sack, I-Fang Sun, J. Sebastián Tello, Duncan W. Thomas, Benjamin L. Turner, Dilys M. Vela Díaz, Tomáš Vrška, George D. Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Sandra Yap & Jonathan A. Myers. 2018. Response to Comment on “Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale”. Science 360: eaar3824     Abstract     PDF     R code

[38]  LaManna, Joseph A., Scott A. Mangan, Alfonso Alonso, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Li-Wan Chang, Jyh-Min Chiang, George B. Chuyong, Keith Clay, Susan Cordell, Stuart J. Davies, Tucker J. Furniss, Christian P. Giardina, I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke, C. V. Savitri Gunatilleke, Fangliang He, Robert W. Howe, Stephen P. Hubbell, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, David Janík, Daniel J. Johnson, David Kenfack, Lisa Korte, Kamil Král, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé R. Memiaghe, Anuttara Nathalang, Vojtech Novotny, Perry S. Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey G. Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Lawren Sack, I-Fang Sun, J. Sebastián Tello, Duncan W. Thomas, Benjamin L. Turner, Dilys M. Vela Díaz, Tomáš Vrška, George D. Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Sandra Yap & Jonathan A. Myers. 2018. Response to Comment on “Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale”. Science 360: eaar5245     Abstract     PDF     R code

[33]  LaManna, Joseph A., R. Travis Belote, Laura A. Burkle, Christopher P. Catano & Jonathan A. Myers. 2017. Negative density dependence mediates biodiversity-productivity relationships across scales. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1107-1115.     Abstract     PDF

[32]  Kirkman, L. Katherine & Jonathan A. Myers. 2017. Mechanistic controls of community assembly and biodiversity. Chapter 5 In: Kirkman, L. Katherine & Steven B. Jack (editors) Ecological Restoration and Management of Longleaf Pine Forests. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.     PDF     View Book

[31]  Catano, Christopher P., Timothy L. Dickson & Jonathan A. Myers. 2017. Dispersal and neutral sampling mediate contingent effects of disturbance on plant beta-diversity: A meta-analysis. Ecology Letters 20: 347-356.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Information     Cover Article

[30]  Harms, Kyle E., Paul R. Gagnon, Heather A. Passmore, Jonathan A. Myers & William J. Platt. 2017. Groundcover community assembly in high-diversity pine savannas: Seed arrival and environmental filtering through fire-generated pores. Ecosphere 8: e01716.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Information

2016

[29]  Myers, Jonathan A. & Joseph A. LaManna. 2016. The promise and pitfalls of beta-diversity in ecology and conservation. Journal of Vegetation Science 27: 1081-1083.     Abstract     PDF     Invited Commentary Paper

[28]  LaManna, Joseph A., Maranda L. Walton, Benjamin L. Turner & Jonathan A. Myers. 2016. Negative density dependence is stronger in resource-rich environments and diversifies communities when stronger for common but not rare species. Ecology Letters 19: 657-667.     Abstract     PDF

[27]  Fisher, Joshua B., Sean Sweeney, Edward R. Brzostek, Tom P. Evans, Daniel J. Johnson, Jonathan A. Myers, Norman A. Bourg, Amy T. Wolf, Robert W. Howe & Richard P. Phillips. 2016. Tree–mycorrhizal associations detected remotely from canopy spectral properties. Global Change Biology 22: 2596-2607.     Abstract     PDF

News Coverage: “NASA Satellite Images Uncover Underground Forest Fungi” (NASA Earth Science News)

News Coverage: “Satellites Detect the Healthy Glow of a Forest with Underground Friends” (Smithsonian News Desk)

Teaching Publication: Fisher, Joshua B., Sean Sweeney, Edward R. Brzostek, Tom P. Evans, Daniel J. Johnson, Jonathan A. Myers, Norman A. Bourg, Amy T. Wolf, Robert W. Howe & Richard P. Phillips. 2016. What kind of fungus are you? Science Journal for Kids, November 2016.     Web     PDF

[26]  Buckley, Hannah L., Bradley S. Case, Jess K. Zimmerman, Jill Thompson, Jonathan A. Myers & Aaron M. Ellison. 2016. Using codisperson analysis to quantify and understand spatial patterns in species-environment relationships. New Phytologist 211: 735-749.    Abstract     PDF     Supporting Information

[25]  Spasojevic, Marko J., Benjamin L. Turner & Jonathan A. Myers. 2016. When does intraspecific trait variation contribute to functional beta-diversity? Journal of Ecology 104: 487-496.     Abstract     PDF     Data (Leaf Functional Traits)

[24]  Oberle, Brad, Amy M. Milo, Jonathan A. Myers, Maranda L. Walton, Darcy F. Young & Amy E. Zanne. 2016. Direct estimates of downslope deadwood movement over 30 years in a temperate forest illustrate impacts of treefall on forest ecosystem dynamics. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 46: 351-361.     Abstract     PDF

[23]  Burkle, Laura A., Jonathan A. Myers & R. Travis Belote. 2016. The beta-diversity of species interactions: Untangling the drivers of geographic variation in plant-pollinator diversity and function across scales. American Journal of Botany 103: 118-28.     Abstract     PDF

Invited Paper for Species Issue: Evolutionary Insights from Studies of Geographic Variation

2015

[22]  Burkle, Laura A., Jonathan A. Myers & R. Travis Belote. 2015. Wildfire disturbance and productivity as drivers of plant species diversity across spatial scales. Ecosphere 6:art202     Abstract     PDF

[21]  Myers, Jonathan A., Jonathan M. Chase, Raelene M. Crandall & Iván Jiménez. 2015. Disturbance alters beta-diversity but not the relative importance of community assembly mechanisms. Journal of Ecology 103: 1291-1299.     Abstract     PDF     Data     Cover Article

[20]  Gagnon, Paul R., Heather A. Passmore, Matthew Slocum, Jonathan A. Myers, Kyle E. Harms, William J. Platt & C.E. Timothy Paine. 2015. Fuels and fires influence vegetation via above- and below-ground pathways in a high-diversity plant community. Journal of Ecology 103: 1009-1019.     Abstract     PDF     Data

[19]  Tello, J. Sebastián, Jonathan A. Myers, Manuel J. Macía, Alfredo F. Fuentes, Leslie Cayola, Gabriel Arellano, M. Isabel Loza, Vania Torrez, Maritza Cornejo & Peter M. Jørgensen. 2015. Elevational gradients in beta-diversity reflect variation in the strength of local community assembly mechanisms across spatial scales. PLoS ONE 10: e0121458.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Material

[18]  Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J., Stuart J. Davies, Amy C. Bennett, Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre, Helene C. Muller-Landau, S. Joseph Wright, Kamariah Abu Salim, Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Yves Basset, Norman A. Bourg, Eben N. Broadbent, Warran Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, David F. R. P. Burslem, Nathalie Butt, Min Cao, Dairon Cardenas, Keith Clay, Susan Cordell, Xiaobao Deng, Matteo Detto, Xiaojun Du, Alvaro Duque, David L. Erikson, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Gunter A. Fischer, Christine D. Fletcher, Christian P . Giardina, Gregory S. Gilbert, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Gunatilleke, Zhanqing Hao, William H. Hargrove, Terese B. Hart, Billy C.H. Hau, Fangliang He, Forrest M. Hoffman, Robert W. Howe, Stephen P. Hubbell, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, Patrick A. Jansen, Mingxi Jiang, Mamoru Kanzaki, David Kenfack, Stalin Kibet, Margaret F. Kinnaird, Kamil Kral, Jitendra Kumar, Andrew J. Larson, Yide Li, Xainkun Li, Shirong Liu, Shawn K.Y. Lum, James A. Lutz, Keping Ma, Damian Maddalena, Jean-Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Toby Marthews, Rafizah Mat Serudin, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé R. Memiaghe, Xiangcheng Mi, Takashi Mizuno, Jonathan A. Myers, Vojtech Novotny, Alexandre A. de Oliveira, Perry S. Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Jan den Ouden, Geoffrey G. Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Abdul Rahman, Lawren Sack, Kriangsak Sri-ngernyuang, Raman Sukumar, I-Fang Sun, Witchaphart Sungpalee, Sylvester Tan, Sean C. Thomas, Duncan W. Thomas, Jill Thompson, Benjamin L. Turner, Maria Uriarte, Renato Valencia, Marta I. Vallejo, Alberto Vicentini, Tomáš Vrška, Xihua Wang, George Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Han Xu, Wang Xugao, Sandra Yap & Jess Zimmerman. 2015. CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change. Global Change Biology 21: 528-549.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Information

News Coverage: “If trees could talk: Forest research network reveals global change effects” (Smithsonian News Desk) 

2014

[17]  Spasojevic, Marko J., Elizabeth A. Yablon*, Brad Oberle & Jonathan A. Myers.  2014. Ontogenetic trait variation influences tree community assembly across environmental gradients. Ecosphere 5: article 129.     Abstract     PDF

2013

[16]  Myers, Jonathan A., Jonathan M. Chase, Iván Jiménez, Peter M. Jørgensen, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Narel Paniagua-Zambrana & Renate Seidel. 2013. Beta-diversity in temperate and tropical forests reflects dissimilar mechanisms of community assembly. Ecology Letters 16: 151-157.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Information

[15]  Stegen, James C., Amy L. Freestone, Thomas O. Crist, Marti J. Anderson, Jonathan M. Chase, Liza S. Comita, Howard V. Cornell, Kendi F. Davies, Susan P. Harrison, Allen H. Hurlbert, Brian D. Inouye, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Jonathan A. Myers, Nathan J. Sanders, Nathan G. Swenson & Mark Vellend. 2013. Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22: 202-212.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Information

2012

[14]  Lessard Jean-Philippe, Jonathan Belmaker, Jonathan A. Myers, Jonathan M. Chase & Carsten Rahbek. 2012. Inferring local ecological processes amid species pool influences. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27: 600-607.     Abstract     PDF     Cover Article

[13]  Gagnon, Paul R., Kyle E. Harms, William J. Platt, Heather A. Passmore & Jonathan A. Myers. 2012. Small-scale variation in fuel loads differentially affects two co-dominant bunchgrasses in a species-rich pine savanna. PLoS ONE 7: e29674.     Abstract     PDF

[12]  Kraft, Nathan J.B., Nathan J. Sanders, James C. Stegen, Marti J. Anderson, Thomas O. Crist, Howard V. Cornell, Mark Vellend, Jonathan M. Chase, Liza S. Comita, Kendi F. Davies, Amy L. Freestone, Susan P. Harrison, Brian D. Inouye, Jonathan A. Myers & Nathan G. Swenson. 2012. Response to comments on “Disentangling the drivers of β-diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients.” Science 335: 1573.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Information

2011

[11]  Kraft, Nathan J.B., Liza S. Comita, Jonathan M. Chase, Nathan J. Sanders, Nathan G. Swenson, Thomas O. Crist, James C. Stegen, Mark Vellend, Brad Boyle, Marti J. Anderson, Howard V. Cornell, Kendi F. Davies, Amy L. Freestone, Brian D. Inouye, Susan P. Harrison & Jonathan A. Myers. 2011. Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients. Science 333: 1755-1758.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Material     Cover Article

Responses to Technical Comments:

[12]  Kraft, Nathan J.B., Nathan J. Sanders, James C. Stegen, Marti J. Anderson, Thomas O. Crist, Howard V. Cornell, Mark Vellend, Jonathan M. Chase, Liza S. Comita, Kendi F. Davies, Amy L. Freestone, Susan P. Harrison, Brian D. Inouye, Jonathan A. Myers & Nathan G. Swenson. 2012. Response to comments on “Disentangling the drivers of β-diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients.” Science 335: 1573.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Information

[10]  Chase, Jonathan M. & Jonathan A. Myers. 2011. Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366: 2351-2363.     Abstract     PDF

Invited Paper for Special Issue: Biogeography and Ecology – Two Views of One World

[9]  Myers, Jonathan A. & Kyle E. Harms. 2011. Seed arrival and ecological filters interact to assemble high-diversity plant communities. Ecology 92: 676-686.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Material

2010

[8]  Gagnon, Paul R., Heather A. Passmore, William J. Platt, Jonathan A. Myers, C.E. Timothy Paine & Kyle E. Harms. 2010. Does pyrogenicity protect burning plants? Ecology 91: 3481-3487.     Abstract     PDF     Cover Article     Concepts & Synthesis Paper

2009

[7]  Myers, Jonathan A. & Kyle E. Harms. 2009. Seed arrival, ecological filters, and plant species richness: A meta-analysis. Ecology Letters 12: 1250-1260.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Material     Review & Synthesis Paper

[6]  Myers, Jonathan A. & Kyle E. Harms. 2009. Local immigration, competition from dominant guilds, and the ecological assembly of high-diversity pine savannas. Ecology 90: 2745-2754.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Material

2003-2008

[5]  Kitajima, Kaoru & Jonathan A. Myers. 2008. Seedling ecophysiology: Strategies towards achievement of positive carbon balance. In: Leck, Mary A., V. Thomas Parker & Robert L. Simpson RL (eds) Seedling Ecology and Evolution. Cambridge University Press.     PDF     View Book

[4]  Myers, Jonathan A. & Kaoru Kitajima. 2007. Carbohydrate storage enhances seedling shade and stress tolerance in a neotropical forest. Journal of Ecology 95:383-395.     Abstract     PDF     Supplementary Material     Recommended by the Faculty of 1000

[3]  Myers, Jonathan A., Mark Vellend, Sana Gardescu & Peter L. Marks. 2004. Seed dispersal by white-tailed deer: Implications for long-distance dispersal, invasion, and migration of plants in eastern North America. Oecologia 139:35–44.     Abstract     PDF     Supporting Material

[2]  Vellend, Mark, Jonathan A. Myers, Sana Gardescu & Peter L. Marks. 2003. Dispersal of Trillium seeds by deer: Implications for long-distance migration of forest herbs. Ecology 84: 1067–1072.     Abstract     PDF

News Coverage: “Dispersing seeds is newly discovered role for deer — except the plants often are noxious weeds” (Cornell Chronicle)

[1]  Wade, Gary L., Jonathan A. Myers, Cecilia R. Martin, Kathie Detmar, William Mator, Mark J. Twery & Michael Rechlin. 2003. Vascular plant species of the forest ecology research and demonstration area, Paul Smiths, New York. USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station Research Note NE–380, Newton Square, PA.     PDF