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2023

Mitchell JC, D Kashian, X Chen, S Cousins, DJ Flaspohler, DS Gruner, J Johnson, T Surasinghe, J Zambrano, and B Buma. Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (in press)

2022

Sandin, SA, P Becker, C Becker, K Brown, N Erazo, C Figuerola, R Fisher, A Friedlander, T Fukami, N Graham, DS Gruner, ND Holmes, W Holthuijzen, HE Jones, M Rios, A Samaniego, W Sechrest, B Semmens, H Thornton, RV Thurber, C Wails, CA Wolf, and BJ Zgliczynski. Harnessing island–ocean connections to maximize marine benefits of island conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (in press) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2122354119
  • article in MarylandToday

Price J, J Sitters, T Ohlert, P Tognetti, CS Brown, EW Seabloom, ET Borer, S Prober, ES Bakker, AS MacDougall, L Yahdjian, DS Gruner, H Olde Venterink, IC Barrio, P Graff, S Bagchi, CA Arnillas, JD Bakker, DM Blumenthal, EH Boughton, LA Brudvig, MN Bugalho, MW Cadotte, MC Caldeira, CR Dickman, I Donohue, S Grégory, Y Hautier, IS Jónsdóttir, LS Lannes, RL McCulley, JL Moore, SA Power, AC Risch, M Schütz, R Standish, CJ Stevens, GFC Veen, R Virtanen, and GM Wardle. Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01809-9
 
Forde AJ, IC Feller, JD Parker, and DS Gruner. Insectivorous birds reduce herbivory but do not increase mangrove growth across productivity zones. Ecology doi:10.1002/ecy.3768
  • Photo gallery: Forde AJ, IC Feller, JD Parker, and DS Gruner. Bottom-up control of red mangroves on Caribbean cays. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 103:e2007. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2007

Gill AL, PB Adler, ET Borer, CR Buyarski, EE Cleland, CM D'Antonio, KF Davies, DS Gruner, WS Harpole, K Hofmockel, AS MacDougall, RL McCulley, BA Melbourne, JL Moore, JW Morgan, AC Risch, M Schütz, EW Seabloom, J Wright, LH Yang, and SE Hobbie. Nitrogen increases early-stage and slows late-stage decomposition in grasslands spanning continents. Journal of Ecology doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13878
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​Aker SA, RB de Andrade, JJ Duan, and DS Gruner. Rapid spread of an introduced parasitoid for biological control of emerald ash borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 115:381-386 doi.org/10.1093/jee/toab248

2021

Jing X, MP Case, ET Borer, NJ Gotelli, DS Gruner, K Kirkman, A MacDougall, R McCulley, SM Prober, EW Seabloom, C Stevens, AT Classen, and NJ Sanders. Spatial turnover of multiple ecosystem functions is more associated with plant than soil microbial β-diversity. Ecosphere 12:e03644 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3644

Barney SK, DR Leopold, K Francisco, DJ Flaspohler, T Fukami, CP Giardina, DS Gruner, JL Knowlton, WC Pitt, and EE Wilson Rankin. Successful management of invasive rats across a fragmented landscape. Environmental Conservation 48:200-207 doi.org/10.1017/S0376892921000205

Gruner DS and BM Thompson. Nutritional ecology of Sirex noctilio. Pages 38-48 in LJ Haavik, F Stephen, and AE Hajek, eds. Biology and Ecology of Sirex noctilio in North America. US Forest Service, Forest Health Assessment and Applied Sciences Team: FHAAST-19-01. (pdf)

Muletz-Wolz CR, EE Wilson Rankin, S McGrath-Blaser, M Venkatraman, JE Maldonado, DS Gruner, and RC Fleischer. Identification of novel bacterial biomarkers to detect bird scavenging by invasive rats. Ecology and Evolution 11:1814-1828. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7171

de Andrade RB, K Abell, JJ Duan, P Shrewsbury, and DS Gruner. Protective neighboring effect from ash trees treated with systemic insecticide against emerald ash borer. Pest Management Science 77:474-481.  doi.org/10.1002/ps.6041

2020

Borer ET, WS Harpole, PB Adler, CA Arnillas, MN Bugalho, MW Cadotte, MC Caldeira, MS Campana, CR Dickman, TL Dickson, I Donohue, A Eskelinen, PA Fay, JL Firn, PB Graff, DS Gruner, RW Heckman, AM Koltz, KJ Komatsu, LS Lannes, AS MacDougall, JP Martina, JL Moore, B Mortensen, R Ochoa-Hueso, H Olde Venterink, SA Power, JN Price, AC Risch, M Sankaran, M Schütz, J Sitters, CJ Stevens, R Virtanen, PA Wilfahrt, and EW Seabloom. Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory. Nature Communications 11:6036  doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19870-y

Tielens EK and Gruner DS. ​Intraspecific variation in host plant traits mediates taxonomic and functional composition of local insect herbivore communities. Ecological Entomology 45:1382-1395.  doi.org/10.1111/een.12923

2019

Tielens EK, Neel MN, Leopold DR, Giardina CP and Gruner DS. Multiscale analysis of canopy arthropod diversity in a volcanically fragmented landscape. Ecosphere 10:e02653. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2653

Cleland EE, EM Lind, NM DeCrappeo, E DeLorenze, RA Wilkins, PB Adler, JD Bakker, CS Brown, KF Davies, E Esch, J Firn, S Gressard, DS Gruner, N Hagenah, WS Harpole, Y Hautier, SE Hobbie, KS Hofmockel, K Kirkman, J Knops, CW Kopp, KJ La Pierre, A MacDougall, RL McCulley, BA Melbourne, JL Moore, SM Prober, C Riggs, AC Risch, M Schuetz, C Stevens, PD Wragg, J Wright, ET Borer, and EW Seabloom. Belowground biomass response to nutrient enrichment depends on light limitation across globally distributed grasslands. Ecosystems 22:1466-1477​. doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00350-4

Thompson BM, Bodart J, and DS Gruner. Community resistance to an invasive forest insect–fungus mutualism. Ecosphere 10:e02609. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2609

2018

​Johnston CA, Wilson Rankin EE, and DS Gruner. Foraging connections: patterns of prey use linked to invasive predator diel movement. PLoS ONE 13:e0201883.  doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201883

Wilson Rankin EE, JL Knowlton, DS Gruner, DJ Flaspohler, CP Giardina, DR Leopold, A Buckardt, WC Pitt, and T Fukami. Vertical foraging shifts in Hawaiian forest birds in response to invasive rat removal. PLoS ONE 13:e0202869.  doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202869
  • shortlisted: 2019 Wildlife Publication Awards
  • The Official PLOS Blog: An ornithologist and an entomologist go into the kīpuka…

Johnston CA and Gruner DS. Marine fauna sort at fine resolution in an ecotone of shifting wetland foundation species. Ecology 99:2546-2557.  doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2505

Gruner DS and AJ Forde. Food‐chain dynamics: the central theory of ecology once again? Ecology 99:1699-1700.  doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2206

Lafferty KD, JP McLaughlin, DS Gruner, TA Bogar, A Bui, JN Childress, M Espinoza, ES Forbes, CA Johnston, M Klope, A Miller-ter Kuile, M Lee, KA Plummer, DA Weber, RT Young, and HS Young. Local extinction of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) following rat eradication on Palmyra Atoll. Biology Letters 14:20170743.  doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0743
  • The Scientist: Paradise Regained: How the Palmyra Atoll Got Rid of Invasive Mosquitoes

2017

Lind EM, KJ LaPierre, EW Seabloom, J Alberti, O Iribame, J Firn, DS Gruner, AD Kay, J Pascal, JP Wright, L Yang, and ET Borer. Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: a test of mediation pathways. Ecology 98:3022-3033. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2029
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Graham NR, Gruner DS,  Lim JY and Gillespie RJ. Island ecology and evolution: challenges in the Anthropocene. Environmental Conservation 44:323-335.  doi.org/10.1017/S0376892917000315

Patiño J, RJ Whittaker, PAV Borges, JM Fernandez-Palacios, C Ah-Peng, M Araujo, S Avila, E de Boer, P Cardoso, J Cornuault, L de Nascimento, A Gil, A Gonzalez, DS Gruner, AG Santos, R Heleno, J Hortal, JC Illera, C Kaiser-Bunbury, T Matthews, A Papadopoulou, N Pettorelli, JP Price, M Steinbauer, K Triantis, L Valente, P Vargas, P Weigelt, and BC Emerson. A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography. Journal of Biogeography 44:963-983​.  doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12986

Knowlton JL,  Flaspohler DJ,  Paxton  EH, Fukami  T, Giardina CP,  Gruner DS and EE Wilson Rankin. Movements of four native Hawaiian birds across a naturally fragmented landscape. Journal of Avian Biology 48:921-931.  doi.org/10.1111/jav.00924
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