Eric M. Lind
A5046964215- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Topic Modeling
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Entomological Studies and Ecology
- Expert finding and Q&A systems
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Metro Transit
2018-2022
University of California, Irvine
2022
Allen Institute
2022
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2021
IBI Group (United Kingdom)
2021
University of Minnesota
2011-2020
Vantage View (United States)
2018
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2017
Ecological Society of America
2017
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
2009-2011
Abstract Aboveground–belowground interactions exert critical controls on the composition and function of terrestrial ecosystems, yet fundamental relationships between plant diversity soil microbial remain elusive. Theory predicts predominantly positive associations but tests within single sites have shown variable relationships, across broad spatial scales largely unexplored. We compared plant, bacterial, archaeal fungal communities in one hundred forty‐five 1 m 2 plots 25 temperate...
Summary Advancing the field of ecology relies on understanding generalities and developing theories based empirical functional relationships that integrate across organismal to global spatial scales span temporal scales. Significant advances in predicting responses ecological communities globally extensive anthropogenic perturbations, for example, require role environmental context determining outcomes, which turn requires standardized experiments sites regions. Distributed collaborative can...
Abstract Plant growth can be limited by resource acquisition and defence against consumers, leading to contrasting trade‐off possibilities. The competition‐defence hypothesis posits a between competitive ability enemies (e.g. herbivores pathogens). growth‐defence suggests that strong competitors for nutrients are also defended enemies, at cost rate. We tested these hypotheses using observations of 706 plant populations over 500 species before following identical fertilisation fencing...
Humans dominate many important Earth system processes including the nitrogen (N) cycle. Atmospheric N deposition affects fundamental such as carbon cycling, climate regulation, and biodiversity, could result in changes to primary production. Both modelling experimentation have suggested a role for anthropogenically altered increasing productivity, nevertheless, current understanding of relative strength with respect other controls on production edaphic conditions is limited. Here we use an...
Abstract Exotic species dominate many communities; however the functional significance of species’ biogeographic origin remains highly contentious. This debate is fuelled in part by lack globally replicated, systematic data assessing relationship between provenance, function and response to perturbations. We examined abundance native exotic plant at 64 grasslands 13 countries, a subset sites we experimentally tested responses two fundamental drivers invasion, mineral nutrient supplies...
Invasions have increased the size of regional species pools, but are typically assumed to reduce native diversity. However, global-scale tests this assumption been elusive because focus on exotic richness, rather than relative abundance. This is problematic low invader richness can indicate invasion resistance by community or, alternatively, dominance a single species. Here, we used globally replicated study quantify relationships between and abundance in grass-dominated ecosystems 13...
Summary The paradigmatic hypothesis for the effect of fertilisation on plant diversity represents a one‐dimensional trade‐off plants competing below‐ground nutrients (generically) and above‐ground light: reduces competition while increasing biomass thereby shifts depleted available light. essential problem this simple paradigm is that it misses both multivariate mechanistic nature factors determine biodiversity as well their causal relationships. We agree light limitation, DeMalach Kadmon...
Abstract Aim Climate variability threatens to destabilize production in many ecosystems. Asynchronous species dynamics may buffer against such when a decrease performance by some is offset an increase of others. However, high climatic can eliminate through stochastic extinctions or cause similar stress responses among that reduce buffering. Local conditions, as soil nutrients, also alter stability directly influencing asynchrony. We test these hypotheses using globally distributed sampling...
Background Exotic species have been hypothesized to successfully invade new habitats by virtue of possessing novel biochemistry that repels native enemies. Despite the pivotal long-term consequences invasion for food-webs, date there are no experimental studies examining directly whether exotic plants any more or less biochemically deterrent than herbivores. Methodology/Principal Findings In a direct test this hypothesis using herbivore feeding assays with chemical extracts from 19 invasive...
Plant stoichiometry, the relative concentration of elements, is a key regulator ecosystem functioning and also being altered by human activities. In this paper we sought to understand global drivers plant stoichiometry compare contribution climatic vs. anthropogenic effects. We addressed goal measuring elemental (C, N, P K) responses eutrophication vertebrate herbivore exclusion at eighteen sites on six continents. Across sites, climate atmospheric N deposition emerged as strong predictors...
Environmental change can result in substantial shifts community composition. The associated immigration and extinction events are likely constrained by the spatial distribution of species. Still, studies on environmental typically quantify biotic responses at single (time series within a plot) or temporal (spatial beta diversity time points) scales, ignoring their potential interdependence. Here, we use data from global network grassland experiments to determine how turnover two major forms...
Microbial processing of aggregate-unprotected organic matter inputs is key for soil fertility, long-term ecosystem carbon and nutrient sequestration sustainable agriculture. We investigated the effects adding multiple nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus potassium plus nine essential macro- micro-nutrients) on decomposition biochemical transformation standard plant materials buried in 21 grasslands from four continents. Addition weakly but consistently increased remains during peak-season,...
Abstract Aim Theory suggests that introduced species are phylogenetically distant from their recipient communities should be more successful than closely related because they can exploit open niches and escape enemies in new range, i.e. Darwin’s Naturalization Hypothesis. Alternatively, it has also been hypothesized invaders might novel pre‐adapted to conditions range; a paradox coined Conundrum. To date, these hypotheses have tested primarily at the regional scale, not within local plant...
Summary The content and ratio of nutrients in plants can be constrained by a wide array factors, including nutrient supply, light intensity, herbivory, infection or intrinsic growth rate can, turn, affect many ecosystem processes photosynthesis, decomposition, resource limitation cycling. Studies plant stoichiometry stoichiometric homeostasis have focused primarily on the role supply as constraint tissue chemistry, yet recent work suggests that local diversity, species composition consumers...