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- PhD Ecology Stanford University
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- Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz
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- The worldwide leaf economics spectrum (2004) (6182)
- Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology (2010) (3961)
- Phylogenies and Community Ecology (2002) (3579)
- TRY – a global database of plant traits (2011) (2118)
- The velocity of climate change (2009) (1987)
- Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution (2008) (1633)
- Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology. (2010) (1397)
- Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California (2009) (1014)
- A trait-based test for habitat filtering: convex hull volume. (2006) (999)
- Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest (2008) (972)
- Community Assembly, Niche Conservatism, and Adaptive Evolution in Changing Environments (2003) (767)
- Phylogenetic Overdispersion in Floridian Oak Communities (2004) (756)
- A trait-based approach to community assembly: partitioning of species trait values into within- and among-community components. (2007) (649)
- Trait Evolution, Community Assembly, and the Phylogenetic Structure of Ecological Communities (2007) (636)
- Interpreting phenotypic variation in plants. (1994) (607)
- Are functional traits good predictors of demographic rates? Evidence from five neotropical forests. (2008) (580)
- Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest (2010) (542)
- The geography of climate change: implications for conservation biogeography (2010) (504)
- FUNCTIONAL STRATEGIES OF CHAPARRAL SHRUBS IN RELATION TO SEASONAL WATER DEFICIT AND DISTURBANCE (2004) (488)
- A Brief History of Seed Size (2005) (480)
- Filling key gaps in population and community ecology (2007) (479)
- The Evolution of Plant Ecophysiological Traits: Recent Advances and Future Directions (2000) (454)
- Climate Change and the Future of California's Endemic Flora (2008) (433)
- Angiosperm wood structure: Global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relation to wood density and potential conductivity. (2010) (360)
- Global patterns in seed size (2006) (354)
- Plant-pollinator interactions and the assembly of plant communities. (2008) (354)
- Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forests. (2007) (351)
- Flammability and serotiny as strategies: correlated evolution in pines (2001) (327)
- Leaf Size, Sapling Allometry, and Corner's Rules: Phylogeny and Correlated Evolution in Maples (Acer) (1998) (316)
- Conservatism and diversification of plant functional traits: Evolutionary rates versus phylogenetic signal (2009) (306)
- Convergence and correlations among leaf size and function in seed plants: a comparative test using independent contrasts. (1999) (294)
- World-wide leaf economics spectrum (2004) (289)
- Adaptation, Niche Conservatism, and Convergence: Comparative Studies of Leaf Evolution in the California Chaparral (2004) (282)
- Niche evolution and adaptive radiation: testing the order of trait divergence. (2006) (279)
- Factors that shape seed mass evolution. (2005) (275)
- Leaf size, specific leaf area and microhabitat distribution of chaparral woody plants: contrasting patterns in species level and community level analyses (2002) (262)
- Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems (2017) (244)
- Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals (2010) (243)
- Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change (2017) (218)
- TAXON SAMPLING, CORRELATED EVOLUTION, AND INDEPENDENT CONTRASTS (2000) (213)
- Why are evergreen leaves so contrary about shade? (2008) (211)
- Twentieth-century shifts in forest structure in California: Denser forests, smaller trees, and increased dominance of oaks (2015) (205)
- Reproductive Allocation in Plants (2012) (204)
- Variation in nuclear DNA content across environmental gradients: a quantile regression analysis (2002) (203)
- The theory behind, and the challenges of, conserving nature's stage in a time of rapid change (2015) (182)
- Self-shading, carbon gain and leaf dynamics: a test of alternative optimality models (1999) (164)
- Leaf dynamics, self-shading and carbon gain in seedlings of a tropical pioneer tree (1995) (163)
- Beyond a warming fingerprint: individualistic biogeographic responses to heterogeneous climate change in California (2014) (149)
- The mode and tempo of genome size evolution in eukaryotes. (2007) (147)
- SEEDLING CROWN ORIENTATION AND INTERCEPTION OF DIFFUSE RADIATION IN TROPICAL FOREST GAPS (1995) (144)
- SPECIES AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF NATIVE AND HUMAN-DOMINATED PLANT COMMUNITIES (2005) (143)
- A link between plant traits and abundance: evidence from coastal California woody plants (2010) (143)
- Mangrove biodiversity and ecosystem function (1998) (137)
- Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation. (2010) (131)
- Phylogenetic Uncertainties and Sensitivity Analyses in Comparative Biology (1996) (123)
- CO2 ELEVATION, CANOPY PHOTOSYNTHESIS, AND OPTIMAL LEAF AREA INDEX (1997) (115)
- Significance of leaf longevity in plants (1999) (114)
- Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages (2011) (109)
- Climate-change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane (2020) (106)
- Canopy-level photosynthetic compensation after defoliation in a tropical understorey palm (2001) (105)
- Evolution and plasticity of photosynthetic thermal tolerance, specific leaf area and leaf size: congeneric species from desert and coastal environments. (2003) (104)
- DEFOLIATION AND GROWTH IN AN UNDERSTORY PALM: QUANTIFYING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF COMPENSATORY RESPONSES (2003) (102)
- Is there a cost to resprouting? Seedling growth rate and drought tolerance in sprouting and nonsprouting Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae). (2005) (101)
- A broader model for C4 photosynthesis evolution in plants inferred from the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae s.s.) (2012) (101)
- Range size, taxon age and hotspots of neoendemism in the California flora (2010) (101)
- Salinity and light interactively affect neotropical mangrove seedlings at the leaf and whole plant levels (2006) (100)
- Plant growth and reproduction along CO2 gradients: non‐linear responses and implications for community change (1995) (98)
- Canopy Structure and Dynamics: Integration of Growth Processes in Tropical Pioneer Trees (1996) (96)
- Evolution, origin and age of lineages in the Californian and Mediterranean floras (2009) (90)
- Hydraulic architecture and the evolution of shoot allometry in contrasting climates. (2003) (87)
- Limiting similarity and functional diversity along environmental gradients (2005) (85)
- Endemic plant communities on special soils: early victims or hardy survivors of climate change? (2012) (84)
- Spatial phylogenetics of the native California flora (2017) (83)
- The diversity and conservation of plant reproductive and dispersal functional traits in human‐dominated tropical landscapes (2006) (82)
- Defoliation and ENSO effects on vital rates of an understorey tropical rain forest palm (2009) (80)
- Biogeography, changing climates, and niche evolution (2009) (77)
- Low Vulnerability to Xylem Embolism in Leaves and Stems of North American Oaks1[OPEN] (2018) (77)
- CO2 ELEVATION, CANOPY PHOTOSYNTHESIS, ANDOPTIMAL LEAF AREA INDEX (1997) (77)
- Research, part of a Special Feature on Do we need new management paradigms to achieve sustainability in tropical forests? Sustainability of Mangrove Harvesting: How do Harvesters' Perceptions Differ from Ecological Analysis? (2006) (77)
- New concepts, models, and assessments of climate-wise connectivity (2018) (75)
- An ecological and evolutionary analysis of photosynthetic thermotolerance using the temperature-dependent increase in fluorescence (2002) (75)
- Evolutionary Legacy Effects on Ecosystems: Biogeographic Origins, Plant Traits, and Implications for Management in the Era of Global Change (2016) (73)
- Evolution of hydraulic traits in closely related species pairs from Mediterranean and nonMediterranean environments of North America. (2007) (73)
- The Assembly of Plant Communities (2014) (72)
- Landscape and species-level distribution of morphological and life history traits in a temperate woodland flora (2000) (68)
- CO_2 and Temperature Effects on Leaf Area Production in Two Annual Plant Species (1992) (67)
- A new method of growth analysis for plants that experience periodic losses of leaf mass (2001) (66)
- Mangrove Seedling Net Photosynthesis, Growth, and Survivorship are Interactively Affected by Salinity and Light 1 (2006) (64)
- The relative influence of climate and housing development on current and projected future fire patterns and structure loss across three California landscapes (2019) (61)
- Correlated evolution of chloroplast heat shock protein expression in closely related plant species. (2001) (59)
- CO 2 Enrichment and Dependence of Reproduction on Density in an Annual Plant and a Simulation of its Population Dynamics (1992) (57)
- Traits, Habitats, and Clades: Identifying Traits of Potential Importance to Environmental Filtering (2009) (55)
- Soil drying and nitrogen availability modulate carbon and water exchange over a range of annual precipitation totals and grassland vegetation types (2009) (54)
- Species richness and endemism in the native flora of California. (2017) (49)
- Size-dependent variation of gender in high density stands of the monoecious annual, Ambrosia artemisiifolia (Asteraceae) (1990) (47)
- Effect of local community phylogenetic structure on pollen limitation in an obligately insect-pollinated plant. (2011) (47)
- Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Evolutionary Foundations of Plant Function (2003) (47)
- Phylogeny and Ecology Reconsidered (1995) (46)
- Niche evolution across spatial scales: climate and habitat specialization in California Lasthenia (Asteraceae) (2012) (45)
- Ecological strategies in California chaparral: interacting effects of soils, climate, and fire on specific leaf area (2011) (44)
- The forest-cerrado transition zone in southern Amazonia: Results of the 1985 Projeto Flora Amazônica expedition to Mato Grosso (1989) (44)
- Light, leaf age, and leaf nitrogen concentration in a tropical vine (1992) (44)
- Ecological relevance of minimum seasonal water potentials (2006) (44)
- A Geographic Mosaic of Climate Change Impacts on Terrestrial Vegetation: Which Areas Are Most at Risk? (2015) (44)
- Facets of phylodiversity: evolutionary diversification, divergence and survival as conservation targets (2018) (43)
- Filtering across Spatial Scales: Phylogeny, Biogeography and Community Structure in Bumble Bees (2013) (42)
- Analysis of leaf and root transcriptomes of soil-grown Avena barbata plants. (2011) (41)
- Are leaf functional traits ‘invariant’ with plant size and what is ‘invariance’ anyway? (2014) (41)
- Tree densities and sex ratios in breeding populations of dioecious Central Amazonian Myristicaceae (1990) (40)
- The evolution of allometry in modular organisms (2004) (39)
- The Mutualistic Niche: Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Community Dynamics (2016) (39)
- Reconciling seasonal hydraulic risk and plant water use through probabilistic soil–plant dynamics (2017) (38)
- Topographic, latitudinal and climatic distribution of Pinus coulteri: Geographic range limits are not at the edge of the climate envelope (2015) (36)
- Cumulative effects of fire and drought in Mediterranean ecosystems (2017) (35)
- The ecohydrological context of drought and classification of plant responses. (2017) (35)
- 10 – Allocation, Leaf Display, and Growth in Fluctuating Light Environments (1997) (34)
- Carbon assimilation and habitat segregation in resurrection plants: a comparison between desiccation- and non-desiccation-tolerant species of Neotropical Velloziaceae (Pandanales) (2015) (34)
- Plant responsiveness to variation in precipitation and nitrogen is consistent across the compositional diversity of a California annual grassland. (2009) (34)
- Range edges in heterogeneous landscapes: Integrating geographic scale and climate complexity into range dynamics (2019) (33)
- The seasonal climate niche predicts phenology and distribution of an ephemeral annual plant, Mollugo verticillata (2017) (33)
- Climate Change Refugia, Fire Ecology and Management (2016) (33)
- Multiple axes of ecological vulnerability to climate change (2020) (33)
- Optimal reproductive allocation in annuals and an informational constraint on plasticity. (2005) (32)
- Targeting climate diversity in conservation planning to build resilience to climate change (2015) (31)
- Microclimate and demography interact to shape stable population dynamics across the range of an alpine plant. (2018) (31)
- Beyond isohydricity: The role of environmental variability in determining plant drought responses. (2019) (30)
- Topoclimates, refugia, and biotic responses to climate change (2020) (30)
- Adapting California's Ecosystems to a Changing Climate (2015) (29)
- Post-fire regeneration strategies and flammability traits of California chaparral shrubs (2010) (28)
- Integrating ecology and phylogenetics: the footprint of history in modern‐day communities1 (2012) (28)
- Evolutionary Diversification of Continuous Traits: Phylogenetic Tests and Application to Seed Size in the California Flora (2004) (28)
- Gap‐dependence in mangrove life‐history strategies: a consideration of the entire life cycle and patch dynamics (2007) (27)
- No local adaptation in leaf or stem xylem vulnerability to embolism, but consistent vulnerability segmentation in a North American oak. (2019) (27)
- A minimal model of fire-vegetation feedbacks and disturbance stochasticity generates alternative stable states in grassland–shrubland–woodland systems (2015) (26)
- Effects of CO2 elevation on canopy development in the stands of two co-occurring annuals (1996) (26)
- Ecological release exposes genetically based niche variation. (2014) (25)
- Weather underground: Subsurface hydrologic processes mediate tree vulnerability to extreme climatic drought (2020) (25)
- Effects of topoclimatic complexity on the composition of woody plant communities (2016) (24)
- Compound fire‐drought regimes promote ecosystem transitions in Mediterranean ecosystems (2018) (24)
- Resilience to chronic defoliation in a dioecious understorey tropical rain forest palm (2012) (24)
- LEAF POSITION, LIGHT LEVELS, AND NITROGEN ALLOCATION IN FIVE SPECIES OF RAIN FOREST PIONEER TREES (1995) (22)
- Global wind patterns and the vulnerability of wind-dispersed species to climate change (2020) (21)
- Plant science decadal vision 2020–2030: Reimagining the potential of plants for a healthy and sustainable future (2020) (20)
- Global wind patterns shape genetic differentiation, asymmetric gene flow, and genetic diversity in trees (2021) (20)
- Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue on plant ecological strategy axes in leaf and wood traits. (2008) (18)
- Linking leaf transcript levels to whole plant analyses provides mechanistic insights to the impact of warming and altered water availability in an annual grass (2011) (18)
- Canopy gaps to climate change - extreme events, ecology and evolution. (2003) (18)
- Evolutionary relationships between drought-related traits and climate shape large hydraulic safety margins in western North American oaks (2021) (16)
- Climate change impacts on California vegetation: physiology, life history, and ecosystem change. (2012) (16)
- Mind the gap: the emerging synthesis of plant 'eco-devo'. (2006) (15)
- Mismatch managed? Phenological phase extension as a strategy to manage phenological asynchrony in plant–animal mutualisms (2020) (15)
- Small Heat Shock Protein Responses of a Closely Related Pair of Desert and Coastal Encelia (2003) (15)
- Natural selection maintains species despite frequent hybridization in the desert shrub Encelia (2020) (14)
- Geography, climate, and biodiversity: the history and future of Mediterranean-type ecosystems (2014) (13)
- The joint evolution of traits and habitat: ontogenetic shifts in leaf morphology and wetland specialization in Lasthenia. (2015) (13)
- Response to Comment on "A Brief History of Seed Size" (2005) (12)
- Best practices for reporting climate data in ecology (2018) (12)
- Defoliation and gender effects on fitness components in three congeneric and sympatric understorey palms (2012) (12)
- Phylogenetic trajectories during secondary succession in a Neotropical dry forest: Assembly processes, ENSO effects and the role of legumes (2020) (11)
- The assembly and function of Cape plant communities in a changing world (2014) (10)
- THE FOREST-CERRADO TRANSITION ZONE IN SOUTHERN (1989) (10)
- Response to Comment on “Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest” (2009) (10)
- Plant hydraulic traits reveal islands as refugia from worsening drought (2020) (8)
- Science, Conservation, and National Parks (2016) (8)
- Increases in thermophilus plants in an arid alpine community in response to experimental warming (2019) (7)
- Topographic heterogeneity lengthens the duration of pollinator resources (2020) (6)
- Assembly of Plant Communities 3 (2014) (5)
- Species Selection Regime and Phylogenetic Tree Shape. (2019) (5)
- 26 – CO2 Elevation and Canopy Development in Stands of Herbaceous Plants (1996) (5)
- Annual grassland resource pools and fluxes: sensitivity to precipitation and dry periods on two contrasting soils (2012) (5)
- PARTITIONING GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENTS OF PHENOLOGICAL VARIATION IN QUERCUS DOUGLASII (FAGACEAE) (2021) (5)
- FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS FOR CALIFORNIA: FREEZING ISOCLINES, NOVEL CLIMATES, AND CLIMATIC RESILIENCE OF CALIFORNIA’S PROTECTED AREAS (2012) (5)
- Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2016 (2016) (5)
- I.3 Physiological Ecology: Plants (2009) (4)
- Phylogenetic Methods in Ecology (2009) (4)
- Chapter 3. Status and trends of biodiversity and ecosystem functions underpinning nature’s benefit to people (2018) (4)
- Range dynamics mediated by compensatory life stage responses to experimental climate manipulations. (2021) (3)
- LEAF POSITION, LIGHT LEVELS, AND NITROGEN (1995) (3)
- Phylogenetic repulsion in the assembly of Floridian oak communities (2003) (3)
- Plant life histories: a meeting of phylogeny and ecology. (1997) (3)
- Mortality and Resprouting in California Oak Woodlands Following Mixed-Severity Wildfire (2019) (2)
- Fakhri A. Bazzaz 1933–2008 (2008) (2)
- Plant evolution at the crossroads: the imprint of history, climate, and humans on the Mediterranean flora (2006) (2)
- Avoided land use conversions and carbon loss from conservation purchases in California (2018) (2)
- Integrating ecology and phylogenetics (2012) (2)
- Spatial phylogenetics of the native California flora (2017) (1)
- Natural selection maintains species despite widespread hybridization in the desert shrub Encelia (2020) (1)
- Exactions for Transportation Corridors After Dolan v. City of Tigard (1995) (1)
- Case Study 2: Assembly of mediterranean-type floras : convergence, exaptation and evolutionary predisposition (2018) (1)
- The Incomplete Filling of the N‐dimensional Hypervolume (2015) (1)
- Land Acquisition and Ecosystem Carbon in Coastal California (2018) (1)
- Creating a Detailed Vegetation Map for Pepperwood Preserve, Sonoma County, CA (2014) (1)
- I.16 Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods (2009) (1)
- LATE PLANTING SHORTENS THE FLOWERING PERIOD AND REDUCES FECUNDITY IN LASTHENIA CALIFORNICA (2021) (1)
- The authors reply [2] (2007) (0)
- Fire Management for Climate Change Refugia (2015) (0)
- From ecohydrology to ecosystem change: linking plant water use and plant water status during drought (2018) (0)
- Climate change, tree demography, and thermophilization in western US forests (2023) (0)
- California Heartbeat Initiative- Freshwater (CHI-FW): advancing understanding of California's freshwater resources using the University of California Natural Reserves and innovative technology. (2018) (0)
- Referees used in 2003 (2004) (0)
- TROPICAL FOREST EDGE (2005) (0)
- Predicting plant hydraulic risk in a seasonally dry climate from plant traits and probabilistic soil water availability (2016) (0)
- gradient in mammals Phylogeny , niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity (2010) (0)
- Statistics for each 15 km X 15 km grid cell, for all California native vascular plants, as studied by Baldwin et al. (2017 Amer. J. Bot.), including randomization results. (2017) (0)
- Thanks to Editors and ad hoc Reviewers 2005–2006 (2006) (0)
- Traits, habitats, and clades: Identifying traits important for the persistence of species living in agricultural landscapes. (2007) (0)
- Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2018 (2018) (0)
- Differing drought survival strategies and habitat segregation in resurrection plants of the Neotropics (2015) (0)
- A Molecular Approach to Understanding Plant Response to Global Climate Change in a Californian Grassland Ecosystem (2007) (0)
- Assessing vulnerable and expanding vegetation stands and species in the San Francisco Bay Area for conservation management under climate change (2015) (0)
- Plant genotype Mycorrhizal fungal genotype Rhizosphere temperature chemistry moisture biota Community plants animals microbes Ecosystem climate nutrients pollution (2007) (0)
- The Influences of Drought and Pathogenic Fungi Infestation on Embolism Formation and Propagation in Quercus douglasii (2019) (0)
- Traits, habitats and clades: identifying traits involved in the environmental filtering of coexisting plant species. (2007) (0)
- Species richness and endemism in the native fl ora of California 1 (2017) (0)
- Reviewers of Madroño Manuscripts 2010 (2011) (0)
- Referees used in 2000 (2001) (0)
- Review for "Identity of Ecological Systems and the Meaning of Resilience" (2020) (0)
- "PRINCIPLES OF PHYLOGENETICS: ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION" (2009) (0)
- Jasper Ridge Woody Plant Community Database (2012) (0)
- FORTY-ONE. Stewardship, Conservation, and Restoration in the Context of Environmental Change (2019) (0)
- Utilizing Drone- and Ground-based Sensors, and Vegetation Samples to Calibrate Coyote Brush Phenological Responses to Water Deficit (2018) (0)
- Title Spatial phylogenetics of the native California flora Permalink (2017) (0)
- Variation in soil moisture and N availability modulates carbon and water exchange in a California grassland experiment (2009) (0)
- Alphabetical Table of Contents of Authors (1998) (0)
- MADROÑO VOLUME 68 TABLE OF CONTENTS (2021) (0)
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