Elizabeth Leger
#1,806,787
Most Influential Person
American plant ecologist
Why Is Elizabeth Leger Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)Elizabeth Leger's Published Works
Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works
Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author
Published Papers
- Invasive California poppies (Eschscholzia californica Cham.) grow larger than native individuals under reduced competition (2003) (237)
- Assessing the speed and predictability of local adaptation in invasive California poppies (Eschscholzia californica) (2007) (116)
- The adaptive value of remnant native plants in invaded communities: an example from the Great Basin. (2008) (108)
- Genetic variation and local adaptation at a cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) invasion edge in western Nevada (2009) (96)
- Competitive seedlings and inherited traits: a test of rapid evolution of Elymus multisetus (big squirreltail) in response to cheatgrass invasion (2010) (94)
- Comb wax effects on the ontogeny of honey bee nestmate recognition (1998) (85)
- Native Perennial Grasses Show Evolutionary Response to Bromus tectorum (Cheatgrass) Invasion (2011) (82)
- Strong natural selection during plant restoration favors an unexpected suite of plant traits (2013) (69)
- Coevolution between native and invasive plant competitors: implications for invasive species management (2010) (67)
- Invasion triangle: an organizational framework for species invasion (2011) (61)
- What Seeds to Plant in the Great Basin? Comparing Traits Prioritized in Native Plant Cultivars and Releases with those that Promote Survival in the Field (2015) (61)
- Strong patterns of intraspecific variation and local adaptation in Great Basin plants revealed through a review of 75 years of experiments (2018) (53)
- Restoration islands: a tool for efficiently restoring dryland ecosystems? (2017) (46)
- Self‐reported adverse tattoo reactions: a New York City Central Park study (2015) (44)
- Effects of experimental manipulation of light and nutrients on establishment of seedlings of native and invasive woody species in Long Island, NY forests (2008) (44)
- The shifting balance of facilitation and competition affects the outcome of intra- and interspecific interactions over the life history of California grassland annuals (2010) (44)
- Increased resistance to generalist herbivores in invasive populations of the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) (2005) (42)
- Patient Perspectives on Medical Photography in Dermatology (2014) (42)
- Secondary Succession in the Sagebrush Semidesert 66 Years After Fire in the Great Basin, USA (2016) (40)
- A climatically extreme year has large impacts on C4 species in tallgrass prairie ecosystems but only minor effects on species richness and other plant functional groups (2011) (39)
- Comparison of Seed Bank Estimation Techniques Using Six Weed Species in Two Soil Types (2010) (36)
- Arid old-field restoration: Native perennial grasses suppress weeds and erosion, but also suppress native shrubs (2014) (36)
- Can native annual forbs reduce Bromus tectorum biomass and indirectly facilitate establishment of a native perennial grass (2014) (34)
- Postfire Seeding and Plant Community Recovery in the Great Basin (2012) (34)
- Conservation of Biological Resources (2001) (33)
- Increased soil temperature and decreased precipitation during early life stages constrain grass seedling recruitment in cold desert restoration (2019) (30)
- Development of remote sensing indicators for mapping episodic die-off of an invasive annual grass (Bromus tectorum) from the Landsat archive (2017) (27)
- Seed and seedling traits have strong impacts on establishment of a perennial bunchgrass in invaded semi‐arid systems (2019) (26)
- Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts. (2021) (26)
- Invasive Bromus tectorum alters natural selection in arid systems (2017) (24)
- Seedling root traits strongly influence field survival and performance of a common bunchgrass (2015) (23)
- Annual plants change in size over a century of observations (2013) (21)
- Climate variability affects the germination strategies exhibited by arid land plants (2017) (21)
- Living with exotic annual grasses in the sagebrush ecosystem. (2021) (20)
- Natural selection favors root investment in native grasses during restoration of invaded fields (2015) (19)
- Cheatgrass die-offs as an opportunity for restoration in the Great Basin, USA: Will local or commercial native plants succeed where exotic invaders fail? (2016) (17)
- Combining active restoration and targeted grazing to establish native plants and reduce fuel loads in invaded ecosystems (2018) (17)
- Grasses for biofuels: A low water-use alternative for cold desert agriculture? (2014) (16)
- Seed Source Affects Establishment of Elymus multisetus in Postfire Revegetation in the Great Basin (2012) (16)
- The Interaction between Soil Nutrients and Leaf Loss during Early Establishment in Plant Invasion (2007) (15)
- Colonization, abundance, and geographic range size of gravestone lichens (2009) (14)
- First-Year Establishment, Biomass and Seed Production of Early vs. Late Seral Natives in Two Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) Invaded Soils (2014) (13)
- Clopyralid effects on yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) and nontarget species (2003) (13)
- Emergence and early survival of early versus late seral species in Great Basin restoration in two different soil types (2015) (11)
- Strong genetic differentiation in the invasive annual grass Bromus tectorum across the Mojave–Great Basin ecological transition zone (2016) (11)
- Cold Desert Fire and Invasive Species Management: Resources, Strategies, Tactics, and Response (2009) (11)
- Selecting native plants for restoration using rapid screening for adaptive traits: methods and outcomes in a Great Basin case study (2020) (10)
- Contrasting climate niches among co‐occurring subdominant forbs of the sagebrush steppe (2018) (9)
- Plastic responses of native plant root systems to the presence of an invasive annual grass. (2015) (9)
- Inbreeding, Genetic Variation, and Invasiveness: The Strange Case of Bromus tectorum (2010) (9)
- Cultivation legacies alter soil nutrients and differentially affect plant species performance nearly a century after abandonment (2013) (8)
- Seeds of Success: A conservation and restoration investment in the future of U.S. lands (2020) (7)
- Long-term vegetation responses to pinyon-juniper woodland reduction treatments in Nevada, USA. (2019) (7)
- Shrub cover and fire history predict seed bank composition in Great Basin shrublands (2018) (6)
- Shifting Baselines: Dynamics of Evolution and Community Change in a Changing World (2012) (6)
- Local adaptation to precipitation in the perennial grass Elymus elymoides: Trade‐offs between growth and drought resistance traits (2020) (6)
- An Assessment of the Need for Native Seeds and the Capacity for Their Supply (2020) (5)
- Restoring dryland old fields with native shrubs and grasses: Does facilitation and seed source matter? (2018) (5)
- Genecology of Thurber's Needlegrass (Achnatherum thurberianum [Piper] Barkworth) in the Western United States☆ (2017) (5)
- Creating a Great Basin native annual forb seed increase program: lessons learned (2021) (4)
- Development of single-nucleotide polymorphism markers for Bromus tectorum (Poaceae) from a partially sequenced transcriptome1 (2016) (4)
- NOTES: EXAMINING THE POTENTIAL COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF VENTENATA DUBIA ON ANNUAL AND PERENNIAL GRASSES (2017) (4)
- Using native grass seeding and targeted spring grazing to reduce low-level Bromus tectorum invasion on the Colorado Plateau (2020) (4)
- Cheatgrass Die-Offs: A Unique Restoration Opportunity in Northern Nevada (2017) (3)
- Sowing (and mapping) the wild oats (2009) (2)
- How specialized is a soil specialist? Early life history responses of a rare Eriogonum to site-level variation in volcanic soils. (2020) (2)
- Preparing for the Need for a Supply of Native Seed (2020) (2)
- Integrating evolutionary potential and ecological function into agricultural seed production to meet demands for the decade of restoration (2021) (2)
- Genomic and common garden approaches yield complementary results for quantifying environmental drivers of local adaptation in rubber rabbitbrush, a foundational Great Basin shrub (2021) (2)
- Using seedling phenotypic traits to select local seed sources for large-scale restoration: methods and outcomes in a Great Basin case study (2020) (1)
- Field observations and remote assessment identify climate change, recreation, invasive species, and livestock as top threats to critically imperiled rare plants in Nevada (2022) (0)
- Farmer’s Market, Demonstration Gardens, and Research Projects Expand Outreach of Extension Master Gardeners (2013) (0)
- Not all seed transfer zones are created equal: Using fire history to identify seed needs in the Cold Deserts of the Western US (2022) (0)
- Phenotypes and environment predict seedling survival for seven co‐occurring Great Basin plant taxa growing with invasive grass (2022) (0)
- Great Basin Native Forb Responses to Competition with Cheatgrass and Elevated Soil Nutrients (2019) (0)
- Strong genetic differentiation in the invasive annual grass Bromus tectorum across the Mojave–Great Basin ecological transition zone (2016) (0)
- Ecology of Eriogonum tiehmii , a rare soil specialist: Arthropod diversity, soil preferences, and demography (2022) (0)
- Modern approaches for leveraging biodiversity collections to understand change in plant-insect interactions (2022) (0)
- Does a history of co-occurrence predict plant performance, community productivity, or invasion resistance? (2022) (0)
- Persistent Agricultural Legacy in Soil Influences Plant Restoration Success in a Great Basin Salt Desert Ecosystem (2020) (0)
- Author Correction: Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts (2021) (0)
- Climate variability affects the germination strategies exhibited by arid land plants (2017) (0)
- Fine-scale spatial genetic structure in a locally abundant native bunchgrass (Achnatherum thurberianum) including distinct lineages revealed within seed transfer zones (2022) (0)
- Phenotypic traits and environment strongly predict seedling survival for seven co-occurring Great Basin plant taxa growing with invasive grass (2021) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
What Schools Are Affiliated With Elizabeth Leger?
Elizabeth Leger is affiliated with the following schools:
