Publications

Note: At the end of each citation a link to the abstract on the publisher's website is provided. If you are unable to access the full text through your own institution please feel free to request a reprint from Justin Wright by emailing him at jw67 (at) duke.edu.

Cardinale, B., J.P. Wright, M. Cadotte, I. Carroll, A. Hector, D. Srivastiva, M. Loreau, J. Weis. 2007. Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity. PNAS. 104:18123-18128. abstract

Badano, E.I., C.G. Jones, L.A. Cavieres, and J.P. Wright. 2006. Assessing impacts of ecosystem engineers on community organization: effects of the high-Andean cushion plant Azorella monantha. Oikos. 115:369-385. abstract

Cardinale, B., D. Srivastiva, E. Duffy, J. Wright, A. Downing, M. Sankaranan, and C. Jouseau. 2006. Consistent effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems. Nature. 443:989-992. abstract

Wright, J.P. and C.G. Jones. 2006. The concept of organisms as ecosystem engineers ten years on: Progress, limitations, and challenges. BioScience. 56:203-209. abstract

Wright, J.P., C.G. Jones, B. Boeken, M. Shachak. 2006. Predictability of ecosystem engineering effects on species richness across environmental variability and spatial scales. Journal of Ecology 94: 815-824. abstract

Wright, J.P., S. Naeem, A. Hector, C. Lehman, P. Reich, B. Schmid, and D. Tilman. 2006. Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning. Ecology Letters 9: 111-120. abstract

Wright, J.P., W.S.C. Gurney, and C.G. Jones. 2004. Patch dynamics in an engineered landscape. Oikos 105: 336-348. abstract

Wright, J.P. and A.S. Flecker. 2004. Deforesting the riverscape: the effects of wood on fish diversity in a Venezuelan piedmont stream. Biological Conservation 120: 439-447. abstract

Wright, J.P. and C.J. Jones. 2004. Predicting effects of ecosystem engineers on patch-scale richness from primary productivity. Ecology 85: 2071-2081. abstract

Naeem, S. and Wright, J.P. 2003. Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem. Ecology Letters 6: 567-579. abstract

Wright, J.P., A.S. Flecker, and C.G. Jones. 2003. Local versus landscape controls on plant species richness in beaver meadows. Ecology 84: 3162-3173. abstract

Wright, J.P., C.G. Jones, and A.S. Flecker. 2002. An ecosystem engineer, the beaver, increases species richness at the landscape scale. Oecologia 132:96-101. abstract

Book Chapters and Book Reviews

Wilson, W.G. and J.P. Wright. 2007. Environmental effects on Lotka-Volterra community theory. in Cuddington, K., J. Byers, A. Hastings, and W. Wilson eds. Ecosystem Engineers: Plants to Protists. Elsevier. pp 211-228.

Naeem, S., R. Colwell, S. Díaz, J. Hughes, C. Jouseau, S. Lavorel, P. Morin, O. Petchey, J. Wright. 2007. Predicting the ecosystem consequences of biodiversity loss: the BioMERGE framework. In J. Canadell, Pataki,
D., and Pitelka, L. eds. Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. Springer. pp 113-126.

Wright, J.P. 2004. The beaver: natural history of a wetlands engineer: Review. Quarterly Review of Biology 79: 215.

Ewing, H., K. Hogan, F. Keesing, H. Bugmann, A. Berkowitz, L. Gross, J. Oris, and J. Wright. 2003. The Role of Modeling in Undergraduate Education. in C.D. Canham, J.J. Cole, and W. K. Lauenroth eds. Models in Ecosystem Science. Princeton University Press. pp 413-427.

Publications In Review and In Preparation

Wright, J.P., A. Symstad, J.M. Bullock, K. Engelhardt, L. Jackson, E. Bernhardt. In Review. Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem function: will an integrated approach improve results? in S. Naeem, Bunker, D.,
Hector, A., M. Loreau and C. Perrings. eds. The Disentangled Bank: the ecological and social implications of human modification to biodiversity. Oxford University Press.

L. Jackson, Rosenstock, T., Thomas, M., Symstad, A., Wright, J.P. In Review. Managed ecosystems: biodiversity and ecosystem functions in landscapes modified by human use. in S. Naeem, Bunker, D., Hector,
A., M. Loreau and C. Perrings. eds. The Disentangled Bank: the ecological and social implications of human modification to biodiversity. Oxford University Press.

Wright, J.P. In Review. Biodiversity scenarios resulting from changes in the population dynamics of an ecosystem engineer, the beaver. Oikos.

Wright, J.P., J. Fridley. In Prep. Geographic mosaic of rates of woody invasion in old fields of the Eastern U.S.: pattern, process, and latitudinal gradients. To be submitted to American Naturalist.

Bartel, R.A., N.M. Haddad, and J.P. Wright. In Review. Contrasting effects of ecosystem engineers on plant diversity and dynamics at local and landscape scales. Ecology.

Srivastiva, D., B. Cardinale, A. Downing, J. E. Duffy, C. Jouseau, M. Sankaran, J.P. Wright. In Review. Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-effect effects on decomposition. Ecology.

Sutton-Grier, A., J.P. Wright, S. Qian, and C. Richardson. In Review. Do plant traits, plant diversity, or environmental conditions regulate riparian zone nitrogen cycles? Ecological Monographs.

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