Browsing BIO Faculty Scholarship by Author "Avolio, Meghan L."

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    • Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities 

      Wilcox, Kevin R.; Tredennick, Andrew T.; Koerner, Sally E.; Grman, Emily; Hallett, Lauren M.; Avolio, Meghan L.; La Pierre, Kimberly J.; Houseman, Gregory R. (Wiley, 2017-12)
      Temporal stability of ecosystem functioning increases the predictability and reliability of ecosystem services, and understanding the drivers of stability across spatial scales is important for land management and policy ...

    • A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves 

      Avolio, Meghan L.; Carroll, Ian T.; Collins, Scott L.; Houseman, Gregory R.; Hallett, Lauren M.; Isbell, Forest I.; Koerner, Sally E.; Komatsu, Kimberly J.; Smith, Melinda D.; Wilcox, Kevin R. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019-10-17)
      Univariate and multivariate methods are commonly used to explore the spatial and temporal dynamics of ecological communities, but each has limitations, including oversimplification or abstraction of communities. Rank ...

    • A framework for quantifying the magnitude and variability of community responses to global change drivers 

      Avolio, Meghan L.; La Pierre, Kimberly J.; Houseman, Gregory R.; Koerner, Sally E.; Grman, Emily; Isbell, Forest; Johnson, David Samuel; Wilcox, Kevin R. (Ecological Society of America, 2015-12-21)
      A major challenge in global change ecology is to predict the trajectory and magnitude of community change in response to global change drivers (GCDs). Here, we present a new framework that not only increases the predictive ...

    • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed 

      Komatsu, Kimberly J.; Avolio, Meghan L.; Lemoine, Nathan P.; Isbell, Forest I.; Grman, Emily L.; Houseman, Gregory R. (National Academy of Sciences, 2019-09-03)
      Global change drivers (GCDs) are expected to alter community structure and consequently, the services that ecosystems provide. Yet, few experimental investigations have examined effects of GCDs on plant community structure ...