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Brian J. Wilsey is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Plant Science.

The scientist's research topics focus primarily on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies, as well as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Recent notable publications by Brian J. Wilsey include:

  • Restoration in the face of changing climate: importance of persistence, priority effects, and species diversity, 2020, Restoration Ecology
  • Long-term, amplified responses of soil organic carbon to nitrogen addition worldwide, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony, 2021, Ecology
  • Soil depth and grassland origin cooperatively shape microbial community co-occurrence and function, 2020, Ecosphere
  • Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding, 2024, Nature Communications

Brian J. Wilsey frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • H. Wayne Polley
  • Xia Xu
  • Andrew D. Kaul
  • Forest Isbell
  • Nico Eisenhauer

Their publications are often found in established scientific journals, with multiple articles appearing in Ecosphere, Ecology, Global Change Biology, Restoration Ecology, and Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

    Forest Isbell;Vincent Calcagno;Andy Hector;John Connolly

  • Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

    Forest Isbell;Dylan Craven;John Connolly;Michael Loreau

  • Empirical Relationships between Species Richness, Evenness, and Proportional Diversity.

    Gray Stirling;Brian J. Wilsey

  • Biodiversity, productivity and the temporal stability of productivity: patterns and processes.

    Forest I. Isbell;H. Wayne Polley;Brian J. Wilsey

  • Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

    Dylan Craven;Nico Eisenhauer;William D. Pearse;Yann Hautier

  • BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: IMPORTANCE OF SPECIES EVENNESS IN AN OLD FIELD

    Brian J. Wilsey;Catherine Potvin

  • Relationships Among Indices Suggest that Richness Is an Incomplete Surrogate for Grassland Biodiversity

    Brian J. Wilsey;David R. Chalcraft;David R. Chalcraft;Christy M. Bowles;Michael R. Willig

  • Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

    Claire de Mazancourt;Claire de Mazancourt;Forest Isbell;Forest Isbell;Allen Larocque;Frank Berendse

  • An assessment of grassland restoration success using species diversity components

    Leanne M. Martin;Kirk A. Moloney;Brian J. Wilsey

  • Impacts of grazing by different large herbivores in grassland depend on plant species diversity

    Jun Liu;Chao Feng;Deli Wang;Ling Wang

  • Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

    Dylan Craven;Forest Isbell;Pete Manning;John Connolly

  • Patterns of Plant Species Diversity in Remnant and Restored Tallgrass Prairies

    H. Wayne Polley;Justin D. Derner;Brian J. Wilsey

  • Long-term, amplified responses of soil organic carbon to nitrogen addition worldwide.

    Chonghua Xu;Xia Xu;Chenghui Ju;Han Y. H. Chen

  • Fluctuating asymmmetry of birch leaves increases under pollution impact

    M. V. Kozlov;B. J. Wilsey;J. Koricheva;E. Haukioja

  • Biodiversity simultaneously enhances the production and stability of community biomass, but the effects are independent

    Bradley J. Cardinale;Kevin Gross;Keith Fritschie;Pedro Flombaum

  • Do species evenness and plant density influence the magnitude of selection and complementarity effects in annual plant species mixtures

    H. Wayne Polley;Brian J. Wilsey;Justin D. Derner

  • Dominant Species Constrain Effects of Species Diversity on Temporal Variability in Biomass Production of Tallgrass Prairie

    H. Wayne Polley;Brian J. Wilsey;Justin D. Derner

  • Crop Species Diversity Affects Productivity and Weed Suppression in Perennial Polycultures under Two Management Strategies

    Valentín D. Picasso;E. Charles Brummer;E. Charles Brummer;Matt Liebman;Philip M. Dixon

  • Species richness and evenness respond in a different manner to propagule density in developing prairie microcosm communities

    Brian Wilsey;Gray Stirling

  • Assessing grassland restoration success: relative roles of seed additions and native ungulate activities

    Leanne M. Martin;Brian J. Wilsey

  • Reductions in grassland species evenness increase dicot seedling invasion and spittle bug infestation

    Brian J. Wilsey;H. Wayne Polley

Frequent Co-Authors

H. Wayne Polley
H. Wayne Polley Agricultural Research Service
Forest Isbell
Forest Isbell University of Minnesota
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
David Tilman
David Tilman University of Minnesota
Kirsten S. Hofmockel
Kirsten S. Hofmockel Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Kirk A. Moloney
Kirk A. Moloney Iowa State University
Andy Hector
Andy Hector University of Oxford
Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University
Dylan Craven
Dylan Craven Universidad Mayor
Catherine Potvin
Catherine Potvin McGill University

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