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1532

Overview

Jason D. Fridley is affiliated with Clemson University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, contributing to a significant number of publications within these domains.

The main subfields covered in their work include Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science. Their research topics focus on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, and Forest Management and Policy.

Frequent coauthors in Jason D. Fridley's work include:

  • Douglas A. Frank
  • Jordan R. Stark
  • Insu Jo
  • Robert J. Griffin-Nolan
  • Julie LeVonne

Their research has been published predominantly in venues such as Biological Invasions, Journal of Ecology, UNC Libraries, Ecology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Jason D. Fridley include:

  • "Microclimate-based species distribution models in complex forested terrain indicate widespread cryptic refugia under climate change" (2022), published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Naturalised plants transform the composition and function of the New Zealand flora" (2020), published in Biological Invasions
  • "A general hypothesis of forest invasions by woody plants based on whole-plant carbon economics" (2022), published in Journal of Ecology
  • "Friend or foe? The role of biotic agents in drought-induced plant mortality" (2021), published in Plant Ecology
  • "Fast but steady: An integrated leaf-stem-root trait syndrome for woody forest invaders" (2022), published in Ecology Letters

Best Publications

  • The invasion paradox: reconciling pattern and process in species invasions.

    J. D. Fridley;J. J. Stachowicz;S. Naeem;D. F. Sax

  • Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Jason Pither;Anke Jentsch;Marcelo Sternberg

  • No Consistent Effect of Plant Diversity on Productivity

    M. A. Huston;L. W. Aarssen;M. P. Austin;B. S. Cade

  • The influence of species diversity on ecosystem productivity: how, where, and why?

    Jason D. Fridley

  • Extended leaf phenology and the autumn niche in deciduous forest invasions

    Jason D. Fridley

  • Long-term resistance to simulated climate change in an infertile grassland

    J. Philip Grime;Jason D. Fridley;Andrew P. Askew;Ken Thompson

  • Resource availability dominates and alters the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem productivity in experimental plant communities.

    Jason D. Fridley

  • Downscaling Climate over Complex Terrain: High Finescale (<1000 m) Spatial Variation of Near-Ground Temperatures in a Montane Forested Landscape (Great Smoky Mountains)*

    Jason D. Fridley

  • Is successional research nearing its climax? New approaches for understanding dynamic communities

    Scott J. Meiners;Marc W. Cadotte;Jason D. Fridley;Steward T. A. Pickett

  • Community and ecosystem effects of intraspecific genetic diversity in grassland microcosms of varying species diversity

    Jason D. Fridley;Jason D. Fridley;J. Philip Grime

  • NULL MODELS OF EXOTIC INVASION AND SCALE‐DEPENDENT PATTERNS OF NATIVE AND EXOTIC SPECIES RICHNESS

    Jason D. Fridley;Rebecca L. Brown;Rebecca L. Brown;John Fe Bruno

  • Co-occurrence based assessment of habitat generalists and specialists: a new approach for the measurement of niche width

    Jason D. Fridley;David B. Vandermast;Dane M. Kuppinger;Michael Manthey

  • Tree diversity promotes insect herbivory in subtropical forests of south-east China

    Andreas Schuldt;Martin Baruffol;Martin Böhnke;Helge Bruelheide

  • Diversity effects on production in different light and fertility environments: an experiment with communities of annual plants

    Jason D. Fridley

  • Genetic identity of interspecific neighbours mediates plant responses to competition and environmental variation in a species‐rich grassland

    Jason D. Fridley;Jason D. Fridley;J. Philip Grime;Mark Bilton

  • Resource-use strategies of native and invasive plants in Eastern North American forests

    J. Mason Heberling;Jason D. Fridley

  • Soil heterogeneity buffers community response to climate change in species-rich grassland

    Jason D. Fridley;J. Philip Grime;Andrew P. Askew;Barbara Moser

  • Scale dependence of vegetation–environment relationships: a meta-analysis of multivariate data

    Andrew Siefert;Catherine Ravenscroft;David Althoff;Juan C. Alvarez-Yépiz

  • CONNECTING FINE‐ AND BROAD‐SCALE SPECIES–AREA RELATIONSHIPS OF SOUTHEASTERN U.S. FLORA

    Jason D. Fridley;Robert K. Peet;Thomas R. Wentworth;Peter S. White

  • The imbalance of nature: revisiting a Darwinian framework for invasion biology

    Jason D. Fridley;Dov F. Sax

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas A. Frank
Douglas A. Frank Syracuse University
Robert K. Peet
Robert K. Peet University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J. Bastow Wilson
J. Bastow Wilson University of Otago
Carl Beierkuhnlein
Carl Beierkuhnlein University of Bayreuth
Bryan L. Foster
Bryan L. Foster University of Kansas
Anke Jentsch
Anke Jentsch University of Bayreuth
Gerhard E. Overbeck
Gerhard E. Overbeck Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
J. P. Grime
J. P. Grime University of Sheffield
Marcelo Cabido
Marcelo Cabido National Scientific and Technical Research Council
James F. Cahill
James F. Cahill University of Alberta

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