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John D. Parker is affiliated with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Forest Management and Policy, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

John D. Parker has contributed to the following recent papers:

  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth, 2020, Nature
  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!, 2021, Conservation Letters
  • Foliar water uptake by coastal wetland plants: A novel water acquisition mechanism in arid and humid subtropical mangroves, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Variability in the fundamental versus realized niches of North American mangroves, 2020, Journal of Biogeography

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Ecosphere

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with John D. Parker are:

  • Jamie Pullen
  • Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
  • Kris Verheyen
  • Alain Paquette
  • Nico Eisenhauer

Best Publications

  • Opposing Effects of Native and Exotic Herbivores on Plant Invasions

    John D. Parker;Deron E. Burkepile;Mark E. Hay

  • Poleward expansion of mangroves is a threshold response to decreased frequency of extreme cold events

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;James R. Kellner;Alexander J. Forde;Daniel S. Gruner

  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

    Susan C. Cook-Patton;Susan C. Cook-Patton;Sara M. Leavitt;David Gibbs;Nancy L. Harris

  • Biotic resistance to plant invasions? Native herbivores prefer non‐native plants

    John D. Parker;Mark E. Hay

  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!

    Christian Messier;Christian Messier;Jürgen Bauhus;Rita Sousa-Silva;Harald Auge

  • Do invasive species perform better in their new ranges

    John D. Parker;Mark E. Torchin;Ruth A. Hufbauer;Nathan P. Lemoine

  • GRAZER DIVERSITY, FUNCTIONAL REDUNDANCY, AND PRODUCTIVITY IN SEAGRASS BEDS: AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST

    J. Emmett Duffy;Kenneth S. Macdonald;Jennifer M. Rhode;John D. Parker

  • Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations

    Kris Verheyen;Margot Vanhellemont;Harald Auge;Lander Baeten

  • Mutualisms and aquatic community structure: The enemy of my enemy is my friend

    Mark E. Hay;John D. Parker;Deron E. Burkepile;Christopher C. Caudill

  • Plant species diversity and composition: experimental effects on marine epifaunal assemblages

    John D. Parker;J. Emmett Duffy;Robert J. Orth

  • CHEMICALLY MEDIATED COMPETITION BETWEEN MICROBES AND ANIMALS: MICROBES AS CONSUMERS IN FOOD WEBS

    Deron E. Burkepile;John D. Parker;C. Brock Woodson;Heath J. Mills

  • Climate-driven regime shifts in a mangrove–salt marsh ecotone over the past 250 years

    Kyle C Cavanaugh;Emily M Dangremond;Cheryl L Doughty;A Park Williams

  • Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments

    Jake J. Grossman;Margot Vanhellemont;Nadia Barsoum;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Variable effects of temperature on insect herbivory

    Nathan P. Lemoine;Deron E. Burkepile;John D. Parker

  • Increased temperature alters feeding behavior of a generalist herbivore

    Nathan P. Lemoine;Willem A. Drews;Deron E. Burkepile;John D. Parker

  • Integrating physiological threshold experiments with climate modeling to project mangrove species’ range expansion

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;John D. Parker;Susan C. Cook-Patton;Ilka C. Feller

  • Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach

    David L. Erickson;Frank A. Jones;Frank A. Jones;Nathan G. Swenson;Nancai Pei

  • Beaver herbivory on aquatic plants

    John D. Parker;John D. Parker;Christopher C. Caudill;Christopher C. Caudill;Mark E. Hay

  • Quantifying the invasiveness of species

    Robert I. Colautti;John D. Parker;Marc W. Cadotte;Petr Pyšek

  • Novel Weapons Testing: Are Invasive Plants More Chemically Defended than Native Plants?

    Eric M. Lind;John D. Parker

  • Response to Comment on “Opposing Effects of Native and Exotic Herbivores on Plant Invasions”

    John D. Parker;Deron E. Burkepile;Mark E. Hay

  • STRUCTURE: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend

    Mark E. Hay;John D. Parker;Deron E. Burkepile;Christopher C. Caudill

Frequent Co-Authors

Deron E. Burkepile
Deron E. Burkepile University of California, Santa Barbara
Kyle C. Cavanaugh
Kyle C. Cavanaugh University of California, Los Angeles
Mark E. Hay
Mark E. Hay Georgia Institute of Technology
Ilka C. Feller
Ilka C. Feller Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Michael P. Perring
Michael P. Perring Ghent University
James R. Kellner
James R. Kellner Brown University
Hervé Jactel
Hervé Jactel University of Bordeaux
Juha-Pekka Salminen
Juha-Pekka Salminen University of Turku

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