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Overview

Lars A. Brudvig is a researcher affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on nature conservation and ecological dynamics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these areas, they specialize in subfields such as:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science

The central topics of their research encompass:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Restoration Ecology
  • Ecology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Ecological Applications
  • Nature Communications

Brudvig's recent notable papers include:

  • "The present and future of grassland restoration," 2021, Restoration Ecology
  • "General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Terrestrial ecosystem restoration increases biodiversity and reduces its variability, but not to reference levels: A global meta-analysis," 2022, Ecology Letters
  • "Agricultural land-use history and restoration impact soil microbial biodiversity," 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • "Trait-environment interactions affect plant establishment success during restoration," 2020, Ecology

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Yann Hautier
  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Carly J. Stevens
  • Carlos Alberto Arnillas

Best Publications

  • Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems

    Nick M. Haddad;Lars A. Brudvig;Jean Clobert;Kendi F. Davies

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • The restoration of biodiversity: Where has research been and where does it need to go?

    Lars A. Brudvig

  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

    Yann Hautier;Forest Isbell;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Experimental evidence does not support the Habitat Amount Hypothesis

    Nick M. Haddad;Andrew Gonzalez;Lars A. Brudvig;Melissa A. Burt

  • Landscape connectivity promotes plant biodiversity spillover into non-target habitats

    Lars A. Brudvig;Ellen I. Damschen;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Nick M. Haddad

  • Plant functional traits and environmental conditions shape community assembly and ecosystem functioning during restoration

    Chad R. Zirbel;Tyler Bassett;Emily Grman;Emily Grman;Lars A. Brudvig

  • Interpreting variation to advance predictive restoration science

    Lars A. Brudvig;Rebecca S. Barak;Jonathan T. Bauer;T. Trevor Caughlin

  • The movement ecology and dynamics of plant communities in fragmented landscapes

    Ellen I. Damschen;Lars A. Brudvig;Nick M. Haddad;Douglas J. Levey

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • The present and future of grassland restoration

    Péter Török;Lars A. Brudvig;Johannes Kollmann;Jodi N. Price

  • How fragmentation and corridors affect wind dynamics and seed dispersal in open habitats

    Ellen I. Damschen;Dirk V. Baker;Gil Bohrer;Ran Nathan

  • EDITOR'S CHOICE: Confronting contingency in restoration: management and site history determine outcomes of assembling prairies, but site characteristics and landscape context have little effect

    Emily Grman;Tyler Bassett;Lars A. Brudvig

  • Ongoing accumulation of plant diversity through habitat connectivity in an 18-year experiment.

    Ellen I. Damschen;Lars A. Brudvig;Melissa A. Burt;Robert J. Fletcher

  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

    Yann Hautier;Pengfei Zhang;Michel Loreau;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • Potential Negative Ecological Effects of Corridors

    Nick M. Haddad;Lars A. Brudvig;Ellen I. Damschen;Daniel M. Evans

  • Terrestrial ecosystem restoration increases biodiversity and reduces its variability, but not to reference levels: A global meta‐analysis

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  • Strong legacy of agricultural land use on soils and understory plant communities in longleaf pine woodlands

    Lars A. Brudvig;Emily Grman;Christopher W. Habeck;John L. Orrock

  • Land-use history, historical connectivity, and land management interact to determine longleaf pine woodland understory richness and composition

    Lars A. Brudvig;Ellen I. Damschen

  • Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: Is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Landscape corridors can increase invasion by an exotic species and reduce diversity of native species.

    Julian Resasco;Nick M. Haddad;John L. Orrock;DeWayne Shoemaker

  • Dispersal and establishment filters influence the assembly of restored prairie plant communities

    Emily Grman;Emily Grman;Tyler Bassett;Chad R. Zirbel;Lars A. Brudvig

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen I. Damschen
Ellen I. Damschen University of Wisconsin–Madison
John L. Orrock
John L. Orrock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Douglas J. Levey
Douglas J. Levey National Science Foundation
Nick M. Haddad
Nick M. Haddad Michigan State University
Joshua J. Tewksbury
Joshua J. Tewksbury University of Colorado Boulder
Heidi Asbjornsen
Heidi Asbjornsen University of New Hampshire
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky

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