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5581
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6863
National Ranking
2307

Overview

Lisa J. Rew is affiliated with Montana State University in the United States. Their research focuses broadly on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with notable contributions to subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, and ecological modeling.

Their scientific work addresses several key topics: ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, rangeland and wildlife management, species distribution and climate change, plant and animal studies, lichen and fungal ecology, turfgrass adaptation and management, and weed control and herbicide applications.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lisa J. Rew include Jane M. Mangold, Christian D. Larson, Aníbal Pauchard, Sylvia Haider, and Agustina Barros.

Their publications span various journals, with multiple papers appearing in Ecology and Evolution, Regional Environmental Change, Invasive Plant Science and Management, Rangeland Ecology & Management, and Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Significant recent publications include:

  • Moving up and over: redistribution of plants in alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic ecosystems under global change, 2020, Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research
  • Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients, 2022, Ecology and Evolution
  • Rapid upwards spread of non-native plants in mountains across continents, 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Future distribution of invasive weed species across the major road network in the state of Montana, USA, 2020, Regional Environmental Change

Best Publications

  • Ain't no mountain high enough: plant invasions reaching new elevations

    Aníbal Pauchard;Christoph Kueffer;Hansjörg Dietz;Curtis C Daehler

  • Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change

    Jake M. Alexander;Jake M. Alexander;Loïc Chalmandrier;Jonathan Lenoir;Treena I. Burgess

  • Assembly of nonnative floras along elevational gradients explained by directional ecological filtering

    Jake M. Alexander;Christoph Kueffer;Curtis C. Daehler;Peter J. Edwards

  • Plant invasions into mountains and alpine ecosystems: current status and future challenges

    Jake M. Alexander;Jake M. Alexander;Jonas J. Lembrechts;Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Curtis Daehler

  • Non-native and native organisms moving into high elevation and high latitude ecosystems in an era of climate change : new challenges for ecology and conservation

    Aníbal Pauchard;Ann Milbau;Ann Milbau;Ann Albihn;Ann Albihn;Jake Alexander

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Spatial distribution of weeds in arable crops: are current sampling and analytical methods appropriate?

    L J Rew;R D Cousens

  • Processes at multiple scales affect richness and similarity of non‐native plant species in mountains around the world

    Tim Seipel;Tim Seipel;Christoph Kueffer;Christoph Kueffer;Lisa J. Rew;Curtis C. Daehler

  • Human-mediated long-distance dispersal: an empirical evaluation of seed dispersal by vehicles

    Kimberley Taylor;Tyler Brummer;Mark L. Taper;Mark L. Taper;Alexandre Wing

  • Natural and land-use history of the Northwest mountain ecoregions (USA) in relation to patterns of plant invasions

    Catherine G. Parks;Steven R. Radosevich;Bryan A. Endress;Bridgett J. Naylor

  • Mountain roads shift native and non-native plant species' ranges

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Jake M. Alexander;Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Sylvia Haider;Sylvia Haider

  • Ecological Effects of Railways on Wildlife

    Benjamin Dorsey;Mattias Olsson;Lisa J. Rew

  • Plant invasion at landscape and local scales along roadways in the mountainous region of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

    Fredric Pollnac;Tim Seipel;Charles Repath;Lisa J. Rew

  • Running off the road: roadside non-native plants invading mountain vegetation

    Keith L. McDougall;Keith L. McDougall;Jonas Lembrechts;Lisa J. Rew;Sylvia Haider

  • Mountain roads and non-native species modify elevational patterns of plant diversity

    Sylvia Haider;Christoph Kueffer;Helge Bruelheide;Tim Seipel

  • Rapid upwards spread of non-native plants in mountains across continents

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  • Dispersal of Bromus sterilis and Anthriscus sylvestris seed within arable field margins

    L.J. Rew;R.J. Froud-Williams;N.D. Boatman

  • Predicting the occurrence of nonindigenous species using environmental and remotely sensed data

    Lisa J. Rew;Bruce D. Maxwell;Richard Aspinall

  • Lessons from agriculture may improve the management of invasive plants in wildland systems

    Richard G. Smith;Bruce D. Maxwell;Fabián D. Menalled;Lisa J. Rew

  • The Rationale for Monitoring Invasive Plant Populations as a Crucial Step for Management

    Bruce D. Maxwell;Erik Lehnhoff;Lisa J. Rew

  • Ecological tradeoffs in non-native plant management

    Tanya C. Skurski;Bruce D. Maxwell;Lisa J. Rew

  • dispersal: an empirical evaluation of seed dispersal by vehicles

    Kimberley Taylor;Tyler Brummer;Mark L. Taper;Alexandre Wing

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce D. Maxwell
Bruce D. Maxwell Montana State University
Aníbal Pauchard
Aníbal Pauchard University of Concepción
Sylvia Haider
Sylvia Haider Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Ann Milbau
Ann Milbau Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Martin A. Nuñez
Martin A. Nuñez University of Houston
Curtis C. Daehler
Curtis C. Daehler University of Hawaii at Manoa
Lohengrin A. Cavieres
Lohengrin A. Cavieres University of Concepción
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna

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