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35
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4510
World Ranking
7405
National Ranking
2487

Overview

S. Luke Flory is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a substantial number of publications in these fields.

Their research delves into various subfields, including:

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

The main topics addressed in their studies encompass:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Among recent notable papers authored or co-authored by S. Luke Flory are:

  • "Global guidelines for the sustainable use of non-native trees to prevent tree invasions and mitigate their negative impacts," 2020, NeoBiota
  • "Urban evolution of invasive species," 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Plant communities mediate the interactive effects of invasion and drought on soil microbial communities," 2020, The ISME Journal
  • "Keys to enhancing the value of invasion ecology research for management," 2020, Biological Invasions
  • "Soil microbes alter competition between native and invasive plants," 2021, Journal of Ecology

S. Luke Flory frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Amy E. Kendig
  • Susan Canavan
  • Deah Lieurance
  • Tabitha Petri
  • Ashish Adhikari

Their work is regularly published in multiple scientific venues, notably:

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

Best Publications

  • Grazing enhances belowground carbon allocation, microbial biomass, and soil carbon in a subtropical grassland.

    Chris H. Wilson;Michael S. Strickland;Jack A. Hutchings;Thomas S. Bianchi

  • Pathogen accumulation and long-term dynamics of plant invasions

    S. Luke Flory;Keith Clay

  • Invasive plant removal method determines native plant community responses

    S. Luke Flory;Keith Clay

  • Invasive shrub distribution varies with distance to roads and stand age in eastern deciduous forests in Indiana, USA

    S. Luke Flory;Keith Clay

  • Non-native grass invasion alters native plant composition in experimental communities

    S. Luke Flory;Keith Clay

  • Non-native grass invasion suppresses forest succession

    S. Luke Flory;Keith Clay

  • Experimental plant invasion reduces arthropod abundance and richness across multiple trophic levels

    M. Carolina M. Simao;S. Luke Flory;Jennifer A. Rudgers

  • Effects of roads and forest successional age on experimental plant invasions

    S. Luke Flory;Keith Clay

  • Global guidelines for the sustainable use of non-native trees to prevent tree invasions and mitigate their negative impacts

    Giuseppe Brundu;Aníbal Pauchard;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Jan Pergl

  • Emergence and accumulation of novel pathogens suppress an invasive species

    Kerry Bohl Stricker;Philip F. Harmon;Erica M. Goss;Keith Clay

  • Experimental evidence for indirect facilitation among invasive plants

    S. Luke Flory;Jonathan T. Bauer

  • Urban evolution of invasive species

    Jesse B Borden;S Luke Flory

  • Positive feedbacks to growth of an invasive grass through alteration of nitrogen cycling

    Marissa R. Lee;Marissa R. Lee;S. Luke Flory;S. Luke Flory;Richard P. Phillips

  • Management of Microstegium vimineum Invasions and Recovery of Resident Plant Communities

    S. Luke Flory

  • Plant communities mediate the interactive effects of invasion and drought on soil microbial communities.

    Catherine Fahey;Akihiro Koyama;Pedro M. Antunes;Kari Dunfield

  • Improving methods to evaluate the impacts of plant invasions: lessons from 40 years of research.

    Kerry Bohl Stricker;Donald Hagan;S. Luke Flory

  • Exotic Grass Invasion Reduces Survival of Amblyomma americanum and Dermacentor variabilis Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

    David J. Civitello;S. Luke Flory;Keith Clay

  • Competitive context alters plant-soil feedback in an experimental woodland community.

    Sarah Shannon;S. Luke Flory;S. Luke Flory;Heather Reynolds

  • Variation for phenotypic plasticity among populations of an invasive exotic grass

    Tyler Droste;S. Luke Flory;Keith Clay

  • Invasive Microstegium populations consistently outperform native range populations across diverse environments

    S. Luke Flory;Furong Long;Keith Clay

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Clay
Keith Clay Tulane University
Doria R. Gordon
Doria R. Gordon University of Florida
Richard P. Phillips
Richard P. Phillips Indiana University
Jennifer A. Rudgers
Jennifer A. Rudgers University of New Mexico
Lynn E. Sollenberger
Lynn E. Sollenberger University of Florida
Robert D. Holt
Robert D. Holt University of Florida
Bette A. Loiselle
Bette A. Loiselle University of Florida
Justin P. Wright
Justin P. Wright Duke University
Carla M. D'Antonio
Carla M. D'Antonio University of California, Santa Barbara
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences

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