Poaceae

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparative study of the non-acidic chemically mediated antifoulant properties of three sympatric species of ascidians associated with seagrass habitats. 
  • A host plant genome (Zizania latifolia) after a century-long endophyte infection. 
  • A keystone mutualism underpins resilience of a coastal ecosystem to drought. 
  • A large invasive consumer reduces coastal ecosystem resilience by disabling positive species interactions. 
  • A test of the niche dimension hypothesis in an arid annual grassland. 
  • A trophic cascade regulates salt marsh primary production. 
  • Abiotic stress mediates top-down and bottom-up control in a Southwestern Atlantic salt marsh. 
  • Alterations of endophytic microbial community function in Spartina alterniflora as a result of crude oil exposure. 
  • Amount or pattern? Grassland responses to the heterogeneity and availability of two key resources. 
  • Analyses on mutation patterns, detection of population bottlenecks, and suggestion of deleterious-compensatory evolution among members of the genus Potyvirus. 
  • Biological diversity. Species: would any of them be missed? 
  • Biomass responses to elevated CO2, soil heterogeneity and diversity: an experimental assessment with grassland assemblages 
  • Brachypodium as a model for the grasses: Today and the future 
  • CO₂ enrichment and soil type additively regulate grassland productivity. 
  • Carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange in a warm temperate grassland. 
  • Characterization of a major cluster of nif, fix, and associated genes in a sugarcane endophyte, Acetobacter diazotrophicus. 
  • Climate and lawn management interact to control C4 plant distribution in residential lawns across seven U.S. cities. 
  • Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning. 
  • Crab herbivory regulates plant facilitative and competitive processes in Argentinean marshes. 
  • Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP-Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 
  • Drought, snails, and large-scale die-off of southern U.S. salt marshes. 
  • Ecosystem engineers activate mycorrhizal mutualism in salt marshes. 
  • Facilitation cascade drives positive relationship between native biodiversity and invasion success. 
  • Field Experiments and Meta-analysis Reveal Wetland Vegetation as a Crucial Element in the Coastal Protection Paradigm. 
  • Fire cycles in North American interior grasslands and their relation to prairie drought. 
  • Foundation species' overlap enhances biodiversity and multifunctionality from the patch to landscape scale in southeastern United States salt marshes. 
  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. 
  • Hierarchical organization via a facilitation cascade in intertidal cordgrass bed communities. 
  • Host physiological phenotype explains pathogen reservoir potential. 
  • Improved resolution of major clades within Tuber and taxonomy of species within the Tuber gibbosum complex. 
  • Life in science: seeds of doubt. 
  • Mechanistic analytical models for long-distance seed dispersal by wind. 
  • Parasites enhance resistance to drought in a coastal ecosystem. 
  • Patch size-dependent community recovery after massive disturbance. 
  • Plant-soil feedbacks: a comparative study on the relative importance of soil feedbacks in the greenhouse versus the field. 
  • Predator diversity stabilizes and strengthens trophic control of a keystone grazer. 
  • Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? 
  • Role of sugars and organic acids in regulating the concentration and activity of the alternative oxidase in Poa annua roots. 
  • Scale-dependent biogeomorphic feedbacks control the tidal marsh evolution under Spartina alterniflora invasion. 
  • Scale-dependent interactions and community structure on cobble beaches. 
  • Soil nutrient heterogeneity interacts with elevated CO2 and nutrient availability species to determine species and assemblage responses in model grassland community 
  • Supporting Spartina: Interdisciplinary perspective shows Spartina as a distinct solid genus. 
  • The effects of household management practices on the global warming potential of urban lawns. 
  • The importance of an underestimated grazer under climate change: how crab density, consumer competition, and physical stress affect salt marsh resilience. 
  • The structure of turbulence near a tall forest edge: the backward-facing step flow analogy revisited. 
  • Top-down control of foundation species recovery during coastal wetland restoration. 
  • Variation in Plant Response to Herbivory Underscored by Functional Traits.