Publications
Publications
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Pre-Prints
Magda Garbowski, Gustavo Paterno, Anna Abrahão, Joe Atkinson, Annalena Mauz, Laura Méndez, Ana Carolina Cardoso de Oliveira, Rajat Rastogi, Kimberley Thompson, Patrick Weigelt, Emma Ladouceur. Integrating functional and phylogenetic dimensions of biodiversity into ecological restoration. Authorea <link>
Alistair G Auffret*, Emma Ladouceur* (*joint-first authors), Natalie S Haussmann, Petr Keil, Eirini Daouti, Tatiana G Elumeeva, Ineta Kačergytė, Jonas Knape, Dorota Kotowska, Matthew Low, Vladimir G Onipchenko, Matthieu Paquet, Diana Rubene, Jan Plue. Divergent patterns of richness & density in the global soil seed bank. BioRxiv <link>
Peer Reviewed
2026
Xiao-Ru Zhang, Guo-Jiao Yang, Liang-Chao Jiang, Xiao-Jing Zhang, Xiao-Sa Liang, Cong Ding, Yu Ning, Alemayehu Adugna, Emma Ladouceur, Xing-Guo Han, Xiao-Tao Lü. Decadal increases in grassland biomass production from chronic N additions are eliminated by annual hay cutting. New Phytologist. <link>
2025
Emma Ladouceur, Michael Wohlwend, Michele R Schutzenhofer, Jonathan M Chase, Tiffany M Knight. Invasion timing affects multiple scales, metrics, and facets of biodiversity outcomes in ecological restoration experiments. Ecological Applications <link> <code>
Benjamin Wildermuth, Maximilian Bröcher, Emma Ladouceur, Sebastian T. Meyer, Holger Schielzeth, Michael Staab, Rafael Achury, Nico Blüthgen, Lionel Hertzog, Jes Hines, Christiane Roscher, Oliver Schweiger, Wolfgang W. Weisser & Anne Ebeling. Arthropod species loss underpins biomass declines. Nature Ecology & Evolution <link>
Will Glenny, Jose B. Lanuza, Demetra Rakosy, Emma Ladouceur, Yuping Zhong, Tiffany M. Knight. Flowers for habitat enhancement primarily benefit common insect pollinators across temperate grasslands. Journal of Applied Ecology <link>
Mink Verschoor, Yann Hautier, George Kowalchuk, Marijke Kuijk, Emma Ladouceur, Ralph Temmink, Alexandra Wright, Kathryn Barry. Applying complementarity in ecological restoration. Trends in Ecology & Evolution <link>
Veronika Ceballos-Nuñez, Christian Wirth, Adam T. Clark, Michael Crawford, Caroline Farrior, Jess Hines, Jens Kattge, Emma Ladouceur, Jeremy Lichstein, Isabelle Maréchaux, Akira Mori, Björn Reineking, Lindsay Turnbull, Katie Barry, and Nadja Rüger. How size and resource traits control species’ biomass in monoculture and mixture and drive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Oikos <link>
Qingqing Chen, Shane A Blowes, W Stanley Harpole, Emma Ladouceur, Elizabeth T Borer, Andrew MacDougall, Jason P Martina, Jonathan D Bakker, Pedro M Tognetti, Eric W Seabloom, Pedro Daleo, Sally Power, Christiane Roscher, Peter B Adler, Ian Donohue, George Wheeler, Carly Stevens, GF Veen, Anita C Risch, Glenda M Wardle, Yann Hautier, Catalina Estrada, Erika Hersch-Green, Yujie Niu, Pablo L Peri, Anu Eskelinen, Daniel S Gruner, Harry Olde Venterink, Carla D’Antonio, Marc W Cadotte, Sylvia Haider, Nico Eisenhauer, Jane Catford, Risto Virtanen, John W Morgan, Michelle Tedder, Sumanta Bagchi, Maria C Caldeira, Miguel N Bugalho, Johannes MH Knops, Chris R Dickman, Nicole Hagenah, Anke Jentsch, Petr Macek, Brooke B Osborne, Lauri Laanisto, Jonathan M Chase. Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands. Nature Communications <link>
Guy Pe'er, Jana Kachler, Irina Herzon, Daniel Hering, Anni Arponen, Laura Bosco, Helge Bruelheide, Elizabeth A. Finch, Martin Friedrichs-Manthey, Gregor Hagedorn, Bernd Hansjürgens, Emma Ladouceur, Sebastian Lakner, Camino Liquete, Laura López-Hoffman, Isabel Sousa Pinto, Marine Robuchon, Nuria Selva, Josef Settele, Clélia Sirami, Nicole M. van Dam, Heidi Wittmer, Aletta Bonn. Role of science and scientists in public environmental policy debates: The case of EU agrochemical and Nature Restoration Regulations. People and Nature. <link>
Oksana Buzhdygan, Selina Baldauf, Dariia Borovyk, Denys Vynokurov, Emma Ladouceur, Olha Chusova, Svitlana Iemelianova, Vasyl Budzhak, Britta Tietjen, Olga Bezrodnova, Olesya Bezsmertna, Illya Chorney, Iwona Dembicz, Jürgen Dengler, Yakiv Didukh, Monika Janišová, Oleksandr Khodosovtsev, Oksana Kucher, Ivan Moysiyenko, Alla Tokariuk, Iuliia Vasheniak, Olena Yavorska, Jonathan Chase, Anna Kuzemko. Scale‐Dependent Effects of Plant Diversity Drivers Across Different Grassland Habitats in Ukraine. Ecology & Evolution <link>
2024
Alistair G Auffret, Emma Ladouceur, Natalie S Haussmann, Eirini Daouti, Tatiana G Elumeeva, Ineta Kačergytė, Jonas Knape, Dorota Kotowska, Matthew Low, Vladimir G Onipchenko, Matthieu Paquet, Diana Rubene, Jan Plue. A global database of soil seed bank richness, density, and abundance. Ecology. <link>
James T Stroud, Benjamin M Delory, Elle M Barnes, Jonathan M Chase, Luc De Meester, Julia Dieskau, Tess N Grainger, Fletcher W Halliday, Paul Kardol, Tiffany M Knight, Emma Ladouceur, Chelsea J Little, Christiane Roscher, Judith M Sarneel, Vicky M Temperton, Tamara LH van Steijn, Chhaya M Werner, Corlette W Wood, Tadashi Fukami. Priority effects transcend scales and disciplines in biology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution <link>
Daniel E. Winkler, Magda Garbowski, Kevin Kožić, Emma Ladouceur, Julie Larson, Sarah Martin, Christoph Rosche, Christiane Roscher, Mandy L. Slate, Lotte Korell. Facilitating comparable research in seedling functional ecology. Methods in Ecology & Evolution <link>
Saneesh Cherapurath Soman, Paradesi Anjaneyulu, Anil Kumar, Himani Sharma, Emma Ladouceur, Tiffany M. Knight. Enhancing ecosystem Services through collaborative grass removal and fire exclusion in the Eastern Ghats. Biotropica <link>
2023
Emma Ladouceur, Forest Isbell, Adam T. Clark, W. Stanley Harpole, Peter B. Reich, G. David Tilman, Jonathan M. Chase. The recovery of plant community composition following passive restoration across spatial scales. Journal of Ecology <link> <code> <blog> <press release>
Featured by the European Commission's "Energy, Climate Change, and News" Blog: <link>
Diana Bertuol Garcia, Emma Ladouceur, Lars A. Brudvig, Daniel Charles Laughlin, Seth M. Munson; Michael F Curran; Kirk W Davies; Lauren N Svejcar, Nancy Shackelford. Testing the hierarchy of predictability in grassland restoration across a gradient of environmental severity. Ecological Applications <link>
Magda Garbowski, Elizabeth Boughton, Anne Ebeling, Philip Fay, Yann Hautier, Hanna Holz, Anke Jentsch, Stephanie D. Jurburg, Emma Ladouceur, Jason Martina, Timothy Ohlert, Xavier Raynaud, Christiane Roscher, Gregory Sonnier, Pedro Maximiliano Tognetti, Laura Yahdjian, Peter Wilfahrt, W. Stanley Harpole. Nutrient enrichment alters seasonal β-diversity in global grasslands. Journal of Ecology <link> <video>
Lauren M. Hallett, Lina Aoyama, György Barabás, Benjamin Gilbert, Loralee Larios, Nancy Shackelford, Chhaya M. Werner, Oscar Godoy, Emma R. Ladouceur, Jacob E Lucero, Christopher P. Weiss-Lehman, Jonathan M. Chase, Chengjin Chu, W. Stanley Harpole, Margaret M. Mayfield, Akasha M. Faist, Lauren G. Shoemaker. Restoration ecology through the lens of coexistence theory. Trends in Ecology & Evolution <link>
Daniel Slodowicz, Aure Durbecq, Emma Ladouceur, Rene Eschen, Jean-Yves Humbert, Raphael Arlettaz. The relative effectiveness of different grassland restoration methods: a systematic literature search and meta-analysis. Ecological Solutions and Evidence <link>
2022
Emma Ladouceur, Shane A. Blowes, Jonathan M. Chase, Adam T. Clark, Magda Garbowski, Juan Alberti, Carlos Arnillas, Jonathan Bakker, Isabel C. Barrio, Siddharth Bharath, Elizabeth Borer, Lars Brudvig, Marc Cadotte, Q. Q. Chen, Scott Collins, Christopher Dickman, Ian Donohue, Guo-Zhen Du, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, Philip Fay, Nicole Hagenah, Yann Hautier, Anke Jentsch, Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir, Kimberly Komatsu, Andrew MacDougall, Jason Martina, Joslin Moore, John Morgan, Pablo Peri, Sally A Power, Zhengwei Ren, Anita Risch, Christiane Roscher, Max Schuchardt, Eric Seabloom, Carly Stevens, Ciska Veen, Risto Virtanen, Glenda Wardle, Peter Wilfahrt, W. Stanley Harpole. Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment. Ecology Letters <link> <code>
Emma Ladouceur, Nancy Shackelford, Karma Bouazza, Lars Brudvig, Anna Bucharova, Timo Conradi, Todd E. Erickson, Magda Garbowski, Kelly Garvy, W. Stanley Harpole, Holly P. Jones, Tiffany Knight, Mlungele M. Nsikani, Gustavo Paterno, Katharine Suding, Vicky M. Temperton, Péter Török, Daniel E. Winkler, Jonathan M. Chase. Knowledge sharing for shared success in the decade on ecosystem restoration. Ecological Solutions and Evidence <link> <blog>
Andrew Muehleisen, Carmen Ebel, Gabriella Altmire, Ashley Shaw, Madelon Case, Lina Aoyama, Alejandro Brambila, Paul Reed, Marina LaForgia, Elizabeth Borer, Eric Seabloom, Jonathan Bakker, Carlos Arnillas, Lori Biederman, Q. Chen, Elsa Cleland, Philip Fay, Nicole Hagenah, Stanley Harpole, Yann Hautier, Jeremiah Henning, Johannes Jean M H Knops, Kimberly Komatsu, Andrew MacDougall, Emma Ladouceur, Rebecca McCulley, Joslin Moore, Tim Ohlert, Sally Power, Carly Stevens, Peter Wilfhart, Lauren Hallett. Nutrient addition drives declines in grassland species richness primarily via enhanced species loss. Journal of Ecology <link>
Rebecca Spake, Paola Barajas-Barbosa, Shane A. Blowes, Diana Bowler, Corey T. Callaghan, Magda Garbowski, Stephanie Jurburg, Lotte Korrell, Emma Ladouceur, Roberto Rozzi, Roel van Klink, Duarte Viana, Wubing Xu, Jonathan M. Chase. Detecting thresholds of ecological changes in the Anthropocene: challenges and opportunities. Annual Review of Environment and Resources <link>
Josiane Segar, Corey T. Callaghan, Emma Ladouceur, Jasper N. Meya, Henrique M. Pereira, Andrea Perino, Ingmar Staude. Urban conservation gardening in the decade of restoration. Nature Sustainability <link>
Lina Aoyama, Lauren Shoemaker, Benjamin Gilbert, Sharon Collinge, Akasha Faist, Nancy Shackelford, Vicky Temperton, Gyorgy Barabas, Loralee Larios, Emma Ladouceur, Oscar Godoy, Catherine Bowler, Lauren Hallett. Application of modern coexistence theory to rare plant restoration provides early indication of restoration trajectories. Ecological Applications <link>
Christopher P. Weiss-Lehman, Chhaya M. Werner, Catherine H. Bowler, Lauren M. Hallett, Margaret M. Mayfield, Oscar Godoy, Lina Aoyama, György Barabás, Chengjin Chu, Emma Ladouceur, Loralee Larios, Lauren G. Shoemaker. Disentangling key species interactions in diverse and heterogeneous communities: A Bayesian sparse modeling approach. Ecology Letters <link>
2021
Emma Ladouceur, Jennifer McGowan, Patrick Huber, Hugh Possingham, Davide Scridel, Roel van Klink, Peter Poschlod, J. Hans C. Cornelissen, Costantino Bonomi, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro. An objective-based prioritization approach to support trophic complexity through ecological restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology <link> <code>
Rémy Beugnon, Emma Ladouceur, Marie Sünnemann, Simone Cesarz, Nico Eisenhauer. Diverse forests are cool: Promoting diverse forests to mitigate carbon emissions and climate change. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment <link>
Michael S. Crawford, Kathryn E. Barry, Adam T. Clark, Caroline E. Farrior, Jes Hines, Emma Ladouceur, Jeremy W. Lichstein, Isabelle Maréchaux, Felix May, Akira S. Mori, Björn Reineking, Lindsay A. Turnbull, Christian Wirth & Nadja Rüger. The function-dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity- ecosystem functioning relationships. Ecology Letters <link>
2020
Emma Ladouceur, W. Stanley Harpole, Shane A. Blowes, Christiane Roscher, Harald Auge, Eric W. Seabloom, Jonathan M. Chase. Reducing dispersal limitation via seed addition increases species richness but not above‐ground biomass. Ecology Letters <link> <code>
Emma Ladouceur & Nancy Shackelford. The power of data synthesis to shape the future of the restoration community and capacity. Restoration Ecology <link>
Jonathan M. Chase, Alienor Jeliazkov, Emma Ladouceur, Duarte S. Viana. Biodiversity conservation through the lens of metacommunity ecology. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences <link>
2019
Emma Ladouceur, Costantino Bonomi, Helge Bruelheide, Jitka Klimešová, Pietro Iannetta, Maria Tudela-Isanta, Andrea Mondoni, Peter Poschlod, Bernard Amiaud, Sabina Burrascano, Bruno E. L. Cerabolini, J. Hans C. Cornelissen, Joseph Craine, Frédérique Louault, Vanessa Minden, Kinga Öllerer, Vladimir Onipchenko, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro. The functional trait spectrum of European temperate grasslands. Journal of Vegetation Science. <link>
Jennifer Firn, James M. McGree, Eric Harvey, Habacuc Flores-Moreno, Martin Schütz, Yvonne M. Buckley, Elizabeth T. Borer , Eric W. Seabloom , Kimberly J. La Pierre, Andrew M. MacDougall, Suzanne M. Prober, Carly J. Stevens, Lauren L. Sullivan, Erica Porter, Emma Ladouceur, Charlotte Allen, Karine H. Moromizato, John W. Morgan, W. Stanley Harpole, Yann Hautier, Nico Eisenhauer, Justin P. Wright, Peter B. Adler, Carlos Alberto Arnillas, Jonathan D. Bakker, Lori Biederman, Arthur A. D. Broadbent, Cynthia S. Brown, Miguel N. Bugalho, Maria C. Caldeira, Elsa E. Cleland, Anne Ebeling, Philip A. Fay, Nicole Hagenah, Andrew R. Kleinhesselink, Rachel Mitchell, Joslin L. Moore, Carla Nogueira, Pablo Luis Peri, Christiane Roscher, Melinda D. Smith, Peter D. Wragg & Anita C. Risch. Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs. Nature Ecology & Evolution <link>
2018
Emma Ladouceur, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Maria Marin, Marcello De Vitis, Holly Abbandonato, Pietro Iannetta, Costantino Bonomi, Hugh W. Pritchard. Native Seed Supply and the Restoration Species Pool. Conservation Letters <link>
Maria Tudela-Isanta, Emma Ladouceur, Malaka Wijayasinghe, Hugh W. Pritchard, Andrea Mondoni. The seed germination niche limits the distribution of some plant species in calcareous or siliceous alpine bedrocks. Alpine Botany <link>
Jennifer Firn, Emma Ladouceur, Josh Dorrough. Integrating local knowledge and scientific surveys to assess the impacts of an invasive exotic grass on critically endangered grassy woodlands. Journal of Applied Ecology <link> <blog>
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