Peer-reviewed journal articles (lab members in italics):
Fridley, J.D., and J.P. Wright* (equal contributions). 2018. Temperature accelerates the rate fields become forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716665115
Mitchell, R., G. Ames, and JP Wright. 2018. Species' traits do not converge on optimum values in preferred habitats. Oecologia. doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-4041-y
Reese, A.R., K. Lulow (Duke undergraduate), D. Lawrence, JP Wright. 2017. Plant community and soil conditions individually affect soil microbial community assembly in experimental mesocosms. Ecology and Evolution:1196-1205. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3734
Ficken, C.D. and J.P Wright. 2017. Direct and indirect effects of frequent disturbance on litter decomposition. PLoS One. 12(10) e0186292
Lind, E.M. K.J. LaPierre, E.W. Seabloom, J. Alberti, O. Iribame, J. Firn, D.S. Gruner, A.D. Kay, J. Pascal., J.P. Wright, L. Yang, E.T. Borer. 2017. Increased grassland arthropod production with grazing and eutrophication: An experimental test of mediation pathways. Ecology. 98:3022-3033 DOI:10.1002/ecy.2029
Strayer, D.L., C.M. D’Antonio, F. Essl, M.S. Fowler, J. Geist, S. Hilt, I. Jarić, K. Jöhnk, C.G. Jones, X. Lambin, A.W. Latzka, J. Pergl, P. Pyšek, P. Robertson, M. von Schmalensee, R.A. Stefansson, J. Wright, and Jonathan M. Jeschke. 2017. Boom-bust dynamics in biological invasions: definitions, causes, detection, and description. Ecology Letters.20:1337-1350 doi: 10.1111/ele.12822
Ames, G.M. S. Anderson, E. Ungberg, and J.P. Wright. 2017. Functional traits of the understory plant community of a pyrogenic longleaf pine forest of the Southeastern US. Ecology. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1886
Mitchell, R., J.Wright, G. Ames. 2017. Intraspecific variability improves environmental matching, but does not increase ecological breadth along a wet-to-dry ecotone. Oikos 126:988-995 doi: 10.1111/oik.04001
Ames, G.M. W. Wall, M. Hohmann, and J.P. Wright. 2017. Rare plants occupy a subset of trait space in a fire-dependent ecosystem. Conservation Biology. DOI:10.1111/cobi.12867
Ames, G.M. S. Anderson, E. Ungberg, and J.P. Wright. 2017. Functional traits of the understory plant community of a pyrogenic longleaf pine forest of the Southeastern US. Ecology. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1886
Ficken, C.D. and J.P. Wright. 2017. Contributions of microbial activity and ash deposition to post-fire nitrogen availability in a pine savanna. Biogeosciences.14:241-255.
Lee, M.R.*, E.S. Bernhardt, P.M van Bodegom, J.H.C. Cornelissen, J. Kattge, D.C. Laughlin, U. Niinemets, J. Penuelas, P.B. Reich, B. Yguel, and J.P Wright. 2017. Invasive species’ leaf traits and dissimilarity from natives shape their impact on nitrogen cycling: a meta-analysis. New Phytologist. 213:128-139
Mitchell, R., J.Wright, G. Ames. In Press. Intraspecific variability improves environmental matching, but does not increase ecological breadth along a wet-to-dry ecotone. Oikos
Funk, J., Larson, J., Ames, G., Butterfield, B., Cavender-Bares, J., Firn, J., Laughlin, D., Sutton-Grier, A., Williams, L., Wright, J. 2016. Revisiting the Holy Grail: Using plant functional traits to predict ecological processes. Biological Reviews. doi: 10.1111/brv.12275
Heckman, R.W., J.P. Wright, and C.E. Mitchell. 2016. Joint effects of nutrient addition and enemy exclusion on exotic plant success. Ecology. 97: 3337-3345.
Heinze. J., M. Sitte, A. Schindhelm, J. Wright, and J. Joshi. 2016. Plant-soil feedbacks: a comparative study on the relative importance of soil-feedbacks in the greenhouse and field. Oecologia. 181:559-5694.
Wright, J., G. Ames, and R. Mitchell. 2016. The more things change the more they stay the same? Importance of trait variability for ecosystem function stability in a changing environment. Philosophical Transactions . 371:201502272.
Reese, A.T., G.M. Ames, and J.P. Wright. 2016. Variation in plant response to herbivory underscored by functional traits. PLoS One. 11:e0166714.
Ames, G.M.* and J.P.Wright. 2015. Multiple environmental drivers structure plant traits at the community level in a pyrogenic ecosystem. Functional Ecology.
E. Seabloom, E.T.Borer, Y. Buckley, W.E. Cleland, K.Davies, J. Firn, S. Harpole, Y.Hautier, E.Lind, A. MacDougall, J.L. Orrock, S.M. Prober, P. Adler, T.M. Anderson, J.D. Bakker, L.A. Biederman, D. Blumenthal, C.S. Brown, L.A. Brudvig, C. Chu, M.J. Crawley, E.I. Damschen, C.M. D’Antonio, N.M. DeCrappeo, G. Du, P.A. Fay, P. Frater, D.S. Gruner, N.Hagenah, A. Hector, H. Hillebrand, K.S. Hofmockel, H.C. Humphries, V.L. Jin, A. Kay, K.P. Kirkman, J.A. Klein, J.M.H. Knops, K.J. LaPierre, J.G. Lambrinos, A.D.B. Leakey, Q. Li, W. Li, R. McCulley, B. Melbourne, C.E. Mitchell, J.L. Moore, J. Morgan, B. Mortensen, DA. Pyke, A.C. Risch, M. Schuetz, M.Smith, C. Stevens, L.Sullivan, E.Wolkovich, P.D. Wragg, J.Wright, L.Yang. 2015. Plant species origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivoresin global grasslands. Nature Comminications. 6: 7710.
Ames, G.M., Vineyard, D.L., Anderson, S.M., and J.P. Wright*. 2015. Annual growth in longleaf (Pinus palustris) and pond pine (P. serotina) in the Sandhills of North Carolina is driven by interactions between fire and climate. Forest Ecology and Research. 340:1-8.
Borer, E.T.*, E.W. Seabloom, D.S. Gruner, W.S. Harpole, H. Hillebrand, E.M. Lind, P.B. Adler, J. Alberti, T. M. Anderson, J.D. Bakker, L. Biederman, D.Blumenthal, C.S. Brown, L.A. Brudvig, Y.M. Buckley, M. Cadotte, C. Chu, E.E. Cleland, M.J. Crawley, P.Daleo, E.I. Damschen, K.F. Davies, N.M. DeCrappeo, G. Du, J. Firn, Y. Hautier, R.W. Heckman, A. Hector, J. HilleRisLambers, O. Iribarne, J.A. Klein, J.M.H. Knops, K.J La Pierre, A.D.B. Leakey, W. Li, A.S. MacDougall, R.L. McCulley, B.A. Melbourne, C.E. Mitchell, J.L. Moore, B. Mortensen, L.R. O'Halloran, J.L. Orrock, J. Pascual, S.M. Prober, D.A. Pyke, A.C. Risch, M. Schuetz, M.D. Smith, C.J. Stevens, L.L. Sullivan, R.J. Williams, P. D. Wragg, J.P. Wright, L.H. Yang. 2014. Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature 508:517-520.
Wang, S., E.S. Bernhardt, and J.P. Wright*. 2014. Microbial diversity is linked to higher functional resistance. Hydrobiologia. 726: 13-23.
Seabloom, E.*, E.T. Borer, Y. Buckley, W.E. Cleland, K. Davies, J. Firn, S. Harpoled, Y. Hautier, E. Lind, , A. MacDougall , J. L. Orrock, S.M Prober, P. Adler, T. M. Anderson, J.D. Bakker, L.A. Biederman, D. Blumenthal, C.S. Brown, L. Brudvig, , C. Chu, M.J. Crawley, E. Damschen, C.M. Dantonio, N.M. DeCrappeo, G. Du, P.A. Fay, P. Frater, D.S. Gruner, N. Hagenah, A. Hector, H. Hillebrand, K.S. Hofmockel, H. Huphries, V.L. Jin, A. Kay, K.P. Kirkman, J.A. Klein, J.M.H. Knops, K.J. La Pierre, J.G. Lambrinos , A. Leakey, Q. Li, W. Li, R. McCulley, B. Melbourne, C. Mitchell, J. Moore, J. Morgan, B. Mortensen, D.A. Pyke, A.C. Risch, M. Schuetz, M. Smith, C. Stevens, L. Sullivan, E. Wolkovich, P.D. Wragg, J. Wright, L. Yang. 2013. Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? Global Change Biology 19:3677-3687
Coleman, B.P., C. Arnaout, S. Anciaux, C. Gunsch, M.F. Hochella Jr., B. Kim, G.V. Lowry, B. McGill, B. Reinsch, C.J. Richardson, J. Unrine, J.P. Wright, L. Yin, E.S. Bernhardt. 2013. Low concentrations of silver nanoparticles in biosolids cause adverse ecosystem responses under realistic field scenario. PLoS One 8:e57189.
Wright, J.P. and A. Sutton-Grier. 2012. Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within local species pools across varying environmental conditions? Functional Ecology. 26:1390-1398.
Yin, L., E.S. Bernhardt, B. Colman, B. McGill, J.P Wright. 2012. Effects of silver nanoparticle exposure on germination and early growth of eleven wetland plants. PLoS One 7:e47674.
Sutton-Grier, A.E., J.P. Wright, and C.J. Richardson. 2012. Different plant traits affect two pathways of riparian nitrogen removal in a restored freshwater wetland. Plant and Soil. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-1113-3. pdf
Fridley, J.D. and J.P. Wright. 2012. Climatic versus edaphic drivers of secondary succession rates across temperate latitudes of the Eastern U.S. Oecologia. 168:1069-1077. pdf
Adler, P.B. E.W. Seabloom, E.T. Borer, H. Hillebrand, Y. Hautier, A. Hector, L.R. O'Halloran, W.S. Harpole, T. M. Anderson, J.D. Bakker, L.A. Biederman, C.S. Brown, Y.M. Buckley, L.B. Calabrese, C.-J. Chu, E.E. Cleland, S.L. Collins, K.L. Cottingham, M.J. Crawley, K.F. Davies, N.M. DeCrappeo, P.A. Fay, J. Firn, P. Frater, E.I. Gasarch, D.S. Gruner, N. Hagenah, J. HilleRisLambers, H. Humphries, V.L. Jin, A.D. Kay, K.P. Kirkman, J.A. Klein, J. Knops, K.J. La Pierre, J.G. Lambrinos, W. Li, A.S. MacDougall, R.L. McCulley, B.A. Melbourne, C.E. Mitchell, J.L. Moore, J.W. Morgan, B. Mortenson, J.L. Orrock, S.M. Prober, D.A. Pyke, A.C. Risch, M. Schuetz, C.J. Stevens, L.L. Sullivan, G. Wang, P.D. Wragg, J.P. Wright, and L.H. Yang. 2011. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science 333:1750-1754.
Wang, S., E.B. Sudduth, M.D. Wallenstein, J.P. Wright, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2011. Watershed urbanization alters the composition and function of stream bacterial communities. PLoS ONE 6(8):e22972. pdf
Sutton-Grier A.E., J.P. Wright, B.M. McGill, and C. Richardson C. 2011. Environmental conditions influence the plant functional diversity effect on potential denitrification. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16584. pdf
Warren, R.J., J.P Wright, and M.A. Bradford. 2011. The putative niche requirements and landscape dynamics of Microstegium vimineum: an invasive Asian grass. Biological Invasions.13:471-483. pdf
McGill, B.M., A.E. Sutton-Grier, and J.P. Wright. 2010. Plant trait diversity buffers variability in denitrification potential over changes in season and soil conditions. PLoS ONE. 5: e116118. pdf
Wright, J.P., J. Fridley. 2010. Biogeographic synthesis of secondary succession rates in Eastern North America. Journal of Biogeography. 37:1584-1596. pdf
Bartel, R.A., N.M. Haddad, J.P. Wright. 2010. Ecosystem engineers maintain a rare species of butterfly and increase plant diversity. Oikos 119: 883–890. pdf
Reinhardt, L., D. Jerolmack, B. Cardinale, V. Vanacker, J.P. Wright. 2010. Dynamic interactions of life and its landscape: feedbacks at the interface of geomorphology and ecology. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 35:78-101 4. pdf
Cardinale B., D. Srivastava, J. Duffy, J. Wright, A. Downing, M. Sankaran, C. Jouseau, M. Cadotte, I. Carroll, J. Weis, A. Hector, M. Loreau. 2009. Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of ecosystems: A summary of 164 experimental manipulations of species richness. Ecology 90:854. pdf
Srivastiva, D., B. Cardinale, A. Downing, J. E. Duffy, C. Jouseau, M. Sankaran, J.P. Wright. 2009. Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition. Ecology 90:1073-1083. pdf
Wright, J.P. 2009. Linking populations to landscapes: richness scenarios resulting from changes in the dynamics of an ecosystem engineer. Ecology. 90(12):3418-3429. pdf
Cardinale, B., J.P. Wright, M. Cadotte, I. Carroll, A. Hector, D. Srivastiva, M. Loreau, J. Weis. 2007. Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity. PNAS. 104:18123-18128. pdf
Badano, E.I., C.G. Jones, L.A. Cavieres, and J.P. Wright. 2006. Assessing impacts of ecosystem engineers on community organization: effects of the high-Andean cushion plant Azorella monantha. Oikos. 115(2):369-385. pdf
Cardinale, B., D. Srivastiva, E. Duffy, J. Wright, A. Downing, M. Sankaranan, and C. Jouseau. 2006. Consistent effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems. Nature. 443(7114):989-992. pdf
Wright, J.P. and C.G. Jones. 2006. The concept of organisms as ecosystem engineers ten years on: Progress, limitations, and challenges. BioScience. 56:203-209. pdf
Wright, J.P., C.G. Jones, B. Boeken, M. Shachak. 2006. Predictability of ecosystem engineering effects on species richness across environmental variability and spatial scales. Journal of Ecology 94: 815-824. pdf
Wright, J.P., S. Naeem, A. Hector, C. Lehman, P. Reich, B. Schmid, and D. Tilman. 2006. Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning. Ecology Letters 9(2): 111-120. pdf
Wright, J.P., W.S.C. Gurney, and C.G. Jones. 2004. Patch dynamics in an engineered landscape. Oikos 105(2): 336-348. pdf
Wright, J.P. and A.S. Flecker. 2004. Deforesting the riverscape: the effects of wood on fish diversity in a Venezuelan piedmont stream. Biological Conservation 120(3): 439-447. pdf
Wright, J.P. and C.J. Jones. 2004. Predicting effects of ecosystem engineers on patch-scale richness from primary productivity. Ecology 85(8): 2071-2081. pdf
Naeem, S. and Wright, J.P. 2003. Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem. Ecology Letters 6(6): 567-579. pdf
Wright, J.P., A.S. Flecker, and C.G. Jones. 2003. Local versus landscape controls on plant species richness in beaver meadows. Ecology 84(12): 3162-3173. pdf
Wright, J.P., C.G. Jones, and A.S. Flecker. 2002. An ecosystem engineer, the beaver, increases species richness at the landscape scale. Oecologia 132(1):96-101. pdf
Book Chapters and Book Reviews
Wright, J.P., A.J. Symstad, J.M. Bullock, K.A.M. Engelhardt, L.E. Jackson, E.S. Bernhardt. 2009. Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem function: will an integrated approach improve results? In S. Naeem, D. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau and C. Perrings. eds. Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing. Oxford University Press.
Jackson L., T. Rosenstock, M. Thomas, A. Symstad, J. Wright. 2009. Managed Ecosystems: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions in Landscapes Modified by Human Use. In S. Naeem, Bunker, D., Hector, A., M. Loreau and C. Perrings. eds. Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing. Oxford University Press.
Wilson, W.G. and J.P. Wright. 2007. Environmental effects on Lotka-Volterra community theory. in K. Cuddington, J. Byers, A. Hastings, and W. Wilson eds. Ecosystem Engineers: Plants to Protists. Elsevier. pp 211-228.
Naeem, S., R. Colwell, S. Díaz, J. Hughes, C. Jouseau, S. Lavorel, P. Morin, O. Petchey, J. Wright. 2007. Predicting the ecosystem consequences of biodiversity loss: the BioMERGE framework. In J. Canadell, D. Pataki, and L. Pitelka eds. Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. Springer. pp 113-126.
Wright, J.P. 2004. The beaver: natural history of a wetlands engineer: Review. Quarterly Review of Biology 79: 215.
Ewing, H., K. Hogan, F. Keesing, H. Bugmann, A. Berkowitz, L. Gross, J. Oris, and J. Wright. 2003. The Role of Modeling in Undergraduate Education. in C.D. Canham, J.J. Cole, and W. K. Lauenroth eds. Models in Ecosystem Science. Princeton University Press. pp 413-427.
Publications In Review and In Preparation
Wang, S., J.P. Wright, and E. Bernhardt. In Review. Testing links between bacterial community structure and stress resistance. International Society of Microbial Ecology.
- Koltz, A. M., A. T. Classen, and J.P. Wright. 2018. Warming reverses top-down effects of predators on the structure and function of belowground communities in the Arctic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1808754115
- D Hodapp, ET. Borer, WS Harpole, EM. Lind, EW. Seabloom, PB. Adler, J Alberti, CA. Arnillas, JD. Bakker, L Biederman, M Cadotte, EE. Cleland, S Collins, PA. Fay, J Firn, N Hagenah, Y Hautier, O Iribarne, JMH. Knops, RL. McCulley, A MacDougall, JL. Moore, J Morgan, B Mortensen, KJ. La Pierre, AC. Risch, M Schütz, P Peri, CJ. Stevens, J Wright, H Hillebrand. Accepted. The spatial distribution of species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilization. Ecology Letters
- Reese, A.T. E.H. Cho, B. Klitzman, S.P. Nichols, N.A. Wisniewski, M.M. Villa, H. Durand, S. Jiang, F. Midani, S. Nimmagadda, T.M. O’Connell, J.P. Wright, M.A. Deshusses, L.A. David. 2018. Antibiotic induced changes in microbial respiration disrupt redox dynamics in the gut. eLife. eLife 2018;7:e35987
Fridley, J.D., and J.P. Wright* (equal contributions). 2018. Temperature accelerates the rate fields become forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716665115
Mitchell, R., G. Ames, and JP Wright. 2018. Species' traits do not converge on optimum values in preferred habitats. Oecologia. doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-4041-y
Reese, A.R., K. Lulow (Duke undergraduate), D. Lawrence, JP Wright. 2017. Plant community and soil conditions individually affect soil microbial community assembly in experimental mesocosms. Ecology and Evolution:1196-1205. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3734
Ficken, C.D. and J.P Wright. 2017. Direct and indirect effects of frequent disturbance on litter decomposition. PLoS One. 12(10) e0186292
Lind, E.M. K.J. LaPierre, E.W. Seabloom, J. Alberti, O. Iribame, J. Firn, D.S. Gruner, A.D. Kay, J. Pascal., J.P. Wright, L. Yang, E.T. Borer. 2017. Increased grassland arthropod production with grazing and eutrophication: An experimental test of mediation pathways. Ecology. 98:3022-3033 DOI:10.1002/ecy.2029
Strayer, D.L., C.M. D’Antonio, F. Essl, M.S. Fowler, J. Geist, S. Hilt, I. Jarić, K. Jöhnk, C.G. Jones, X. Lambin, A.W. Latzka, J. Pergl, P. Pyšek, P. Robertson, M. von Schmalensee, R.A. Stefansson, J. Wright, and Jonathan M. Jeschke. 2017. Boom-bust dynamics in biological invasions: definitions, causes, detection, and description. Ecology Letters.20:1337-1350 doi: 10.1111/ele.12822
Ames, G.M. S. Anderson, E. Ungberg, and J.P. Wright. 2017. Functional traits of the understory plant community of a pyrogenic longleaf pine forest of the Southeastern US. Ecology. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1886
Mitchell, R., J.Wright, G. Ames. 2017. Intraspecific variability improves environmental matching, but does not increase ecological breadth along a wet-to-dry ecotone. Oikos 126:988-995 doi: 10.1111/oik.04001
Ames, G.M. W. Wall, M. Hohmann, and J.P. Wright. 2017. Rare plants occupy a subset of trait space in a fire-dependent ecosystem. Conservation Biology. DOI:10.1111/cobi.12867
Ames, G.M. S. Anderson, E. Ungberg, and J.P. Wright. 2017. Functional traits of the understory plant community of a pyrogenic longleaf pine forest of the Southeastern US. Ecology. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1886
Ficken, C.D. and J.P. Wright. 2017. Contributions of microbial activity and ash deposition to post-fire nitrogen availability in a pine savanna. Biogeosciences.14:241-255.
Lee, M.R.*, E.S. Bernhardt, P.M van Bodegom, J.H.C. Cornelissen, J. Kattge, D.C. Laughlin, U. Niinemets, J. Penuelas, P.B. Reich, B. Yguel, and J.P Wright. 2017. Invasive species’ leaf traits and dissimilarity from natives shape their impact on nitrogen cycling: a meta-analysis. New Phytologist. 213:128-139
Mitchell, R., J.Wright, G. Ames. In Press. Intraspecific variability improves environmental matching, but does not increase ecological breadth along a wet-to-dry ecotone. Oikos
Funk, J., Larson, J., Ames, G., Butterfield, B., Cavender-Bares, J., Firn, J., Laughlin, D., Sutton-Grier, A., Williams, L., Wright, J. 2016. Revisiting the Holy Grail: Using plant functional traits to predict ecological processes. Biological Reviews. doi: 10.1111/brv.12275
Heckman, R.W., J.P. Wright, and C.E. Mitchell. 2016. Joint effects of nutrient addition and enemy exclusion on exotic plant success. Ecology. 97: 3337-3345.
Heinze. J., M. Sitte, A. Schindhelm, J. Wright, and J. Joshi. 2016. Plant-soil feedbacks: a comparative study on the relative importance of soil-feedbacks in the greenhouse and field. Oecologia. 181:559-5694.
Wright, J., G. Ames, and R. Mitchell. 2016. The more things change the more they stay the same? Importance of trait variability for ecosystem function stability in a changing environment. Philosophical Transactions . 371:201502272.
Reese, A.T., G.M. Ames, and J.P. Wright. 2016. Variation in plant response to herbivory underscored by functional traits. PLoS One. 11:e0166714.
Ames, G.M.* and J.P.Wright. 2015. Multiple environmental drivers structure plant traits at the community level in a pyrogenic ecosystem. Functional Ecology.
E. Seabloom, E.T.Borer, Y. Buckley, W.E. Cleland, K.Davies, J. Firn, S. Harpole, Y.Hautier, E.Lind, A. MacDougall, J.L. Orrock, S.M. Prober, P. Adler, T.M. Anderson, J.D. Bakker, L.A. Biederman, D. Blumenthal, C.S. Brown, L.A. Brudvig, C. Chu, M.J. Crawley, E.I. Damschen, C.M. D’Antonio, N.M. DeCrappeo, G. Du, P.A. Fay, P. Frater, D.S. Gruner, N.Hagenah, A. Hector, H. Hillebrand, K.S. Hofmockel, H.C. Humphries, V.L. Jin, A. Kay, K.P. Kirkman, J.A. Klein, J.M.H. Knops, K.J. LaPierre, J.G. Lambrinos, A.D.B. Leakey, Q. Li, W. Li, R. McCulley, B. Melbourne, C.E. Mitchell, J.L. Moore, J. Morgan, B. Mortensen, DA. Pyke, A.C. Risch, M. Schuetz, M.Smith, C. Stevens, L.Sullivan, E.Wolkovich, P.D. Wragg, J.Wright, L.Yang. 2015. Plant species origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivoresin global grasslands. Nature Comminications. 6: 7710.
Ames, G.M., Vineyard, D.L., Anderson, S.M., and J.P. Wright*. 2015. Annual growth in longleaf (Pinus palustris) and pond pine (P. serotina) in the Sandhills of North Carolina is driven by interactions between fire and climate. Forest Ecology and Research. 340:1-8.
Borer, E.T.*, E.W. Seabloom, D.S. Gruner, W.S. Harpole, H. Hillebrand, E.M. Lind, P.B. Adler, J. Alberti, T. M. Anderson, J.D. Bakker, L. Biederman, D.Blumenthal, C.S. Brown, L.A. Brudvig, Y.M. Buckley, M. Cadotte, C. Chu, E.E. Cleland, M.J. Crawley, P.Daleo, E.I. Damschen, K.F. Davies, N.M. DeCrappeo, G. Du, J. Firn, Y. Hautier, R.W. Heckman, A. Hector, J. HilleRisLambers, O. Iribarne, J.A. Klein, J.M.H. Knops, K.J La Pierre, A.D.B. Leakey, W. Li, A.S. MacDougall, R.L. McCulley, B.A. Melbourne, C.E. Mitchell, J.L. Moore, B. Mortensen, L.R. O'Halloran, J.L. Orrock, J. Pascual, S.M. Prober, D.A. Pyke, A.C. Risch, M. Schuetz, M.D. Smith, C.J. Stevens, L.L. Sullivan, R.J. Williams, P. D. Wragg, J.P. Wright, L.H. Yang. 2014. Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature 508:517-520.
Wang, S., E.S. Bernhardt, and J.P. Wright*. 2014. Microbial diversity is linked to higher functional resistance. Hydrobiologia. 726: 13-23.
Seabloom, E.*, E.T. Borer, Y. Buckley, W.E. Cleland, K. Davies, J. Firn, S. Harpoled, Y. Hautier, E. Lind, , A. MacDougall , J. L. Orrock, S.M Prober, P. Adler, T. M. Anderson, J.D. Bakker, L.A. Biederman, D. Blumenthal, C.S. Brown, L. Brudvig, , C. Chu, M.J. Crawley, E. Damschen, C.M. Dantonio, N.M. DeCrappeo, G. Du, P.A. Fay, P. Frater, D.S. Gruner, N. Hagenah, A. Hector, H. Hillebrand, K.S. Hofmockel, H. Huphries, V.L. Jin, A. Kay, K.P. Kirkman, J.A. Klein, J.M.H. Knops, K.J. La Pierre, J.G. Lambrinos , A. Leakey, Q. Li, W. Li, R. McCulley, B. Melbourne, C. Mitchell, J. Moore, J. Morgan, B. Mortensen, D.A. Pyke, A.C. Risch, M. Schuetz, M. Smith, C. Stevens, L. Sullivan, E. Wolkovich, P.D. Wragg, J. Wright, L. Yang. 2013. Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? Global Change Biology 19:3677-3687
Coleman, B.P., C. Arnaout, S. Anciaux, C. Gunsch, M.F. Hochella Jr., B. Kim, G.V. Lowry, B. McGill, B. Reinsch, C.J. Richardson, J. Unrine, J.P. Wright, L. Yin, E.S. Bernhardt. 2013. Low concentrations of silver nanoparticles in biosolids cause adverse ecosystem responses under realistic field scenario. PLoS One 8:e57189.
Wright, J.P. and A. Sutton-Grier. 2012. Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within local species pools across varying environmental conditions? Functional Ecology. 26:1390-1398.
Yin, L., E.S. Bernhardt, B. Colman, B. McGill, J.P Wright. 2012. Effects of silver nanoparticle exposure on germination and early growth of eleven wetland plants. PLoS One 7:e47674.
Sutton-Grier, A.E., J.P. Wright, and C.J. Richardson. 2012. Different plant traits affect two pathways of riparian nitrogen removal in a restored freshwater wetland. Plant and Soil. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-1113-3. pdf
Fridley, J.D. and J.P. Wright. 2012. Climatic versus edaphic drivers of secondary succession rates across temperate latitudes of the Eastern U.S. Oecologia. 168:1069-1077. pdf
Adler, P.B. E.W. Seabloom, E.T. Borer, H. Hillebrand, Y. Hautier, A. Hector, L.R. O'Halloran, W.S. Harpole, T. M. Anderson, J.D. Bakker, L.A. Biederman, C.S. Brown, Y.M. Buckley, L.B. Calabrese, C.-J. Chu, E.E. Cleland, S.L. Collins, K.L. Cottingham, M.J. Crawley, K.F. Davies, N.M. DeCrappeo, P.A. Fay, J. Firn, P. Frater, E.I. Gasarch, D.S. Gruner, N. Hagenah, J. HilleRisLambers, H. Humphries, V.L. Jin, A.D. Kay, K.P. Kirkman, J.A. Klein, J. Knops, K.J. La Pierre, J.G. Lambrinos, W. Li, A.S. MacDougall, R.L. McCulley, B.A. Melbourne, C.E. Mitchell, J.L. Moore, J.W. Morgan, B. Mortenson, J.L. Orrock, S.M. Prober, D.A. Pyke, A.C. Risch, M. Schuetz, C.J. Stevens, L.L. Sullivan, G. Wang, P.D. Wragg, J.P. Wright, and L.H. Yang. 2011. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science 333:1750-1754.
Wang, S., E.B. Sudduth, M.D. Wallenstein, J.P. Wright, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2011. Watershed urbanization alters the composition and function of stream bacterial communities. PLoS ONE 6(8):e22972. pdf
Sutton-Grier A.E., J.P. Wright, B.M. McGill, and C. Richardson C. 2011. Environmental conditions influence the plant functional diversity effect on potential denitrification. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16584. pdf
Warren, R.J., J.P Wright, and M.A. Bradford. 2011. The putative niche requirements and landscape dynamics of Microstegium vimineum: an invasive Asian grass. Biological Invasions.13:471-483. pdf
McGill, B.M., A.E. Sutton-Grier, and J.P. Wright. 2010. Plant trait diversity buffers variability in denitrification potential over changes in season and soil conditions. PLoS ONE. 5: e116118. pdf
Wright, J.P., J. Fridley. 2010. Biogeographic synthesis of secondary succession rates in Eastern North America. Journal of Biogeography. 37:1584-1596. pdf
Bartel, R.A., N.M. Haddad, J.P. Wright. 2010. Ecosystem engineers maintain a rare species of butterfly and increase plant diversity. Oikos 119: 883–890. pdf
Reinhardt, L., D. Jerolmack, B. Cardinale, V. Vanacker, J.P. Wright. 2010. Dynamic interactions of life and its landscape: feedbacks at the interface of geomorphology and ecology. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 35:78-101 4. pdf
Cardinale B., D. Srivastava, J. Duffy, J. Wright, A. Downing, M. Sankaran, C. Jouseau, M. Cadotte, I. Carroll, J. Weis, A. Hector, M. Loreau. 2009. Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of ecosystems: A summary of 164 experimental manipulations of species richness. Ecology 90:854. pdf
Srivastiva, D., B. Cardinale, A. Downing, J. E. Duffy, C. Jouseau, M. Sankaran, J.P. Wright. 2009. Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition. Ecology 90:1073-1083. pdf
Wright, J.P. 2009. Linking populations to landscapes: richness scenarios resulting from changes in the dynamics of an ecosystem engineer. Ecology. 90(12):3418-3429. pdf
Cardinale, B., J.P. Wright, M. Cadotte, I. Carroll, A. Hector, D. Srivastiva, M. Loreau, J. Weis. 2007. Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity. PNAS. 104:18123-18128. pdf
Badano, E.I., C.G. Jones, L.A. Cavieres, and J.P. Wright. 2006. Assessing impacts of ecosystem engineers on community organization: effects of the high-Andean cushion plant Azorella monantha. Oikos. 115(2):369-385. pdf
Cardinale, B., D. Srivastiva, E. Duffy, J. Wright, A. Downing, M. Sankaranan, and C. Jouseau. 2006. Consistent effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems. Nature. 443(7114):989-992. pdf
Wright, J.P. and C.G. Jones. 2006. The concept of organisms as ecosystem engineers ten years on: Progress, limitations, and challenges. BioScience. 56:203-209. pdf
Wright, J.P., C.G. Jones, B. Boeken, M. Shachak. 2006. Predictability of ecosystem engineering effects on species richness across environmental variability and spatial scales. Journal of Ecology 94: 815-824. pdf
Wright, J.P., S. Naeem, A. Hector, C. Lehman, P. Reich, B. Schmid, and D. Tilman. 2006. Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning. Ecology Letters 9(2): 111-120. pdf
Wright, J.P., W.S.C. Gurney, and C.G. Jones. 2004. Patch dynamics in an engineered landscape. Oikos 105(2): 336-348. pdf
Wright, J.P. and A.S. Flecker. 2004. Deforesting the riverscape: the effects of wood on fish diversity in a Venezuelan piedmont stream. Biological Conservation 120(3): 439-447. pdf
Wright, J.P. and C.J. Jones. 2004. Predicting effects of ecosystem engineers on patch-scale richness from primary productivity. Ecology 85(8): 2071-2081. pdf
Naeem, S. and Wright, J.P. 2003. Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem. Ecology Letters 6(6): 567-579. pdf
Wright, J.P., A.S. Flecker, and C.G. Jones. 2003. Local versus landscape controls on plant species richness in beaver meadows. Ecology 84(12): 3162-3173. pdf
Wright, J.P., C.G. Jones, and A.S. Flecker. 2002. An ecosystem engineer, the beaver, increases species richness at the landscape scale. Oecologia 132(1):96-101. pdf
Book Chapters and Book Reviews
Wright, J.P., A.J. Symstad, J.M. Bullock, K.A.M. Engelhardt, L.E. Jackson, E.S. Bernhardt. 2009. Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem function: will an integrated approach improve results? In S. Naeem, D. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau and C. Perrings. eds. Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing. Oxford University Press.
Jackson L., T. Rosenstock, M. Thomas, A. Symstad, J. Wright. 2009. Managed Ecosystems: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions in Landscapes Modified by Human Use. In S. Naeem, Bunker, D., Hector, A., M. Loreau and C. Perrings. eds. Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing. Oxford University Press.
Wilson, W.G. and J.P. Wright. 2007. Environmental effects on Lotka-Volterra community theory. in K. Cuddington, J. Byers, A. Hastings, and W. Wilson eds. Ecosystem Engineers: Plants to Protists. Elsevier. pp 211-228.
Naeem, S., R. Colwell, S. Díaz, J. Hughes, C. Jouseau, S. Lavorel, P. Morin, O. Petchey, J. Wright. 2007. Predicting the ecosystem consequences of biodiversity loss: the BioMERGE framework. In J. Canadell, D. Pataki, and L. Pitelka eds. Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. Springer. pp 113-126.
Wright, J.P. 2004. The beaver: natural history of a wetlands engineer: Review. Quarterly Review of Biology 79: 215.
Ewing, H., K. Hogan, F. Keesing, H. Bugmann, A. Berkowitz, L. Gross, J. Oris, and J. Wright. 2003. The Role of Modeling in Undergraduate Education. in C.D. Canham, J.J. Cole, and W. K. Lauenroth eds. Models in Ecosystem Science. Princeton University Press. pp 413-427.
Publications In Review and In Preparation
Wang, S., J.P. Wright, and E. Bernhardt. In Review. Testing links between bacterial community structure and stress resistance. International Society of Microbial Ecology.
