Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles (lab members in italics):
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.
