Publications

Selected Recent Publications from the Wilsey Lab

* denotes a graduate student; ** denotes a postdoctoral fellow

Soley, N.* and B.J. Wilsey. 2025. Factors that extend flowering phenology for pollinators in prairie restorations. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics in press

Wilsey, B., Riddell, E., Berendzen, F. and M.C. Borsch. 2025. Iowa Climate Assessment subchapter on Ecosystems and Environment. INHF Report, in press.

Wilsey, B., *Martin, L., **Xu, X., *Isbell, F. and H.W. Polley. 2024. Biodiversity: Net primary productivity relationships are eliminated by invasive species dominance. Ecology Letters DOI: 10.1111/ele.14342

Wilsey, B., *Kaul, A., & Polley, H. W. 2023. Establishment from seed is more important for exotic than for native plant species. Plant-Environment Interactions https://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.10132

*Deever, D. T., *Soley, N. M., Fullin, K., & Wilsey, B. J. 2023. Recruitment limitation of early- and late- flowering grassland forbs can be overcome with transplanting in prairie restorations. Journal of Applied Ecology, 00, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14550

*Kaul, A. & Wilsey, B.J. 2023. Exotic species explain plant functional trait differences between seed mixes, restored and reference prairies. Applied Vegetation Science, 26, e12709. avsc.12709

*Kaul, A.D., Wilsey, B.J. 2022. Cover crop species alter tallgrass prairie community assembly. Oecologia 200:413–423

*Kaul, A.D. and B.J. Wilsey. 2021. Exotic species drive patterns of plant species diversity in 93 restored tallgrass prairies. Ecological Applications e02252

Wilsey, B.J. 2021. Restoration in the face of changing climate: importance of persistance, priority effects and species diversity. Restoration Ecology 29:e13132 DOI: 10.1111/rec.13132

Wilsey, B.J., **Xu, X, Polley, H.W., Hofmockel, K. and S.J. Hall. 2020. Lower soil carbon stocks in exotic vs. native grasslands are due to reduced carbonates. Ecology e03039

**Upton, R.N., **Checinska Sielaff, A., Hofmockel, K.S., Xu, X., Polley, H.W. and B.J. Wilsey. 2020. Soil depth and grassland origin cooperatively shape microbial community co-occurrence and function. Ecosphere 11:e02973

**Checinska Sielaff, A., H.W. Polley, *A. Fuentes-Ramirez, K. Hofmockel, and B.J. Wilsey. 2019. Mycorrhizal colonization and its relationship with plant performance differs between exotic and native grassland plant species. Biological Invasions 21:1981-1991

Craven, D., N. Eisenhauer, W.D. Pearse, Y. Hautier, C. Roscher, F. Isbell, M. Bahn, M.C. Beierkuhnlein, C.G. Bönisch, N. Buchmann, C. Byun, J.A. Catford, B.E.L. Cerabolini, J.H.C. Cornelissen, J.M. Craine, E. De Luca, A. Ebeling, J.N. Griffin.A. Hector, J. Hines, A. Jentsch, J. Kattge, J. Kreyling, V. Lanta, N. Lemoine, S.T. Meyer,V. Minden, V. Onipchenko, H.W. Polley, P.B. Reich, J. van Ruijven, B. Schamp, M.D. Smith, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, D. Tilman, A. Weigelt, B. Wilsey, P. Manning. 2018. Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity-stability relationship. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:1579-1587

Wilsey, B.J. 2018. Biology of Grasslands. Oxford University Press

*Goodale, K. and B.J. Wilsey. 2018. Exotic grassland species have stronger priority effects and smaller response to rainfall variability than native species. Plant Ecology 219:429-439

Wilsey, B.J, *L.M. Martin, and *A.D. Kaul. 2018. Phenology differences between native and novel exotic-dominated grasslands rival the effects of climate change. Journal of Applied Ecology 55:863-873 DOI:10.1111/1365-2664-1291.

Isbell, F., Craven, D., Connolly, J., Loreau, M., Schmid, B. Beierkuhnlein, C., Bezemer, T.M.,, Bonin, C., Bruelheide, H., de Luca, E., Ebeling, A., Griffin, J., Guo, Q, Hautier, Y., Hector, A., Jentsch, A., Kreyling, J., Lanta, V., Manning, P., Meyer, S.T., Mori, A.S., Naeem, S., Niklaus, P.A., Polley, H.W., Reich, P.B., Roscher, C., Seabloom, E., Smith, M., Thakur, M.P., Tilman, D., Tracy, B.F., van der Putten, W., van Ruijven, J., Weigelt, A., Weisser, W.W., Wilsey, B., and N. Eisenhauer. 2015. Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes. Nature 526:574-577

*Martin, L.M., Harris, M. and B.J. Wilsey. 2015. Phenology and temporal niche overlap differ between novel, exotic- and native-dominated grasslands for plants, but not for pollinators. Biological Invasions 17:2633-2644

Wilsey, B.J. and *L.M. Martin. 2015. Top-down control of rare species abundances by native ungulates in a grassland restoration. Restoration Ecology 23:465-472.

*Martin, L.M. and B.J. Wilsey. 2015. Novel, exotic-dominated grasslands exhibit altered patterns of beta diversity relative to native grasslands. Ecology 96:1042-1051

Wilsey, B.J., *Barber, K. and *L.M. Martin. 2015. Exotic grassland species have stronger priority effects than natives regardless of whether they are cultivated or wild genotypes. New Phytologist 205:928-937

Wilsey, B.J., **Daneshgar, P.P., Hofmockel, K. and H.W. Polley. 2014. Invaded grassland communities have altered stability-maintenance mechanisms but equal stability compared to native communities. Ecology Letters 17:92-100

*Martin, L.M., Polley, H.W., **Daneshgar, P.P., Harris, M.A. and B.J. Wilsey. 2014. Biodiversity, photosynthetic mode, and ecosystem services differ between native and novel ecosystems. Oecologia 175:687-697

*Martin, L.M., and B.J. Wilsey. 2012. Assembly history alters alpha and beta diversity, exotic-native proportions, and ecosystem functioning of restored prairie plant communities. Journal of Applied Ecology 49:1436-1445

*Yurkonis, K.A., Wilsey, B.J. and K.A. Moloney. 2012. Initial plant arrangement affects invasion resistance in experimental grassland plots. Journal of Vegetation Science 23:4-12

*Isbell, F., Calcagno, V., Hector, A., Connolly, J., Harpole, W.S., Reich, P.B., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Tilman, D., van Ruijven, J., Weigelt, A., Wilsey, B.J., Zavaleta, E.S. and M. Loreau. 2011. High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services. Nature 477:199-202

Date Last Modified: January 4, 2024