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  1. PhenoVision: A framework for automating and delivering research-ready plant phenology data from field images. Russell Dinnage, Erin Grady, §§Nevyn Neal, Jonn Deck, Ellen Denny, Ramona Walls, Carrie Seltzer, Robert Guralnick, Daijiang Li. bioRxiv
  2. Extreme weather events have strong but different impacts on plant and insect phenology. Daijiang Li, Michael Belitz, Lindsay Campbell, and Robert Guralnick. Nature Climate Change. Accepted.
  3. Quantifying the Effects of Water Hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes) on Freshwater Ecosystems: A Meta-analysis. §§Rohit Jha and Daijiang Li. Biological Invasions. Accepted.

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    2024

  1. Cities Shape the Diversity and Spread of Nonnative Species
    Potgieter L. J., Li D., Baiser B., Kühn I., Aronson M. F. J., Carboni M., Celesti-Grapow L., Matos A. C. L., Lososová Z., §Montaño-Centellas F. A., Pyšek P., Richardson D. M., Tsang T. P. N., Zenni R. D., Cadotte M. W.,
    Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
  2. Long-Term Nitrogen Deposition Reduces the Diversity of Nitrogen-Fixing Plants
    §Moreno-García P., §Montaño-Centellas F., §Liu Y., §§Reyes-Mendez E. Y., §§Jha R. R., Guralnick R. P., Folk R., Waller D. M., Verheyen K., Baeten L., Becker-Scarpitta A., Berki I., Bernhardt-Römermann M., Brunet J., Van Calster H., Chudomelová M., Closset D., De Frenne P., Decocq G., Gilliam F. S., Grytnes J., Hédl R., Heinken T., Jaroszewicz B., Kopecký M., Lenoir J., Macek M., Máliš F., Naaf T., Orczewska A., Petřík P., Reczyńska K., Schei F. H., Schmidt W., Stachurska-Swakoń A., Standovár T., Świerkosz K., Teleki B., Vild O., Li D.,
    Science Advances
  3. Unraveling Microbial Community Structure–function Relationships in the Horizontal and Vertical Spatial Dimensions in Extreme Environments
    Jing X., Classen A. T., Li D., Lin L., Lu M., Sanders N. J., Wang Y., Feng W.,
    Ecography
  4. Evaluating Plant Lineage Losses and Gains in Temperate Forest Understories: A Phylogenetic Perspective on Climate Change and Nitrogen Deposition
    Padullés Cubino J., Lenoir J., Li D., §Montaño-Centellas F. A., Retana J., Baeten L., Bernhardt-Römermann M., Chudomelová M., Closset D., Decocq G., De Frenne P., Diekmann M., Dirnböck T., Durak T., Hédl R., Heinken T., Jaroszewicz B., Kopecký M., Macek M., Máliš F., Naaf T., Orczewska A., Petřík P., Pielech R., Reczyńska K., Schmidt W., Standovár T., Świerkosz K., Teleki B., Verheyen K., Vild O., Waller D., Wulf M., Chytrý M.,
    New Phytologist
  5. Online Toolkits for Collaborative and Inclusive Global Research in Urban Evolutionary Ecology
    Savage A. M., Willmott M. J., §Moreno-García P., Jagiello Z., Li D., Malesis A., Miles L. S., Román-Palacios C., Salazar-Valenzuela D., Verrelli B. C., Winchell K. M., Alberti M., Bonilla-Bedoya S., Carlen E., Falvey C., Johnson L., Martin E., Kuzyo H., Marzluff J., Munshi-South J., Phifer-Rixey M., Stadnicki I., Szulkin M., Zhou Y., Gotanda K. M.,
    Ecology and Evolution

    6. 2023

  6. Rtrees: An R Package to Assemble Phylogenetic Trees From Megatrees
    Li D.,
    Ecography
  7. Global Patterns and Drivers of Raptor Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity
    §Montaño-Centellas F., Baiser B., McGrew A., Trotta L., Li D.,
    Global Ecology and Biogeography
  8. Playing With Open Biodiversity Datasets: Case Studies Using Data From NEON, EDI, and GoMRI
    Chen X., Li D.,
    Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology
  9. Phenological Research Based on Natural History Collections: Practical Guidelines and a Lepidopteran Case Study
    Belitz M. W., Larsen E. A., Shirey V., Li D., Guralnick R. P.,
    Functional Ecology
  10. Co-Occurring Bunchgrasses Are Associated With Different Plant Species in Dry Pine Savannas
    Baruzzi C., Li D., Fill J. M., Crandall R. M.,
    Restoration Ecology
  11. Phylogenetic Diversity of Eastern Asia–eastern North America Disjunct Plants Is Mainly Associated With Divergence Time
    Lin H., Sun M., Hao Y., Li D., Gitzendanner M. A., Fu C., Soltis D. E., Soltis P. S., Zhao Y.,
    Plant Diversity
  12. Effects of Non-Native Species on Phylogenetic Dispersion of Freshwater Fish Communities in North America
    Qian H., Chu C., Li D., Cao Y., Sandel B., Anas M. U. M., Mandrak N. E.,
    Diversity and Distributions
  13. Climate Change Filtered Out Resource-Acquisitive Plants in a Temperate Grassland in Inner Mongolia, China
    Jing H., Xiong X., Jiang F., Pu X., Ma W., Li D., Liu Z., Wang Z.,
    Science China Life Sciences

    14. 2022

  14. Standardized NEON Organismal Data for Biodiversity Research
    Li D., Record S., Sokol E. R., Bitters M. E., Chen M. Y., Chung Y. A., Helmus M. R., Jaimes R., Jansen L., Jarzyna M. A., Just M. G., LaMontagne J. M., Melbourne B. A., Moss W., Norman K. E. A., Parker S. M., Robinson N., Seyednasrollah B., Smith C., Spaulding S., Surasinghe T. D., Thomsen S. K., Zarnetske P. L.,
    Ecosphere
  15. Urbanization Delays Plant Leaf Senescence and Extends Growing Season Length in Cold but Not in Warm Areas of the Northern Hemisphere
    Li D., Stucky B. J., Baiser B., Guralnick R.,
    Global Ecology and Biogeography
  16. Aridity Drives Phylogenetic Diversity and Species Richness Patterns of Nitrogen-Fixing Plants in North America
    Doby J. R., Li D., Folk R. A., Siniscalchi C. M., Guralnick R. P.,
    Global Ecology and Biogeography
  17. Fire, Insect and Disease-Caused Tree Mortalities Increased in Forests of Greater Structural Diversity During Drought
    Zhai L., Coyle D. R., Li D., Jonko A.,
    Journal of Ecology
  18. Functional Traits Mediate Individualistic Species-Environment Distributions at Broad Spatial Scales While Fine-Scale Species Associations Remain Unpredictable
    Beck J. J., Li D., Johnson S. E., Rogers D., Cameron K. M., Sytsma K. J., Givnish T. J., Waller D. M.,
    American Journal of Botany
  19. Functional Trait Data for Vascular Plant Species From Northeastern North America
    Waller D. M., Paulson A. K., Richards J. H., Alverson W. S., Amatangelo K. L., Bai C., Johnson S. E., Li D., Sonnier G., Toczydlowski R. H.,
    Ecology
  20. Community Stability Is Related to Animal Diversity Change
    Jarzyna M. A., Norman K. E. A., LaMontagne J. M., Helmus M. R., Li D., Parker S. M., Perez Rocha M., Record S., Sokol E. R., Zarnetske P. L., Surasinghe T. D.,
    Ecosphere
  21. Exploring Discrepancies Between in Situ Phenology and Remotely Derived Phenometrics at NEON Sites
    Donnelly A., Yu R., Jones K., Belitz M., Li B., Duffy K., Zhang X., Wang J., Seyednasrollah B., Gerst K. L., Li D., Kaddoura Y., Zhu K., Morisette J., Ramey C., Smith K.,
    Ecosphere

    22. 2021

  22. Climate, Urbanization, and Species Traits Interactively Drive Flowering Duration
    Li D., Barve N., Brenskelle L., Earl K., Barve V., Belitz M. W., Doby J., Hantak M. M., Oswald J. A., Stucky B. J., Walters M., Guralnick R. P.,
    Global Change Biology
  23. Climate Drivers of Adult Insect Activity Are Conditioned by Life History Traits
    Belitz M. W., Barve V., Doby J. R., Hantak M. M., Larsen E. A., Li D., Oswald J. A., Sewnath N., Walters M., Barve N., Earl K., Gardner N., Guralnick R. P., Stucky B. J.,
    Ecology Letters
  24. Harnessing the NEON Data Revolution to Advance Open Environmental Science With a Diverse and Data-Capable Community
    Nagy R. C., Balch J. K., Bissell E. K., Cattau M. E., Glenn N. F., Halpern B. S., Ilangakoon N., Johnson B., Joseph M. B., Marconi S., O’Riordan C., Sanovia J., Swetnam T. L., Travis W. R., Wasser L. A., Woolner E., Zarnetske P., Abdulrahim M., Adler J., Barnes G., Bartowitz K. J., Blake R. E., Bombaci S. P., Brun J., Buchanan J. D., Chadwick K. D., Chapman M. S., Chong S. S., Chung Y. A., Corman J. R., Couret J., Crispo E., Doak T. G., Donnelly A., Duffy K. A., Dunning K. H., Duran S. M., Edmonds J. W., Fairbanks D. E., Felton A. J., Florian C. R., Gann D., Gebhardt M., Gill N. S., Gram W. K., Guo J. S., Harvey B. J., Hayes K. R., Helmus M. R., Hensley R. T., Hondula K. L., Huang T., Hundertmark W. J., Iglesias V., Jacinthe P., Jansen L. S., Jarzyna M. A., Johnson T. M., Jones K. D., Jones M. A., Just M. G., Kaddoura Y. O., Kagawa-Vivani A. K., Kaushik A., Keller A. B., King K. B. S., Kitzes J., Koontz M. J., Kouba P. V., Kwan W., LaMontagne J. M., LaRue E. A., Li D., Li B., Lin Y., Liptzin D., Long W. A., Mahood A. L., Malloy S. S., Malone S. L., McGlinchy J. M., Meier C. L., Melbourne B. A., Mietkiewicz N., Morisette J. T., Moustapha M., Muscarella C., Musinsky J., Muthukrishnan R., Naithani K., Neely M., Norman K., Parker S. M., Perez Rocha M., Petri L., Ramey C. A., Record S., Rossi M. W., SanClements M., Scholl V. M., Schweiger A. K., Seyednasrollah B., Sihi D., Smith K. R., Sokol E. R., Spaulding S. A., Spiers A. I., St. Denis L. A., Staccone A. P., Stack Whitney K., Stanitski D. M., Stricker E., Surasinghe T. D., Thomsen S. K., Vasek P. M., Xiaolu L., Yang D., Yu R., Yule K. M., Zhu K.,
    Ecosphere
  25. The Role of Functional Strategies in Global Plant Distribution
    Liao H., Li D., Zhou T., Huang B., Zhang H., Chen B., Peng S.,
    Ecography
  26. Mammalian Body Size Is Determined by Interactions Between Climate, Urbanization, and Ecological Traits
    Hantak M. M., McLean B. S., Li D., Guralnick R. P.,
    Communications Biology
  27. Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Β-Diversity of Freshwater Fish Assemblages in Relationship to Geographical and Climatic Determinants in North America
    Qian H., Cao Y., Chu C., Li D., Sandel B., Wang X., Jin Y.,
    Global Ecology and Biogeography
  28. Analyzing a Phenological Anomaly in Yucca of the Southwestern United States
    Brenskelle L., Barve V., Majure L. C., Guralnick R. P., Li D.,
    Scientific Reports

    29. 2020

  29. Phyr: An R Package for Phylogenetic Species-Distribution Modelling in Ecological Communities
    Li D., Dinnage R., Nell L. A., Helmus M. R., Ives A. R.,
    Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  30. Changes in Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Diversity in the Anthropocene
    Li D., Olden J. D., Lockwood J. L., Record S., McKinney M. L., Baiser B.,
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
  31. Climate and Plant Community Diversity in Space and Time
    Harrison S., Spasojevic M. J., Li D.,
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  32. Geographic Patterns and Environmental Correlates of Phylogenetic Relatedness and Diversity for Freshwater Fish Assemblages in North America
    Qian H., Cao Y., Li D., Chu C., Sandel B., Wang X.,
    Ecography
  33. Methods for Broad-Scale Plant Phenology Assessments Using Citizen Scientists’ Photographs
    Barve V. V., Brenskelle L., Li D., Stucky B. J., Barve N. V., Hantak M. M., McLean B. S., Paluh D. J., Oswald J. A., Belitz M. W., Folk R. A., Guralnick R. P.,
    Applications in Plant Sciences
  34. Body Size Trends in Response to Climate and Urbanization in the Widespread North American Deer Mouse, Peromyscus Maniculatus
    Guralnick R., Hantak M. M., Li D., McLean B. S.,
    Scientific Reports

    35. 2019

  35. Ecogeographical Rules and the Macroecology of Food Webs
    Baiser B., Gravel D., Cirtwill A. R., Dunne J. A., Fahimipour A. K., Gilarranz L. J., Grochow J. A., Li D., Martinez N. D., McGrew A., Poisot T., Romanuk T. N., Stouffer D. B., Trotta L. B., Valdovinos F. S., Williams R. J., Wood S. A., Yeakel J. D.,
    Global Ecology and Biogeography
  36. For Common Community Phylogenetic Analyses, Go Ahead and Use Synthesis Phylogenies
    Li D., Trotta L., Marx H. E., Allen J. M., Sun M., Soltis D. E., Soltis P. S., Guralnick R. P., Baiser B.,
    Ecology
  37. Functional Diversity Is a Passenger but Not Driver of Drought-Related Plant Diversity Losses in Annual Grasslands
    Miller J. E. D., Li D., LaForgia M., Harrison S.,
    Journal of Ecology
  38. Bayesian LDA for Mixed-Membership Clustering Analysis: The Rlda Package
    Albuquerque P. H. M., Valle D. R., Li D.,
    Knowledge-Based Systems
  39. Climate Drives Loss of Phylogenetic Diversity in a Grassland Community
    Li D., Miller J. E. D., Harrison S.,
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  40. The Effect of Urbanization on Plant Phenology Depends on Regional Temperature
    Li D., Stucky B. J., Deck J., Baiser B., Guralnick R. P.,
    Nature Ecology & Evolution

    41. 2018

  41. Homogenization of Species Composition and Species Association Networks Are Decoupled
    Li D., Poisot T., Waller D. M., Baiser B.,
    Global Ecology and Biogeography
  42. Species Richness and Phylogenetic Diversity of Native and Non-Native Species Respond Differently to Area and Environmental Factors
    Li D., Monahan W. B., Baiser B.,
    Diversity and Distributions
  43. Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Homogenization Across US National Parks: The Role of Non-Native Species
    Li D., Lockwood J. L., Baiser B.,
    From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation
  44. Global Environmental Change Effects on Plant Community Composition Trajectories Depend Upon Management Legacies
    Perring M. P., Bernhardt‐Römermann M., Baeten L., Midolo G., Blondeel H., Depauw L., Landuyt D., Maes S. L., Lombaerde E. D., Carón M. M., Vellend M., Brunet J., Chudomelová M., Decocq G., Diekmann M., Dirnböck T., Dörfler I., Durak T., Frenne P. D., Gilliam F. S., Hédl R., Heinken T., Hommel P., Jaroszewicz B., Kirby K. J., Kopecký M., Lenoir J., Li D., Máliš F., Mitchell F. J. G., Naaf T., Newman M., Petřík P., Reczyńska K., Schmidt W., Standovár T., Świerkosz K., Calster H. V., Vild O., Wagner E. R., Wulf M., Verheyen K.,
    Global Change Biology
  45. Community Assembly of the Ferns of Florida
    Sessa E. B., Chambers S. M., Li D., Trotta L., Endara L., Burleigh J. G., Baiser B.,
    American Journal of Botany
  46. Community Phylogeny of the Globally Critically Imperiled Pine Rockland Ecosystem
    Trotta L. B., Baiser B., Possley J., Li D., Lange J., Martin S., Sessa E. B.,
    American Journal of Botany
  47. Soil Microbes Regulate Forest Succession in a Subtropical Ecosystem in China: Evidence From a Mesocosm Experiment
    Liao H., Huang F., Li D., Kang L., Chen B., Zhou T., Peng S.,
    Plant and Soil
  48. Rr2: An R Package to Calculate R2s for Regression Models
    Ives A. R., Li D.,
    Journal of Open Source Software
  49. Understanding Context Dependency in the Response of Forest Understorey Plant Communities to Nitrogen Deposition
    Perring M. P., Diekmann M., Midolo G., Schellenberger Costa D., Bernhardt-Römermann M., Otto J. C. J., Gilliam F. S., Hedwall P., Nordin A., Dirnböck T., Simkin S. M., Máliš F., Blondeel H., Brunet J., Chudomelová M., Durak T., De Frenne P., Hédl R., Kopecký M., Landuyt D., Li D., Manning P., Petřík P., Reczyńska K., Schmidt W., Standovár T., Świerkosz K., Vild O., Waller D. M., Verheyen K.,
    Environmental Pollution
  50. HillR: Taxonomic, Functional, and Phylogenetic Diversity and Similarity Through Hill Numbers
    Li D.,
    Journal of Open Source Software
  51. Comparing Species–area Relationships of Native and Exotic Species
    Baiser B., Li D.,
    Biological Invasions

    52. 2017

  52. Can Functional Traits Account for Phylogenetic Signal in Community Composition?
    Li D., Ives A. R., Waller D. M.,
    New Phytologist
  53. Fire Exclusion and Climate Change Interact to Affect Long-Term Changes in the Functional Composition of Plant Communities
    Li D., Waller D. M.,
    Diversity and Distributions
  54. The Statistical Need to Include Phylogeny in Trait-Based Analyses of Community Composition
    Li D., Ives A. R.,
    Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  55. Combining Biodiversity Resurveys Across Regions to Advance Global Change Research
    Verheyen K., De Frenne P., Baeten L., Waller D. M., Hédl R., Perring M. P., Blondeel H., Brunet J., Chudomelová M., Decocq G., De Lombaerde E., Depauw L., Dirnböck T., Durak T., Eriksson O., Gilliam F. S., Heinken T., Heinrichs S., Hermy M., Jaroszewicz B., Jenkins M. A., Johnson S. E., Kirby K. J., Kopecký M., Landuyt D., Lenoir J., Li D., Macek M., Maes S. L., Máliš F., Mitchell F. J. G., Naaf T., Peterken G., Petřík P., Reczyńska K., Rogers D. A., Schei F. H., Schmidt W., Standovár T., Świerkosz K., Ujházy K., Van Calster H., Vellend M., Vild O., Woods K., Wulf M., Bernhardt-Römermann M.,
    BioScience

    56. 2016

  56. Long-Term Shifts in the Patterns and Underlying Processes of Plant Associations in Wisconsin Forests
    Li D., Waller D.,
    Global Ecology and Biogeography

    57. 2015

  57. Drivers of Observed Biotic Homogenization in Pine Barrens of Central Wisconsin
    Li D., Waller D.,
    Ecology

    58. 2013

  58. The Effects of Leaf Litter Evenness on Decomposition Depend on Which Plant Functional Group Is Dominant
    Li D., Peng S., Chen B.,
    Plant and Soil
  59. Non-Additive Effects on Decomposition From Mixing Litter of the Invasive Mikania Micrantha H.B.K. With Native Plants
    Chen B., Peng S., D’Antonio C. M., Li D., Ren W.,
    PLoS ONE

    60. 2009

  60. Research Progress on Merremia Boisiana
    Wang B., Peng S., Li D., Zhou T.,
    Chinese Journal of Ecology