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Soils, Plants and Invasion

Ragan M. Callaway, Robert W. Pal, Kevin Kožić, Ylva Lekberg, Christoph Rosche, Adrian Schaar, Dávid U. Nagy, David Hooper, Julian A. Selke, Harald Auge, Arpad E. Thoma, Isabell Hensen, Sabrina Träger (2025). Exotic Invasive Plant Species Increase Primary Productivity, but Not in Their Native Ranges. Ecology Letters https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70187.

By: Ylva Lekberg

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Soils, Plants and Invasion

2024 publications by the MPG plant-soil feedback group

January 3rd, 2025

By: Ylva Lekberg and Mary Ellyn DuPre

Research Update

Soils, Plants and Invasion

Dean Pearson, Yvette Ortega, Ylva Lekberg (2024). Invaders break assembly rules to beat the natives: how cheatgrass cheats. NeoBiota 10.3897/neobiota.96.129679.

By: Dean Pearson and Ylva Lekberg

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Lorinda Bullington, Emily Martin, Beay Larkin, Ylva Lekberg (2024). Linking symbioses with intrinsic chemical defences in conifers: Fungal- mediated resistance against an invasive pathogen. Journal of Applied Ecology 10.1111/1365-2664.14816.

By: Lorinda Bullington, Beau Larkin and Ylva Lekberg

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Soils, Plants and Invasion

Charles W. Casper, Mary Ellyn DuPre, John L. Maron, Philip W. Ramsey, Ylva Lekberg, Morgan L. McLeod, Rebecca A. Bunn (2024). Negative plant–soil feedback in uences a dominant seeded species, Western yarrow (Achillea millefolium), in grassland restoration. Restoration Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14271.

By: Chuck Casper, Mary Ellyn DuPre , Morgan McLeod and more...

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Soils, Plants and Invasion

Ylva Lekberg 1,2,* , Morgan McLeod 1,3, Lorinda S. Bullington 1,2 , Mary Ellyn DuPre 1 , Gabriela De La Roca 4, Shawn Greenbaum 4, Johannes Rousk 5 and Philip W. Ramsey 1 (2024). Substantial and Rapid Increase in Soil Health across Crops with Conversion from Conventional to Regenerative Practices. Sustainability 10.3390/su16135509.

By: Ylva Lekberg, Lorinda Bullington, Morgan McLeod and more...

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Soils, Plants and Invasion

Min Sheng, Lorinda Bullington, Morgan McLeod, Ylva Lekberg (2022). Acquisition and evolution of enhanced mutualism—an underappreciated mechanism for invasive success? The ISME Journal https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-022-01293-w.

By: Ylva Lekberg, Morgan McLeod and Lorinda Bullington

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Soils, Plants and Invasion

Dean E. Pearson, Özkan Eren, Yvette K. Ortega, José L. Hierro, Birsen Karakuş, Sascha Kala, Lorinda Bullington, Ylva Lekberg (2022). Combining biogeographical approaches to advance invasion ecology and methodology. Journal of Ecology 10.1111/1365-2745.13945.

By: Ylva Lekberg, Lorinda Bullington and Dean Pearson

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Soils, Plants and Invasion

The effect of plant invasion on soil microbial carbon-use efficiency in semi-arid grasslands of the Rocky Mountain West

January 3rd, 2022

By: Ylva Lekberg and Lorinda Bullington

Research Report

Soils, Plants and Invasion

Gerard Sapes, Patrick Demaree, Ylva Lekberg, Anna Sala (2021). Plant carbohydrate depletion impairs water relations and spreads via ectomycorrhizal networks. New Phytologist 229: 3172-3183. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17134.

By: Ylva Lekberg

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Soils, Plants and Invasion

Lorinda S. Bullington, Ylva Lekberg, Beau G. Larkin (2021). Insufficient sampling constrains our characterization of plant microbiomes. Scientific Reports 11, 364 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83153-9.

By: Lorinda Bullington, Ylva Lekberg and Beau Larkin

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Soils, Plants and Invasion

Morgan Luce McLeod, Lorinda Bullington, Cory C. Cleveland, Johannes Rousk, Ylva Lekberg, (2021). Invasive plant-derived dissolved organic matter alters microbial communities and carbon cycling in soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry Vol 156, 108191. ISSN 0038-0717, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108191..

, Lorinda Bullington and Ylva Lekberg

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Soils, Plants and Invasion

Ylva Lekberg, Carlos A. Arnillas, Elizabeth T. Borer, Lorinda S. Bullington, Noah Fierer, Peter G. Kennedy, Jonathan W. Leff, Angela D. Luis, Eric W. Seabloom, Jeremiah A. Henning (2021). Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils. Nature Communications 12, 3484 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23605-y.

By: Ylva Lekberg and Lorinda Bullington

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MPG Ranch Joins Drought-Net

April 26th, 2021

By: Mary Ellyn DuPre , Ylva Lekberg and Jeff Clarke

Soils, Plants and Invasion

Vasilis Kokkoris, Ylva Lekberg, Pedro M. Antunes, Catherine Fahey, James A. Fordyce, Stephanie N. Kivlin, Miranda M. Hart (2020). Codependency between plant and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities: what is the evidence? New Phytologist 228: 828-838. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16676.

By: Ylva Lekberg

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Mammals

Melissa J Reynolds-Hogland, Alan B Ramsey, August T Seward, Kristine L Pilgrim, Cory Engkjer, Philip W Ramsey (2020). Response of a remnant marmot population to habitat enhancement yields insights into marmot ecology. Journal of Mammalogy Volume 101, Issue 3, 22 May 2020, Pages 658–669, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyaa021.

By: Alan Ramsey, Gus Seward and Philip W. Ramsey

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Bunn, R. A., Simpson, D. T., Bullington, L. S., Lekberg, Y., & Janos, D. P. (2019). Revisiting the ‘direct mineral cycling’ hypothesis: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonize leaf litter, but why? The ISME Journal 13, 1891-1898. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0403-2.

By: Lorinda Bullington and Ylva Lekberg

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Bueno, C. G., Aldrich-Wolfe, L., Chaudhary, V. B., Gerz, M., Helgason, T., Hoeksema, J. D., Lekberg, Y., ... & Öpik, M. (2019). Misdiagnosis and uncritical use of plant mycorrhizal data are not the only elephants in the room: A response to Brundrett & Tedersoo ‘Misdiagnosis of mycorrhizas and inappropriate recycling of data can lead to false conclusions'. The New Phytologist https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15976.

By: Ylva Lekberg

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Ramsey, A. B., Sawaya, M. A., Bullington, L. S., & Ramsey, P. W. (2019). Individual identification via remote video verified by DNA analysis: a case study of the American black bear. . Wildlife Research 46(4), 326-333. https://doi.org/10.1071/WR18049.

By: Alan Ramsey, Lorinda Bullington and Philip W. Ramsey

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Rosche, C., Hensen, I., Schaar, A., Zehra, U., Jasieniuk, M., Callaway, R. M., Lekberg, Y., ... & Pal, R. W (2019). Climate outweighs native vs. non‐native range‐effects for genetics and common garden performance of a cosmopolitan weed. . Ecological Monographs e01386. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1386.

By: Ylva Lekberg

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Soils, Plants and Invasion

Bullington, L. S., Lekberg, Y., Sniezko, R., & Larkin, B. (2018). The influence of genetics, defensive chemistry and the fungal microbiome on disease outcome in whitebark pine trees. Molecular plant pathology 19(8), 1847-1858. https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.12663.

By: Lorinda Bullington, Ylva Lekberg and Beau Larkin

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Soils, Plants and Invasion

Lekberg, Y., Bever, J. D., Bunn, R. A., Callaway, R. M., Hart, M. M., Kivlin, S. N., ... & Remke, M. (2018). Relative importance of competition and plant–soil feedback, their synergy, context dependency and implications for coexistence. Ecology Letters 21(8), 1268-1281. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13093.

By: Ylva Lekberg

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Soils, Plants and Invasion

Waller, L. P., Hahn, P. G., Maron, J. L., & Lekberg, Y. (2018). Trait differences in responses to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are stronger and more consistent than fixed differences among populations of Asclepias speciosa. American Journal of Botany 105(2), 207-214. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1038.

By: Ylva Lekberg

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Pearson, D. E., Ortega, Y. K., Villarreal, D., Lekberg, Y., Cock, M. C., Eren, Ö., & Hierro, J. L (2018). The fluctuating resource hypothesis explains invisibility, but not exotic advantage following disturbance. . Ecology 99(6), 1296-1305. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2235.

By: Ylva Lekberg

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