Dr Wayne Dawson's Outputs (4)

Little evidence for release from herbivores as a driver of plant invasiveness from a multi-species herbivore-removal experiment (2014)
Journal Article
Dawson, W., Bottini, A., Fischer, M., van Kleunen, M., & Knop, E. (2014). Little evidence for release from herbivores as a driver of plant invasiveness from a multi-species herbivore-removal experiment. Oikos, 123(12), 1509-1518. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.01485

Enemy release is frequently posed as a main driver of invasiveness of alien species. However, an experimental multi-species test examining performance and herbivory of invasive alien, non-invasive alien and native plant species in the presence and ab... Read More about Little evidence for release from herbivores as a driver of plant invasiveness from a multi-species herbivore-removal experiment.

Invasion by Solidago species has limited impacts on soil seed bank communities. (2014)
Journal Article
Kundel, D., van Kleunen, M., & Dawson, W. (2014). Invasion by Solidago species has limited impacts on soil seed bank communities. Basic and Applied Ecology, 15(7), 573-580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2014.08.009

Increasing attention in invasion biology is being paid to measuring and understanding the impacts of invasive species. For plant invasions, however, the impact of invasion on soil seed bank communities has been under-studied. At six sites in southern... Read More about Invasion by Solidago species has limited impacts on soil seed bank communities..

Invasive clonal plant species have a greater root - foraging plasticity than non - invasive ones. (2014)
Journal Article
Keser, L., Dawson, W., Song, Y., Yu, F., Fischer, M., Dong, M., & van Kleunen, M. (2014). Invasive clonal plant species have a greater root - foraging plasticity than non - invasive ones. Oecologia, 174, 1055-1064. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-013-2829-y

Clonality is frequently positively correlated with plant invasiveness, but which aspects of clonality make some clonal species more invasive than others is not known. Due to their spreading growth form, clonal plants are likely to experience spatial... Read More about Invasive clonal plant species have a greater root - foraging plasticity than non - invasive ones..

The more the merrier: Multi-species experiments in ecology (2014)
Journal Article
van Kleunen, M., Dawson, W., Bossdorf, O., & Fischer, M. (2014). The more the merrier: Multi-species experiments in ecology. Basic and Applied Ecology, 15(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2013.10.006

A major objective in ecology is to find general patterns, and to establish the rules and underlying mechanisms that generate those patterns. Nevertheless, most of our current insights in ecology are based on case studies of a single or few species, w... Read More about The more the merrier: Multi-species experiments in ecology.