Peter B. Reich

The paper evaluates how ecological context affects the interpretation of Mean Species Abundance (MSA) as a biodiversity intactness metric across different biomes and taxonomic groups.

The paper analyzes global wildfire data to show that prior low-severity fires reduce the risk of persistent forest loss from subsequent fires, suggesting targeted fire management could mitigate forest loss.

The paper examines how community-climate disequilibrium affects net primary productivity in rangeland ecosystems, finding that mismatched communities are less productive.

This study links leaf microbiome assembly to plant phylogeny by showing host phylogeny distance correlates with microbial community dissimilarity.

This study shows warming advances growth timing but not necessarily total growth in boreal species, with contrasting responses between evergreen gymnosperms and deciduous angiosperms.

The paper investigates how warming and reduced rainfall affect fungal necromass decomposition and microbial communities in a temperate-boreal forest ecotone, finding accelerated initial decay but no overall mass loss difference.

The paper predicts and validates the temperature sensitivity of stem respiration, showing thermal acclimation reduces global carbon emissions.