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Siefert, A. and Laughlin, D.C. 2023. Estimating the net effect of functional traits on fitness across species and environments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, in press. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2022.02.10.479905

Siefert, A., Friesen, M.L., Zillig, K.W., Aguilar, J., and Strauss, S.Y. 2021. An experimental test of stabilizing forces in the field niche. Ecology 102: e03290.

Fajardo, A. and Siefert, A. 2019. The interplay among intraspecific leaf trait variation, niche breadth and species abundance along light and soil nutrient gradients. Oikos 128: 881-891.

Siefert, A., Zillig, K.W., Friesen, M.L., and Strauss, S.Y. 2019. Mutualists stabilize coexistence of congeneric legumes. American Naturalist 193: 200-212.

Siefert, A., Zillig, K.W., Friesen, M.L., and Strauss, S.Y. 2018. Soil microbial communities alter conspecific and congeneric competition consistent with patterns of field coexistence in Trifolium congeners. Journal of Ecology 106: 1876-1891.

Fajardo, A. and Siefert, A. 2018. Intraspecific trait variation and the leaf economics spectrum across resource gradients and levels of organization. Ecology 99: 1024-1030.

Li, Y., Shipley, B., Price, J., Dantas, V., Tamme, R., Westoby, M., Siefert, A., et al. 2018. Habitat filtering determines the functional niche occupancy of plant communities worldwide. Journal of Ecology 106: 1001-1009.

Bowsher, A., Siefert, A., Shetty, P., Anacker, B., Strauss, S.Y., and Friesen, M.L. 2017    Transcriptomic responses to conspecific and congeneric competition in co-occurring Trifolium. Journal of Ecology 105: 602-615.

Pierce, S., …, Siefert, A., et al. 2017. A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes worldwide. Functional Ecology 31: 444-457.

Fajardo, A. and Siefert, A. 2016. Temperate rain forest species partition fine-scale gradients in light availability based on their leaf mass per area. Annals of Botany 118: 1307-1315.

Siefert, A. and Ritchie, M.E. 2016. Intraspecific trait variation drives functional responses of old-field plant communities to nutrient enrichment. Oecologia 181: 245-255.

Fajardo, A. and Siefert, A. 2016. Phenological variation in leaf functional traits within species. Oecologia 180: 951-959.

Siefert, A. et al. 2015. A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. Ecology Letters 18: 1406-1419.

Siefert, A., Lesser, M., and Fridley, J.D. 2015. How do climate and dispersal traits limit ranges of tree species along latitudinal and elevational gradients? Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24: 581-593.

Siefert, A., Fridley, J.D., and Ritchie, M.E. 2014. Community functional responses to soil and           climate at multiple spatial scales: when does intraspecific variation matter? PLOS ONE 9:e111189.

Moles, A., …, Siefert, A., et al. 2014. Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? Journal of Vegetation Science 25: 1167-1180.

Siefert, A., Ravenscroft, C., Weiser, M. and Swenson, N.G. 2013. Functional beta diversity patterns reveal deterministic community assembly processes in eastern North American trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22: 682-691.

Siefert, A. 2012. Incorporating intraspecific variation in tests of trait-based community assembly. Oecologia 170: 767-775.

Siefert, A., Ravenscroft, C., et al. 2012. Scale dependence of vegetation-environment relationships: a meta-analysis of multivariate data. Journal of Vegetation Science 23: 942-951.

Siefert, A. 2012. Spatial patterns of functional divergence in old-field plant communities. Oikos 121: 907-914.

Kattge, J., …, Siefert, A., et al. 2011. TRY- a global database of plant traits. Global Change Biology 17: 2905-2935.

Carrick, H.J., Godwin, C.M., Johston-Greenwald, M., Rilk, C., Siefert, A., and Tzilkowski, C.J. 2007. Evaluation of water quality in a spring fed stream based upon benthic algae and macroinvertebrates. Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences 80: 71-78.








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