The Suding Lab

Katharine Suding

Education:
Ph.D. 1999	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
M.S. 1996	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
B.S. 1994	Williams College, Williamstown, MA Highest honors in Biology

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS:

2003-present	Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Irvine.
2003-present	Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder.
2002-2005	Visiting Professor, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Univ. J. Fourier, Grenoble, France.
1999-2003	Research Scientist, Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismal Biology and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder.
2000-2002	Research Assistant Professor, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University.

AWARDS AND HONORS:
2003-2005 CNRS Fellow, French government, Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique
1998-1999 Rackham Predoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
1997-1998 Helen Olson Brower Memorial Fellow, University of Michigan

PUBLICATIONS:

Suding, K. N. and D.E. Goldberg. 1999. Variation in the effects of litter and vegetation across productivity gradients. Journal of Ecology 78:436-449.

Suding, K.N. 2001. The effects of gap creation on competitive interactions: separating changes in overall intensity from relative rankings. Oikos 94: 219-227.

Suding, K.N. 2001. The effect of spring burning on competitive ranking of prairie species. Journal of Vegetation Science 12: 849-856.

Suding, K. N. and D.E. Goldberg. 2001. Do disturbances alter competitive hierarchies? Mechanisms of change following gap creation. Ecology 82: 2133-2149.

Suding, K.N., D.E. Goldberg, and K.M. Hartman. 2003. Relationships among species traits: separating levels of response and identifying linkages to abundance. Concepts and Synthesis Section. Ecology 84: 1-16.

Emery, S.M., K.L. Gross, and K.N. Suding. 2003. Spring burns best for controlling spotted knapweed in prairie restoration experiment (Michigan). Ecological Restoration 21: 137-138.

Suding, K.N., K.L. Gross, and G. Houseman. 2004. Alternative states and positive feedbacks in restoration ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 46-53.

Suding, K.N., K.D. LeJuene, and T.R. Seastedt. 2004. Competitive impacts and responses of an invasive weed: dependencies on nitrogen and phosphorus availability. Oecologia 141: 526-535.

Suding, K.N., J. Larson, E. Thorsos, H. Steltzer, and W.B. Bowman. 2004. Species effects on resource supply rates: do they influence competitive interactions? Plant Ecology 175: 47-58.

Clark, B.R., C. deMazancourt, K.N. Suding, and S.E. Hartley. 2005. The effect of recycling on plant competitive hierarchies. American Naturalist 165:605-622.

K.D. LeJeune, K. N. Suding, S. Sturgis, A. Scott, and T.R. Seastedt. 2005. Biological control insect use of fertilized and unfertilized diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa Lamarck) in a Colorado grassland. Environmental Entomology 34 (1): 225-234

Seastedt, T.R., K.N. Suding, and K.D. LeJeune. 2005. Understanding invasions: the rise and fall of diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) in North America. In: Inderjit, ed, Invasive Plants: ecological and agricultural aspects. Basal, Switzerland, Birkhauser-Verlag AG. Pages 107-122.

Pennings, S.C., C. Clark, E. Cleland, S. Collins, L. Gough, K. Gross, D. Milchunas, K. Suding. 2005. Do individual plant species show predictable responses to nitrogen addition across multiple experiments? Oikos 110: 547-555.

Suding, K., S. Collins, C. Clark, E. Cleland, L. Gough, K. Gross, D. Milchunas, S. Pennings. 2005. Functional and abundance-based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to nitrogen fertilization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 102 (12): 4387-4392.

Suding, K.N. and K.L. Gross. 2006. Modifying native and exotic species richness correlations: the influence of fire and seed addition. Ecological Applications 16:1319-1326.

Talluto, M.V., K.N. Suding, and P.A. Bowler. 2006. Factors affecting understory establishment in coastal sage restoration. Madrono 53: 55-59.

Suding, K.N., A. Miller, H. Bechtold, and W. Bowman. 2006. The consequence of species loss on ecosystem nitrogen cycling depends on community compensation dynamics. Oecologia 149: 141-149.

Suding, K.N. and K.L. Gross. 2006. “The dynamic nature of ecological systems: multiple states and restoration trajectories” pages 190-209 in Foundations of Restoration Ecology, D. Falk, M. Palmer, and J. Zedler, eds, Island Press.

Walker, M., C.H. Wahren, R. Hollister, G. Henry, K.N. Suding et al. 2006. Responses to experimental warming across the tundra biome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 103 (5): 1342-1346.

LeJeune, K.D., K.N. Suding, and T.R. Seastedt. 2006. Nutrient availability does not explain invasion and dominance of a mixed grass prairie by the exotic forb Centaurea diffusa Lam. Applied Soil Ecology 32: 98-110.

Gross, N., K.N. Suding, and S.L. Lavorel. 2007. Leaf dry matter content and lateral spread predict response to land use change for six subalpine grassland species. Journal of Vegetation Science 18: 289-300.

Clark, C., E.E. Cleland, S.C. Collins, J. Fargione, L. Gough, K.L. Gross, S. Pennings, K.N. Suding, and J. Grace. 2007. Environmental and plant community determinants of species loss following nitrogen enrichment. Ecology Letters 10: 596-607.

Reed, S.C., T.R. Seastedt, C.M. Mann, K.N. Suding, and A.R. Townsend. 2007. Phosphorus fertilization stimulates nitrogen fixation and increases inorganic nitrogen concentrations in a restored prairie. Applied Soil Ecology 36: 238-242.

Seastedt, T.R., and K.N. Suding. 2007. Biotic constraints on the invasion on diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) in North American grasslands. Oecologia 151: 626-636.

Miller, A.E., W.D. Bowman, and K.N. Suding. 2007. Plant uptake of inorganic and organic nitrogen: neighbor identity matters. Ecology 88: 1832-1840.

Cherwin, K., T.R. Seastedt, and K.N. Suding. In press. Effects of nutrient manipulations and grass removal on cover, species composition, and invasability of a novel grassland in Colorado. Restoration Ecology.

Gross, N., K.N. Suding, and S. Lavorel. 2007. Complementarity as a mechanism of coexistence between functional groups of grasses. Journal of Ecology 95: 1296-1305.

Harpole, W.S., D. Potts, and K.N. Suding. 2007. Ecosystem responses to water and nitrogen amendment in a California grassland. Global Change Biology 13: 2341-2348.

Harpole, W.S. and K.N. Suding. In press. Frequency-dependency stabilizes competitive interactions among four annual plants. Ecology Letters.

Suding, K.N., S. Lavorel, F.S. Chapin, H. Cornelissen, S. Diaz, E. Garnier, D. Goldberg, D.U. Hooper, S.T. Jackson and M.L. Navas. In press. Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants. Global Change Biology.

Potts, D.L., W.S. Harpole, M.L. Goulden and K.N. Suding. In press. The impact of invasion and subsequent removal of an exotic thistle, Cynara cardunculus, on CO₂ and H₂O vapor exchange in coastal California grassland. Biological Invasions.

Seastedt, T.R, R. Hobbs, and K.N. Suding. In press. Management of novel ecosystems: are novel approaches required? Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment.

Suding, K.N., I. Ashton, H. Bechtold, W. Bowman, M. Mobley, and R. Winkleman. In press. Plant and microbe contribution to community resilience in a directionally changing environment. Ecology.