Peer-reviewed publications

in preparation / submitted / in review

20. Laliberté, E., Norton, D. A., and D. Scott. Plant trait dispersion patterns under long-term shifts in resource availability and disturbance challenge common assumptions about community assembly processes. In review.

Invited for a special issue on "Plant functional diversity across environmental gradients".

19. Gross, N., Laliberté, E., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Liancourt, P., Vile, D. and C. Violle. Incorporating biotic interactions into the response-effect trait framework to capture ecosystem response to environmental changes. In review.

18. Laliberté, E., H. Lambers, D. A. Norton, J. M. Tylianakis and M. A. Huston. A long-term experimental test of the dynamic equilibrium model of species diversity. In review.

17. Laliberté, E*., Adair, E. C.*, Hobbie, S. Estimating litter decomposition rate in single-pool models using nonlinear beta regression. In review. *Equal contribution.

16. Lambers, H., Bishop, J.G., Hopper, S.D., Laliberté, E. and A. Zúñiga-Fest. Cluster-rooted species as ecosystem engineers: the role of carboxylate-exuding roots in phosphorus cycling in young, poorly developed soils. To be submitted as an Invited Review to Annals of Botany.

2012

15. Laliberté, E., Turner, B.L., Costes, T., Pearse, S.J., Wyrwoll, K.-H., Zemunik, G., and H. Lambers. 2012. Experimental assessment of nutrient limitation along a 2-million year dune chronosequence in the south-western Australia biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Ecology (in press).

14. Laliberté, E., Shipley, B., Norton, D. A., and D. Scott. 2012. Which plant traits determine abundance under long-term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity? Journal of Ecology (in press) [PDF] [HTML]

13. Laliberté, E. and J. M. Tylianakis. 2012. Cascading effects of long-term land-use changes on plant traits and ecosystem functioning. Ecology 93: 145-155. [PDF] [HTML]

2011

12. Laughlin, D. C., Fulé, P. Z., Huffman, D. W., Crouse, J., and E. Laliberté. 2011. Climatic constraints on trait-based forest assembly. Journal of Ecology 99: 1489-1499. [PDF] [HTML]

11. Lambers, H., Finnegan, P. M., Laliberté, E., Pearse, S. J., Ryan, M. H., Shane, M. W., and E. J. Veneklaas. 2011. Phosphorus nutrition of Proteaceae in severely phosphorus-impoverished soils: are there lessons to be learned for future crops?. Plant Physiology 156:1058-1066. [PDF] [HTML]

Invited "Update" for a special issue on phosphorus nutrition.

2010

10. Laliberté, E., Norton, D. A., Tylianakis, J. M., and D. Scott. 2010. Comparison of two sampling methods for quantifying changes in vegetation community structure under rangeland development. Rangeland Ecology & Management 63: 537-545 [PDF] [Endnote] [BibTeX] [HTML]

9. Tylianakis, J. M., Laliberté, E.,  Nielsen, A., and J. Bascompte. 2010. Conservation of species interaction networks. Biological Conservation 143: 2270-2279 [PDF] [Endnote] [BibTeX] [HTML]

8. Laliberté, E*. and J. M. Tylianakis*. 2010. Deforestation homogenizes tropical parasitoid-host networks. Ecology 91: 1740-1747 [PDF] [Endnote] [BibTeX] [HTML] *Equal contribution.

Highligted in EcoTone, ESA's blog.

7. Laliberté, E., and P. Legendre. 2010. A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits. Ecology 91: 299-305 [PDF] [Endnote] [BibTeX] [HTML] [CRAN - FD package] [R-Forge - FD package]

6. Laliberté, E., Wells J., DeClerck F., Metcalfe D.J., Catterall C.P., Queiroz C., Aubin I., Bonser S.P., Ding Y., Fraterrigo J.M., McNamara S., Morgan J.W., Sanchez-Merlos D, Vesk P.A. and Mayfield M.M. 2010. Land use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities. Ecology Letters 13: 76-86 [PDF] [Endnote] [BibTeX] [HTML]

One of the top-10 most-downloaded articles for 2010 in Ecology Letters.

2009

5. Laliberté. E., Paquette, A., Legendre, P. and A. Bouchard. 2009. Assessing the scale-specific importance of niches and other spatial processes on beta diversity: a case study from a temperate forest. Oecologia 159: 377-388 [PDF] [Endnote] [BibTeX] [HTML]

2008

4. Laliberté, E. 2008. Analyzing or explaining beta diversity? Comment. Ecology 89: 3232-3237 [PDF] [Endnote] [BibTeX] [HTML]

The whole "Analyzing beta diversity" discussion can be downloaded: [PDF] [Endnote] [BibTeX]

3. Laliberté, E., Cogliastro, A. and A. Bouchard. 2008. Spatiotemporal patterns in seedling emergence and early growth of two oak species direct-seeded on abandoned pastureland. Annals of Forest Science 65: e407 [PDF] [Endnote] [BibTeX] [HTML]

2. Laliberté, E., Bouchard, A. and A. Cogliastro. 2008. Optimizing hardwood reforestation in old-fields: the effects of treeshelters and environmental factors on tree seedling growth and physiology. Restoration Ecology 16: 270-280 [PDF] [Endnote] [BibTeX] [HTML]

2007

1. Paquette, A., Laliberté, E., Bouchard, A., de Blois, S., P. Legendre, and J. Brisson. 2007. Lac Croche understory vegetation data set (1998-2006) Ecology 88: 3209 [PDF] [Endnote] [BibTeX] [HTML]

Theses

Laliberté, E. 2011. Land-use Intensification in grazing systems: plant trait responses and feedbacks to ecosystem functioning and resilience. PhD thesis, School of Forestry, University of Canterbury. 258 pp. [PDF]

Laliberté, E. 2006. Optimiser l'établissement d'arbres feuillus (Acer saccharinum, Fraxinus pennsylvanica et Quercus macrocarpa) par la "facilitation artificielle". MSc thesis, Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV), Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal. 61 pp. [PDF]

Reports & other publications

Laliberté, E., Norton, D. A., and D. Scott. 2008. Impacts of rangeland development on plant functional diversity, ecosystem processes and services, and resilience. Global Land Project (GLP) Newsletter #4 (October) [PDF]

Laliberté, E., Cogliatro, A. and A. Bouchard. 2006. Projet pilote de restauration de paysages forestiers au parc national des îles-de-Boucherville: Rapport final 2004-2005. Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV), Montréal, QC. [PDF]

 Laliberté. E. and G. Boudreau. 2003. Couleurs automnales dans l’arboretum. Quatre-Temps 27(3): 4-7.

 Laliberté, E. 2001. The arctic-alpine flora of Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR). Thunder Bay, ON.

 Laliberté, E. 2001. Checklist of the vascular plants of Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR). Thunder Bay, ON.