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Nicole A. Molinari
Researcher at United States Forest Service
Publications - 27
Citations - 2123
Nicole A. Molinari is an academic researcher from United States Forest Service. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chaparral & Shrubland. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 23 publications receiving 1779 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicole A. Molinari include United States Department of Agriculture & California Polytechnic State University.
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Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa.
Dan F. B. Flynn,Melanie Gogol-Prokurat,Theresa M. Nogeire,Nicole A. Molinari,Bárbara Trautman Richers,Brenda B. Lin,Nicholas B. Simpson,Margaret M. Mayfield,Fabrice DeClerck +8 more
TL;DR: Analysis of changes in species richness and functional diversity at varying agricultural land use intensity levels in plant, bird, and mammal communities finds declines were steeper than predicted by species number and changes in FD were indistinguishable from changes inspecies richness.
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The large genome constraint hypothesis: evolution, ecology and phenotype.
TL;DR: It is found that species with large genomes have reduced maximum photosynthetic rates - suggesting a large genome constraint on plant performance, and whether these phenotypic correlations may help explain why species are trimmed from the evolutionary tree and have restricted ecological distributions.
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A functional trait perspective on plant invasion
Rebecca E. Drenovsky,Brenda J. Grewell,Carla M. D'Antonio,Jennifer L. Funk,Jeremy J. James,Nicole A. Molinari,Ingrid M. Parker,Christina L. Richards +7 more
TL;DR: It is essential to link trait-based responses of invaders to changes in community and ecosystem properties, and this work suggests a functional trait framework for assessing per capita effects and, ultimately, impacts of invasive plants on plant communities and ecosystems.
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Poised to prosper? A cross-system comparison of climate change effects on native and non-native species performance.
Cascade J. B. Sorte,Inés Ibáñez,Dana M. Blumenthal,Nicole A. Molinari,Luke P. Miller,Edwin D. Grosholz,Jeffrey M. Diez,Carla M. D'Antonio,Julian D. Olden,Sierra J. Jones,Jeffrey S. Dukes +10 more
TL;DR: A meta-analytical approach is taken to broadly evaluate whether non-native species are poised to respond more positively than native species to future climatic conditions, including enhanced positive responses to more favourable conditions and stronger negative responses to less favourable conditions.
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Structural, compositional and trait differences between native- and non-native-dominated grassland patches
TL;DR: It is suggested that species that are better suited (earlier phenology, larger seed size and taller) for low light availability are those that coexist with B. diandrus, and this is consistent with the hypothesis that change in physical structure with B.