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Research Interests
Dr. Von Holle is interested in the landscape patterns and community mechanisms that influence the addition of species into ecosystems. Her research interests span four related themes: 1) the investigation of ecosystem and anthropogenic factors that influence invasion by nonnative species, 2) understanding changes in ecosystem function as a result of ecological restoration, 3) the characterization of the impact and type of species to invade natural areas, and 4) economic impacts and policy implications of nonnative species invasions. Her research approaches have included landscape-scale quantification of environmental and land-use history parameters paired with experimental manipulations of natural communities, restoration experiments, greenhouse experiments, meta-analyses of global patterns of invasion, literature reviews, and spatial and null models. She employs multi-scale techniques, where she determines landscape-level influences on nonnative species demography and further investigates these influential factors with patch-scale community manipulations and analyses. Her interest in landscape preservation is served by utilizing a variety of methods to answer pressing questions relating to the addition and loss of species in ecosystems.
Selected Publications
Fridley, J. D., Stachowicz, J.J., Naeem, S., Sax, D.F., Seabloom, E.W., Smith, M.D., Stohlgren, T.J., Tilman, D., and Von Holle, B. 2006, In press. The invasion paradox: Reconciling pattern and process in species invasions. Ecology.
Mack, R.N., Von Holle B., Meyerson, L.A. 2006, In press. Assessing the impacts of invasive alien species across multiple spatial scales: the need to work globally and locally. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
Neill, C.M., B. Von Holle, K. Kleese, K. D. Ivy, A. R. Collins, and C. Treat. 2006, In press. Effects of land-use history on soil quality and vegetation: Implications for sandplain grassland restoration. Biological Conservation.
Von Holle, B., K.A Joseph, E.F. Largay, and R.G. Lohnes. 2006. Facilitations between the introduced nitrogen-fixing tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, andnonnative plant species in the glacial outwash upland ecosystem of Cape Cod, MA. Biodiversity and Conservation 15:2197–2215
Von Holle, B. and D. Simberloff. 2005. Ecological resistance to biological invasion overwhelmed by propagule pressure. Ecology 86(12):3213-3218.
A. M. Ellison, M. S. Bank, B. D. Clinton, E. A. Colburn, C. R. Ford, D. R. Foster, B. D. Kloeppel, J. D. Knoepp, G. M. Lovett, J. Mohan, D. A. Orwig, N. L.
Rodenhouse, W. V. Sobczak, K. A. Stinson, J. K. Stone, C.M. Swan, J. Thompson, B. Von Holle, and J. R. Webster. 2005. Loss of foundation species: Consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 9(3): 479-486.
Von Holle, B. 2005. Biotic resistance to invader establishment of a southern Appalachian plant community is determined by environmental conditions. Journal of Ecology 93: 16-26
Von Holle, B. and D. Simberloff. 2004. Testing Fox’s assembly rule: Does plant invasion depend upon recipient community structure? Oikos 105: 551-563
Von Holle, B., H. Delcourt, and D. Simberloff. 2003. Biological inertia and its application in studies of ecological resistance to invasion. Journal of Vegetation Science 14: 425-432
Weltzin, J.F., N. Muth, B. Von Holle, and P. Cole. 2003. Overcoming methodological constraints on experimental investigations of diversity-invasibility relationships - a test using genetic diversity in a model system. Oikos 103: 505-518
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