Parker, John
Fellowship Advisor Smithsonian Environmental Research Center staffCommunity ecology, consumer-prey interactions, and invasive species.
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Article
- Maynard, Lauren D., Ford, W. Mark, Parker, John D., and Whitehead, Susan R. 2023. "Biotic and abiotic factors shaping bat activity in Maryland soybean fields." Ecosphere, 14, (7). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4575. 2023
- King, Rachel A., Pullen, Jamie, Cook‐Patton, Susan C., and Parker, John D. 2023. "Diversity stabilizes but does not increase sapling survival in a tree diversity experiment." Restoration Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13927. 2023
- Forde, Alexander J., Feller, Ilka C., Parker, John D., and Gruner, Daniel S. 2022. "Insectivorous birds reduce herbivory but do not increase mangrove growth across productivity zones." Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3768. 2022
- Sedio, Brian E., Spasojevic, Marko J., Myers, Jonathan A., Wright, S. Joseph, Person, Maria D., Chandrasekaran, Hamssika, Dwenger, Jack H., Prechi, Maria Laura, Lopez, Christian A., Allen, David N., Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J., Baltzer, Jennifer L., Bourg, Norman A., Castillo, Buck T., Day, Nicola J., Dewald-Wang, Emily, Dick, Christopher W., James, Timothy Y., Kueneman, Jordan G., LaManna, Joseph, Lutz, James A., McGregor, Ian R., McMahon, Sean M., Parker, Geoffrey G., Parker, John D. et al. 2021. "Chemical Similarity of Co-occurring Trees Decreases With Precipitation and Temperature in North American Forests." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.679638. 2021
- Messier, Christian, Bauhus, Juergen, Sousa-Silva, Rita, Auge, Harald, Baeten, Lander, Barsoum, Nadia, Bruelheide, Helge, Caldwell, Benjamin, Cavender-Bares, Jeannine, Dhiedt, Els, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ganade, Gislene, Gravel, Dominique, Guillemot, Joannes, Hall, Jefferson S., Hector, Andrew, Herault, Bruno, Jactel, Herve, Koricheva, Julia, Kreft, Holger, Mereu, Simone, Muys, Bart, Nock, Charles A., Paquette, Alain, Parker, John D. et al. 2021. "For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!." Conservation Letters, https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12829. 2021
- Sedio, Brian E., Devaney, John L., Pullen, Jamie, Parker, Geoffrey G., Wright, S. Joseph, and Parker, John D. 2020. "Chemical novelty facilitates herbivore resistance and biological invasions in some introduced plant species." Ecology and Evolution, 10, (16) 8770–8792. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6575. 2020
- Hayes, Matthew A., Chapman, Samantha, Jesse, Amber, O'Brien, Elizabeth, Langley, J. Adam, Bardou, Remi, Devaney, John, Parker, John D., and Cavanaugh, Kyle C. 2020. "Foliar water uptake by coastal wetland plants: a novel water acquisition mechanism in arid and humid subtropical mangroves." Journal of Ecology, 108, (6) 2625–2637. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13398. 2020
- Cook-Patton, Susan, Leavitt, Sara M., Gibbs, David, Harris, Nancy L., Lister, Kristine, Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J., Briggs, Russell D., Chazdon, Robin L., Crowther, Thomas W., Ellis, Peter W., Griscom, Heather P., Herrmann, Valentine, Holl, Karen D., Houghton, Richard A., Larrosa, Cecilia, Lomax, Guy, Lucas, Richard, Madsen, Palle, Malhi, Yadvinder, Paquette, Alain, Parker, John D., Paul, Keryn, Routh, Devin, Roxburgh, Stephen, Saatchi, Sassan et al. 2020. "Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth." Nature, 585, (7826) 545–550. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2686-x. 2020
- Devaney, John L., Pullen, Jamie, Cook-Patton, Susan, Burghardt, Karin T., and Parker, John D. 2020. "Tree diversity promotes growth of late successional species despite increasing deer damage in a restored forest." Ecology, Article e03063. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3063. 2020
- Bardou, Remi, Parker, John D., Feller, Ilka C., and Cavanaugh, Kyle C. 2020. "Variability in the fundamental versus realized niches of North American mangroves." Journal of Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13990. 2020
- Cavanaugh, Kyle C., Dangremond, Emily M., Doughty, Cheryl L., Williams, A. Park, Parker, John D., Hayes, Matthew A., Rodriguez, Wilfrid, and Feller, Ilka C. 2019. "Climate-driven regime shifts in a mangrove-salt marsh ecotone over the past 250 years." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116, (43) 21602–21608. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902181116. 2019
- Griffin, Eric A., Harrison, Joshua G., McCormick, Melissa K., Burghardt, Karin T., and Parker, John D. 2019. "Tree Diversity Reduces Fungal Endophyte Richness and Diversity in a Large-Scale Temperate Forest Experiment." Diversity, 11, (12) 234. https://doi.org/10.3390/d11120234. 2019
- Averill, Kristine M., Mortensen, David A., Smithwick, Erica A. H., Kalisz, Susan, McShea, William J., Bourg, Norman A., Parker, John D., Royo, Alejandro A., Abrams, Marc D., Apsley, David K., Blossey, Bernd, Boucher, Douglas H., Caraher, Kai L., DiTommaso, Antonio, Johnson, Sarah E., Masson, Robert, and Nuzzo, Victoria A. 2018. "A regional assessment of white-tailed deer effects on plant invasion." AoB PLANTS, 10, (1). https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plx047. 2018
- Sedio, Brian E., Parker, John D., McMahon, Sean M., and Wright, S. Joseph. 2018. "Comparative foliar metabolomics of a tropical and a temperate forest community." Ecology, 99, (12) 2647–2653. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2533. 2018
- Sedio, Brian E., Parker, John D., McMahon, Sean M., and Wright, S. Joseph. 2018. "Comparative metabolomics of forest communities: Species differences in foliar chemistry are greater in the tropics." bioRxiv, 271361. https://doi.org/10.1101/271361. 2018
- Grossman, Jake J., Vanhellemont, Margot, Barsoum, Nadia, Bauhus, Jürgen, Bruelheide, Helge, Castagneyrol, Bastien, Cavender-Bares, Jeannine, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ferlian, Olga, Gravel, Dominique, Hector, Andy, Jactel, Hervé, Kreft, Holger, Mereu, Simone, Messier, Christian, Muys, Bart, Nock, Charles, Paquette, Alain, Parker, John D., Perring, Michael P., Ponette, Quentin, Reich, Peter B., Schuldt, Andreas, Staab, Michael, Weih, Martin et al. 2018. "Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments." Environmental and experimental botany, 152 68–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.12.015. 2018
- Lemoine, Nathan P., Burkepile, Deron E., and Parker, John D. 2017. "Insect herbivores increase mortality and reduce tree seedling growth of some species in temperate forest canopy gaps." PeerJ, 5 e3102. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3102. 2017
- Devaney, John L., Lehmann, Michael, Feller, Ilka C., and Parker, John D. 2017. "Mangrove microclimates alter seedling dynamics at the range edge." Ecology, 98, (10) 2513–2520. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1979. 2017
- Burkepile, Deron E. and Parker, John D. 2017. "Recent advances in plant-herbivore interactions." F1000Research, 6 119. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.10313.1. 2017
- Lemoine, Nathan P., Doublet, Dejeanne, Salminen, Juha-Pekka, Burkepile, Deron E., and Parker, John D. 2017. "Responses of plant phenology, growth, defense, and reproduction to interactive effects of warming and insect herbivory." Ecology, 98, (7) 1817–1828. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1855. 2017
- Verheyen, Kris, Vanhellemont, Margot, Auge, Harald, Baeten, Lander, Baraloto, Christopher, Barsoum, Nadia, Bilodeau-Gauthier, Simon, Bruelheide, Helge, Castagneyrol, Bastien, Godbold, Douglas, Hasse, Josephine, Hector, Andy, Jactel, Herve, Koricheva, Julia, Loreau, Michel, Mereu, Simone, Messier, Christian, Muys, Bart, Nolet, Philippe, Paquette, Alain, Parker, John D., Perring, Mike, Ponette, Quentin, Potvin, Catherine Jeanne, Reich, Peter et al. 2016. "Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations." Ambio, 45, (1) 29–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-015-0685-1. 2016
- Lemoine, Nathan P., Burkepile, Deron E., and Parker, John D. 2016. "Quantifying Differences Between Native and Introduced Species." Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31, (5) 372–381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.008. 2016
- Pei, Nancai, Erickson, David L., Chen, Bufeng, Ge, Xuejun, Mi, Xiangcheng, Swenson, Nathan G., Zhang, Jin-Long, Jones, Frank A., Huang, Chun-Lin, Ye, Wanhui, Hao, Zhanqing, Hsieh, Chang-Fu, Lum, Shawn, Bourg, Norman A., Parker, John D., Zimmerman, Jess K., McShea, William J., Lopez, Ida C., Sun, I. F., Davies, Stuart J., Ma, Keping, and Kress, W. John. 2015. "Closely-related taxa influence woody species discrimination via DNA barcoding: evidence from global forest dynamics plots." Scientific Reports, 5, (15127). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep15127. 2015
- Cook-Patton, Susan, Lehmann, Michael, and Parker, John D. 2015. "Convergence of three mangrove species towards freeze-tolerant phenotypes at an expanding range edge." Functional Ecology, 29, (10) 1332–1340. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12443. 2015
- Lemoine, Nathan P., Capdevielle, Jillian N., and Parker, John D. 2015. "Effects of in situ climate warming on monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus) development." PeerJ, https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1240v1. 2015
- Cavanaugh, Kyle C., Parker, John D., Cook-Patton, Susan, Feller, Ilka C., Park, Williams, A., and Kellner, James R. 2015. "Integrating physiological threshold experiments with climate modeling to project mangrove species' range expansion." Global Change Biology, 21, (5) 1928–1938. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12843. 2015
- Lemoine, Nathan P., Shue, Jessica, Verrico, Brittany, Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, and Parker, John D. 2015. "Phylogenetic relatedness and leaf functional traits, not introduced status, influence community assembly." Ecology, 96, (10) 2605–2612. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1883.1. 2015
- Cook-Patton, Susan, Weller, Daniel, Rick, Torben C., and Parker, John D. 2014. "Ancient experiments: forest biodiversity and soil nutrients enhanced by Native American middens." Landscape Ecology, 29, (6) 979–987. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-014-0033-z. 2014
- Cook-Patton, Susan, Maynard, Lauren, Lemoine, Nathan P., Shue, Jessica, and Parker, John D. 2014. "Cascading effects of a highly specialized beech-aphid-fungus interaction on forest regeneration." PeerJ, 2. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.442. 2014
- Erickson, David L., Jones, Frank A., Swenson, Nathan G., Pei, Nancai, Bourg, Norman, Chen, Wenna, Davies, Stuart James, Ge, Xue-jun, Hao, Zhanqing, Howe, Robert W., Huang, Chun Lin, Larson, Andrew J., Lum, Shawn K., Lutz, James, Ma, Keping, Meegaskumbura, Madhava, Mi, Xiangcheng, Parker, John D., Sun, I. Fang, Wright, S. Joseph, Wolf, Amy T., Xing, Dinglian, Zimmerman, Jess K., and Kress, W. John. 2014. "Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach." Frontiers in Genetics, 5 358. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2014.00358. 2014
- DiTommaso, Antonio, Morris, Scott H., Parker, John D., Cone, Caitlin L., and Agrawal, Anurag A. 2014. "Deer Browsing Delays Succession by Altering Aboveground Vegetation and Belowground Seed Banks." PLoS ONE, 9, (3) 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091155. 2014
- Cavanaugh, Kyle C., Kellner, James R., Forde, Alexander J., Gruner, Daniel S., Parker, John D., Rodriguez, Wilfrid, and Feller, Ilka C. 2014. "Poleward expansion of mangroves is a threshold response to decreased frequency of extreme cold events." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, (2) 723–727. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1315800111. 2014
- Cook-Patton, Susan, LaForgia, Marina, and Parker, John D. 2014. "Positive interactions between herbivores and plant diversity shape forest regeneration." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281, (1783). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0261. 2014
- Colautti, Robert, Parker, John D., Cadotte, Mark W., Pyšek, Petr, Brown, Cynthia S., Sax, Dov, and Richardson, David. 2014. "Quantifying the invasiveness of species." Neobiota, 21 7–27. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.21.5310. 2014
- Williams, Asher A., Eastman, Scott F., Eash-Loucks, Wendy, Kimball, Matthew E., Lehmann, Michael L., and Parker, John D. 2014. "Record Northernmost Endemic Mangroves on the United States Atlantic Coast with a Note on Latitudinal Migration." Southeastern Naturalist, 13, (1) 56–63. https://doi.org/10.1656/058.013.0104. 2014
- Cavanaugh, Kyle C., Kellner, James R., Forde, Alexander J., Gruner, Daniel S., Parker, John D., Rodriguez, Wilfrid, and Feller, Ilka C. 2014. "Reply to Giri and Long: Freeze-mediated expansion of mangroves does not depend on whether expansion is emergence or reemergence." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, (15) E1449–E1449. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1401809111. 2014
- Lemoine, Nathan P., Burkepile, Deron E., and Parker, John D. 2014. "Variable effects of temperature on insect herbivory." PeerJ, 2. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.376. 2014
- Parker, John D., Torchin, Mark E., Hufbauer, Ruth A., Lemoine, Nathan P., Alba, Christina, Blumenthal, Dana M., Bossdorf, Oliver, Byers, James E., Dunn, Alison M., Heckman, Robert W., Hejda, Martin, Jarošík, Vojtech, Kanarek, Andrew R., Martin, Lynn B., Perkins, Sarah E., Pyšek, Petr, Schierenbeck, Kristina, Schlöder, Carmen, van Klinken, Rieks, Vaughn, Kurt J., Williams, Wyatt, and Wolfe, Lorne M. 2013. "Do invasive species perform better in their new ranges?" Ecology, 94, (5) 985–994. https://doi.org/10.1890/12-1810.1. 2013
- Parker, John D., Salminen, Juha-Pekka, and Agrawal, Anurag A. 2012. "Evolutionary Potential of Root Chemical Defense: Genetic Correlations with Shoot Chemistry and Plant Growth." Journal of chemical ecology, 38, (8) 992–995. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-012-0163-1. 2012
- Parker, John D., Burkepile, Deron E., Lajeunesse, Marc J., and Lind, Eric,M. 2012. "Phylogenetic isolation increases plant success despite increasing susceptibility to generalist herbivores." Diversity & Distributions, 18, (1) 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00806.x. 2012
- Lind, Eric M., Myron, Emily P., Giaccai, Jennifer, and Parker, John D. 2012. "White-Tailed Deer Alter Specialist and Generalist Insect Herbivory Through Plant Traits." Environmental Entomology, 41, (6) 1409–1416. https://doi.org/10.1603/EN12094. 2012
- Karonen, M., Parker, John D., Agrawal, A., and Salminen, J. -P. 2010. "First evidence of hexameric and heptameric ellagitannins in plants detected by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry." Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 24, (21) 3151–3156. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.4756. 2010
- Parker, John D., Salminen, Juha-Pekka, and Agrawal, Anurag A. 2010. "Herbivory enhances positive effects of plant genotypic diversity." Ecology Letters, 13, (5) 553–563. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01452.x. 2010
- Parker, John D., Richie, Lauren J., Lind, Eric, and Maloney, Kelly O. 2010. "Land use history alters the relationship between native and exotic plants: the rich don't always get richer." Biological Invasions, 12, (6) 1557–1571. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-009-9568-3. 2010
- Lind, Eric and Parker, John D. 2010. "Novel Weapons Testing: Are Invasive Plants More Chemically Defended than Native Plants?" PLoS ONE, 5, (5) e10429–e10429. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010429. 2010
- Parker, John D., Montoya, J. P., and Hay, M. E. 2008. "A Specialist detritivore links Spartina alterniflora to salt marsh food webs." Marine Ecology Progress Series, 364 87–95. 2008
- Parker, John D., Caudill, C. C., and Hay, M. E. 2007. "Beaver herbivory on aquatic plants." Oecologia, 151 616–625. 2007
- Parker, John D., Burkepile, Deron E., Collins, Dwight O., Kubanek, Julia, and Hay, Mark E. 2007. "Stream mosses as chemically-defended refugia for freshwater macroinvertebrates." Oikos, 116, (2) 302–312. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15289.x. 2007
- Response to Comment on Opposing effects of native and exotic herbivores on plant invasions. Science. 313:298. 2006
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Dataset
- Forde, Alexander J., Feller, Ilka C., Parker, John D., and Gruner, Daniel S. 2021. [Dataset] Data from: Insectivorous birds reduce herbivory but do not increase mangrove growth across productivity zones. Distributed by Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.M37PVMD34. 2021
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- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Academic Department