Parker, John
Fellowship Advisor
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center staff
Community ecology, consumer-prey interactions, and invasive species.
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awards and honors
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- Setala, Heikki, Szlavecz, Katalin, Pullen, Jamie D., Parker, John D., Huang, Yumei, and Chang, Chih-Han. 2022. "Acute resource pulses from periodical cicadas propagate to belowground food webs but do not affect tree performance." Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3773. 2022
- 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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