Peer Reviewed Publications

[*  graduate student author; ** undergraduate student author; ^postdoctoral author]

In review/press

Ayers M*, L Sanford, W Gardner, S Kuebbing. In Review. Causal carbon: baselines and additionality with potential outcomes. Environmental Research Letters. Preprint Available.

Campbell A, J Funk, S Kuebbing, M Nuñez, G Nunez-Mir, M McCary. In Review. From the ground up: Can root traits help understand invasion dynamics? Journal of Ecology.

Hatajik JE*, MC Duguid, MA Bradford, SE Kuebbing, CE Rutledge, EB Ward. In Review. Tree mortality caused by an invasive insect is strongly associated with forest plant invasions. Ecological Applications.

2025

Kuebbing SE, JU Galperin, MA Nuñez. 2025. Can we love invasive species to death? In: Love Them to Death: Turning Invasive Plants into Local Economic Opportunities. Applequist W (Ed.). Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Milakovsky B, SV Zibtsev, MS Ashton, S Kuebbing. 2025. Editorial: The impact of the Russian invasion and war on Ukrainian forests. Forest Ecology and Management 593:122916.

Martin MP, S Kuebbing, M Duguid, N Hardy, MS Ashton. 2026. The Caatinga never went missing: a reply to Zappi et al. (2025). Restoration Ecology 34:e70228.

Eash L‡, MA Bradford, EE Oldfield, SM Ogle, SE Kuebbing. 2025. Protocol intercomparison project highlights non-equivalent carbon crediting across agricultural land management protocols. Environmental Research Letters 20:124065.

Bradford MA, SE Kuebbing, A Polussa, J Sanderman, EE Oldfield. 2025. Upstream data need to provide soil carbon as a climate solution. Nature Climate Change 15:1013-1016.

Liu W^, MS Ashton, MJ Ducey, MA Bradford, SE Kuebbing. 2025. Sustainable forest management for carbon, wood and biodiversity must consider natural disturbance regimes. Environmental Research Letters 20:064020.

Sheban KC*, SE Kuebbing, MC Duguid, MS Ashton, AC McAlvay, JF Munsell, J Orefice, MA Bradford. 2025. Keeping forests on the agroforestry agenda. Nature Climate Change 15:581-584.

Sanders-DeMott R, LR Hutrya, MD Hureau, WS Keeton, KS Fallon, WRL Anderegg, DY Hollinger, SE Kuebbing, MS Lucash, EM Ordway, R Vargas, WS Walker. 2025. Ground-truth: can forest carbon protocols ensure high-quality credits? Earth’s Future 13:e2024EF005414.

Dawson-Glass E*, R Schiafo*, CN Miller, SE Kuebbing, KL Stuble. 2025. Toward a comprehensive understanding of the phenological responses of non-native plants to climate warming. Annals of Botany 135:1029-1046.

Dawson-Glass E*, R Schiafo*, SE Kuebbing, KL Stuble. 2025. Warming-induced changes in seasonal priority effects drive shifts in community composition. Ecology 106:e4504.

Hardy N, SE Kuebbing, MC Duguid, MS Ashton, KC Sheban, SE Inman, MP Martin. 2025. Non-native invasive plants in tropical dry forests: a global review of presence, impacts, and management. Restoration Ecology 33:e14288.

2024

Reeb RA*, JM Heberling, and SE Kuebbing. 2024. Cross-continental comparison of plant reproductive phenology shows high intraspecific variation in temperature sensitivity. AoB Plants 16:plae058.

Reeb RA* and SE Kuebbing. 2024. Phenology mediates direct and indirect interactions among co-occurring invasive plant species. Ecology 105:e4446.

Nieland MA, P Lacy, SD Allison, JM Bhatnagar, DA Doroski, SD Frey, K Greaney, SE Hobbie, SE Kuebbing, DB Lewis, MD McDaniel, SS Perakis, SM Raciti, AN Shaw, CD Sprunger, MS Strickland, PH Templer, C Vietorisz, EB Ward, AD Keiser. 2024. Nitrogen deposition weakens soil carbon control of nitrogen dynamics across the contiguous United States. Global Change Biology 30:e70016.

Torres A^, SE Kuebbing, KL Stuble, MA Nuñez, and MA Rodriguez-Cabal. 2024. Inverse priority effects: a role for historical contingencies during species loss. Ecology Letters 27:e14360.

Yancy AJ**, BR Lee, SE Kuebbing, HS Neufeld, ME Spicer, JM Heberling. 2024. Evaluating the definition and distribution of spring ephemeral wildflowers in eastern North America. American Journal of Botany 111:e16323.

Bradford MA, A Polussa, L Eash, FV Jevon, SE Kuebbing, S Rosenzweig, EE Oldfield. 2024. Research design, statistics and soil carbon: Responses to von Haden et al. and Spertus. Geoderma 448:116961.

Oldfield EE, JM Lavallee, J Blesh, MA Bradford, M Cameron-Harp, MF Cotrufo, AJ Eagel, L Eash, RJ Even, SE Kuebbing, EA Kort, TJ Lark, C Latka, Y Lin, MB MAchmuller, B O’Neill, AM Raffeld, T RoyChowdhury, J Rudek, J Sanderman, CD Sprunger, TP Tooms, NU Aragon, M Vidal, D Woolf, TJ Zelikova, DR Gordon. 2024. Greenhouse gas mitigation on croplands: clarifying the debate on knowns, unknowns and risks to move forward with effective management interventions. Carbon Management 15:2365896.

2023

Tan SSX** and SE Kuebbing. 2023. A synthesis of the effect of regenerative agriculture on soil carbon sequestration in Southeast Asian croplands. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 349:108450.

Delvaux CS^, TW Crowther, CM Zohner, NM Robmann, T Lauber, S Kuebbing, J Liang, S de-Miguel, G Nabuurs, PB Reich, …[+300 Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative authors]…, DS Maynard. 2023. Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions. Nature 621:773-781.

Bradford MA, L Eash, A Polussa, FV Jevon, SE Kuebbing, A Hammac, S Rosenzweig, EE Oldfield. 2023. Testing the feasibility of quantifying change in agricultural soil carbon stocks through empirical sampling? Geoderma 440:116719.

Wood, SA, K Hayhoe, MA Bradford, SE Kuebbing, PW Ellis, E Fuller, and D Bossio. 2023. Mitigating near-term climate change. Environmental Research Letters 18:101002.

Bradford MA, GF Ciska Veen, EM Bradford, KR Covey, TW Crowther, N Fields, PT Frankson, J Gonzàlez-Rivero, FV Jevon, SE Kuebbing, S McBride, JE Mohan, EE Oldfield, AM Oliverio, A Polussa, C Steinrueck, EB Ward, C Wepking, and DS Maynard. 2023. Coarse woody debris accelerates the decomposition of deadwood inputs across temperate forests. Biogeochemistry 164:489-507.

Aziz N**, MA Holmes^, LD Bennion*, RA Reeb*, and SE Kuebbing. 2023. Hiking trailheads, but not trailsides, associated with higher cover of non-native plants. Journal of Vegetation Science 26:e12716.

Miller TK*, JM Heberling, SE Kuebbing, and RB Primack. 2023. Warmer temperaturJournal of Ecology 111:356-371es are linked to widespread phenological mismatch among native and non-native forest plants. Journal of Ecology 111:356-371.

2022

Rudzki EN*, SE Kuebbing, DR Clark, B Gharaibeh, MJ Janecka, R Kramp, KD Kohl, T Mastalski, MEB Ohmer, MM Turcotte, and CL Richards-Zawacki. 2022. A guide for developing a field research safety manual that explicitly considers risks for marginalized identities in the sciences. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13:2318-2330.

Lee BR^, TK Miller*, C Rosche, Y Yang, JM Heberling, SE Kuebbing, and RB Primack. 2022. Wildflower phenological escape differs by continent and spring temperature. Nature Communications 13:1-9.

Holmes MA^ and SE Kuebbing. 2022. Eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), a common native wetland plant, shows reduced size and seedling abundance near invasive Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica). The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 149:286-299.

Iriart V*, NJ Foreester, TL Ashman, and SE Kuebbing. 2022. The Plant Science Blogging Project: a curriculum to develop undergraduate science communication skills. Plants, People, Planet 4:485-498.

Holmes MA^ and SE Kuebbing. 2022. Species-specific facilitation shapes primary successional communities under nurse trees in an abandoned slag dump. Urban Ecosystems 25:1455-1453.

Ward EB*, MC Duguid, SE Kuebbing, JC Lender, and MA Bradford. 2022. The functional role of ericoid mycorrhizal plants and fungi on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in forests. Tansley Review, New Phytologist 235:1701-1718.

Kuebbing SE, MA McCary, D Lieurance, MA Nuñez, MC Chiuffo, B Zhang, H Seebens, D Simberloff & LA Meyerson. 2022. A self-study of editorial board diversity at Biological Invasions. Biological Invasions 24:321-332. [Editor Invited Submission]

Lieurance D, S Kuebbing, MA McCary and MA Nuñez. 2022. Words matter: how to increase gender and LGBTQIA+ inclusivity at Biological Invasions. Biological Invasions 24:341-344. [Editor Invited Submission]

Nuñez MA, MC Chiuffo, H Seebens, S Kuebbing, MA McCary, D Lieurance, B Zhang, D Simberloff & LA Meyerson. 2022. Two decades of data reveal that Biological Invasions needs to increase participation beyond North America, Europe, and Australasia. Biological Invasions 24:333-340. [Editor Invited Submission]

Reeb RA*, N Aziz**, SM Lapp, J Kitzes, JM Heberling, and SE Kuebbing. 2022. Using convolutional neural networks to efficiently extract immense phenological data from community science images. Frontiers in Plant Science 12:787407.

Holmes MA^, JV Whitacre, LD Bennion*, J Poteet, and SE Kuebbing. 2022. Native-exotic richness relationships in second-growth forests differ along a gradient of land-use history. Landscape Ecology 37:847-859.

2021

Catella SA^, CF Olmsted*, SH Markalanda**, CJ McFadden**, CW Wood, and SE Kuebbing. 2022 A generalist nematode destabilises plant competition: no evidence for direct effects, but strong evidence for indirect effects on rhizobium abundance. New Phytologist 233:2561-2572.

Anderson SC, PR Elsen, BB Hughes, RK Tonietto, MC Bletz, DA Gill, MA Holgerson, SE Kuebbing, C McDonough MacKenzie, MH Meek, D Veríssimo. 2021. Trends in ecology and conservation over eight decades. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 19:274-282.

Chong KY, RT Corlett, MA Nuñez, JH Chiu, F Courchamp, W Dawson, S Kuebbing, AM Liebhold, M Padmanaba, L Souza, KM Anderson, S Fei, BPYH Lee, S Lum, MS Luskin, KM Ngo, and DA Wardle. 2021. Are terrestrial biological invasions different in the tropics? Annual Review in Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 52:291-314.

Holmes MA^, LD Bennion*, J Whitacre, and SE Kuebbing. 2021. Land-use history and abiotic gradients drive abundance of non-native shrubs in Appalachian second-growth forests with histories of mining, agriculture, and logging. Forest Ecology and Management 494:119296.

Nocco MA, C McDonough MacKenzie,RK Tonietto, J Dudney, M Bletz, T Young, and SE Kuebbing. 2021. Mentorship, equity, and research productivity: lessons from a pandemic. Biological Conservation 255:108966.

Stuble KA, LD Bennion*, and SE Kuebbing. 2021. Plant phenological responses to experimental warming. Global Change Biology 27:4110-4124.

Ward EB*, MC Duguid, SE Kuebbing, JC Lender, RJ Warren II, and MA Bradford. 2021. Ericoid mycorrhizal shrubs alter the relationship between tree mycorrhizal dominance and soil carbon and nitrogen. Journal of Ecology 109:3524-3540.

Ward EB,* DA Doroski, AJ Felson, RA Hallett, EE Oldfield, SE Kuebbing, and MA Bradford. 2021. Positive long-term impacts of restoration on soils in an experimental urban forest. Ecological Applications 31:e02336.

2020

Kuebbing, SE. How direct and indirect nonnative interactions can promote plant invasions, lead to invasional meltdown, and inform management decisions. 2020. D Richardson and A Traveset (Eds.) in Plant Invasions: The Role of Biotic Interactions. CABI Press.

McDonough MacKenzie C, T Chang, M Nocco, R Barak, M Bletz, SE Kuebbing, and M Dombeck. 2020. Recurrent neural network reveals overwhelming sentiment against 2017 review of U.S. monuments from humans and bots. Conservation Letters 13:e12474.

Reeb RA*, I Acevedo**, JM Heberling, B Isaac and SE Kuebbing. 2020. Nonnative old field species inhabit early-season phenological niches and exhibit unique sensitivity to climate. Ecosphere 8:e03217.

Roddy A, G Theroux-Rancourt, T Abbo, C Brodersen, BM Jensen, GF Jiang, RA Thompson, SE Kuebbing, and K Simonin. 2020. The scaling of genome size and cell size limits maximum rates of photosynthesis with implications for ecological strategies. International Journal of Plant Sciences 181:75-87.

Ward EB*, CC Pregitzer*, SE Kuebbing, and MA Bradford. 2020. Invasive lianas are drivers of and passengers to altered soil nutrient availability in urban forests. Biological Invasions 22:935-955.

2019

Kuebbing SE and MA Bradford. 2019. The potential for mass ratio and trait divergence effects to explain idiosyncratic impacts of non-native invasive plants on carbon mineralization of decomposing leaf litter. Functional Ecology 33:1156-1171.

Sokol NW*, SE Kuebbing, E Karlsen-Ayala**, and MA Bradford. 2019. Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon. New Phytologist 221:233-246.

2018

Kuebbing SE, AP Reimer, SA Rosenthal, G Feinberg, A Leiserowtiz, JA Lau, and MA Bradford. 2018. Long-term research in ecology and evolution: a survey of challenges and opportunites. Ecological Monographs 88:245-258.  [read a Press Release about our work]

Kuebbing SE, and MA Nuñez. 2018. Current understanding of invasive species impacts cannot be ignored: potential publication biases do not invalidate findings. Biodiversity and Conservation 106:687-698.

Doroski DA*, AJ Felson, MA Bradford, MP Ashton, EE Oldfield, RA Hallett, and SE Kuebbing. 2018. Factors driving natural regeneration beneath a planted urban forest. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 29:238-247.

Kuebbing SE, DS Maynard, and MA Bradford. 2018. Linking functional diversity and ecosystem processes: a framework for using functional diversity metrics to predict the ecosystem impact of functionally unique species. Journal of Ecology 106: 687 -698.

2017

Sokol NW*, SE Kuebbing, and MA Bradford. 2017. Impacts of an invasive plant are fundamentally altered by a co-occurring forest disturbance. Ecology 98:2133-2144.

Delavaux CS*, LM Smith, and SE Kuebbing. 2017. Beyond nutrients: A meta-analysis of the diverse effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Ecology 98:2111-2119. [read Fred Singer's blog and review of our work]

2016

Kuebbing SE, and MA Nuñez. 2016. Invasive non-native plants have a greater effect on neighbouring natives than on other non-natives. Nature Plants DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.134.

Kuebbing SE, CM Patterson, AT Classen, and D Simberloff. 2016. Co-occurring nonnative woody shrubs have additive and non-additve soil legacies. Ecological Applications 26:1896-1906.

Ballar, SA, SE Kuebbing, and M. Nuñez. 2016. Potential problems of removing one invasive species at a time: Interactions between invasive vertebrates and unexpected effects of removal programs. PeerJ 4:e2029; DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2029.

2015

Kuebbing SE, AT Classen, NJ Sanders, and D Simberloff. 2015. Above and belowground effects of plant diversity depend on species origin: an experimental test with multiple invaders. New Phytologist 208:727-735.

Kuebbing SE, AT Classen, JJ Call, JA Henning and D Simberloff. 2015. Plant-soil interactions promote co-occurrence of three nonnative woody shrubs. Ecology 96:2289-2299.

Kuebbing SE and D Simberloff. 2015. Missing the bandwagon: Nonnative species impacts still concern managers. Neobiota 25:73-86.

Kuebbing SE and MA Nuñez. 2015. Negative, neutral, and positive interactions among nonnative plants: patterns, processes, and management implications. Global Change Biology 21:926-934.

2014

Kuebbing SE, AT Classen and D Simberloff. 2014. Two co-occurring invasive woody shrubs alter soil properties and promote subdominant invasive species. Journal of Applied Ecology 51:124-133.

Kuebbing SE, L Souza and NJ Sanders. 2014. Effects of co-occurring non-native invasive plant species on old-field succession. Forest Ecology and Management 324: 196-204.

2013

Kuebbing S, MA Nuñez and D Simberloff. 2013. Current mismatch between ecological research and conservation efforts: the need to study co-occurring invasive plant species. Biological Conservation 160: 121–129.

Kuebbing S, MA Rodriguez-Cabal, D Fowler, L Breza, JK Bailey and JA Schweitzer. 2013. Resource availability and plant diversity explain the invasion of an exotic grass. Journal of Plant Ecology 6: 141–149.

2012

Nuñez MA, S Kuebbing, R Dimarco and D Simberloff. 2012. Invasive Species: To eat or not to eat, that is the question. Conservation Letters 5: 334–341.