christopher lortie publications

publications
peer-reviewed empirical ecology articles
Porte, A.J., L.J. Lamarque, C.J. Lortie, R. Michalet, and S. Delzon. 2011. Invasive Acer negundo outperforms native species in non-limiting resource environments due to its higher phenotypic plasticity. BMC Ecology: in press.
Hierro, J.L., C.J. Lortie, D. Villarreal, M.E. Estanga-Mollica, and R.M. Callaway. 2011. Resistance to Centaurea solstitialis invasion from annual and perennial grasses in California and Argentina. Journal of Biological Invasions: DOI 10.1007/s10530-011-0037-4.
Schaffner, U., W.M. Ridenour, V.C. Wolf, T. Bassett, C. Müller, H. Müller-Schärer, S. Sutherland, C.J. Lortie, and R.M. Callaway. 2011. Plant invasions, generalist herbivores, and novel defense weapons. Ecology 92: 829-835.
Cushman, J.H., C.J. Lortie, and C.E. Christian. 2011. Native herbivores and plant facilitation mediate the performance and distribution of an invasive exotic grass. Journal of Ecology 99: 524-531.
Kikvidze, Z., R. Michalet, R.W. Brooker, L.A. Cavieres, C.J. Lortie, F.I. Pugnaire, and R.M. Callaway. 2011. Climatic drivers of plant-plant interactions and diversity in alpine communities. Alpine Ecology: doi: 10.1007/s00035-010-0085-x.
Munshaw, M., and C.J. Lortie. 2010. Back to the basics: using density series to test regulation versus limitation for invasive plants. Plant Ecology 211: 1-5.
Sperling, C.D., and C.J. Lortie. 2010. The importance of urban backgardens on plant and invertebrate recruitment: a field microcosm experiment. Urban Ecosystems 13: 223-235.
Lortie, C.J., M. Munshaw, J. DiTomaso, and J. Hierro. 2010. The small-scale spatiotemporal pattern of the seedbank and vegetation of a highly invasive weed, Centaurea solstitialis: strength in numbers. Oikos 119: 428-436.
Lortie, C.J., M. Munshaw, A. Zikovitz, and J. Hierro. 2009. Cage matching: head to head competition experiments of an invasive plant species from different regions as a means to test for differentiation. PlosOne 4: e48231-48235.
Forey, E., C.J. Lortie, and R. Michalet. 2009. Spatial patterns of association at local and regional scales in coastal sand dune communities. J. of Vegetation Science 20: 916-925.
Lortie, C.J. and R. Turkington. 2008. Species-specific positive effects in an annual plant community. Oikos 117: 1511-1521.
Lortie, C.J. and J.H. Cushman. 2007. Effects of a directional abiotic gradient on plant community dynamics and invasion in a coastal dune system. J. Ecology 95: 468-481.
Kikvidze, Z., F.I. Pugnaire, R.W. Brooker, P. Choler, C.J. Lortie, P. Michalet, and R.M. Callaway. 2005. Linking patterns and processes in alpine plant communities. Ecology 86: 1395-1400.
Lortie, C.J., E. Ellis, A. Novoplansky, and R. Turkington. 2005. Implications of spatial pattern and local density on community-level interactions. Oikos 109: 495-502.
Callaway, R.M., R.W. Brooker, P. Choler, Z. Kikvidze, C.J. Lortie, R. Michalet, L. Paolini, F.I. Pugnaire, B. Newingham, B.J. Cook, and E.T. Aschehoug. 2002. Interdependence among plants increases with stress: a global experiment with alpine plant communities. Nature 412: 844-848.
Lortie, C.J., and R. Turkington. 2002. The facilitative effects by seeds and seedlings on emergence from the seed bank of a desert annual plant community. Ecoscience 9: 106-111.
Lortie, C.J., and R. Turkington. 2002. The effect of initial seed density on the structure of a desert annual plant community. J. Ecology 90: 435-445.
Lortie, C.J., and R. Turkington. 2002. The small-scale spatiotemporal pattern of an annual seed bank in the Negev Desert, Israel. Ecoscience 9: 407-413.
Lortie, C.J., D.T Ganey, and B.P. Kotler. 2000. The effects of gerbil foraging on the natural seedbank and consequences on the annual plant community. Oikos 90: 399-407.
Lortie, C.J., and L.W. Aarssen. 2000. A test of the reserve meristem hypothesis using Verbascum thapsus. American Journal of Botany 87: 1789-1792.
Lortie, C.J., and L.W. Aarssen. 2000. Fitness consequences of branching in Verbascum thapsus. American Journal of Botany 87: 1793-1796.
Lortie, C.J., and L.W. Aarssen. 1999. The advantage of being tall: higher flowers receive more pollen in Verbascum thapsus L. Ecoscience 1: 68-71.
Donnelly, S., C. J. Lortie, and L.W. Aarssen. 1998. The effective pollination hypothesis for apical dominance in Verbascum thapsus. American Journal of Botany 85: 1618-1625.
Lortie, C.J., and L.W. Aarssen. 1997. Apical dominance as an adaptation in Verbascum thapsus: effects of water and nutrients on branching. Int. J. of Plant Sciences 158: 461-464.

peer-reviewed synthetic ecology articles
Lamarque, L.J., S. Delzon, and C.J. Lortie. 2011. Tree invasions: a comparative test of the dominant hypotheses and predictor traits. Biological Invasions: online early in print.
Delmas, C.E.L., Delzon, S., and C.J. Lortie. 2011. A meta-analysis of the ecological significance of density in tree invasions. Community Ecology: in press.
Reid, A.M., L. Lamarque, and C.J. Lortie. 2010. A systematic review of the recent ecological literature on cushion plants: the new heavy weight champions of plant facilitation. Web Ecology 10: 44-49.
Pakeman, R.J., F. Pugnaire, R. Michalet, C.J. Lortie, K. Schiffers, F.T. Maestre, and J. Travis. 2009. Is the cask of facilitation ready for bottling? A symposium on the connectivity and future directions of positive plant interactions. Biology Letters 5: 577-579.
Lortie, C.J., and R. M. Callaway. 2009. David and Goliath: comparative use of competition and facilitation in the plant ecology literature. Web Ecology 9: 54-57.
Brooker, R.W., R. M. Callaway, L. Cavieres, Z. Kikvidze, C. J. Lortie, R. Michalet, F.I. Pugnaire, A. Valient- Banuet, and T.G. Whitham. 2009. Don’t Diss Integration: A comment on Ricklef’s disintegrating communities. American Naturalist 174: 919-927.
Maestre, F., R. Callaway, F. Valladares, and C.J. Lortie. 2009. Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities. J. Ecology 97: 199-205.
Lepczyk, C., C.J. Lortie, and L. Anderson. 2008. An ontology for landscapes. Ecological Complexity 5: 272-279.
Brooker, R.W., F.T. Maestre, R.M. Callaway, C.J. Lortie, L.A. Cavieres, G. Kunstler, P. Liancourt, K. Tielbörger, J. Travis, F. Anthelme, C. Armas, L. Coll, E. Corcket, S. Delzon, E. Forey, Z. Kikvidze, J. Olofsson, F. Pugnaire, C.l. Quiroz, P. Saccone, K. Schiffers, M. Seifan, B. Touzard, R. Michalet. 2008. Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present and the future. J. Ecology 96: 18-34.
Lortie, C.J. An ecological tardis: the implications of facilitation through evolutionary time. 2007. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 22: 627-629.
Michalet, R., R.W. Brooker, L. Cavieres, Z. Kikividze, C. Lortie, F.I. Pugnaire, A. Valiente-Banuet, and R.M. Callaway. 2006. Do biotic interactions shape both sides of the humped-back model of species richness in plant communities? Ecology Letters 9: 767-773.
Lortie, C.J. and R.M. Callaway. 2006. Re-analysis of meta-analysis: support for the stress-gradient hypothesis. J. Ecology 94: 7-16.
Brooker, R.W., Z. Kikvidze, F.I. Pugnaire, R.M. Callaway, P. Choler, C.J. Lortie, and P. Michalet. 2005. The importance of importance. Oikos 109: 63-70.
Lortie, C.J., R.W. Brooker, P. Choler, Z. Kikvidze, R. Michalet, F.I. Pugnaire, and R.M. Callaway. 2004. Rethinking plant community theory. Oikos 107: 433-438.
Lortie, C.J., R.W. Brooker, Z. Kikvidze, and R.M. Callaway. 2004. The value of stress and limitation in an imperfect world: a reply to Körner. J. of Vegetation Science 15: 577-580.
Lortie, C.J. 2000. Why reply (to Hjalten and Price)? Oikos 90: 185-186.
Lortie, C.J., and A. Dyer. 1999. Over-interpretation: Avoiding the stigma of non-significant results. Oikos 87: 183- 185.
Lortie, C.J., and L.W. Aarssen. 1996. The specialization hypothesis for phenotypic plasticity in plants. Int. J. of Plant Sciences 157: 484-487.

peer-reviewed social science articles examining ecology
Aarssen, L.W., and C.J. Lortie. 2010. Ideas for judging merit in manuscripts and authors. Ideas in ecology and evolution 3: 28-34.
Parker, J.N., C.J. Lortie, and S. Allesina. 2010. Characterizing a Scientific Elite: The Social Characteristics of the Most Highly Cited Scientists in Environmental Science and Ecology. Scientometrics: DOI 10.1007/s11192-010-0234-4.
Aarssen, L.W., C.J. Lortie, and A.E. Budden. 2010. Judging the quality of our research: a self-assessment test. Web Ecology 10: 23-26.
Aarssen, L.W., and C.J. Lortie. 2009. Ending elitism in peer-review publication. Ideas in ecology and evolution 2: 18-20.
Grod, O., C.J. Lortie, and A.E. Budden. 2009. Behind the shroud: a survey of editors in ecology and evolution. Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment: DOI:10.1890/090048.
Borsuk, R., L.W. Aarssen, A.E. Budden, J. Koricheva, R. Leimu, T. Tregenza, and C.J. Lortie. 2009. To name or not to name: An experimental manipulation of author identity on peer review. Bioscience 59: 985- 989.
Aarssen, L.W., C.J. Lortie, A.E. Budden, J. Koricheva, R. Leimu, and T. Tregenza. 2009. Does publication in top- tier journals affect reviewer behaviour? PlosOne 4: e62831-62833.
Lortie, C.J. 2009. A global comment on scientific publications, productivity, people, and beer. 2009. Scientometrics 84: 539-541.
Borsuk, R.M., A.E. Budden, R. Leimu, L.W. Aarssen and C.J. Lortie. 2009. The influence of author gender, national language, and author number on citation frequency in ecology. Open ecology 2: 25-58.
Leimu, R., C.J. Lortie, T. Tregenza, J. Koricheva, A.E. Budden, and L. Aarssen. 2008. How big are bigwigs? A reply to Havens. Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment 6: 523.
Grod, O.N., A.E. Budden, T. Tregenza, J. Koricheva, R. Leimu, L.W. Aarssen and C.J. Lortie. 2008. Systematic variation in reviewer practice according to country and gender in the field of ecology and evolution. PlosOne 3: 1-5.
Budden, A.E., L. Aarssen, J. Koricheva, R. Leimu, C.J. Lortie, and T. Tregenza T. 2008. Challenges in testing for gender bias. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23: 480-481.
Leimu, R., C.J. Lortie, T. Tregenza, J. Koricheva, A.E. Budden, and L. Aarssen. 2008. Does it pay to have a bigwig as a co-author? Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment 6: 410-411.
Aarssen, L.W., T. Tregenza, A.E. Budden, C.J. Lortie, J. Koricheva, and R. Leimu. 2008. Bang for your buck: rejection rates and impact factors in ecological journals. Open Ecology 1: 14-19.
Budden, A.E., L. Aarssen, J. Koricheva, R. Leimu, C.J. Lortie, T. Tregenza. 2008. Who's afraid of double-blind review? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7: 2-3.
Budden, A.E., C.J. Lortie, Tregenza, L.W. Aarssen, J.K. Koricheva, and R. Leimu. 2008. Double-blind review: accept with minor revisions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23: 353-354.
Budden, A.E., T. Tregenza, L.W. Aarssen, J.K. Koricheva, R. Leimu, and C.J. Lortie. 2008. Double-blind review favors increased representation of female authors. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23: 4-6.
Lortie, C.J., L.W. Aarssen, A.E. Budden, J.K. Koricheva, R. Leimu and T. Tregenza. 2007. Publication bias and merit in ecology. Oikos 116: 1247-1253.

book chapters
Jennions, M.D., C.J. Lortie, M. Rosenberg, and H. Rothstein. 2011. Publication and related biases. Meta-analysis for ecologists, edited by J. Koricheva and J. Gurevitch.
Jennions, M.D., C.J. Lortie, and J. Koricheva. 2011. The contribution of meta-analysis to ecological and evolutionary theory. Meta-analysis for ecologists, edited by J. Koricheva and J. Gurevitch.
Lortie, C.J., G. Stewart, H. Rothstein, and J. Lau. 2011. Interpreting meta-analysis results, identifying gaps, and the ecological predictive capacity of meta-analysis. Meta-analysis for ecologists, edited by J. Koricheva and J. Gurevitch.
Lortie, C.J., J. Lau, and M. Lajeunesse. 2011. Graphical presentation of meta-analytical results. Meta-analysis for ecologists, edited by J. Koricheva and J. Gurevitch.
Lortie, C.J. 2010. Synthetic analysis of the stress-gradient hypothesis. Positive Plant Interactions and Community Dynamics: edited by F. Pugnaire.

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