Publications

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• Beck, J. and S. Wagenius. Seedling recruitment after fire: Disentangling the roles of microsite conditions and seed availability. In review. Preprint
• Maton, D., J. Beck, S. Wagenius, D. Maddox, and M. Ashley. Persistence in a fragmented habitat: Genetic diversity and pollination patterns in Asclepias viridiflora. In review.
• Beck, J., A. Peschel, S. Wagenius, and R. Shaw. Evidence-based seed sourcing in the era of climate change. In review.
• Beck, J., G. Kiefer. R. Johnson, R. Dana, B. Winter, and S. Wagenius. Long-term effects of haying and prescribed fire on the composition and diversity of wet prairie plant communities. In review.
• Beck, J., A. Salvi, R. Henderson, and D. Waller. Scaling from individuals to communities: Functional and demographic differences predict the ecologically nested distribution of congeneric forest herbs. In review.
• Beck, J. and S. Wagenius. 2025. Herbivory exacerbates pollen limitation by isolating unconsumed plants from prospective mates. American Journal of Botany.
• Beck, J., M. McKone, and S. Wagenius. 2024. Masting, fire-stimulated flowering, and the evolutionary ecology of synchronized reproduction. Ecology 105:e4261.
• Beck, J., A. Waananen, and S. Wagenius. 2023. Habitat fragmentation decouples fire-stimulated flowering from plant reproductive fitness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120:e2306967120.
• Beck, J. and J. Richards. 2023. Functional traits influence local plant distributions and spatial patterns of diversity within a heterogeneous bedrock glade. Plant Ecology 224:729–740.
• Richardson, L., J. Beck, D. Eck, R. Shaw, and S. Wagenius. 2023. Fire effects on plant reproductive fitness vary among individuals reflecting pollination-dependent mechanisms. American Journal of Botany 110:e16160.
• Beck, J., D. Li, S. Johnson, D. Rogers, K. Cameron, K. Sytsma, T. Givnish, and D. Waller. 2022. Functional traits mediate broad-scale species-environment distributions among temperate forest herbs while fine-scale species’ associations remain unpredictable. American Journal of Botany 109:1991-2005.
• Mckone, M., E. Williams, and J. Beck. 2021. Evidence for community assembly processes from long-term observations of biodiversity in a grassland chronosequence. Journal of Vegetation Science 32:e13065.
• Beck, J. 2021. Variation in plant-soil interactions among temperate forest herbs. Plant Ecology 222:1225-1238.
• Beck, J. and T. Givnish. 2021. Fine-scale environmental heterogeneity and spatial niche partitioning among spring-flowering forest herbs. American Journal of Botany 108:63-73.
• Wagenius, S., J. Beck, and G. Kiefer. 2020. Fire synchronizes flowering and boosts reproduction in a declining prairie species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117:3000-3005.
• Beck, J., B. Larget, and D. Waller. Phantom species: Adjusting colonization and extinction for pseudo-turnover. Oikos 127:1605-1618.
• Beck, J., M. McKone, and O. McMurtrey. 2016. Edge Effects and avian community structure in a restored tallgrass prairie. Natural Areas Journal 36:328-333.
• Beck, J., D. Hernandez, J. Pasari, and E. Zavaleta. 2015. Grazing maintains native plant diversity and promotes community stability in an annual grassland. Ecological Applications 25:1259-1270.

Manuscripts in preparation

• Beck, J., S. Nordstrom, L. Richardson, A. Waananen, R. Shaw, and S. Wagenius. Limited mating opportunities exacerbate extinction risks in fragmented plant populations. In preparation.
• Beck, J. and S. Wagenius. Fire, fragmentation, and interannual variation mediate the opposing effects of distance-dependent pollination and pre-dispersal seed predation on plant reproductive fitness. In preparation.
• Paulson, A., J. Beck, J. Richards, R. Toczydlowski, D. Li, S. Johnson, D. Rogers, G. Sonnier, K. Cameron, K. Sytsma, T. Givnish, and D. Waller. Taxonomic, function, and phyologenetic diversity metrics provide complementary insights into the multiple dimensions of biodiversity change. In preparation.
• Waananen, A., J. Beck, R. Shaw, and S. Wagenius. Scale-dependent effects of spatial isolation and phenological asynchrony on plant reproductive fitness. In preparation.
• Richardson, L., J. Beck, and S. Wagenius. Individual-level differences in reproductive fitness between burned and unburned years reflect spatial and temporal mating opportunities. In preparation.
• Paulson, L., A. Carroll, A. Waananen, J. Beck, and S. Wagenius. Effects of liquid smoke on flowering in a widespread prairie plant. In preparation.
• Beck, J. and S. Wagenius. Fire enhances reproductive outcomes in fragmented green milkweed (Asclepias viridiflora) populations. In preparation.