Publications

Slapikas, R., Pau, S., Donnelly, R.C., Ho, C.L., Nippert, J.B., Helliker, B.R., Riley, W.J., Still, C.J. and Griffith, D. M. (2024). Grass evolutionary lineages can be identified using hyperspectral leaf reflectance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129(2), e2023JG007852.

Luo, X., Zhou, H., Satriawan, T.W., Tian, J., Zhao, R., Keenan, T.F., Griffith, D. M., Sitch, S., Smith, N.G. and Still, C.J. (2024). Mapping the global distribution of C4 vegetation using observations and optimality theory. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1219.

Pau, S., Griffith, D. M., Zampieri, N. E., & Costanza, J. (2023). Longleaf pine savannas reveal biases in current understanding of savanna biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13747

Donnelly, R.C., Wedel, E.R., Taylor, J.H., Nippert, J.B., Helliker, B.R., Riley, W.J., Still, C.J. & Griffith, D. M. (2023) Evolutionary lineage explains trait variation among 75 coexisting grass species. New Phytologist, 239, 875–887.

Griffith, D. M., Byrd, K.B., Anderegg, L.D.L., Allan, E., Gatziolis, D., Roberts, D., Yacoub, R. & Nemani, R.R. (2023) Capturing patterns of evolutionary relatedness with reflectance spectra to model and monitor biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, e2215533120.

Still, C. J., Page, G. F., Rastogi, B., Griffith, D. M., Aubrecht, D. M., Kim, Y., … & Richardson, A. D. (2023). Reply to Garen et al.: Within-canopy temperature data also do not support limited homeothermy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(15), e2302515120.

Griffith, D.M., Byrd, K.B., Taylor, N., Allan, E., Bittner, L., O’Brien, B., Parker, V.T., Vasey, M.C., Pavlick, R. and Nemani, R.R., 2023. Variation in leaf reflectance spectra across the California flora partitioned by evolutionary history, geographic origin, and deep time. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, p.e2022JG007160.

Still, C.J., Page, G.F.M., Rastogi., B., Griffith, D.M., Aubrecht, D.M., Kim, Y., Burns, S.P., Hanson, C.V., Kwon, H., Meinzer, F.C., Sevanto, S., Roberts, D.A., Goulden, M., Pau, S.P., Detto, M., Helliker, B.R., and Richardson. A.D. Continuous, long-term leaf temperature data from diverse forest types do not support the leaf homeothermy hypothesis. PNAS

Anderegg, L., D.M. Griffith, J. Cavender-Bares, W. Riley, J.A. Berry, T.E. Dawson, C.J. Still. 2022. Representing plant diversity in land models: An evolutionary approach to make ‘Functional Types’ more functional.

Pau, S., J.B. Nippert, R. Slapikas, Griffith, D.M., S. Bachle, B.R. Helliker, R.C. O’Connor, W.J. Riley, C.J. Still, & M. Zaricor. Poor relationships between NEON AOP data and field-based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland site. Ecology, accepted

Cawse-Nicholson, K., P.A. Townsend, D. Schimel, A.M. Assiri, P.L. Blake, M.F. Buongiorno, P. Campbell, N. Carmon, K.A. Casey, R.E. Correa-Pabón, K.M. Dahlin, H. Dashti, P.E. Dennison, H. Dierssen, A. Erickson, J.B. Fisher, R. Frouin, C.K. Gatebe, H. Gholizadeh, M. Gierach, N.F. Glenn, J.A. Goodman, D.M. Griffith, L. Guild, C.R. Hakkenberg, E.J. Hochberg, T.R.H. Holmes, C. Hu, G. Hulley, K.F. Huemmrich, R.M. Kudela, R.F. Kokaly, C.M. Lee, R. Martin, C.E. Miller, W.J. Moses, F.E. Muller-Karger, J.D. Ortiz, D.B. Otis, N. Pahlevan, T.H. Painter, R. Pavlick, B. Poulter, Y. Qi, V.J. Realmuto, D. Roberts, M.E. Schaepman, F.D. Schneider, F.M. Schwandner, S.P. Serbin, A.N. Shiklomanov, E.N. Stavros, D.R. Thompson, J.L. Torres-Perez, K.R. Turpie, M. Tzortziou, S. Ustin, Q. Yu, Y. Yusup, Q. Zhang (2021) NASA’s Surface Biology and Geology Designated Observable: A Perspective on Surface Imaging Algorithms. Remote Sensing of Environment

C.J. Still, B. Rastogi, G.F.M. Page, D.M. Griffith, A. Sibley, M. Schulze, L. Hawkins, S. Pau, M. Detto and B.R. Helliker. Imaging canopy temperature: Shedding (thermal) light on ecosystem processes. New Phytologist

D.M. Griffith, C.P. Osborne, E.J. Edwards, S. Bachle, D.J. Beerling, W.J. Bond, T. Gallaher, B.R. Helliker, C.E.R. Lehmann, L. Leatherman, J.B. Nippert, S. Pau, F. Qiu, W.J. Riley, M.D. Smith, C. Strömberg, L. Taylor, M. Ungerer, and C.J. Still. 2020. Lineage Functional Types (LFTs): Characterizing functional diversity to enhance the representation of ecological behavior in Earth System Models. In press.

Quigley, K.Q., D.M. Griffith, G. Donati and T.M. Anderson. 2020. Water and nutrients, not herbivory, drive global patterns of grass leaf silicification. In press.

Caroline E. R. Lehmann, D.M. Griffith, Kimberley J. Simpson, T. Michael Anderson, Sally Archibald, David J. Beerling, William J. Bond, Elsie Denton, Erika J. Edwards, Elisabeth J. Forrestel, David L. Fox, Damien Georges, William A. Hoffmann, Thomas Kluyver, Ladislav Mucina, Stephanie Pau, Jayashree Ratnam, Nicolas Salamin, Bianca Santini, Melinda D. Smith, Elizabeth L. Spriggs, Rebecca Westley, Christopher J. Still, Caroline A.E. Strömberg, Colin P. Osborne. 2019. Functional diversification enabled grassy biomes to fill global climate space. Link to paper

Veldman, J.W., J.C. Aleman, S.T. Alvarado, T.M. Anderson, S. Archibald7, W.J. Bond, T.W. Boutton, N. Buchmann, E. Buisson, J.G. Canadell, M. Sá Dechoum, M.H. Diaz-Toribio, G. Durigan, J.J. Ewel, G.W. Fernandes, A. Fidelis, F. Fleischman, S.P. Good, D.M. Griffith, J. Hermann, W.A. Hoffmann, S. Le Stradic, C.E.R. Lehmann, G. Mahy, A.N. Nerlekar, J.B. Nippert, R.F. Noss, C.P. Osborne, G.E. Overbeck, C.L. Parr, J.G. Pausas, R.T. Pennington, M.P. Perring, F.E. Putz, J. Ratnam, M. Sankaran, I.B. Schmidt, C.B. Schmitt, F.A.O. Silveira, A.C. Staver, N. Stevens, C.J. Still, C.A.E. Strömberg, V.M. Temperton, J.M. Varner, N.P. Zaloumis. Comment on “The global tree restoration potential” Science, 366(6463) eaay7976. Link to paper

Griffith, D.M., C.J. Still, and C.P. Osborne. 2019. Editorial: Revisiting the biome concept with a functional lens. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Link to paper

Griffith, D.M and Anderson TM. 2019. The ‘plantspec’ r package: A tool for spectral analysis of plant stoichiometry. Methods Ecol Evol. 00:1–7. Link to paper - Link to R package vignette

Bachle, S., D.M. Griffith, and Nippert, J.B. 2018. Intraspecific trait variability in Andropogon gerardii, a dominant grass species in the US Great Plains. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6, p.217. Link to paper

Still, C.J., J.M. Cotton, and D.M. Griffith. 2018. Assessing Earth System Model predictions of C4 grass cover in North America: from the glacial era to the end of this century. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24: 304-313. Link to paper

Anderson, T.M., P.M. Ngoti, M.L. Nzunda, D.M. Griffith, J.D.M. Speed, F. Fossøy, E. Røskaft and B.J. Graae. 2018. The burning question: does fire affect habitat selection and forage preference of black rhinos (Diceros bicornis) in Serengeti National Park? Oryx, 1-10. Link to paper

Anderson, T.M., D.M. Griffith, E.M. Lind, P.B. Adler, L.A. Biederman, D.M. Blumenthal, E.T. Borer, P. Daleo, J. Firn, N. Hagenah, W.S. Harpole, A.S. MacDougall, R.L. McCulley, S.M. Prober, A.C. Risch, M. Sankaran, M. Schütz, E. Seabloom, L. Sullivan, P. Wragg and J.B. Grace. Herbivory and eutrophication modulate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient. Ecology, 99: 822-831. Link to paper

Griffith, D.M., Lehmann, C. E. R., Strömberg, C. A. E., Parr, C. L., Pennington, R. T., Sankaran, M., Ratnam, J., Still, C. J., Powell, R. L., Hanan, N. P., Nippert, J. B., Osborne, C. P., Good, S. P., Anderson, T. M., Holdo, R. M., Veldman, J. W., Durigan, G., Tomlinson, K. W., Hoffmann, W. A., … Bond, W. J., 2017. Comment on “The extent of forest in dryland biomes”. Science, 358(6365), p.eaao1309. Link to paper

Griffith, D.M., J.M. Cotton, R.L. Powell, N.D. Sheldon, and C.J. Still. 2017. Multi-century stasis in C3 and C4 grass distributions across the contiguous United States since the industrial revolution. Journal of Biogeography, 44:2564–2574. Link to paper

Griffith, D.M., T.M. Anderson, and E.W. Hamilton III. 2017. Ungulate grazing drives higher ramet turnover in sodium adapted Serengeti grasses. Journal of Vegetation Science, 28: 815-823. Link to paper

Griffith, D.M., K. Quigley, and T.M. Anderson. 2016. Leaf thickness controls variation in leaf mass per area (LMA) among grazing-adapted grasses in Serengeti. Oecologia, 181:1035-1040. Link to paper

Griffith, D.M., J.A. Veech, and C.J. Marsh. 2015. cooccur: Probabilistic Species Co-occurrence Analysis in R. J. Stat. Soft. Link to paper - Link to R package vignette

Griffith, D.M., T.M. Anderson, C.P. Osborne, C.A.E. Stromberg, E.J. Forrestel, and C.J. Still. 2014. Biogeographically distinct controls on C3 and C4 grass distributions: merging community with physiological ecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24: 304-313. Link to paper

Griffith, D.M., and T.M. Anderson. 2013. Responses of African grasses in the genus Sporobolus to defoliation and sodium stress: tradeoffs, cross-tolerance, or independent responses? Plants 2:712-725. Link to paper

Griffith, D.M., C.J. Still, and C.P. Osborne. 2019. Revisiting the biome concept with a functional lens. eBook in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Link to ebook