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Research Publications
Lieurance D, Canavan S, Faulkner KT, O’Shaughnessy KA, Lockwood JL, Parsons EW, Avery JD, Daniel W. Understanding and managing introduction pathways into protected areas in a changing climate. Biological Invasions. 2025 Feb;27(2):74.
Daniel WM, Sofaer HR, Jarnevich CS, Erickson RA, DeGregorio BA, Engelstad PS, Freedman J, Canavan S, Dean EM, Adams MJ, Anderson CL. Vertebrates in trade that pose high invasion risk to the United States. Biological Conservation. 2025 Feb;302:110887.
Fusco EJ, Falk BG, Heimowitz PJ, Lieurance D, Parsons EW, Rottler CM, Thurman LL, Evans AE. The emerging invasive species and climate-change lexicon. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 2024 Dec;39(12):1119-29.
Lieurance D, Canavan S, Behringer DC, Kendig AE, Minteer CR, Reisinger LS, Romagosa CM, Flory SL, Lockwood JL, Anderson PJ, Baker SM. Identifying invasive species threats, pathways, and impacts to improve biosecurity. Ecosphere. 2023 Dec;14(12):e4711.
Kim S, Koop A, Fowler G, Israel K, Takeuchi Y, Lieurance D. Addition of finer scale data and uncertainty analysis increases precision of geospatial suitability model for non-native plants in the US. Ecological Modelling. 2023 Oct 1;484:110458.
Osland MJ, Chivoiu B, Feher LC, Dale LL, Lieurance D, Daniel WM, Spencer JE. Plant migration due to winter climate change: range expansion of tropical invasive plants in response to warming winters. Biological Invasions. 2023 Sep;25(9):2813-30.
Lockwood JL, Lieurance D, Flory SL, Meyerson LA, Ricciardi A, Simberloff D. Moving scholarship on invasion science forward. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2023 Jun 1;38(6):495-6.
Novoa A, Canavan S, Lieurance D, Simberloff D, Meyerson LA. Exploring the performance of Biological Invasions in social media five years after opening its Facebook and Twitter accounts. Biological Invasions. 2023 Jan;25(1):141-52.
Canavan S, Brym ZT, Brundu G, Dehnen-Schmutz K, Lieurance D, Petri T, Wadlington WH, Wilson JR, Flory SL. Cannabis de-domestication and invasion risk. Biological Conservation. 2022 Oct 1;274:109709.
Kendig AE, Canavan S, Anderson PJ, Flory SL, Gettys LA, Gordon DR, Iannone III BV, Kunzer JM, Petri T, Pfingsten IA, Lieurance D. Scanning the horizon for invasive plant threats using a data-driven approach. NeoBiota. 2022 Jul 15;74:129-54.
Nuñez MA, Chiuffo MC, Seebens H, Kuebbing S, McCary MA, Lieurance D, Zhang B, Simberloff D, Meyerson LA. Two decades of data reveal that Biological Invasions needs to increase participation beyond North America, Europe, and Australasia. Biological Invasions. 2022;24(2).
Lieurance D, Kuebbing S, McCary MA, Nuñez MA. Words matter: how to increase gender and LGBTQIA+ inclusivity at Biological Invasions. Biological Invasions. 2022 Feb;24(2):341-4.
Petri T, Rehill B, Lieurance D, Flory SL. Domestication does not alter invasion risk of a non-native legume. Oecologia. 2021 Jun;196:317-29.
Petri T, Canavan S, Gordon DR, Lieurance D, Flory SL. Potential effects of domestication on non-native plant invasion risk. Plant Ecology. 2021 May;222(5):549-59.
Kuebbing SE, McCary MA, Lieurance D, Nuñez MA, Chiuffo MC, Zhang B, Seebens H, Simberloff D, Meyerson LA. A self-study of editorial board diversity at Biological Invasions. Biological Invasions. 2021:1-2.
Cipollini D, Davis S, Lieurance D, Cipollini K, Bahn V. Biogeographic variation in resistance of the invasive plant, Alliaria petiolata, to a powdery mildew fungus and effect of resistance on competitive dynamics. Biological Invasions. 2020 May;22(5):1657-68.
Hiatt D, Serbesoff‐King K, Lieurance D, Gordon DR, Flory SL. Allocation of invasive plant management expenditures for conservation: Lessons from Florida, USA. Conservation Science and Practice. 2019 Jul;1(7):e51.
Dillon WW, Lieurance D, Hiatt DT, Clay K, Flory SL. Native and invasive woody species differentially respond to forest edges and forest successional age. Forests. 2018 Jun 26;9(7):381.
Lieurance D, Cooper A, Young AL, Gordon DR, Flory SL. Running bamboo species pose a greater invasion risk than clumping bamboo species in the continental United States. Journal for Nature Conservation. 2018 Jun 1;43:39-45.
Gordon DR, Lieurance D, Flory SL. Predicted versus actual invasiveness of climbing vines in Florida. Biological Invasions. 2017 Aug;19:2375-84.
Lieurance D, Landsbergen K. The influence of light habitat on the physiology, biomass allocation, and fecundity of the invasive shrub Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii, Caprifoliaceae) 1. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 2016 Oct 1;143(4):415-26.
Gordon DR, Flory SL, Lieurance D, Hulme PE, Buddenhagen C, Caton B, Champion PD, Culley TM, Daehler C, Essl F, Hill JE. Weed risk assessments are an effective component of invasion risk management. Invasive Plant Science and Management. 2016 Mar;9(1):81-3.
Lieurance D, Chakraborty S, Whitehead SR, Powell JR, Bonello P, Bowers MD, Cipollini D. Comparative herbivory rates and secondary metabolite profiles in the leaves of native and non-native Lonicera species. Journal of chemical ecology. 2015 Dec;41:1069-79.
Ali J, Lieurance D, Cipollini D. Soil biota affect mycorrhizal infection and growth of Impatiens capensis and alter the effects of Lonicera maackii rhizosphere extracts1. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 2015;142(1):1-1.
Quinn LD, Gordon DR, Glaser A, Lieurance D, Flory SL. Bioenergy feedstocks at low risk for invasion in the USA: a “white list” approach. Bioenergy research. 2015 Jun;8(2):471-81.
Lieurance D, Cipollini D. Environmental influences on growth and defence responses of the invasive shrub, Lonicera maackii, to simulated and real herbivory in the juvenile stage. Annals of botany. 2013 Aug 1;112(4):741-9.
Lieurance D, Cipollini D. Exotic Lonicera species both escape and resist specialist and generalist herbivores in the introduced range in North America. Biological invasions. 2013 Aug;15:1713-24.
Cipollini D, Lieurance DM. Expression and costs of induced defense traits in Alliaria petiolata, a widespread invasive plant. Basic and Applied Ecology. 2012 Aug 1;13(5):432-40.
Lieurance D, Cipollini D. Damage levels from arthropod herbivores on Lonicera maackii suggest enemy release in its introduced range. Biological Invasions. 2012 Apr;14:863-73.
Lieurance DM. Biomass allocation of the invasive tree Acacia auriculiformis and refoliation following hurricane-force winds1. The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 2007 Jul;134(3):389-97.