Ackerly Lab

Plant Ecology and Global Change: Science Motivated by Conservation

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Featured Papers

  • McLaughlin, B., M.M. Kling, S.T. Jackson, E.S. Zavaleta, D.D. Ackerly. 2025. Sustaining species of the future: Climatic nuclei for climate change adaptation. Global Change Biology. 31: e70253. (DOI)
  • Flint, A.L., L.E. Flint, M.A. Stern, D.D. Ackerly, R. Boynton, J.H. Thorne. 2024. Characterizing soil and bedrock water use of native Caifornia vegetation. Hydrology, 11: 211. (DOI)
  • Rosenblad, K.C. and Ackerly, D.D., 2024. Climatic variation allows montane willows to escape an adaptive trade‐off. New Phytologist, 244: 265–276. (DOI)
  • Kling, M.M., Baer, K.C. and Ackerly, D.D., 2024. A tree’s view of the terrain: downscaling bioclimate variables to high resolution using a novel multi‐level species distribution model. Ecography, p.e07131. (DOI)
  • Sanchez‐Martinez, P, DD Ackerly, J Martínez‐Vilalta, M Mencuccini, KG Dexter, and TE Dawson. 2024. A framework to study and predict functional trait syndromes using phylogenetic and environmental data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. (DOI)
  • John A, JD Olden, MF Oldfather, MM Kling, and DD Ackerly. 2024. Topography influences diurnal and seasonal microclimate fluctuations in hilly terrain environments of coastal California. PLOS ONE 19(3): e0300378 (DOI)
  • Rosenblad, KC, KC Baer, and DD Ackerly. 2023. Climate change, tree demography, and thermophilization in Western forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120: e2301754120 (DOI)
  • Papper, PD and DD Ackerly. 2021. Partitioning genetic and environmental components of phenological variation in Quercus douglasii (Fagaceae). Madroño, 68:425-433 (DOI)
  • Kling, MM, and DD Ackerly. 2021. Global wind patterns shape genetic differentiation, asymmetric gene flow, and genetic diversity in trees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118:e2017317118. (DOI)
  • Skelton, RP, LD Anderegg, J Diaz, MM Kling, PD Papper, LJ  Lamarque, S Delzon, TE Dawson, and DD Ackerly. 2021. Evolutionary relationships between drought-related traits and climate shape large hydraulic safety margins in western North American oaks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118:e2008987118. (DOI)
  • Kling, M.M., DD Ackerly. 2020. Global wind patterns and the vulnerability of wind-dispersed species to climate change. Nature Climate Change (DOI)
  • Ackerly, DD, M.M. Kling, M.L. Clark, P. Papper, M.F. Oldfather, A.L. Flint, L.E. Flint. 2020. Topoclimates, refugia, and biotic responses to climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment, 18:288-297 (DOI)
  • McLaughlin, B.C., R. Blakey, A.P. Weitz, X. Feng, B.J. Brown, DD Ackerly, T.E. Dawson, S.E. Thompson. 2020. Weather underground: subsurface hydrologic processes mediate tree vulnerability to extreme climatic drought. Global Change Biology, 20: 3091-3107 (DOI)
  • Olliff-Yang, R., T. Gardali, DD Ackerly. 2020. Mismatch managed? Phenological phase extension as a strategy to manage phenological asynchrony in plant-animal mutualisms. Restoration Ecology, 28: 498-505 (DOI)
  • Kling, M.M., S. Auer, P. Comer, DD Ackerly, H. Hamilton. 2020. Multiple axes of ecological vulnerability to climate change. Global Change Biology, early view (DOI)
  • Ramirez, A.R., M.E. de Guzman, T.E. Dawson, DD Ackerly. 2020. Plant hydraulic traits reveal islands as refugia from worsening drought. Conservation Physiology, 8: coz115 (DOI)
  • Oldfather, M.F., M.M. Kling, S.N. Sheth, N.C. Emery, DD Ackerly. Range edges in heterogeneous landscapes—integrating geographic scale and climate complexity into range dynamics. Global Change Biology, 26: 1055-1067 (DOI)
  • Oldfather, M.F., DD Ackerly. 2019. Increases in thermophilus plants in an arid alpine community in response to experimental warming, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 51: 201-214 (DOI)
  • Kling MM, Mishler BD, Thornhill AH, Baldwin BG, Ackerly DD. 2018. Facets of phylodiversity: evolutionary diversification, divergence and survival as conservation targets. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 374:20170397.
  • Oldfather MF, Ackerly DD. 2019. Microclimate and demography interact to shape stable population dynamics across the range of an alpine plant. New Phytologist. 222:293-205
  • Keeley AT, Ackerly DD, Cameron DR, Heller NE, Huber PR, Schloss CA, Thorne JH, Merenlender AM. 2018. New concepts, models, and assessments of climate-wise connectivity. Environmental Research Letters. 13:073002.
  • Skelton RP, Dawson TE, Thompson SE, Shen Y, Weitz AP, Ackerly DD. 2018. Low vulnerability to xylem embolism in leaves and stems of North American oaks. Plant Physiology. 177:1066-77.
  • Feng X, Dawson TE, Ackerly DD, Santiago LS, Thompson SE. 2017. Reconciling seasonal hydraulic risk and plant water use through probabilistic soil–plant dynamics. Global Change Biology. 23:3758-69.
  • Hereford J, Schmitt J, Ackerly DD. 2017. The seasonal climate niche predicts phenology and distribution of an ephemeral annual plant, Mollugo verticillata. Journal of Ecology. 105:1323-34.
  • McLaughlin BC, Ackerly DD, Klos PZ, Natali J, Dawson TE, Thompson SE. 20017. Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change. Global Change Biology. 23:2941-61.
  • Baldwin BG, Thornhill AH, Freyman WA, Ackerly DD, Kling MM, Morueta‐Holme N, Mishler BD. 2017. Species richness and endemism in the native flora of California. American Journal of Botany. 104:487-501.
  • Ackerly DD, Cornwell WK, Weiss SB, Flint LE, Flint AL. 2015. A geographic mosaic of climate change impacts on terrestrial vegetation: which areas are most at risk? PLoS ONE 10:e0130629
  • Lawler, J., DD Ackerly, C. Albano, M. Anderson, M. Cross, S. Dobrowski, J. Gill, N. Heller, R. Pressey, E. Sanderson, and S. Weiss. 2015. The theory behind, and challenges of, conserving nature’s stage in a time of rapid change. Conservation Biology 29:618-629 (DOI)
  • Chardon, N.I., W.K. Cornwell, Flint, L., Flint, A., and DD Ackerly. 2015. Topographic, latitudinal and climatic distribution of Pinus coulteri: geographic range limits are not at the edge of the climate envelope. Ecography 38:590-601 (DOI)
  • Heller, N.E., J. Kreitler, DD Ackerly, S. Weiss, A. Recinos, R. Branciforte, L.E. Flint, A.L. Flint, and E. Micheli. 2015. Targeting climate diversity in conservation planning to build resilience to climate change: a case study with the San Francisco Bay Area Conservation Lands Network. Ecosphere 6: 65 (open access)
  • Batllori, E., DD Ackerly, and M.A. Moritz. 2015. A minimal model of fire-vegetation feedbacks and disturbance stochasticity generates alternative stable states in grassland-shrubland-woodland systems. Env Research Letters 10: 034018 (open access)
  • Chornesky, E.A., DD Ackerly, P. Beier, F.W. Davis, L.E. Flint, J.J. Lawler, P.B. Moyle, M.A. Moritz, M. Scoonover, P. Alvarez, K. Byrd, N.E. Heller, E.R. Micheli, S.B. Weiss. 2015. Adapting California’s ecosystems to a changing climate. Bioscience 65:247-262 (DOI)
  • McIntyre, P.J., J.H. Thorne, C.R. Dolanc, A.L. Flint, L.E. Flint, M. Kelly, DD Ackerly. 20th century shifts in forest structure in California: denser forests, smaller trees, and increased dominance of oaks. PNAS 112: 1458-1463 (open access)
  • Ackerly, DD, W.D. Stock, and J.A. Slingsby. 2014. Geography, climate and biodiversity: the history and future of Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Pp. 361-375 in N. Allsopp, J.F. Colville, and G.A. Verboom, eds. Ecology and evolution of fynbos: understanding megadiversity. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
  • Emery, N.C. and DD Ackerly. 2014. Ecological release exposes genetically-based niche variation. Ecology Letters 17: 1149-1157 (DOI)
  • Rapacciuolo, G., S.P. Maher, A.C. Schneider, T.T. Hammond, M.D. Jabis, R. Walsh, K.J. Iknayan, G.K. Walden, M.F. Oldfather, DD Ackerly, S.R. Beissinger. 2014. Beyond a warming fingerprint: individualistic biogeographic responses to heterogeneous climate change in California. Global Change Biology 20: 2841-2855 (open access)
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