Location
Lincoln
Research interests
Selected Publications
For a full list of my publications, please see my Google Scholar profile:
Luo, S., Phillips, R. P., Jo, I., Fei, S., Liang, J., Schmid, B., Eisenhauer, N. 2023. Higher productivity in forests with mixed mycorrhizal strategies. Nature Communications 14: 1377
Jo, I., Bellingham P.J., Easdale T., McCarthy J., Richardson S., Wiser, S., Padamsee, M. 2022. Ecological importance of the Myrtaceae in New Zealand’s natural forests. Journal of Vegetation Science 31: e13106.
Fridley, J.D., Bauerle, T.L., Craddock A., Ebert, A.R., Frank, D.A., Heberling, J.M., Hinman, E.D., Jo, I., Martinez, K.A., Smith, M.S., Woolhiser, L.J., Yin, J. 2022. Fast but steady: an integrated leaf-stem-root trait syndrome for woody forest invaders. Ecology Letters 25: 900-912.
Novick, K.A., Jo, I., D’Orangeville, L., Benson, M., Au, T.F., Barnes, M., Denham, S., Fei, S., Heilman, K., Hwang, T,. Keyser, T., Maxwell, J.T., Miniat, C., McLauchlan, J., Pederson, N., Wang, L., Wood, J.D. and R.P. Phillips. 2022. The drought response of Eastern US oaks in the context of their declining abundance. BioScience 72: 333-346.
Fei, S., Phillips R.P., Kivlin S.N., Domke G., Jo, I., LaRue, E.A. 2022. Coupling of plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity - its occurrence, relevance, and possible implications under global change. New Phytologist 234: 1960-1966.
Jo, I., Fei, S., Oswalt, C.M., Domke, G.M., and Phillips, R.P. 2019. Shifts in dominant tree mycorrhizal associations in response to anthropogenic impacts. Science Advances 5:eaav6358.
McCallen, E., Knott, J., Nunez-Mir, G., Taylor, B., Jo, I., and Fei, S. 2019. Trends in Ecology: Shifts of ecological research themes in the last four decades. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17:109-116.
Fei, S.*, Jo, I.*, Guo, Q., Wardle, D.A., Fang, J., Chen, A., Oswalt, C.M., and Brockerhoff, E. 2018. Climate determines the relationship between biodiversity and productivity in natural forests. Nature Communications 9:5436. *Contributed-Equally.
Jo, I., Potter, K., Domke, G., and Fei, S. 2018. Dominant forest tree mycorrhizal type mediates understory plant invasions. Ecology Letters 21:217-224. Highlighted in ScienceDaily.
Jo, I., Fridley, J.D., and Frank, D.A. 2017. Invasive plants accelerate nitrogen cycling: evidence from experimental woody monocultures. Journal of Ecology 105:1105–1110.
Fei, S., Desprez, J.M., Potter, K.M., Jo, I., Knott, J.A., and Oswalt, C.M. 2017. Divergence of species responses to climate change. Science Advances 3:e1603055. Highlighted in Nature, AP News, and The Atlantic. One of top 100 scientific stories of the year in Discover Magazine. Received W.S. Cooper Award, 2019 from Ecological Society of America
Jo, I., Fridley, J.D., and Frank, D.A. 2016. More of the same? In situ leaf and root decomposition rates do not vary between 80 native and non-native deciduous forest species. New Phytologist 209: 115-122. Highlighted in the issue by Prescott and Zukswert. Included in the Virtual Issue on Root traits, edited by Richard J. Norby, Colleen M. Iversen.
Jo, I., Fridley, J.D., and Frank, D.A. 2015. Linking above- and belowground resource use strategies for native and invasive species of temperate deciduous forests. Biological Invasions 17: 1545-1554.
Memberships
- Associate Editor, Ecological Solutions and Evidence
Qualifications
Syracuse
PhD Biology
2015