Leah N. Veldhuisen

This study tests hypotheses about factors driving invasion success in non-native ferns, finding no phylogenetic clustering, conserved climatic niches, smaller genomes in naturalized ferns, and higher ploidal levels in invaders.

The paper examines phylogenetic diversity in Rocky Mountain wildflower communities across the growing season and finds it declines by season end and at lower elevations.

The paper examines phylogenetic diversity changes in angiosperm communities over 65 years across elevation gradients, finding phylogenetic signals in constancy and elevational shifts and decoupling of diversity aspects in different communities.

This study examines how experimental warming and cooling affect community diversity metrics in Rocky Mountain plant communities, finding decoupling between species and phylogenetic diversity.

The study examines whether rare plant species contribute disproportionately to phylogenetic diversity in a subalpine community and finds they do not.