Selected Publications

Anacker, B.L., S.P. Harrison. 2011. Climate and the evolution of serpentine endemism in California. Evolutionary Ecology. in press.

Anacker, B. L., J. Whittall, E. Goldberg, and S. Harrison 2011. Origins
and consequences of serpentine endemism in the California flora.
Evolution 65: 365:376

Elmendorf, S. and S. Harrison 2011. Is plant community diversity
regulated over time?  Contrasting results from experiments and long-term
observations. Ecology 92: 602-609.

Grace, J. B., S. Harrison and E. I., Damschen 2011.  Local richness along
gradients in the Siskiyou herb flora:  R. H. Whittaker revisited.
Ecology 92: 108–120.

Harrison, S., E. I. Damschen and J. B. Grace 2010. Ecological
contingency in the effects of climate change on forest herbs.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 107: 19362-19367.

Damschen E. I., S. Harrison and  J. B. Grace, 2010.  Climate change
effects on an endemic-rich edaphic flora: resurveying Robert H.
Whittaker's Siskiyou sites (Oregon, USA). Ecology 91: 3609-3619

Harrison, S., H. V. Cornell and K. A. Moore 2010.  Spatial niches and
coexistence: testing theory with tarweeds. Ecology 91: 2141-2150.

Elmendorf, S. and S. Harrison 2009.  Temporal variability and nestedness
in Californian  grassland species composition. Ecology 90: 1492-1497.

Harrison, S. and H. V. Cornell, 2008.  Toward a better understanding of
the regional causes of local community richness. Ecology Letters 11:
1-11.

Harrison, S. and J. B. Grace 2007. Biogeographic affinity helps explain the productivity-richness relationship at regional and local scales. American Naturalist 170: S5-S15.

Harrison, S. and H. V. Cornell 2007. Introduction: merging evolutionary and ecological approaches to understanding geographic gradients in species richness. American Naturalist 170: S1-S4.

Davies, K. F., S. Harrison, H. D. Safford, and J. H. Viers 2007. Productivity alters the scale dependence of the diversity-invasibility relationship. Ecology 88: 1940-1947.

Hugueny, B., H. V. Cornell and S. Harrison 2007. Simple metacommunity models predict the local-regional species richness relationship in a natural system. Ecology 88: 1696-1706.

Harrison, S., H. D. Safford, J. B. Grace, J. H. Viers and K. F. Davies, 2006. Regional and local species richness in an insular environment: serpentine plants in California. Ecological Monographs 76: 41-56.

Harrison, S., K. F. Davies, J. B. Grace, H. D. Safford, and J. H. Viers 2006. Exotic invasion in a diversity hotspot: disentangling the direct and indirect relationships of exotic cover to native richness in the Californian serpentine flora. Ecology 87: 695-703.

Harrison, S., K. F. Davies, H. D. Safford, and J. H. Viers 2006. Beta diversity and the scale-dependence of the productivity-diversity relationship: a test in the Californian serpentine flora. Journal of Ecology 94: 110-117

Freestone, A. L. and S. Harrison 2006. Regional enrichment of local assemblages is robust to variation in local productivity, abiotic gradients, and heterogeneity. Ecology Letters 9: 95-102.

Batten, K. M., K. M. Scow, K. F. Davies, and S. Harrison, 2006. Two invasive plants alter soil microbial community composition in serpentine grasslands. Biological Invasions 8: 217-230.

Davies, K. F., P. Chesson, S. Harrison, B. D. Inouye, B. A. Melbourne, and K. J. Rice, 2005. Spatial heterogeneity explains the scale dependence of the native-exotic diversity relationship. Ecology 86: 1602-1610.

Gelbard, J. L. and S. Harrison, 2005. Invasibility of roadless grasslands: an experimental study of yellow starthistle. Ecological Applications 15: 1570-1580.

McKay, J. K., C. E. Christian, S. Harrison and K. J. Rice 2005. “How local is local?” A review of practical and conceptual issues in the genetics of restoration. Restoration Ecology 13: 432-440.

Safford, H. D., J. H. Viers and S. Harrison, 2005. Serpentine endemism in the Calfornia flora: a database of serpentine affinity. Madroño 52: 222-257.

Harrison, S., H. D. Safford, and J. Wakabayashi, 2004. Does the age of exposure of serpentine explain variation in endemic plant diversity in California? International Geology Review 46: 235-242. (Reprinted in: Serpentine and serpentinites: mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, ecology, geophysics, and tectonics [the Coleman Volume], International Geology Series of the GSA, Bellwether Publishers, UK).

Safford, H. D. and S. Harrison, 2004. Fire effects on plant diversity in serpentine versus sandstone chaparral. Ecology 85: 539-548.

Harrison, S., B. D. Inouye and H. D. Safford, 2003. Ecological heterogeneity in the effects of grazing and fire on grassland diversity. Conservation Biology 17: 837-845.

Harrison, S. and B. D. Inouye, 2002. High beta diversity in the flora of Californian serpentine "islands". Biodiversity and Conservation 11: 1869-1876.

Harrison, S., J. Maron and G. Huxel, 2000. Regional turnover and fluctuation in populations of five plants confined to serpentine seeps. Conservation Biology 14: 769-779.

Harrison, S. 1999. Native and alien species diversity at the local and regional scales in a grazed Californian grassland. Oecologia 121: 99-106.