Lyu, S., Alexander, J. (2023) Vital rates contribute differently to impacts of competition on population growth. Ecology Letters, [DOI]
Iseli, E., Chisholm, C., Lenoir, J., Haider, S., Seipel, T., Barros, A., Hargreaves, A.L., Kardol, P., Lembrechts, J.J., McDougall, K., Rashid, I., Rumpf, S.B., Arévalo, J.R., Cavieres, L., Daehler, C., Dar, P.A., Endress, B., Jakobs, G., Jiménez, A., Küffer, C., Mihoc, M., Milbau, A., Morgan, J.W., Naylor, B.J., Pauchard, A., Backes, A.R., Reshi, Z.A., Rew, L., Righetti, D., Shannon, J.M., Valencia, G., Walsh, N., Wright, G.T., Alexander, J.M. (2023). Rapid upwards spread of nonnative plants in mountains across continents. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 7, 405–413.[DOI]
Ratier Backes, A., Römermann, C., Alexander, J.M., Arévalo, J.R., Keil, P., Padrón‐Mederos, M.A., Trogisch, S., Haider, S. (2023). Mechanisms behind elevational plant species richness patterns revealed by a trait‐based approach, Journal of Vegetation Science, 34, e13171. [DOI]
Visakorpi, K., Block, S., Pellissier, L., Levine, J.M., Alexander, J.M. (2022) Plant water use strategy determines winners and losers under climate change.Functional Ecology, 37, 287–301. [DOI]
Barros, A., Haider, S., Müllerová, J., Alexander, J.M., Alvarez, M.A., Aschero, V., Daehler, C., Peyre, G., Ratier Backes, A., Arévalo, J.R., Cavieres, L., Dar, P., Fuentes-Lillo, E., Liedtke, R., McDougall, K., Milbau, A., Morgan, J.W., Naylor, B.J., Nuñez, M.A., Pauchard, A., Rashid, I., Reshi, Z.A., Rew, L.J., Sandoya, V., Seipel, T., Vorstenbosch, T., Vítková, M., Walsh, N., Wedegärtner, R.E., Zong, S., Lembrechts, J.J. (2022) The Role of Roads and Trails for Facilitating Mountain Plant Invasions.CABI International.
Block, S., Maechler, M., Pellissier, L., Alexander, J.M., Levine, J.M. (2022) Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st century climate change.Ecology Letters, 25, 2156–2166. [DOI]
Goncalves, E., Herrera, I., Alexander, J., Duarte, M., Cavieres, L.A., Morales-Salinas, L., Bustamante, R.O. (2022) The upper range limit of alien plants is not in equilibrium with climate in the Andes of Central Chile. Plants, 11 (18), 2345. [DOI]
Alison, J., Alexander, J.M., Diaz Zeugin, N., Dupont, Y.L., Iseli, E., Mann, H.M.R., Høye, T.T. (2022) Moths complement bumblebee pollination of red clover: a case for day-and-night insect surveillance. Biology Letters, 18 (7), 20220187 [DOI]
de Vries, J., Fior, S., Paalsson, A., Widmer, A., Alexander, J.M. (2022) Unravelling drivers of local adaptation through Evolutionary Functional-Structural Plant modelling. bioRxiv [DOI]
Piccardi, P., Alberti, G., Alexander, J.M., Mitri, S. (2022). Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves. The ISME Journal, 16, 2644–2652. [DOI]
Lyu, S., Alexander, J.M. (2022) Competition contributes to both warm and cool range edges. Nature Communications, 13, 2502. [DOI]
Walker, T.W.N., Gavazov, K., Guillaume, T., Lambert, T., Mariotte, P., Routh, D., Signarbieux, C., Block, S., Muenkemueller, T., Nomoto,H., Crowther, T.W., Richter, A., Buttler, A., Alexander, J.M. (2022) Lowland plant arrival in alpine ecosystems facilitates a decrease in soil carbon content under experimental climate warming. eLife, 11, e78555. [DOI] Haider, S., Lembrechts, J., McDougall, K., Pauchard, A., Alexander, J.M., et al. (2022) Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring species distributions along elevation gradients.Ecology and Evolution, 12, e8590.[DOI]
Alexander, J.M., Atwater, D.Z., Colautti, R.I., Hargreaves, A.L. (2022) Effects of species interactions on the potential for evolution of species’ range limits. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B., 377, 20210020 [DOI]
Rafajlović, M., Alexander, J.M., Butlin, R.K., Johannesson, K. (2022) Introduction to the theme issue "Species' ranges in the face of changing environments". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B., 377, 20210002 [DOI]
Walker, T.W.N., Alexander, J.M., Allard, P.M., Baines, O., Baldy, V., Bardgett, R.D., Capdevila, P., Coley, P.D., David, B., Defossez, E., Endara, M.J., Ernst, M., Fernandez, C., Forrister, D., Gargallo-Garriga, A., Jassey, V.E.J., Marr, S., Neumann, S., Pellissier, L., Peñuelas, J., Peters, K., Rasmann, S., Roessner, U., Sardans, J., Schrodt, F., Schuman, M.C., Soule, A., Uthe, H., Weckwerth, W., Wolfender, J.-L., van Dam, N.M., Salguero-Gómez, R. (2022) Functional Traits 2.0: the power of the metabolome for ecology. Journal of Ecology, 110, 4–20 [DOI]
Lembrechts, J.J., and 406 coauthors. (2022) Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology, 28, 3110–3144 [DOI]
Dötterl, S., Alexander, J., Fior, S., Frossard, A., Magnabosco, C., Broek, M., Westergaard, K.B. (2022) Will accelerated soil development be a driver of Arctic Greening in the late 21st century? Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 185, 19–23. [DOI]
Stephan, P., Bramon Mora, B., Alexander, J.M. (2021) Positive species interactions shape species' range limits.Oikos, 130, 1611–1624.[DOI]
Nomoto, H.N., Alexander, J.M. (2021) Drivers of local extinction risk in alpine plants under warming climate.Ecology Letters, 24, 1157–1166. [DOI]
Clavel, J., Lembrechts, J., Alexander, J., Haider, S., Lenoir, J., Milbau, A., Nuñez, M.A., Pauchard, A., Nijs, I., Verbruggen, E. (2021) The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in nonnative plant invasion along mountain roads. New Phytologist, 230, 1156–1168 [DOI]
Rew, L.J., McDougall, K.L., Alexander, J.M., Daehler, C.D., Essl, F., Haider, S., Kueffer, C., Lenoir, J., Milbau, A., Nuñez, M.A., Pauchard, A., Rabitsch, W. (2020) Moving up and over: redistribution of plants in alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic ecosystems under global change. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 52, 651–665 [DOI]
Block, S., Alexander, J.M., Levine, J.M. (2020) Phenological plasticity is a poor predictor of subalpine plant population performance following experimental climate change. Oikos, 129, 184–193. [DOI]
Wüest, R.O., Zimmermann, N.E., Zurell, D., Alexander, J., Fritz, S.A., Hof, C., Kreft, H., Normand, S., Cabral, J.S., Szekely, E., Thuiller, W., Wikelski, M., Karger, D.N. (2020) Macroecology in the age of big data - where to go from here? Journal of Biogeography, 47, 1–12. [DOI]
Hagedorn, F., Gavazov, K., Alexander, J.M. (2019) Above- and below-ground linkages shape responses of mountain vegetation to climate change. Science, 365, 1119–1123. [DOI]
Guisan, A., Mod, H., Scherrer, D., Münkemüller, T., Pottier, J., Alexander, J., D'Amen, M. (2019) Scaling the linkages between environmental niches and functional traits for improved spatial predictions of biological communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28, 1384–1392. [DOI]
Alexander, J.M., Levine, J.M. (2019) Earlier phenology of a nonnative plant increases impacts on native competitors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116, 6199–6204. [DOI]
McDougal, K., Lembrechts, J., Rew, L.J., Haider, S., Cavieres, L.A., Kueffer, C., Milbau, A., Naylor, B.J., Nuñez, M.A., Pauchard, A., Seipel, T., Speziale, K.L., Wright, G.T., Alexander, J.M. (2018) Running off the road: roadside non-native plants invading mountain vegetation.Biological Invasions, 20, 3461–3473. [DOI]
Cardinaux, A., Hart, S.P., Alexander, J.M. (2018) Do soil biota influence the outcome of novel interactions between plant competitors?Journal of Ecology, 106, 1853–1863. [DOI]
Halbritter, A.H., Fior, S., Keller, I., Billeter, R., Edwards, P., Holderegger, R., Karrenberg, S., Pluess, A.R., Widmer, A., Alexander, J.M. (2018) Trait differentiation and adaptation of plants along elevation gradients.Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31, 784–800. [DOI]
Haider, S., Kueffer, C., Bruelheide, H., Seipel, T., Alexander, J.M., Arévalo, J.R., Cavieres, L.A., McDougall, K.L., Milbau, A., Naylor, B.J., Rew, L.J., Speziale, K., Pauchard, A. (2018) Mountain roads and non-native species modify elevational patterns of plant diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27, 667–678. [DOI]
Alexander, J.M., Diez, J. M., Usinowicz, J., Hart, S.P. (2018). Species' distributions as a coexistence problem: a response to Godsoe et al.. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33, 144–145. [DOI].
Alexander, J.M., Chalmandrier, L., Lenoir, J., Burgess, T.I., Essl, F., Haider, S., Kueffer, C., McDougall, K., Milbau, A., Nuñez, M.A., Pauchard, A., Rabitsch, W., Rew, L.J., Sanders, N., Pellissier, L. (2018). Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change. Global Change Biology, 24, 563–579. [DOI]
Colautti, R., Alexander, J., Dlugosch, K., Keller, S., Sultan, S. (2017) Invasions and extinctions through the looking glass of evolutionary ecology. Philosophical Transactions B, 372, 20160031. [DOI]
Lembrechts, J.J., Alexander, J.M., Cavieres, L.A., Haider, S., Lenoir, J., Kueffer, C., McDougall, K., Naylor, B.J., Nuñez, M.A, Pauchard, A., Rew, L.J., Nijs, I., Milbau, A. (2017) Mountain roads shift native and non-native plant species ranges. Ecography, 40, 353–364. [DOI]
Alexander, J., Kueffer, C. (2016) Ecological connectivity and alien species. In: Plassmann, G., Kohler, Y., Badura, M., Walzer, C. (eds.) Alpine Nature 2030. Creating [ecological] connectivity for generations to come. pp. 101-102. Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB). [DOI]
Alexander, J.M., Diez, J.M., Hart, S., Levine, J.M. (2016) When climate reshuffles competitors: a call for experimental macroecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31, 831–841. [DOI]
Alexander, J.M., Lembrechts, J.J., Cavieres, L.A., Daehler, C., Haider, S., Kueffer, C., Liu, G., McDougall, K., Milbau, A., Pauchard, A., Rew, L.J., Seipel, T. (2016) Plant invasions into mountains and alpine ecosystems: current status and future challenges. Alpine Botany, 126, 89–103. [DOI]
Seipel, T., Alexander, J.M., Edwards, P.J., Kueffer, C. (2016) Range limits and population dynamics of non-native plants spreading along elevation gradients. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 20, 46–55. [DOI]
Alexander, J.M. (2016). Experiments link competition and climate change responses. Journal of Vegetation Science, 27, 217–218. [DOI]
Pauchard, A., Milbau, A., Albihn, A., Alexander, J., Burgess, T., Daehler, C., Englund, G., Essl, F., Evengård, B., Greenwood, G.B., Haider, S., Lenoir, J., McDougall, K., Muths, E., Nuñez, M.A., Olofsson, J., Pellissier, L., Rabitsch, W., Rew, L.J., Robertson, M., Sanders, N., Kueffer, C. (2016). Non-native and native organisms moving into high elevation and high latitude ecosystems in an era of climate change: new challenges for ecology and conservation. Biological Invasions, 18, 345–353. [DOI]
Halbritter, A., Billeter, R., Edwards, P.J., Alexander, J.M. (2015). Local adaptation at range edges: comparing elevation and latitudinal gradients. Journal of Evolutionary Biology [DOI]
Seipel, T., Alexander, J.M., Daehler, C.C., Rew, L.J., Edwards, P.J., Dar, P.A., McDougall, K., Naylor, B., Parks, C., Pollnac, F.W., Reshi, Z.A., Schroder, M., Kueffer, C. (2015). Performance of the herb Verbascum thapsus along environmental gradients in its native and non-native ranges. Journal of Biogeography, 42, 132–143. [DOI]
Moran, E., Alexander, J.M. (2014) Evolutionary responses to global change: lessons from invasive species. Ecology Letters, 17, 637–649. [DOI]
Keller, I., Alexander, J.M., Edwards, P.J., Holderegger, R. (2014) Lokale Anpassungen an verschiedene Höhenlagen. Natur und Landschaft, 89, 145–150. [DOI]
De Frenne, P., Coomes, D.A., De Schrijver, A., Staelens, J., Alexander, J.M., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Brunet, J., Chabrerie, O., Chiarucci, A., et al. (2014) Plant movements and climate warming: intraspecific variation in growth responses to non-local soils. New Phytologist, 202, 431–441. [DOI]
Keller, I., Alexander, J.M., Holderegger, R., Edwards, P.J. (2013) Widespread phenotypic and genetic divergence along altitudinal gradients in animals. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26, 2527–2543. [DOI]
Alexander, J.M. (2013) Evolution under changing climates: climatic niche stasis despite rapid evolution in a non-native plant. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280 (1767). [DOI]
Halbritter, A., Alexander, J.M., Edwards, P.J., Billeter, R. (2013) How comparable are species distributions along elevational and latitudinal temperature gradients? Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22, 1228–1237.[DOI]
Kueffer, C., McDougall, K., Alexander, J., Daehler, C., Edwards, P.J., Haider, S., Milbau, A., Parks, C., Pauchard, A., Reshi, Z.A. (2013). Plant invasions into mountain protected areas: assessment, prevention and control at multiple spatial scales. In: L.C. Foxcroft, D.M. Richardson, P. Pyšek & P. Genovesi (eds.) Alien Plant Invasions in Protected Areas: A Global Assessment. pp. 89–113. Springer, Berlin. [DOI]
Walzer, C., Kowalczyk, C., Alexander, J.M., Baur, B., Bogliani, G., Brun, J-J., Füreder, L., Guth, M-O., Haller, R., et al. (2013). The 50 most important questions relating to the maintenance and restoration of an ecological continuum in the European Alps. PLoS ONE, 8, e53139. [DOI]
Sheppard, C.S., Alexander, J.M., Billeter, R. (2012). The invasion of plant communities following extreme weather events under ambient and elevated temperature. Plant Ecology, 213, 1289–1301. [DOI]
Haider, S., Kueffer, C., Edwards, P.J., Alexander, J.M. (2012). Genetically based differentiation in growth of multiple non-native plant species along a steep environmental gradient. Oecologia, 170, 89–99. [DOI]
Alexander, J.M., van Kleunen, M., Ghezzi, R., Edwards, P.J. (2012). Different genetic clines in response to temperature across the native and introduced ranges of a global plant invader. Journal of Ecology, 100, 771–781. [DOI]
Seipel, T., Kueffer, C., Rew, L., Daehler, C., Pauchard, A., Naylor, B., Alexander, J.M., Parks, C., Edwards, P.J., Arevalo, J. R. et al. (2012). Processes at multiple scales affect non-native plant species richness and similarity in mountains around the world. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21, 236–246. [DOI]
Alexander, J.M., Kueffer, C., Daehler, C., Edwards, P.J., Pauchard, A., Seipel, T., MIREN consortium (2011). Assembly of non-native floras along elevational gradients explained by directional ecological filtering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 656–661. [DOI] [PDF]
McDougall, K., Alexander, J.M., Haider, S., Pauchard, A., Walsh, N., Kueffer, C. (2011). Alien flora of mountains: global comparisons for the development of local preventive measures against plant invasions. Diversity and Distributions, 17, 103–111. [DOI]
Haider, S., Alexander, J.M., Kueffer, C. (2011). Elevational distribution limits of non-native species: combining observational and experimental evidence. Plant Ecology and Diversity, 4, 363–371. [DOI]
Simberloff, D. et al. (2011). Non-natives: 141 scientists object. Nature, 475(7354): 36–36. (Cosignatory) [DOI]
Haider, S, Alexander, J.M., Dietz, H., Trepl, L, Edwards, P.J., Kueffer, C. (2010). The role of bioclimatic origin, residence time and habitat context in shaping non-native plant distributions along an altitudinal gradient. Biological Invasions, 12, 4003–4018. [DOI]
Alexander, J.M., Edwards, P.J. (2010). Limits to the niche and range margins of alien species. Oikos, 119, 1377–1386. [DOI]
Alexander, J.M. (2010). Genetic differences in the elevational limits of native and introduced Lactuca serriola populations. Journal of Biogeography, 37, 1951–1961. [DOI]
Alexander, J.M., Poll, M., Dietz, H., Edwards, P.J. (2009). Contrasting patterns of genetic variation and structure in plant invasions of mountains. Diversity and Distributions, 15, 502–512. [DOI]
Alexander, J.M., Edwards, P.J., Poll, M., Parks, C. G., Dietz, H. (2009). Establishment of parallel altitudinal clines in traits of native and introduced forbs. Ecology, 90, 612–622. [DOI] [PDF]
Alexander, J.M., Naylor, B., Poll, M., Edwards, P.J., Dietz, H. (2009). Plant invasions along mountain roads: the altitudinal amplitude of alien Asteraceae forbs in their native and introduced ranges. Ecography, 32, 334–344. [DOI]
Pauchard, A, Kueffer, C., Dietz, H., Daehler, C.C., Alexander, J.M., Edwards, P.J., Arevalo, J R, Cavieres, LA, Guisan, A., et al. (2009). Ain't no mountain high enough: plant invasions reaching new elevations. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 7, 479–486. [DOI]
Pauchard, A, Kueffer, C., McDougall, K, Alexander, J.M., MIREN Consortium (2009). Global networks: a reply to Khuroo et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 7, 518. [DOI]
Poll, M., Naylor, B., Alexander, J.M., Edwards, P.J., Dietz, H. (2009). Seedling establishment of Asteraceae forbs along altitudinal gradients: a comparison of transplant experiments in the native and introduced ranges. Diversity and Distributions, 15, 254–265. [DOI]
Alexander, J.M., Pauchard, A. (2009). EMAPI 10: Bridging approaches to plant invasions. Frontiers in Biogeography, 1, 48–49.
Metcalf, J.C.E., Rees, M., Alexander, J.M., Rose, K. (2006). Growth–survival trade-offs and allometries in rosette-forming perennials. Functional Ecology, 20, 217–225. [DOI]
Carine, M.A., Alexander, J.M., Scotland, R.W. (2004). A revision of the Strobilanthes kunthiana-group (Phlebophyllum sensu Bremekamp) (Acanthaceae). Kew Bulletin, 59, 1–25. [DOI]
Carine, M.A., Alexander, J.M., Russell, S.J. (2003). Evolution of spines and the taxonomic status of Convolvulus section Acanthocladi: preliminary results from the ITS2 region of nrDNA. Bocconea, 16, 703–710.
