Selected peer-reviewed publications

  • Podoliak, J., C. Norment, and K.L. Amatangelo. 2022. Increasing number of point counts influences estimates of bird and anuran species richness at the wetland scale. Wetlands Ecology and Management 30: 99-110.
  • Berend, K., K.L. Amatangelo, D. Weihrauch, C. Norment, and M. Penberthy. 2022. Plant traits and community metrics across a snowmelt gradient at alpine snowbank sites on Mt. Washington, NH. Rhodora 122(992):290-320.
  • Jackson, H. and K.L. Amatangelo. 2021. Density-dependent impacts of invasive Vincetoxicum rossicum (pale swallowwort) and native Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) on plant traits and competitive interactions. Plant Ecology. 222(9): 1065-1074. 10.1007/s11258-021-01161-1 
  • Berend, K., K.L. Amatangelo, D. Weihrauch and C. Norment. 2020. Effects of snow and temperature on the phenology of alpine snowbank plants on Mt. Washington, NH. Rhodora 122:1-22.
  • Amatangelo, K.L., L. Stevens, D.A. Wilcox, S.T. Jackson and D.F. Sax. 2018. Provenance of invaders has scale-dependent impacts in a changing wetland ecosystem. NeoBiota 40:51-72. PDF.
  • Ward, S. and K.L. Amatangelo. 2018. Suburban gardening in Rochester, New York: Exotic plant preference and risk of invasion. Landscape and Urban Planning 180:161-165. PDF.
  • ​Drew, J. and K.L. Amatangelo. 2017. Community assembly of coral reef fishes along the Melanesian biodiversity gradient.  PLoS ONE 12(10): e0186123.
  • Johnson, S.E., K.L. Amatangelo, P.A.Townsend and D.M. Waller. 2016. Large, connected floodplain forests prone to flooding best sustain plant diversity. Ecology 97(11):3019-3030. PDF.
  • Lyons, S. Kathleen, K.L. Amatangelo, A.K. Behrensmeyer, A. Bercovici, J. Blois, M. Davis, W. DiMichele, A. Du, J. Eronen, T. Faith, G. Graves, N. Jud, C. Labandiera, C. Looy, B. Micgill, J. Miller, D. Patterson, S. Pineda-Munoz, R. Potts, B. Riddles, R. Terry, A. Toth, W. Ulrich, A. Villasenor, A. Wing and S. Gotelli. 2016. Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts. Nature 529:80-83. nature16447. Two replies: nature20097 nature19111
  • Amatangelo, K.L., S. Johnson, D. Rogers and D. Waller 2014. Trait-environment relationships remain strong despite fifty years of trait compositional change in temperate forests. Ecology 95:1780-1791. PDF.
  • Sabatini, F., J. Burton, R. Scheller, K.L. Amatangelo, and D. Mladenoff 2013. Functional diversity of ground-layer plant communities in old-growth and managed northern hardwood forests. Applied Vegetation Science 17(3):398-407. PDF.
  • ​Amatangelo, K.L., M.A. Fulton, D.A. Rogers, and D.M. Waller. 2011. Converging forest community composition along an edaphic gradient threatens landscape-level diversity. Diversity and Distributions 17(2):201-213. PDF.
  • Klionsky, S., K.L. Amatangelo, and D.M. Waller. 2011. Above- and below-ground impacts of European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica L.) on four native forbs. Restoration Ecology 19(6) 728-737. PDF.
  • Amatangelo, K.L., and P.M. Vitousek. 2009. Contrasting predictors of fern versus angiosperm decomposition in a common garden. Biotropica 41:154-161. PDF.
  • Cornwell, W.K., J.H.C. Cornelissen, K.L. Amatangelo, and 25 others. 2008. Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide. Ecology Letters 11:1065-1071. PDF.
  • Amatangelo, K.L., and P.M. Vitousek. 2008. Stoichiometry of ferns in Hawaii: Implications for nutrient cycling. Oecologia 157:619-627. PDF.
  • Amatangelo, K.L., J.S. Dukes, and C.B. Field. 2008. Responses of a California annual grassland to litter manipulation. Journal of Vegetation Science 19:605-612. PDF.

Technical reports

  • Eshenroder, R. and K.L. Amatangelo. 2002.  Reassessment of the lake trout population collapse in Lake Michigan during the 1940s. Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Tech. Rep. Great Lakes Fishery Commission 65: 1-32.