Skip To Main Content
Amy L. Freestone on Muck Rack

Amy L. Freestone

As seen in: Nature, PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Marine Science
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile
Back to Amy L. Freestone’s profile

Articles by Amy L. Freestone

Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity - Communications Biology

|
By Camille Delavaux, Joseph A. LaManna, Joseph Lamanna, Jonathan Myers, Richard Phillips, David Allen, Alfonso Alonso, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Chengjin Chu, Keith Clay, Mary Ann Cortese, Christopher William Dick, Erle Ellis, Amy L. Freestone, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Gregory Gilbert, Fangliang He, Jan Holik, ROBERT HOWE, Patrick Jansen, Daniel Johnson, Andrew Larson, James A. Lutz, Yadvinder Malhi, Sean McMahon, Natalia Norden, Vojtech Novotny, Michael O’Brien, David Orwig, Sabrina Russo, Lawren Sack, I-Fang Sun, Jill Thompson, María Uriarte, Ian Ware, Thomas Lauber, Thomas Crowther, Susan Cordell, Kamil Kral, Anuttara Nathalang, Rebecca Ostertag Verified
| Nature Verified
Abstract One mechanism proposed to explain high species diversity in tropical systems is strong negative conspecific density dependence (CDD), which reduces recruitment of juveniles in proximity to conspecific adult plants. Although evidence shows that plant-specific soil pathogens can drive negative CDD, trees also form key mutualisms with mycorrhizal fungi, which may counteract these effects.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Habitat isolation interacts with top-down and bottom-up processes in a seagrass ecosystem

|
By Elizabeth Carroll, Amy L. Freestone
| paperity.org
PLOS ONE, Jul 2023 Habitat loss is accelerating at unprecedented rates, leading to the emergence of smaller, more isolated habitat remnants. Habitat isolation adversely affects many ecological processes independently, but little is known about how habitat isolation may interact with ecosystem processes such as top-down (consumer-driven) and bottom-up (resource-driven) effects.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Habitat isolation interacts with top-down and bottom-up processes in a seagrass ecosystem

|
By Elizabeth Carroll, Amy L. Freestone
| PLOS ONE
Habitat isolation and consumer-resource experiment To test the hypotheses that habitat isolation mediates top-down and bottom-up processes, we ran a field experiment in July 2013. We used artificial seagrass units (ASUs) as our experimental unit to avoid potentially confounding factors such as seagrass density and blade length. ASUs have been extensively used as a standardized mimic of natural seagrass and have been shown to attract similar species [46].
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Multi-trophic native and non-native prey naïveté shape marine invasion success

|
By Katherine J. Papacostas, Amy L. Freestone
| PLOS
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Katherine J. Papacostas , Amy L. Freestone Katherine J. Papacostas, Amy L. Freestone Published: September 6, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221969 Figures Abstract Invasive predators have caused rapid declines in many native prey species across the globe. Predator invasion success may be attributed to prey naïveté, or the absence of anti-predator behavior between native and non-native species.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
Show More