Publications
Journal Articles
GG McNickle, CC St Clair and JF Cahill, Jr.. "Focusing the metaphor: Plant root foraging behaviour." Trends in Ecology and Evolution (Accepted for publication March 2, 2009).TA Reid, A Navabi, JF Cahill, Jr., D Salmon and D Spaner. "A genetic analysis of weed competitive ability in spring wheat." Canadian Journal of Plant Science (Accepted for publication March 5, 2009).
GG McNickle and JF Cahill, Jr.. "Plant root growth and the marginal value theorem." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2009): doi:10.1073/pnas.0807971106.
MD Coupe, JN Stacey and JF Cahill, Jr.. "Limited effects of above- and belowground insects on community structure and function in a species-rich grassland." Journal of Vegetation Science 20 (2009): 121-129.
EG Lamb, SW Kembel and JF Cahill, Jr.. "Shoot, but not root, competition reduces community diversity in experimental mesocosms." Journal of Ecology 97 (2009): 155-163.
M Mitchell, JF Cahill and DS Hik. "The unimportance of plant interactions in a subarctic-alping plant community." Ecology (Accepted for publication March 24, 2009).
JF Cahill, Jr., E Elle, GR Smith and BH Shore. "Disruption of a belowground mutualism alters interactions between plants and their floral visitors." Ecology 89 (2008): 1791-1801 (This was featured as the cover of the July issue).
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GG McNickle, JF Cahill and MK Deyholos. "A PCR-based method for the identification of the roots of 10 co-occuring grassland species in mesocosm experiments." Canadian Journal of Botany 86 (2008): 485-490.
SW Kembel, H DeKroon, JF Cahill and L Mommer. "Improving the scale and precision of hypotheses to explain root foraging ability." Annals of Botany 101 (2008): 1295-1301.
EG Lamb and JF Cahill. "When competition does not matter: Grassland diversity and community composition." American Naturalist 171 (2008): 777-787.
EG Lamb. "Direct and indirect control of species richness and evenness by litter, resources, and neighbor biomass in a native grassland." Ecology 89 (2008): 216-225.
JF Cahill, SW Kembel, EG Lamb and PA Keddy. "Does phylogenetic relatedness influence the strength of competition among vascular plants?" Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 10 (2008): 41-50.
EG Lamb, BH Shore and JF Cahill. "Water and nitrogen addition." Plant Ecology (Accepted for publication 2007).
JF Cahill and EG Lamb. "Interactions between root and shoot competition and plant traits." Hortscience (Accepted for publication 2007).
EG Lamb and JF Cahill. "Consequences of differing competitive response abilities between juvenile and adult plants." Oikos 112 (2006): 502-512.
EG Lamb, JF Cahill and MRT Dale. "A nonlinear regression approach to test for size-dependence of competitive ability." Ecology 87 (2006): 1452-1457.
SW Kembel and JF Cahill, Jr.. "Plant phenotypic plasticity belowground: A phylogenetic perspective on root foraging trade-offs." The American Naturalist 166 (2005): 216-230.
JF Cahill, Jr., SW Kembel and DJ Gustafson. "Differential genetic influences on competitive effect and response in Arabidopsis thaliana." Journal of Ecology 93 (2005): 958-967.
MJ Schulz, JF Cahill, Jr. and RS Currah. "In vitro measurements of the competitive interactions between two saprobic basidiomycetes on Typha latifolia." Canadian Journal of Botany 83 (2005): 1523-1527.
JJ Haag, MD Coupe and JF Cahill, Jr.. "Antagonistic interactions between competition and insect herbivory on plant growth." Journal of Ecology 92 (2004): 156-167.
JF Cahill, BB Casper and DS Hik. "Spatial heterogeneity, not visitation bias, dominates variation in herbivory: Comment." Ecology 85 (2004): 2901-2906.
EG Lamb, JJ Haag and JF Cahill, Jr.. "Patch-background contrast and patch density have limited effects on root proliferation and plant performance in Abutilon theophrasti." Functional Ecology 18 (2004): 836-843.
JF Cahill, Jr.. "Neighborhood-scale diversity, composition, and root crowding do not alter competition during drought in a native grassland." Ecology Letters 6 (2003): 599-603.
JF Cahill, Jr.. "Lack of relationship between below-ground competition and allocation to roots in 10 grassland species." Journal of Ecology 91 (2003): 532-540.
MD Coupe and JF Cahill, Jr.. "Effects of insects on primary production in temperate herbaceous communities: A meta-analysis." Ecological Entomology 28 (2003): 511-521.
JF Cahill, Jr.. "Below ground competition does not vary with productivity, cause a shift in relative allocation to roots, or depend on root system size for 10 grassland species." Journal of Ecology 91 (2003): 532-540.
DS Hik, M Brown, A Dabros, J Weir and JF Cahill, Jr.. "Prevalence and predictability of handling effects in field studies: Results from field experiments and a meta-analysis." American Journal of Botany 90 (2003): 270-277.
JF Cahill, Jr.. "Interactions between root and shoot competition vary among species." Oikos 99 (2002): 101-112.
JF Cahill, Jr., JP Castelli and BB Casper. "Separate effects of human visitation and touch on plant growth and herbivory in an old-field community." American Journal of Botany 89 (2002): 1401-1409.
JF Cahill, Jr and BB Casper. "Canopy gaps are sites of reduced belowground plant competition in a productive old field." Plant Ecology 164 (2002): 29-36.
JF Cahill, Jr.. "What evidence is necessary in studies which separate root and shoot competition along productivity gradients?" Journal of Ecology 90 (2002): 201-205.
JF Cahill, Jr., JP Castelli and BB Casper. "The herbivory uncertainty principle: Visiting plants can alter herbivory." Ecology 82 (2001): 307-312.
JF Cahill, Jr. and BB Casper. "Investigating the relationship between neighbor root biomass and belowground competition: Field evidence for symmetric competition belowground." Oikos 90 (2000): 311-320.
JF Cahill, Jr.. "Fertilization effects on interactions between above- and belowground competition in an old field." Ecology 80 (1999): 466-480.
JF Cahill, Jr. and BB Casper. "Above-ground consequences of belowground nutrient distributions for two old-field herbs: Ambrosia artemisiifolia and Phytolacca americana." Annals of Botany 83 (1999): 471-478.
BB Casper, JF Cahill, Jr. and LA Hyatt. "Above-ground competition does not alter biomass allocated to roots in Abutilon theophrasti." New Phytologist 140 (1998): 231-238.
BB Casper and JF Cahill, Jr.. "Populations of Abutilon theophrasti respond more strongly belowground than aboveground to spatial heterogeneity in soil nutrients." American Journal of Botany 85 (1998): 1680-1687.
BB Casper and JF Cahill, Jr.. "Limited effects of soil nutrient heterogeneity on populations of Abutilon theophrasti (Malvaceae)." American Journal of Botany 83 (1996): 333-341.
CW Schneider, LA MacDonald, JF Cahill and SW Heminway. "The marine and brackish water species of Vaucheria (Tribophyceae, Chrysophyta) from Connecticut." Rhodora 882 (1993): 97-112.
R Niesenbaum, JF Cahill and C Ingersoll. "Light, wind, and touch influence leaf chemistry and rates of herbivory in Apocynum cannabinum (Apocynaceae)." International Journal of Plant Sciences (Accepted for publication 2006).
Books
M Molles and J Cahill. Ecology: Concepts and Applications, Canadian Edition. McGraw-Hill Ryerson (2008): 640 pages.
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Book Chapters
BB Casper, JF Cahill, Jr. and RB Jackson. "Plant competition in spatially heterogeneous environments." In Ecological Consequences of Habitat Heterogeneity, Editors MJ Hutchings, E John and A Stewart. Blackwell (2001): 111-130.|
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