Curtis C. Daehler
Selected publications
Fridley, J. D., Bellingham, P. J., Closset-Kopp, D., Daehler, C. C., Dechoum, M. S., Martin, P. H., Murphy, H. T., Rojas-Sandoval, J., & Tng, D. 2023. A general hypothesis of forest invasions by woody plants based on whole-plant carbon economics. Journal of Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14001

Haider, S., Lembrechts, J. J., McDougall, K., Pauchard, A., Alexander, J. M., Barros, A., Cavieres, L. A., Rashid, I., Rew, L. J., Aleksanyan, A., Arévalo, J. R., Aschero, V., Chisholm, C., Clark, V. R., Clavel, J., Daehler, C., Dar, P. A., Dietz, H., Dimarco, R. D., … Seipel, T. 2022. Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients. Ecology and Evolution, 12(2):1-16 . https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8590

Faccenda, K., and Daehler, C. C. 2022. A screening system to predict wildfire risk of invasive plants. Biological Invasions, 24(2), 575–589. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02661-x

Brock, K. C., and Daehler, C. C. 2021. Plant naturalization trends reflect socioeconomic history and show a high likelihood of inter-island spread in Hawai‘i. Invasive Plant Science and Management, 14(3), 135–146. https://doi.org/10.1017/inp.2021.18

Severin D.H.I. A.H. Schweiger, M.J. Steinbauer, C. Ah‐Peng, J.R. Arévalo, C. Beierkuhnlein A. Chiarucci, C.C. Daehler, J.M. Fernández‐Palacios, O. Flores, C. Kueffer, P. Maděra, R. Otto J. M.‐I. Schweiger, D. Strasberg A. Jentsch. 2021. Human impact, climate and dispersal strategies determine plant invasion on islands. Journal of Biogeography 48 (8):1889-1903. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14119.

Larrue, Sébastien, J-Y. Meyer, B. Fumanal, C. Daehler, J. Chadeyron, M. Flores, and L. Mazal. 2021. Seed rain, dispersal distance, and germination of the invasive tree Spathodea campanulata on the Island of Tahiti, French Polynesia (South Pacific). Pacific Science 74(4): 405–17. https://doi.org/10.2984/74.4.8.

Wilson, J.R.U., S. Bacher, C.C. Daehler, Q.J. Groom, S. Kumschick, J. L. Lockwood, T.B. Robinson, T.A. Zengeya, and D.M. Richardson. 2020. Frameworks Used in Invasion Science: Progress and Prospects.” NeoBiota, 62:1–30. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.62.58738

Brock, K.C., and C.C. Daehler. 2020. Applying an invasion and risk framework to track non-native island floras: A case study of challenges and solutions in Hawai’i. NeoBiota, 62: 55–79. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.62.52764

Brock, K.C., Daehler, C.C., Imada, C.T., Kennedy, B.H. and Flynn, T.W. 2020. Recommendations for reporting records of nonnative plant species in the Hawaiian Islands. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 129: 109-124.

Essl, F., B. Lenzner, S. Bacher, S. Bailey, C. Capinha, C. Daehler, S. Dullinger, et al. 2020. Drivers of future alien species impacts: An expert-based assessment. Global Change Biology 26: 4880–4893. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15199.

Hibit, J., and C.C. Daehler. 2019. Long-term decline of native tropical dry forest remnants in an invaded Hawaiian landscape. Biodiversity and Conservation 28: 1699-1716. https://doi.org:/10.1007/s10531-019-01748-1
 
Walsh, S.K. R.J.Pender, R.R.Junker, C.C. Daehler, C.W.Morden, and D.H. Lorencea. 2020. Pollination biology reveals challenges to restoring populations of Brighamia insignis (Campanulaceae), a critically endangered plant species from Hawai'i; Flora 259:151448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2019.151448

Larrue S., J‐F. Butaud C.C. Daehler S. Ballet J. Chadeyron and R. Oyono. 2018. Persistence at the final stage of volcanic island ontogeny: Abiotic predictors explain native plant species richness on 111 remote Pacific atolls. Ecology and Evoluion. 8:12208–12220. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4680 
 
Zenni, R.D., A.B. SampaioY.P. Lima, M. Pessoa-Filho, T.C.L. Lins, V.R. Pivello, and C.C. Daehler. 2018. Invasive Melinis minutiflora outperforms native species, but the magnitude of the effect is context-dependent. Biological Invasions 21: 657–667. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-018-1854-5 
 
Jones, C.A. and C.C. Daehler 2018. Herbarium specimens can reveal impacts of climate change on plant phenology; a review of methods and applications. PeerJ 6:e4576 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4576 
 
Lurie, M.H.; Barton, K.E.; Daehler, C.C. 2017. Pre-damage biomass allocation and not invasiveness predicts tolerance to damage in seedlings of woody species in Hawaii. Ecology 98: 3011-3021.https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2031 
 
Kuppler, J.s; Hoefers, M.K.; Trutschnig, W.; Bathke, A.C.; Eiben, J.A.; Daehler, C.C.; Junker, R.R. 2017 . Exotic flower visitors exploit large floral trait spaces resulting in asymmetric resource partitioning with native visitors. Functional Ecology 31: 2244-2254. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12932 
 
Koide, D., Yoshida, K., Daehler, C.C., Mueller-Dombois, D. 2017. An upward elevation shift of native and non-native vascular plants over 40years on the island of Hawai'i. Journal of Vegetation Science 28: 939-950. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12549 
 
Petitpierre, B., Broennimann, O.; Kueffer, C.; Daehler, C.; Guisan, A. 2017. Selecting predictors to maximize the transferability of species distribution models: lessons from cross-continental plant invasions Global Ecology and Biogeography 26: 275-287. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12530  
 
Pauchard, A. Milbau, A., Albihn, A., Alexander, J., Burgess, T., Daehler, C., Englund, G., Essl, F., Evengard, B., Greenwood, G.B, Haider, S., Lenoir, J., McDougall, K., ; Muths, E., Nunez, 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-1025-x 
 
Daehler, C.C., M.van Kleunen, P. Pyšek, D.M. Richardson 2016.. EMAPi 2015. Highlighting links between science and management of alien plant invasions. NeoBiota 30:1-3. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.30.9594  
 
Larrue, S., C.C. Daehler, J-Y. Meyer, R. Pouteau, O. Voldoire 2016. Elevational distribution and photosynthetic characteristics of the invasive tree Spathodea campanulata on the island of Tahiti (South Pacific Ocean). NeoBiota 30: 127-149. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.30.8201 
 
Alexander, J.M., J.J.Lembrechts, L.A. Cavieres, C. Daehler, S. Haider, C. Kueffer, G. Liu, Keith McDougall1, A. Milbau, A. Pauchard1, L.J. Rew, T. Seipel. 2016. Plant invasions into mountains and alpine ecosystems: current status and future challenges. Alpine Botany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00035-016-0172-8 
 
Pauchard, A, A Milbau, Jalexander, T Burgess, C Daehler, G Englund, F. Essl, B Evengard, G Greenwood. 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-1025-x 
 
Gordon, D.R., S.L. Flory, D. Lieurance, P.E. Hulme, C.Buddenhagen, B.Caton, P.D. Champion, T.M. Culley, C. Daehler, F.Essl, J.E. Hill, R.P. Keller, L.Kohl, A.L. Koop, S. Kumschick, D.M. Lodge, R.N. Mack, L.A. Meyerson, G.R. Pallipparambil, F. D.Panetta, R. Porter, P. Pysek, L.D. Quinn, D.M. Richardson, D.Simberloff, and M. Vila. 2016. Weed Risk Assessments are an Effective Component of Invasion Risk Management. Invasive Plant Science and Management 9: 81-83. https://doi.org/10.1614/IPSM-D-15-00053.1  
 
Bufford, J.L., M.H. Lurie, and C.C. Daehler 2016. Biotic resistance to tropical ornamental invasion. Journal of Ecology 104: 518-530.. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12534 
 
Angelo, C.L and C.C. Daehler 2015. Temperature is the major driver of distribution patterns for C-4 and C-3 BEP grasses along tropical elevation gradients in Hawai'i, and comparison with worldwide patterns. Botany 93: 9-22. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2014-0075 
 
Seipel, T.; Alexander, J.M.; Daehler, C.C., Rew, L.J, Edwards, P,J., Dar, P.A., McDougall. K., Naylor, B.. Parks, and C., Pollnac, F.W. 2015. Performance of the herb Verbascum thapsus along environmental gradients in its native and non-native range. Journal of Biogeography 42:132-143. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12403 
 
Bufford, J.L, Daehler, C.C. 2014. Sterility and lack of pollinator services explain reproductive failure in non-invasive ornamental plants. Diversity and Distributions 20:975-985.https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12224 
 
Kueffer C, Daehler C, Dietz H, McDougall K, Parks C, Pauchard A and Rew L. 2014. The Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN). Linking Local and Global Scales for Addressing an Ecological Consequence of Global Change. GAIA 23: 263 – 265. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.23.3.11 
 
Guisan A., Petitpierre B., Broennimann O., Daehler C., Kueffer C. 2014. Unifying niche shift studies: insights from biological invasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29: 260-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.02.009 
 
Larrue, S., Daehler, C., Vautier, F., and Bufford, J.L. 2014. Forest Invasion by the African Tulip Tree (Spathodea campanulata) in the Hawaiian Islands: Are Seedlings Shade-Tolerant? Pacific Science 68 :345-358. https://doi.org/10.2984/68.3.4 
 
Traveset, A., Kueffer, C., Daehler, C.C. 2014. Global and regional nested patterns of non-native invasive floras on tropical islands. Journal of Biogeography 41: 823-832. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12243  
 
Angelo, C. L. and C. C. Daehler 2013. Upward expansion of fire-adapted grasses along a warming tropical elevation gradient. Ecography, 36: 551–559. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07754.x 
 
Falcón, W., J.D. Ackerman, Recart, W. and C C. Daehler. 2013. Biology and Impacts of Pacific Island Invasive Species. 10. Iguana iguana, the Green Iguana (Squamata: Iguanidae). Pacific Science 67: 157–186..https://doi.org/10.2984/67.2.2
 
Kueffer, C., McDougall, K., Alexander, J., Daehler, C., Edwards, P.J., Haider, S., Milbau, A., Parks, C., Pauchard, A., Reshi, Z.A., Rew, L., Schroder, M., Seipel, T. 2013. Plant invasions into mountain protected areas: assessment, prevention and control at multiple spatial scales. Ipp. 89-113. in: L.C. Foxcroft, D.M. Richardson, P. Pyšek & P. Genovesi (eds.) Alien Plant Invasions in Protected Areas: A Global Assessment. Springer, Berlin,  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7750-7
 
Falcón, W., J.D. Ackerman, and C C. Daehler. 2012. March of the Green Iguana: Non-native distribution and predicted geographic range of Iguana iguana in the Greater Caribbean Region. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibia 19: 150-160. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.04.933598 (pre-print)
 
Petitpierre, B., C. Kueffer, O. Broennimann, C. Randin, C. Daehler, and A. Guisan. 2012. Climatic Niche Shifts Are Rare Among Terrestrial Plant Invaders. Science 335:1344-1348. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1215933 
 
Sida fallax, indigenous
Pennisetum setaceum 
invasive

Mimosa diplotricha 
predicted to be invasive in Hawaii 

Pinanga coronata Recently naturalized in Hawaii 
Piper aduncum 
predicted to be invasive in Hawaii

Pennisetum ciliare invasive
Verbascum thapsus 
A noxious weed that often shows giganticism and fasciation in Hawai

Prosopis juliflora 
A noxious weed with tire-puncturing spines; populations currently localized Hawaii

View from Mauna kea, Hawaii, during mountain invasion surveys