Evelyn Beaury

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The spread of invasive species, land-use change, and climate change are three of the leading causes of global biodiversity declines. Evelyn Beaury’s past and current research shows that mitigating the negative impacts of these factors is stymied by a tendency for conservation science and decision-making to reactively respond to biodiversity loss, rather than prevent that loss in the first place. As an ecologist, Dr. Beaury devotes her research program to developing more proactive approaches to biodiversity conservation, using quantitative and computational tools to understand interactions among the causes of biodiversity loss, particularly invasive species, climate change, and land-use change. Eve extends her research into public sectors, with the goal of conducting research that integrates stakeholder needs and informs effective and proactive conservation policies.

Selected Publications:

Beaury, E. M., Smith, J., & Levine, J. M. (2024). Global suitability and spatial overlap of land-based climate mitigation strategies. Global Change Biology, 30, e17515 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17515

Garbowski, M., Laughlin, D. C., Blumenthal, D. M., Sofaer, H. R., Barnett, D. T., Beaury, E. M., … & Pearse, I. S. (2024). Naturalized species drive functional trait shifts in plant communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(40), e2403120121. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2403120121

Beaury, E. M., Allen, J. M., Evans, A. E., Fertakos, M. E., Pfadenhauer, W. G., & Bradley, B. A. (2023). Horticulture could facilitate invasive plant range infilling and range expansion with climate change. BioScience, 73(9), 635-642.

Fertakos, M.E., Beaury, E.M., Ford, N., Bradley, B.A. 2023. Historical plant sales (HPS) database: Documenting the spatiotemporal history of native and introduced plant sales in the conterminous U.S. Ecology 104(7): e4106. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4106

Beaury, E.M., Sofaer, H.R., Early, R., Pearse, I.S., Blumenthal, D.M., Corbin, J.D., Diez, J., Dukes, J.S., Barnett, D.T., Ibáñez, A., Petri, L., Vilà, M., Bradley, B.A. 2023. Macroscale analyses suggest invasive plant impacts depend more on the composition of invading plants than on environmental context. Global Ecology and Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13749

Beaury, E.M., Jarnevich, C., Pearse, I., Evans, A.E., Teich, N., Engelstad, P., LaRoe, J., Bradley, B.A. 2023. Modeling habitat suitability across different levels invasive plant abundance. Biol Invasions,https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03118-z

Morelli, T. L., Brown-Lima, C. J., Allen, J. M., Beaury, E. M., Fusco, E. J., Barker-Plotkin, A., … & Bradley, B. A. (2021). Translational invasion ecology: bridging research and practice to address one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. Biological Invasions, 23, 3323-3335.

Beaury, E.M., Finn, J.T., Corbin, J.D., Barr, V. and Bradley, B.A. (2020), Biotic resistance to invasion is ubiquitous across ecosystems of the United States. Ecology Letters, 23: 476-482. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13446

Beaury, E. M., Fusco, E. J., Jackson, M. R., Laginhas, B. B., Morelli, T. L., Allen, J. M., … & Bradley, B. A. (2020). Incorporating climate change into invasive species management: insights from managers. Biological Invasions, 22, 233-252.