News and Media
- Minnesota researchers find that native plants can beat buckthorn on their own turf (Star Tribune, October 2024)
- Student researchers in Minnesota aim to find a solution to eliminate buckthorn (video, WCCO, October 2024)
- Feature: A Thorny Problem (Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, January 2024)
- U of M researchers uproot decades of buckthorn management (UMN, June 2023)
- Why is buckthorn a problem? (video, Fox 9, October 2022)
- Talking invasive buckthorn management with U of M (UMN News, October 2022)
- Buckthorn Phenology and Possible Management Strategies (podcast, To Know The Land, January 2022)
- "Forests 'can take cover to resist alien invaders'" (BBC News, May 2020)
- Grow with Kare: Be a citizen scientist and help fight buckthorn! (Kare 11, November 2019)
- Cover it Up! Buckthorn Control with Native Plants (MITPPC News, 2019)
- "Battling buckthorn to restore natural resistance" (Science Museum of Minnesota, 2017)
- "PIs on List of Highly Cited Researchers" (UMN Office of the Vice President for Research, 2017)
Journal publications
- No evidence of a long-lived seedbank in common buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica L., within Minnesota deciduous forests (Biological Invasions, 2023)
- Using plants to control buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica): Improved biotic resistance of forests through revegetation (Ecological Engineering, 2022)
- Phenological niche overlap between invasive buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) and native woody species (Forest Ecology and Management, 2021)
- Revegetation to slow buckthorn reinvasion: strengths and limits of evaluating management techniques retrospectively (Restoration Ecology, 2021)
- Increased light availability due to forestry mowing promotes regeneration of invasive European buckthorn (Restoration Ecology, 2020)
- Phenology matters: Extended spring and autumn canopy cover increases biotic resistance of forests to invasion by common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) (Forest Ecology and Management, 2020)
- Krenite (fosamine ammonium) impacts on targeted invasive shrub Rhamnus cathartica and non-target herbs (Invasive Plant Science and Management, 2020)
- Using revegetation to suppress invasive plants in grasslands and forests (Journal of Applied Ecology, 2018)
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