Rachel M Mitchell

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Journals/Publications

• Mitchell, R. M. (2025). Phenotypic plasticity in six species of native and exotic Asteraceae.
• Mitchell, R. M. (2025). The spice of life: Quantifying intraspecific functional trait variation.
• Mitchell, R. M., Bakker, J. D., Vincent, J. B., & Davies, G. M. (2025). Received Date: 20-Apr-2016 Revised Date: 11-Oct-2016 Accepted Date: 02-Nov-2016 Article type.
• Klein, Z., & Mitchell, R. M. (2024). Seed source environment predicts response to water availability in Plantago patagonica. Restoration Ecology, 32(2), e14002.
• Klein, Z., & Mitchell, R. M. (2024). Seed source environment predicts response to water availability in Plantago patagonica. Restoration Ecology, e14002.
• MacDougall, A. S., Esch, E., Chen, Q., Carroll, O., Bonner, C., Ohlert, T., Siewert, M., Sulik, J., Schweiger, A. K., Borer, E. T., & others, . (2024). Author Correction: Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s. Nature ecology \& evolution, 8(10), 2003--2003.
• MacDougall, A. S., Esch, E., Chen, Q., Carroll, O., Bonner, C., Ohlert, T., Siewert, M., Sulik, J., Schweiger, A. K., Borer, E. T., & others, . (2024). Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s. Nature ecology \& evolution, 8(10), 1877--1888.
• Mitchell, R. M., & Martin, A. R. (2024). Fire, flammability and functional traits at the forefront of global change ecology (vol 37, pg 2767, 2023). FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY, 38(1), 272--272.
• Samuel, E. M., Mitchell, R. M., Winkler, D. E., Davidson, Z. M., Lencioni, S. J., & Massatti, R. (2024). Intraspecific trait variability in wild populations predicts neither variability nor performance in a common garden. Restoration Ecology.
• Samuel, E. M., Mitchell, R. M., Winkler, D. E., Davidson, Z. M., Lencioni, S., & Massatti, R. (2024). Intraspecific trait variability in wild plant populations predicts neither variability nor performance in a common garden. Restoration Ecology, e14322.
• Taber, E. M., & Mitchell, R. M. (2024). Experimental warming has limited impacts on post-fire succession across a burn severity gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science, 35(2), e13248.
• Waters, S. M., Mitchell, R. M., Brown, E. R., & Taber, E. M. (2024). Prescribed fire increases plant--pollinator network robustness to losses of rare native forbs. Ecological Applications, 34(2), e2928.
• Bakker, J. D., Price, J. N., Henning, J. A., Batzer, E. E., Ohlert, T. J., Wainwright, C. E., Adler, P. B., Alberti, J., Arnillas, C. A., Biederman, L. A., & others, . (2023). Compositional variation in grassland plant communities. Ecosphere, 14(6), e4542.
• Gornish, E. S., Campbell, C., Svejcar, L., Munson, S. M., Vaughn, K., Spaeth, M. K., Yelenik, S. G., Wolf, A., & Mitchell, R. (2023). Functional traits are used in restoration practice: a response to Merchant et al.(2022). Restoration Ecology, 31(7), e13880.
• Gornish, E. S., Campbell, C., Svejcar, L., Munson, S. M., Vaughn, K., Spaeth, M. K., Yelenik, S. G., Wolf, A., & Mitchell, R. (2023). Functional traits are used in restoration practice: a response to Merchant et al.(2022). Restoration Ecology, e13880.
• Klein, Z. M., & Mitchell, R. M. (2023). Phenotypic plasticity in six species of native and exotic Asteraceae. Restoration Ecology.
• Mitchell, R. M., & Martin, A. R. (2023). Fire, flammability and functional traits at the forefront of global change ecology. Functional Ecology, 37(11), 2767--2769.
• Samuel, E. M., Mitchell, R. M., & Winkler, D. E. (2023). Perspectives on challenges and opportunities at the restoration-policy interface in the USA. Restoration Ecology, 31(4), e13823.
• Taber, E. M., & Mitchell, R. M. (2023). Rapid changes in functional trait expression and decomposition following high severity fire and experimental warming. Forest Ecology and Management, 541, 121019.
• Ve\v{c}e\v{r}a, M., Axmanov\'a, I., Chytr\`y, M., Div\'\i\v{s}ek, J., Ndiribe, C., Velasco, M. G., \v{C}eplov\'a, N., A\'ci\'c, S., Bahn, M., Bergamini, A., & others, . (2023). Decoupled phylogenetic and functional diversity in European grasslands. Preslia, 95(4), 413--445.
• Waters, S. M., Mitchell, R. M., Brown, E. R., & Taber, E. M. (2023). Prescribed fire increases plant--pollinator network robustness to losses of rare native forbs. Ecological Applications, e2928.
• Mitchell, R. M., Brudvig, L. A., Murphy, S. M., & Wimp, G. M. (2022). COVID resilience inside the research ecosystem. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 20(4), 203.
• Mitchell, R. M., Samuel, E. M., & Winkler, D. E. (2022). Perspectives on challenges and opportunities at the restoration‐policy interface in the U.S.A.. Restoration Ecology. doi:10.1111/rec.13823
• Mitchell, R. M., Ames, G. M., & Wright, J. P. (2021). Intraspecific trait variability shapes leaf trait response to altered fire regimes. Annals of botany, 127(4), 543--552.
• Wolf, A., & Mitchell, R. M. (2021). Leveraging Historic Cattle Exclosures to Detect Evidence of State Change in an Arid Rangeland. Rangeland Ecology \& Management, 78, 26--35.
• Firn, J., McGree, J. M., Harvey, E., Flores-Moreno, H., Sch\"utz, M., Buckley, Y. M., Borer, E. T., Seabloom, E. W., La, P., MacDougall, A. M., & others, . (2020). Author Correction: Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs. Nature Ecology \& Evolution, 4(6), 886--891.
• Laughlin, D. C., Gremer, J. R., Adler, P. B., Mitchell, R. M., & Moore, M. M. (2020). The net effect of functional traits on fitness. Trends in Ecology \& Evolution, 35(11), 1037--1047.
• Wainwright, C. E., Mitchell, R. M., & Bakker, J. D. (2020). Spatial Sampling Grain Shapes Conclusions about Community Structure and Dynamics. Natural Areas Journal, 40(1), 51--61.
• Firn, J., McGree, J. M., Harvey, E., Flores-Moreno, H., Sch\"utz, M., Buckley, Y. M., Borer, E. T., Seabloom, E. W., La, P., MacDougall, A. M., & others, . (2019). Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs. Nature Ecology \& Evolution, 3(3), 400--406.
• Keil, P., Chase, J. M., Firn, J., McGree, J. M., Harvey, E., Flores-Moreno, H., Sch\"utz, M., Buckley, Y. M., Borer, E. T., Seabloom, E. W., & others, . (2019). Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs..
• Mitchell, R. M., Wright, J. P., & Ames, G. M. (2018). Species??? traits do not converge on optimum values in preferred habitats. Oecologia, 186, 719--729.
• Schliep, E. M., Gelfand, A. E., Mitchell, R. M., Aiello-Lammens, M. E., & Silander Jr, ,. J. (2018). Assessing the joint behaviour of species traits as filtered by environment. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9(3), 716--727.
• Mitchell, R. M., Bakker, J. D., Vincent, J. B., & Davies, G. M. (2017). Relative importance of abiotic, biotic, and disturbance drivers of plant community structure in the sagebrush steppe. Ecological Applications, 27(3), 756--768.
• Mitchell, R. M., Wright, J. P., & Ames, G. M. (2017). Intraspecific variability improves environmental matching, but does not increase ecological breadth along a wet-to-dry ecotone. Oikos, 126(7), 988--995.
• Mitchell, R. M., & Bakker, J. D. (2016). Grass abundance shapes trait distributions of forbs in an experimental grassland. Journal of Vegetation Science, 27(3), 557--567.
• Wright, J. P., Ames, G. M., & Mitchell, R. M. (2016). The more things change, the more they stay the same? When is trait variability important for stability of ecosystem function in a changing environment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1694), 20150272.
• Mitchell, R. M., & Bakker, J. D. (2014). Intraspecific Trait Variation Driven by Plasticity and Ontogeny in Hypochaeris radicata. PloS one, 9(10), e109870.
• Mitchell, R. M., & Bakker, J. D. (2014). Quantifying and comparing intraspecific functional trait variability: a case study with Hypochaeris radicata. Functional Ecology, 28(1), 258--269.
• Mitchell, R. M., & Bakker, J. D. (2011). Carbon addition as a technique for controlling exotic species in Pacific Northwest prairies. Northwest Science, 85(2), 247--254.

Proceedings Publications

• Annetts, T., Mitchell, R. M., Moore, M. M., Laughlin, D., Leonard, J. M., & Grady, K. C. (2019). Assessing the magnitude of compositional change in two arid ecosystems over 80 years. In 2019 ESA Annual Meeting (August 11--16).
• Mitchell, R. M., Wright, J. P., & Ames, G. M. (2018). Are more variable species closer to ???optimum??? across an environmental gradient?. In 2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5--10).
• Wright, J. P., Mitchell, R. M., & Ames, G. M. (2016). Implications of trait variability for biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships in a changing environment. In 101st ESA Annual Meeting (August 7--12, 2016).
• Mitchell, R., Hilton, E., & Rosenfield, P. (2012). Engage: The Science Speaker Series-A novel approach to improving science outreach and communication. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2012.
• Linden, J., Hilton, E., Mitchell, R., & Rosenfield, P. (2011). Engage: The Science Speaker Series-A novel approach to improving science outreach and communication. In APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts, 53.
• Mitchell, R. M., & Bakker, J. D. (2010). COS 72-6: Phenotypic plasticity in six species of native and exotic Asteraceae. In The 95th ESA Annual Meeting.

Presentations

• Mitchell, R. M. (2024). 2024. Native Plant Materials and the UN Decade on Ecological Restoration: A Sustainability Challenge and Opportunity. National Sustainability Society Meeting. Seattle, Washington.
• Mitchell, R. M. (2024). Leaf area predicts ignitability better than fuel moisture content in live herbaceous fuels. . Southwest Fire Ecology Conference.
• Mitchell, R. M. (2024, Summer). Stinknet. Annual meeting of Arizona Conservation Districts.
• Winnick, I. A., & Mitchell, R. M. (2024). Processes of deterministic community assembly change along a burn severity gradient.. Ecological Society of America meeting.
• Atkins, D., Gremer, J., Laughlin, D., Mitchell, R. M., & Moore, M. (2023). Functional traits predict demographic fitness in perennial graminoid species.. Ecological Society of America Meeting..
• Mitchell, R. M. (2023). Negative demographic response to climate in two dominant grasses over the last 60 years.. Ecological Society of America Meeting..
• Mitchell, R. M., & Maddie, W. (2023). Seed origin and drough affect offspring life history traits in Plantago patagonica.. Society for Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter Meeting..
• Mitchell, R. M., Laughlin, D., Gremer, J., Bakker, J., Atkins, D., Stears, A., & Moore, M. (2023). Negative demographic response to climate in two dominant grasses over the last 60 years.. Society for Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter meeting..
• Mitchell, R. M., Waters, S. M., Taber, E. M., & Browth, E. R. (2023). Prescribed fire increases plant-pollinator network robustness to losses of rare native forbs.. Ecological Society of America Meeting..
• Taber, E., & Mitchell, R. M. (2023). Interannual weather extremes drive post-fire succession more than constant experimental warming.. Ecological Society of America Meeting..
• Winick, I., & Mitchell, R. M. (2023). High severity fire alters community assembly in a ponderosa pine forest.. Society for Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter Meeting.
• Mitchell, R. M. (2022, December). Restoration in a New Fire Landscape. Society for Ecological Restoration Southwest.
• Mitchell, R. M. (2022, November). Hot, Dry, and On Fire: Understanding Compounding Stressors in Semiarid Ecosystems. Research Institutes in Semiarid Ecosystems (RISE).
• Mitchell, R. M. (2022, October). Hot, Dry, and On Fire: Understanding compounding stressors in arid landscapes.. SNRE Departmental Seminar.
• Taber, E., & Mitchell, R. M. (2022, August). Transient effects of experimental warming on trait expression and ecosystem function along a burn severity gradient northern Arizona. Ecological Society of America.

Poster Presentations

• Goolsby, D., Mitchell, R. M., Jones, S. A., & Lien, A. (2024). Predicting Perils: Unraveling buffelgrass and stinknet invasions on the Santa Rita Experimental Range using Random Forest Models.. RISE Symposium.
• Javier, V., Wallace, M., & Mitchell, R. M. (2024). Understanding stinknet (Oncosiphon pilulifer) response to drought in populations across the southwestern USA. . Ecological Society of America Meeting.
• Wallace, M., & Mitchell, R. M. (2024). Transgenerational plasticity in response to drought affects functional traits of Plantago patagonica, a priority restoration species.. ALVCES Annual Research Poster Showcase..
• Wallace, M., & Mitchell, R. M. (2024). Transgenerational plasticity in response to drought affects functional traits of Plantago patagonica, a priority restoration species.. SNRE 50th Anniversary Symposium..
• Wallace, M., & Mitchell, R. M. (2024). Transgenerational plasticity in response to drought affects functional traits of Plantago patagonica. . Ecological Society of America Meeting.
• Winick, I., & Mitchell, R. M. (2024). The assembly of post-fire forest communities changes as fire becomes more severe. . ALVSCES Annual Research Poster Showcase.
• Sacoman, K., Mitchell, R. M., & Bogan, M. (2023). Decrease in Native Species Cover in Relation to Change in Flow Permanence and Depth to Groundwater.. Society for Ecological Restoration Southwest Chapter Meeting..
• Sacoman, K., Mitchell, R. M., & Bogan, M. (2023). Decrease in Native Species Cover in Relation to Change in Flow Permanence.. Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science meeting.

Others

• Firn, J., McGree, J. M., Harvey, E., Flores-Moreno, H., Sch\"utz, M., Buckley, Y. M., Borer, E. T., Seabloom, E. W., La Pierre, K. J., MacDougall, A. M., & others, . (2019). Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs. Nat Ecol Evol 3: 400--406.
• Mitchell, R. (2013). The Extent, Drivers, and Consequences of Intraspecific Variation in Plant Functional Traits.