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​Brendel MR, Schurr FS, Sheppard CS (2023). Alien plant fitness is limited by functional trade-offs rather than a long-term increase in competitive effects of native communities. Ecology & Evolution 13:e10468. (DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10468). PDF 
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Ferenc V, Brendel MR, Sheppard CS (2023). Legume effects in a  native community invaded by alien Asteraceae in a multi-species comparison. Oecologia 202:413-430 (DOI: 10.1007/s00442-023-05400-2). PDF
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Ferenc V, Merkert C, Zilles F, Sheppard CS (2021). Native and alien species suffer from late arrival, while negative effects of multiple alien species on natives vary. Oecologia 197:271-281 (DOI: 10.1007/s00442-021-05017-3). PDF
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Sheppard CS, Brendel MR (2021). Competitive ability of native and alien plants: effects of residence time and invasion status. NeoBiota 65: 47-69 (DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.65.63179). PDF
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Corli A, Walter J, Sheppard CS (2021). Invasion success of Bunias orientalis (warty cabbage) in grasslands: a mesocosm experiment on the role of hydrological stress and disturbance. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 625587 (DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.625587). PDF
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Brendel MR, Schurr FS, Sheppard CS (2021). Inter- and intraspecific selection in alien plants: how population growth, functional traits and climate responses change with residence time. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 429-442 (DOI: 10.1111/geb.13228). PDF
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Ferenc V, Sheppard CS (2020). The stronger, the better - Trait hierarchy is driving alien species interaction. Oikos 129: 1455-1467 (DOI: 10.1111/oik.07338). PDF
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Kattge J, Bönisch G, Díaz S, Lavorel S, Prentice IC, Leadley P, Tautenhahn S, Werner G, … Sheppard CS, … and Wirth C (2020) TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology 26: 119-188 (DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14904). PDF
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Corli A, Sheppard CS (2019). Effects of residence time, auto-fertility and pollinator dependence on reproductive output and spread of alien and native Asteraceae. Plants 8: 108 (DOI: 10.3390/plants8040108). PDF
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Sheppard CS (2019). Relative performance of co-occurring alien plant invaders depends on traits related to competitive ability more than niche differences. Biological Invasions 21: 1101-1114 (DOI: 10.1007/s10530-018-1884-z).
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Sheppard CS, Schurr FM (2019). Biotic resistance or introduction bias? Immigrant plant performance decreases with residence times over millennia. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28: 222-237 (DOI: 10.1111/geb.12844).
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Dormann CF, Bobrowski M, Dehling DM, Harris DJ, Hartig F, Lischke H, Moretti MD, Pagel J, Pinkert S, Schleuning M, Schmidt SI, Sheppard CS, Steinbauer MJ, Zeuss D, Kraan C (2018). Biotic interactions in species distribution modelling: ten questions to guide interpretation and avoid false conclusions. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 1004-1016 (DOI: 10.1111/geb.12759).
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Sheppard CS, Carboni M, Essl F, Seebens H, DivGrass Consortium, Thuiller W (2018). It takes one to know one: similarity to resident alien species increases establishment success of new invaders. Diversity and Distributions 24: 680-691 (DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12708). PDF
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Sheppard CS, Burns BR, Stanley MC (2016). Future-proofing weed management for the effects of climate change: is New Zealand underestimating the risk of increased plant invasions? New Zealand Journal of Ecology 40: 398-405 (DOI: 10.20417/nzjecol.40.45).
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Sheppard CS, Burns BR (2014). Effects of interspecific alien versus intraspecific native competition on growth of native woody plants. Plant Ecology 215: 1527-1538 (DOI: 10.1007/s11258-014-0411-2).
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Sheppard CS (2014). The effect of drought on growth of three potential new weeds in New Zealand. Plant Protection Quarterly 29: 54-60 (Link to journal).
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Sheppard CS, Burns BR, Stanley MC (2014). Predicting plant invasions under climate change: are species distribution models validated by field trials? Global Change Biology 20: 2800-2814 (DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12531).
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Sheppard CS, Stanley MC (2014). Does elevated temperature and doubled CO2 increase growth of three potentially invasive plants? Invasive Plant Science and Management 7: 237-246 (DOI: 10.1614/IPSM-D-13-00038.1).
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Sheppard CS (2013). How does selection of climate variables affect predictions of species distributions? A case study of three new weeds in New Zealand. Weed Research 53: 259-268 (DOI: 10.1111/wre.12021).
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Sheppard CS (2013). Potential spread of recently naturalised plants in New Zealand under climate change. Climatic Change 117: 919-931 (DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0605-3).
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Sheppard CS, Alexander JM, Billeter R (2012). The invasion of plant communities following extreme weather events under ambient and elevated temperature. Plant Ecology 213: 1289-1301 (DOI: 10.1007/s11258-012-0086-5).