Research record · 2001–2026
Publications
Research spanning plant ontogeny, functional traits, herbivore interactions, environmental stress, and the ecology and conservation of island flora.
59Scholarly works
26Years of research
Showing 59 publications
| 59. | Satdichanh, M., R. Ostertag, and K. E. Barton. 2026. Trait-based approaches and national biodiversity conservation. Conservation Science and Practice 8(6): e70303. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70303. | |
| 58. | Barton, K. E., C. Macinnis-Ng, R. Ostertag, and A. Kagawa-Viviani. 2026. Physiological traits for climate-ready restoration. Ecology and Evolution 16: e72939. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72939. | |
| 57. | Satdichanh, M., R. Ostertag, W. Harrigan, M. Belcaid, and K. E. Barton. 2026. Plant litter trait variation between native and invasive species across steep climate gradients in the Hawaiian Islands. Ecology and Evolution 16: e73030. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73030. | |
| 56. | Miyamura, M., C. Trauernicht, T. Chambers, and K. E. Barton. 2026. Experimental tests of fire resprouting in Hawaiian plants. Pacific Conservation Biology 32: PC25060. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC25060. | |
| 55. | Barton, K. E., S. G. Yelenik, D. W. Schwilk, I. Oliveras Menor, T. J. Curran, P. Jaureguiberry, and A. Fidelis. 2025. Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait-based approaches: an introduction. American Journal of Botany 112: e70120. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.70120. | |
| 54. | Halpin-McCormick, A., T. Sherrill, C. Davenport, D. Wolkis, S. K. Walsh, and K. E. Barton. 2025. Sensitivity to elevated salinity in coastal dune plants. Oecologia 207(117). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05759-4. | |
| 53. | Najarian, B. P. C., K. Faccenda, and K. E. Barton. 2025. A century of vegetation change on an offshore islet. Pacific Science 79(1): 37-53. https://doi.org/10.2984/79.1.2. | |
| 52. | Halpin-McCormick, A., T. M. Maaz, M. B. Kantar, K. E. Barton, R. R. Masalia, N. L. Batora, K. Law, and E. J. Kunz. 2025. Species distribution of Cannabis sativa: Past, present and future. PLoS ONE 20(3): e0306007. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306007. | |
| 51. | Westerband, A. C. and K. E. Barton. 2025. Chapter 12: Investigating the origins and effects of intraspecific trait variation. In Plant Functional Traits. Eds. M. Kumar, R. W. Bussmann, and N. G. Swenson. Elsevier. | |
| 50. | Guisado Chavez, J. F., P. Krushelnycky, K. E. Barton, and D. R. Drake. 2025. Breeding system and pollination of Dubautia menziesii (Asteraceae), a self-incompatible Hawaiian alpine shrub. Flora 323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2025.152683. | |
| 49. | Barton, K. E., T. Ibanez, P. J. Bellingham, and X. Moreira. 2025. Island plant fire tolerance: functional traits associated with novel disturbance regimes. American Journal of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16465. | |
| 48. | Koricheva, J., K. E. Barton, J. A. Felix, A. Cooper, J. Jensen, T. Jucker, and K. Ruomäki. 2025. Using long-term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning. Oikos. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10872. | |
| 47. | Barton, K. E., J. Carpenter, A. Flores, L. Saez Goñalons, and M. Armani. 2024. Spinescence and the island plant defense syndrome. In Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Herbivore Interactions on Islands. Eds. X. Moreira, L. Abdala-Roberts. Springer. | |
| 46. | Bogner, K. K., W. P. Haines, J. Kim, D. R. Drake, and K. E. Barton. 2024. Endemic island plant-herbivore interactions: Kamehameha butterfly (Nymphalidae) and Hawaiian Urticaceae. Biotropica 55: 149-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13292. | |
| 45. | Barton, K. E.. 2024. The ontogenetic dimension of plant functional ecology. Functional Ecology 38: 98–113. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14464. | |
| 44. | Westerband, A. C., T. M. Knight, and K. E. Barton. 2023. A test of island plant syndromes using resource-use traits. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13032. | |
| 43. | Walsh, S. K., D. Wolkis, R. M. Abbriano, and K. E. Barton. 2023. Variability in seed salinity tolerance in an island coastal community. Annals of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad129. | |
| 42. | Satdichanh, M., G. O. D. Gbadamassi, K. Yan, K. W. Tomlinson, K. E. Barton, S. E. Crow, L. Winowiecki, T.-G. Vågen, J. Xu, and R. D. Harrison. 2023. Drivers of soil organic carbon stock during tropical forest succession. Journal of Ecology 00: 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14141. | |
| 41. | Barton, K. E. and C. Fortunel. 2023. Island plant functional syndromes and competition with invasive species. Journal of Biogeography 00: 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14568. | |
| 40. | Barton, K. E., A. C. Westerband, R. Ostertag, E. Stacy, K. Winter, D. R. Drake, L. B. Fortini, C. M. Litton, S. Cordell, P. Krushelnycky, K. Kawelo, K. Feliciano, G. Bennett, and T. Knight. 2021. Hawaiʻi forest review: synthesizing the ecology, evolution, and conservation of a model system. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 52: 125631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2021.125631. | |
| 39. | Westerband, A. C., T. M. Knight, and K. E. Barton. 2021. Intraspecific trait variation and reversals of trait strategies across key climate gradients in native Hawaiian plants and non-native invaders. Annals of Botany 127: 553-564. (In special issue on "Intraspecific Variation in Plant Functional Traits".) | |
| 38. | Westerband, A. C., J. L. Funk, and K. E. Barton. 2021. Intraspecific trait variation in plants: a renewed focus on its role in ecological processes. Annals of Botany 127: 397-410. (In special issue on "Intraspecific Variation in Plant Functional Traits".) | |
| 37. | Barton, K. E. and A. B. Shiels. 2020. Additive and non-additive responses of seedlings to simulated herbivory and drought. Biotropica 52: 1217-1228. | |
| 36. | Westerband, A. C., L. Bialic-Murphy, L. A. Weisenberger, and K. E. Barton. 2020. Intraspecific variation in seedling drought tolerance and associated traits in a critically endangered, endemic Hawaiian shrub. Plant Ecology and Diversity 13: 159-174. | |
| 35. | Barton, K. E., C. Jones, K. F. Edwards, A. B. Shiels, and T. Knight. 2020. Local adaptation constrains drought tolerance in a tropical foundation tree. Journal of Ecology 108: 1540-1552. | |
| 34. | Armani, M., U. M. Goodale, T. Charles-Dominique, K. E. Barton, X. Yao, and K. W. Tomlinson. 2020. Structural defence is coupled with the leaf economic spectrum across saplings of spiny species. Oikos 129: 740-752. | |
| 33. | Krushelnycky, P. D., J. M. Felts, R. H. Robichaux, K. E. Barton, C. M. Litton, and M. D. Brown. 2020. Clinal variation in drought resistance shapes past population declines and future management of a threatened plant. Ecological Monographs 90: e01398. | |
| 32. | Lum, T. and K. E. Barton. 2020. Ontogenetic variation in salinity tolerance and ecophysiology of coastal dune plants. Annals of Botany 125: 301-314. (Invited contribution to special issue on "Vulnerability and Management of Coastal Plant Communities in the Face of Global Change".) | |
| 31. | Armani, M., T. Charles-Dominique, K. E. Barton, and K. W. Tomlinson. 2019. Developmental constraints and resource environment shape early emergence and investment in spines in saplings. Annals of Botany 124: 1133-1142. | |
| 30. | Barton, K. E., K. F. Edwards, and J. Koricheva. 2019. Shifts in woody plant defence syndromes during leaf development. Functional Ecology 33: 2095-2104. | |
| 29. | Craven, D., T. M. Knight, K. E. Barton, L. Bialic-Murphy, and J. M. Chase. 2019. Dissecting macro-ecological and macro-evolutionary patterns of forest biodiversity across the Hawaiian archipelago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116: 16436-16441. | |
| 28. | Barton, K. E. and A. Wong. 2019. Plant competition as a mechanism of invasion on islands: revisiting the conclusions of Kuebbing and Nuñez (2016). Biotropica 51: 316-318. | |
| 27. | Westerband, A. C., A. K. Kagawa-Viviani, K. K. Bogner, D. W. Beilman, T. M. Knight, and K. E. Barton. 2019. Seedling drought tolerance and functional traits vary in response to the timing of water availability in a keystone Hawaiian tree species. Plant Ecology 220: 321-344. | |
| 26. | Craven, D., T. M. Knight, K. E. Barton, L. Bialic-Murphy, S. Cordell, C. P. Giardina, T. W. Gillespie, R. Ostertag, L. Sack, J. M. Chase. 2018. OpenNahele: the open Hawaiian forest plot database. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e28406. | |
| 25. | Ochoa-López, S., R. Rebollo, K. E. Barton, J. Fornoni, and K. Boege. 2018. Risk of herbivore attack and heritability of ontogenetic trajectories in plant defense. Oecologia 187(2): 413-426. (Invited contribution to special issue on "From Plants to Herbivores: Novel Insights into the Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Plant Variation".) | |
| 24. | Suissa, J. and K. E. Barton. 2018. Intraspecific and interspecific variation in prickly poppy resistance to non-native generalist caterpillars. Botanical Sciences 96(2): 168-179. | |
| 23. | Lurie, M. H., K. E. Barton, and C. C. Daehler. 2017. Pre-damage biomass allocation and not invasiveness predicts tolerance to damage in seedlings of woody species in Hawaii. Ecology 98(12): 3011-3021. (Invited contribution to special issue on "Overcompensation and Plant Tolerance to Herbivory".) | |
| 22. | Barton, K. E. and K. Boege. 2017. Future directions in the ontogeny of plant defence: understanding the evolutionary causes and consequences. Ecology Letters 20: 403-411. | |
| 21. | Barton, K. E.. 2016. Low tolerance to simulated herbivory in Hawaiian seedlings despite induced changes in photosynthesis and biomass allocation. Annals of Botany 117: 1053-1062. | |
| 20. | Barton, K. E.. 2016. Tougher and thornier: general patterns in the induction of physical defence traits. Functional Ecology 30: 181-187. | |
| 19. | Barton, K. E., E. Valkama, H. Vehviläinen, K. Ruohomaki, T. Knight, and J. Koricheva. 2015. Additive and non-additive effects of birch genotypic diversity on arthropod herbivory in a long-term field experiment. Oikos 124: 697-706. Press: How plant genetic diversity affects herbivory (Oikos Blog) |
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| 18. | Hoan, R. P., R. A. Ormond, and K. E. Barton. 2014. Prickly poppies can get pricklier: ontogenetic patterns in the induction of physical defense traits. PLoS ONE 9(5): e96796. | |
| 17. | Barton, K. E.. 2014. Prickles, latex and tolerance in the endemic Hawaiian prickly poppy (Argemone glauca): variation between populations, across ontogeny and in response to abiotic factors. Oecologia 174: 1273-1281. | |
| 16. | Barton, K. E. and W. P. Haines. 2013. Koa looper caterpillars (Scotorythra paludicola, Geometridae) have lower fitness on koa (Acacia koa, Fabaceae) true leaves than on phyllodes. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 45: 141-147. | |
| 15. | Haines, W. P., K. E. Barton, and P. Conant. 2013. Defoliation of the invasive tree Falcataria moluccana on Hawaii Island by the native koa looper moth (Geometridae: Scotorythra paludicola), and evaluation of five fabaceous trees as larval hostplants. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 45: 129-139. | |
| 14. | Quintero, C., K. E. Barton, and K. Boege. 2013. The ontogeny of plant indirect defenses. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 15: 245-254. | |
| 13. | Barton, K. E.. 2013. Ontogenetic patterns in the mechanisms of tolerance to herbivory in Plantago. Annals of Botany 112: 711-720. | |
| 12. | Barton, K. E. and M. E. Hanley. 2013. Seedling-herbivore interactions: insights into plant defence and regeneration patterns. Annals of Botany 112: 643-650. | |
| 11. | Barton, K. E. and M. E. Hanley, editors. 2013. Special Issue: Seedling Herbivory. Annals of Botany 112: 643-765. | |
| 10. | Koricheva, J. and K. E. Barton. 2012. Temporal changes in plant secondary metabolite production: patterns, causes and consequences. In The Ecology of Plant Secondary Metabolites: From Genes to Global Processes. Eds. G. R. Iason, M. Dicke and S. E. Hartley. Cambridge University Press. | |
| 9. | Boege, K., K. E. Barton, and R. Dirzo. 2011. Influence of tree ontogeny on plant-herbivore interactions. In Size and Age-Related Changes in Tree Structure and Function, Tree Physiology 4. Eds. F. C. Meinzer, B. Lachenbruch and T. E. Dawson. Springer, New York. | |
| 8. | Barton, K. E. and J. Koricheva. 2010. The ontogeny of plant defense and herbivory: characterizing general patterns using meta-analysis. American Naturalist 175(4): 481-493. | |
| 7. | Sultan, S. E., K. Barton, and A. M. Wilczek. 2009. Contrasting patterns of transgenerational plasticity in ecologically distinct congeners. Ecology 90: 1831-1839. | |
| 6. | Barton, K. E. 2008. Phenotypic plasticity in seedling defense strategies: compensatory growth and chemical induction. Oikos 117: 917-925. | |
| 5. | Barton, K. E. 2007. Early ontogenetic patterns in chemical defense in Plantago (Plantaginaceae): Genetic variation and trade-offs. American Journal of Botany 94: 56-66. | |
| 4. | Barton, K. E. and M. D. Bowers. 2006. Neighbor species differentially alter resistance phenotypes in Plantago. Oecologia 150: 442-452. | |
| 3. | Barton, K. E., N. J. Sanders, and D. M. Gordon. 2002. The effects of proximity and colony age on interspecific interference competition between the desert ants Pogonomyrmex barbatus and Aphaenogaster cockerelli. American Midland Naturalist 148: 376-382. | |
| 2. | Ackerly, D. D., C. A. Knight, S. B. Weiss, K. Barton and K. P. Starmer. 2002. Leaf size, specific leaf area and microhabitat distribution of chaparral woody plants: contrasting patterns in species level and community level analyses. Oecologia 130: 449-457. | |
| 1. | Sanders, N. J., K. E. Barton, and D. M. Gordon. 2001. Long-term dynamics of the distribution of the invasive Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, and native ant taxa in northern California. Oecologia 127: 123-130. |
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