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Professor Ian Dickie

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Department: School of Biological Sciences

Email: ian.dickie@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3692268

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Language: English

>95% of ecology examines <5% of species; I research the role in ecosystem function of the remaining 95% of biodiversity (fungi, microbes, soil fauna).
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Fields of Research

  • Invasive species
  • Mycorrhizal ecology
  • Ecosystem mycology
  • Molecular ecology
  • Plant-soil feedback
  • Molecular approaches for cryptic biota
  • Fungal conservation
  • Community Ecology

Researcher Summary

I am an ecosystem ecologist focussing on the development and application of molecular tools to determine the role of fungal communities in community and ecosystem-level outcomes. My main research interests spans the breadth of fungi, including mycorrhizas, wood decay fungi, and pathogens. I have also applied similar approaches to soil invertebrates, plant communities, bacteria, and oomycetes.

One application is in the invasion of woody plants, including the invasion of wilding conifers. Using molecular identifications of fungi on tree roots, I’ve shown that trees are largely co-invading with non-native fungi, transforming ecosystem function belowground.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Biology: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour: Biodiversity/Conservation; Ecology; Microbiology; Mycology; Soil Science
  • Biology: Molecular, Cellular and Whole Organism Biology: Plant Physiology

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Albornoz FE., Ryan MH., Bending GD., Hilton S., Dickie IA., Gleeson DB. and Standish RJ. (2022) Agricultural land-use favours Mucoromycotinian, but not Glomeromycotinian, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across ten biomes. New Phytologist 233(3): 1369-1382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.17780. (Journal Articles)
  • Allen WJ., Bufford JL., Barnes AD., Barratt BIP., Deslippe JR., Dickie IA., Goldson SL., Howlett BG., Hulme PE. and Lavorel S. (2022) A network perspective for sustainable agroecosystems. Trends in Plant Science 27(8): 769-780. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2022.04.002. (Journal Articles)
  • Chapman H. and Abiem I. (2022) Factors limiting plant recruitment in a Tropical Afromontane Forest. Biotropica http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.13179. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Sprague R., Green J., Peltzer DA., Orwin K. and Sapsford S. (2022) Applying ecological research to improve long-term outcomes of wilding conifer management. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 46(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.46.23. (Journal Articles)
  • Makiola A., Holdaway RJ., Wood JR., Orwin KH., Glare TR. and Dickie IA. (2022) Environmental and plant community drivers of plant pathogen composition and richness. New Phytologist 233(1): 496-504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.17797. (Journal Articles)
  • Sapsford SJ., Wakelin A., Peltzer DA. and Dickie IA. (2022) Pine invasion drives loss of soil fungal diversity. Biological Invasions 24(2): 401-414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02649-7. (Journal Articles)
  • Steel GS., Dickie IA. and Sapsford SJ. (2022) A risk to the forestry industry? Invasive pines as hosts of foliar fungi and potential pathogens. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 46(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.46.13. (Journal Articles)
  • Abiem I., Dickie I., Kenfack D. and Chapman H. (2021) Conspecific negative density dependence does not explain coexistence in a tropical Afromontane forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 32(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12990. (Journal Articles)
  • Albornoz FE., Orchard S., Standish RJ., Dickie IA., Bending GD., Hilton S., Lardner T., Foster KJ., Gleeson DB. and Bougoure J. (2021) Evidence for Niche Differentiation in the Environmental Responses of Co-occurring Mucoromycotinian Fine Root Endophytes and Glomeromycotinian Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. Microbial Ecology 81(4): 864-873. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01628-0. (Journal Articles)
  • Allen WJ., Sapsford SJ. and Dickie IA. (2021) Soil sample pooling generates no consistent inference bias: a meta-analysis of 71 plant–soil feedback experiments. New Phytologist 231(4): 1308-1315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.17455. (Journal Articles)
  • Allen WJ., Waller LP., Barratt BIP., Dickie IA. and Tylianakis JM. (2021) Exotic plants accumulate and share herbivores yet dominate communities via rapid growth. Nature Communications 12(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23030-1. (Journal Articles)
  • Marion ZH., Orwin KH., Wood JR., Holdaway RJ. and Dickie IA. (2021) Land use, but not distance, drives fungal beta diversity. Ecology 102(11) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3487. (Journal Articles)
  • Visscher ML., Allen WJ. and Dickie IA. (2021) Native and exotic grasses share generalist foliar fungi in a canterbury high country grassland. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 45(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.20417/NZJECOL.45.23. (Journal Articles)
  • Allen WJ., Wainer R., Tylianakis JM., Barratt BIP., Shadbolt MR., Waller LP. and Dickie IA. (2020) Community-level direct and indirect impacts of an invasive plant favour exotic over native species. Journal of Ecology 108(6): 2499-2510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13433. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie I., Heinemann J., Garrill A., Lauren-Manuera N., Meisrimler C., Stott M. and Remus-Emsermann M. (2020) Teaching laboratory best practice considerations for Covid19. Research gate: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14923149.v2. (Chapters)
  • Dickie IA., Wakelin A. and Richardson SJ. (2020) Rare species of wood-inhabiting fungi are not local. Ecological Applications 30(7) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.2156. (Journal Articles)
  • Dopheide A., Makiola A., Orwin KH., Holdaway RJ., Wood JR. and Dickie IA. (2020) Rarity is a more reliable indicator of land-use impacts on soil invertebrate communities than other diversity metrics. eLife 9: 1-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52787. (Journal Articles)
  • Martin FM., Dickie I., Lindahl BD., Lennon S., Öpik M., Polle A., Requena N., Selosse MA., Koide RT. and Jakobsen I. (2020) A tribute to Sally E. Smith. New Phytologist 228(2): 397-402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.16895. (Journal Articles)
  • Moyano J., Dickie IA., Rodriguez-Cabal MA. and Nuñez MA. (2020) Patterns of plant naturalization show that facultative mycorrhizal plants are more likely to succeed outside their native Eurasian ranges. Ecography http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04877. (Journal Articles)
  • Peralta G., Dickie IA., Yeates GW. and Peltzer DA. (2020) Community- And trophic-level responses of soil nematodes to removal of a non-native tree at different stages of invasion. PLoS ONE 15(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227130. (Journal Articles)
  • Sapsford SJ., Brandt AJ., Davis KT., Peralta G., Dickie IA., Gibson RD., Green JL., Hulme PE., Nuñez MA. and Orwin KH. (2020) Towards a framework for understanding the context dependence of impacts of non-native tree species. Functional Ecology 34(5): 944-955. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13544. (Journal Articles)
  • Teste FP., Jones MD. and Dickie IA. (2020) Dual-mycorrhizal plants: their ecology and relevance. New Phytologist 225(5): 1835-1851. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.16190. (Journal Articles)
  • Waller LP., Allen WJ., Barratt BIP., Condron LM., França FM., França FM., Hunt JE., Koele N., Orwin KH. and Steel GS. (2020) Biotic interactions drive ecosystem responses to exotic plant invaders. Science 368(6494): 967-972. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aba2225. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Wakelin AM., Martínez-García LB., Richardson SJ., Makiola A. and Tylianakis JM. (2019) Oomycetes along a 120,000 year temperate rainforest ecosystem development chronosequence. Fungal Ecology 39: 192-200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2019.02.007. (Journal Articles)
  • Johnston P., Park D., Dickie I. and Walbert K. (2019) Using molecular techniques to combine taxonomic and ecological data for fungi reviewing the data deficient fungi list, 2009. Science for Conservation 2019-December. (Journal Articles)
  • Kuchár M., Glare TR., Hampton JG., Dickie IA. and Christey MC. (2019) Virulence of the plant-associated endophytic fungus Lecanicillium muscarium to diamondback moth larvae. New Zealand Plant Protection 72: 253-259. http://dx.doi.org/10.30843/nzpp.2019.72.257. (Journal Articles)
  • Makiola A., Dickie IA., Holdaway RJ., Wood JR., Orwin KH. and Glare TR. (2019) Land use is a determinant of plant pathogen alpha- but not beta-diversity. Molecular Ecology 28(16): 3786-3798. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.15177. (Journal Articles)
  • Makiola A., Dickie IA., Holdaway RJ., Wood JR., Orwin KH., Lee CK. and Glare TR. (2019) Biases in the metabarcoding of plant pathogens using rust fungi as a model system. MicrobiologyOpen 8(7) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.780. (Journal Articles)
  • Peltzer DA., Bellingham PJ., Dickie IA., Houliston G., Hulme PE., Lyver POB., McGlone M., Richardson SJ. and Wood J. (2019) Scale and complexity implications of making New Zealand predator-free by 2050. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 49(3): 412-439. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2019.1653940. (Journal Articles)
  • Peralta G., Schon NL., Dickie IA., St. John MG., Orwin KH., Yeates GW. and Peltzer DA. (2019) Contrasting responses of soil nematode communities to native and non-native woody plant expansion. Oecologia 190(4): 891-899. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04456-3. (Journal Articles)
  • Watts C., Dopheide A., Holdaway R., Davis C., Wood J., Thornburrow D. and Dickie IA. (2019) DNA metabarcoding as a tool for invertebrate community monitoring: a case study comparison with conventional techniques. Austral Entomology 58(3): 675-686. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aen.12384. (Journal Articles)
  • Zinger L., Bonin A., Alsos IG., Bálint M., Bik H., Boyer F., Chariton AA., Creer S., Coissac E. and Deagle BE. (2019) DNA metabarcoding—Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions. Molecular Ecology 28(8): 1857-1862. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.15060. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Boyer S., Buckley HL., Duncan RP., Gardner PP., Hogg ID., Holdaway RJ., Lear G., Makiola A. and Morales SE. (2018) Towards robust and repeatable sampling methods in eDNA-based studies. Molecular Ecology Resources 18(5): 940-952. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12907. (Journal Articles)
  • Lear G., Dickie I., Banks J., Boyer S., Buckley HL., Buckley TR., Cruickshank R., Dopheide A., Handley KM. and Hermans S. (2018) Methods for the extraction, storage, amplification and sequencing of dna from environmental samples. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 42(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.42.9. (Journal Articles)
  • Orwin KH., Dickie IA., Holdaway R. and Wood JR. (2018) A comparison of the ability of PLFA and 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding to resolve soil community change and predict ecosystem functions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 117: 27-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.10.036. (Journal Articles)
  • Tylianakis JM., Martínez-García LB., Richardson SJ., Peltzer DA. and Dickie IA. (2018) Symmetric assembly and disassembly processes in an ecological network. Ecology Letters 21(6): 896-904. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12957. (Journal Articles)
  • Broadbent AAD., Orwin KH., Peltzer DA., Dickie IA., Mason NWH., Ostle NJ. and Stevens CJ. (2017) Invasive N-fixer Impacts on Litter Decomposition Driven by Changes to Soil Properties Not Litter Quality. Ecosystems 20(6): 1151-1163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-016-0099-3. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA. (2017) Profile. NEW PHYTOLOGIST 215(4): 1312-1313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.14726. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Bufford JL., Cobb RC., Desprez-Loustau ML., Grelet G., Hulme PE., Klironomos J., Makiola A., Nuñez MA. and Pringle A. (2017) The emerging science of linked plant–fungal invasions. New Phytologist 215(4): 1314-1332. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.14657. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Cooper JA., Bufford JL., Hulme PE. and Bates ST. (2017) Loss of functional diversity and network modularity in introduced plant-fungal symbioses. AoB PLANTS 9(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plw084. (Journal Articles)
  • Holdaway RJ., Wood JR., Dickie IA., Orwin KH., Bellingham PJ., Richardson SJ., Lyver PO., Timoti P. and Buckley TR. (2017) Using DNA metabarcoding to assess New Zealand’s terrestrial biodiversity. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 41(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.41.28. (Journal Articles)
  • Leopold DR., Wilkie JP., Dickie IA., Allen RB., Buchanan PK. and Fukami T. (2017) Priority effects are interactively regulated by top-down and bottom-up forces: evidence from wood decomposer communities. Ecology Letters 20(8): 1054-1063. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12803. (Journal Articles)
  • Orchard S., Hilton S., Bending GD., Dickie IA., Standish RJ., Gleeson DB., Jeffery RP., Powell JR., Walker C. and Bass D. (2017) Fine endophytes (Glomus tenue) are related to Mucoromycotina, not Glomeromycota. New Phytologist 213(2): 481-486. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.14268. (Journal Articles)
  • Orchard S., Standish RJ., Dickie IA., Renton M., Walker C., Moot D. and Ryan MH. (2017) Fine root endophytes under scrutiny: a review of the literature on arbuscule-producing fungi recently suggested to belong to the Mucoromycotina. Mycorrhiza 27(7): 619-638. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00572-017-0782-z. (Journal Articles)
  • Orchard S., Standish RJ., Nicol D., Dickie IA. and Ryan MH. (2017) Sample storage conditions alter colonisation structures of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and, particularly, fine root endophyte. Plant and Soil 412(1-2): 35-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2867-4. (Journal Articles)
  • Teste FP. and Dickie IA. (2017) Mycorrhizas Across Successional Gradients. Mycorrhizal Mediation of Soil: Fertility, Structure, and Carbon Storage: 67-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804312-7.00005-X. (Chapters)
  • Wood JR., Holdaway RJ., Orwin KH., Morse C., Bonner KI., Davis C., Bolstridge N. and Dickie IA. (2017) No single driver of biodiversity: Divergent responses of multiple taxa across land use types. Ecosphere 8(11) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1997. (Journal Articles)
  • Zenni RD., Dickie IA., Wingfield MJ., Hirsch H., Crous CJ., Meyerson LA., Burgess TI., Zimmermann TG., Klock MM. and Siemann E. (2017) Evolutionary dynamics of tree invasions: Complementing the unified framework for biological invasions. AoB PLANTS 9(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plw085. (Journal Articles)
  • Bartomeus I., Gravel D., Tylianakis JM., Aizen MA., Dickie IA. and Bernard-Verdier M. (2016) A common framework for identifying linkage rules across different types of interactions. Functional Ecology 30(12): 1894-1903. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12666. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie I., Wakelin A., Martinez-Garcia L., Richardson S., Makiola A. and Tylianakis J. (2016) Oomycetes during 120,000 years of temperate rainforest ecosystem development. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/042341. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA. and John MG. (2016) Second-generation molecular understanding of mycorrhizas in soil ecosystems. Molecular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: 473-491. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118951446.ch26. (Chapters)
  • Dickie IA., Nuñez MA., Pringle A., Lebel T., Tourtellot SG. and Johnston PR. (2016) Towards management of invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi. Biological Invasions 18(12): 3383-3395. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-016-1243-x. (Journal Articles)
  • Grelet G., Martino E., Dickie IA., Tajuddin R. and Artz R. (2016) Ecology of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi: What insight have we gained with molecular tools and what's missing? Molecular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: 405-419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118951446.ch22. (Chapters)
  • Moeller HV., Dickie IA., Peltzer DA. and Fukami T. (2016) Hierarchical neighbor effects on mycorrhizal community structure and function. Ecology and Evolution 6(15): 5416-5430. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2299. (Journal Articles)
  • Orwin KH., Dickie IA., Wood JR., Bonner KI. and Holdaway RJ. (2016) Soil microbial community structure explains the resistance of respiration to a dry–rewet cycle, but not soil functioning under static conditions. Functional Ecology 30(8): 1430-1439. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12610. (Journal Articles)
  • Bogar LM., Dickie IA. and Kennedy PG. (2015) Testing the co-invasion hypothesis: Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities on Alnus glutinosa and Salix fragilis in New Zealand. Diversity and Distributions 21(3): 268-278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12304. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Alexander I., Lennon S., Öpik M., Selosse MA., van der Heijden MGA. and Martin FM. (2015) Evolving insights to understanding mycorrhizas. New Phytologist 205(4): 1369-1374. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.13290. (Journal Articles)
  • Martínez-García LB., Richardson SJ., Tylianakis JM., Peltzer DA. and Dickie IA. (2015) Host identity is a dominant driver of mycorrhizal fungal community composition during ecosystem development. New Phytologist 205(4): 1565-1576. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.13226. (Journal Articles)
  • McCormack ML., Dickie IA., Eissenstat DM., Fahey TJ., Fernandez CW., Guo D., Helmisaari HS., Hobbie EA., Iversen CM. and Jackson RB. (2015) Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes. New Phytologist 207(3): 505-518. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.13363. (Journal Articles)
  • Moeller HV., Dickie IA., Peltzer DA. and Fukami T. (2015) Mycorrhizal co-invasion and novel interactions depend on neighborhood context. Ecology 96(9): 2336-2347. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-2361.1. (Journal Articles)
  • Nuñez MA., Dimarco RD., Dickie IA. and Pauchard A. (2015) What can possibly go wrong? The risks of introducing soil microorganisms from Antarctica into South America. Bosque 36(3): 343-346. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-92002015000300001. (Journal Articles)
  • Orwin KH., Stevenson BA., Smaill SJ., Kirschbaum MUF., Dickie IA., Clothier BE., Garrett LG., van der Weerden TJ., Beare MH. and Curtin D. (2015) Effects of climate change on the delivery of soil-mediated ecosystem services within the primary sector in temperate ecosystems: A review and New Zealand case study. Global Change Biology 21(8): 2844-2860. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12949. (Journal Articles)
  • Peltzer DA., Bellingham PJ., Dickie IA. and Hulme PE. (2015) Commercial forests: Native advantage. Science 349(6253): 1176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.349.6253.1176-a. (Journal Articles)
  • Phillips CB., Brown SDJ., Greenslade P., Reay S., Allen RB., Easdale TA. and Dickie IA. (2015) Collembola in Southland beech litter and soil. New Zealand Entomologist 38(2): 79-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00779962.2015.1021267. (Journal Articles)
  • Wood JR., Dickie IA., Moeller HV., Peltzer DA., Bonner KI., Rattray G. and Wilmshurst JM. (2015) Novel interactions between non-native mammals and fungi facilitate establishment of invasive pines. Journal of Ecology 103(1): 121-129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12345. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie I., Kindlmann P. and Krenová Z. (2014) An outline of economic impact of management options for šumava NP. In Public Recreation and Landscape Protection - With Man Hand in Hand? 2014 Conference Proceeding: 31-35. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Dickie IA. and Koide RT. (2014) Deep thoughts on ectomycorrhizal fungal communities. New Phytologist 201(4): 1083-1085. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.12674. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA. and Tjoelker MG. (2014) Changing ecology. New Phytologist 202(4): 1118-1121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.12724. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Bennett BM., Burrows LE., Nuñez MA., Peltzer DA., Porté A., Richardson DM., Rejmánek M., Rundel PW. and van Wilgen BW. (2014) Conflicting values: Ecosystem services and invasive tree management. Biological Invasions 16(3): 705-719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-013-0609-6. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Koele N., Blum JD., Gleason JD. and Mcglone MS. (2014) Mycorrhizas in changing ecosystems1,2. Botany 92(2): 149-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2013-0091. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., St John MG., Yeates GW., Morse CW., Bonner KI., Orwin K. and Peltzer DA. (2014) Belowground legacies of Pinus contorta invasion and removal result in multiple mechanisms of invasional meltdown. AoB PLANTS 6 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plu056. (Journal Articles)
  • Kardol P., Dickie IA., St John MG., Husheer SW., Bonner KI., Bellingham PJ. and Wardle DA. (2014) Soil-mediated effects of invasive ungulates on native tree seedlings. Journal of Ecology 102(3): 622-631. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12234. (Journal Articles)
  • Koele N., Dickie IA., Blum JD., Gleason JD. and de Graaf L. (2014) Ecological significance of mineral weathering in ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal ecosystems from a field-based comparison. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 69: 63-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.10.041. (Journal Articles)
  • Nuñez MA. and Dickie IA. (2014) Invasive belowground mutualists of woody plants. Biological Invasions 16(3): 645-661. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-013-0612-y. (Journal Articles)
  • Rundel PW., Dickie IA. and Richardson DM. (2014) Tree invasions into treeless areas: Mechanisms and ecosystem processes. Biological Invasions 16(3): 663-675. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-013-0614-9. (Journal Articles)
  • Tedersoo L., Bahram M. and Dickie IA. (2014) Does host plant richness explain diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi? Re-evaluation of Gao et al. (2013) data sets reveals sampling effects. Molecular Ecology 23(5): 992-995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.12660. (Journal Articles)
  • Wilson JRU., Caplat P., Dickie IA., Hui C., Maxwell BD., Nuñez MA., Pauchard A., Rejmánek M., Richardson DM. and Robertson MP. (2014) A standardized set of metrics to assess and monitor tree invasions. Biological Invasions 16(3): 535-551. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-013-0605-x. (Journal Articles)
  • Davis M., Dickie IA., Paul T. and Carswell F. (2013) Is kanuka and manuka establishment in grassland constrained by mycorrhizal abundance? New Zealand Journal of Ecology 37(2). (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Marínez-García LB., Koele N., Grelet GA., Tylianakis JM., Peltzer DA. and Richardson SJ. (2013) Mycorrhizas and mycorrhizal fungal communities throughout ecosystem development. Plant and Soil 367(1-2): 11-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-013-1609-0. (Journal Articles)
  • Kennedy P., Bogar L., Dickie I. and Peltzer D. (2013) Strangers in a new land: Do Alnus and Salix trees associate with different ectomycorrhizal fungi outside their native ranges? In PHYTOPATHOLOGY 103(6): 182-182. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Peay KG., Dickie IA., Wardle DA., Bellingham PJ. and Fukami T. (2013) Rat invasion of islands alters fungal community structure, but not wood decomposition rates. Oikos 122(2): 258-264. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20813.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Wright A., Schnitzer SA., Dickie IA., Gunderson AR., Pinter GA., Mangan SA. and Reich PB. (2013) Complex facilitation and competition in a temperate grassland: Loss of plant diversity and elevated CO2 have divergent and opposite effects on oak establishment. Oecologia 171(2): 449-458. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-012-2420-y. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Davis M. and Carswell FE. (2012) Quantification of mycorrhizal limitation in beech spread. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 36(2): 210-215. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Fukami T., Wilkie JP., Allen RB. and Buchanan PK. (2012) Do assembly history effects attenuate from species to ecosystem properties? A field test with wood-inhabiting fungi. Ecology Letters 15(2): 133-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01722.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Hurst JM. and Bellingham PJ. (2012) Comment on "conspecific negative density dependence and forest diversity". Science 338(6106) http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1225520. (Journal Articles)
  • Koele N., Dickie IA., Oleksyn J., Richardson SJ. and Reich PB. (2012) No globally consistent effect of ectomycorrhizal status on foliar traits. New Phytologist 196(3): 845-852. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04297.x. (Journal Articles)
  • St.John MG., Bellingham PJ., Walker LR., Orwin KH., Bonner KI., Dickie IA., Morse CW., Yeates GW. and Wardle DA. (2012) Loss of a dominant nitrogen-fixing shrub in primary succession: Consequences for plant and below ground communities. Journal of Ecology 100(5): 1074-1084. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.02000.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Yeates GW., St. John MG., Stevenson BA., Scott JT., Rillig MC., Peltzer DA., Orwin KH., Kirschbaum MUF. and Hunt JE. (2011) Ecosystem service and biodiversity trade-offs in two woody successions. Journal of Applied Ecology 48(4): 926-934. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.01980.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Holdaway RJ., Richardson SJ., Dickie IA., Peltzer DA. and Coomes DA. (2011) Species- and community-level patterns in fine root traits along a 120000-year soil chronosequence in temperate rain forest. Journal of Ecology 99(4): 954-963. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01821.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Klironomos J., Zobel M., Tibbett M., Stock WD., Rillig MC., Parrent JL., Moora M., Koch AM., Facelli JM. and Facelli E. (2011) Forces that structure plant communities: Quantifying the importance of the mycorrhizal symbiosis. New Phytologist 189(2): 366-370. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03550.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Orwin KH., Kirschbaum MUF., St John MG. and Dickie IA. (2011) Organic nutrient uptake by mycorrhizal fungi enhances ecosystem carbon storage: A model-based assessment. Ecology Letters 14(5): 493-502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01611.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Spence LA., Dickie IA. and Coomes DA. (2011) Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum potential: A mechanism promoting positive diversity-invasibility relationships in mountain beech forests in New Zealand? Mycorrhiza 21(4): 309-314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00572-010-0340-4. (Journal Articles)
  • St. John MG., Orwin KH. and Dickie IA. (2011) No 'home' versus 'away' effects of decomposition found in a grassland-forest reciprocal litter transplant study. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43(7): 1482-1489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.03.022. (Journal Articles)
  • Bever JD., Dickie IA., Facelli E., Facelli JM., Klironomos J., Moora M., Rillig MC., Stock WD., Tibbett M. and Zobel M. (2010) Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25(8): 468-478. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2010.05.004. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA. (2010) Insidious effects of sequencing errors on perceived diversity in molecular surveys. New Phytologist 188(4): 916-918. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03473.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Bolstridge N., Cooper JA. and Peltzer DA. (2010) Co-invasion by Pinus and its mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 187(2): 475-484. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03277.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Kałucka I., Stasińska M. and Oleksyn J. (2010) Plant host drives fungal phenology. Fungal Ecology 3(4): 311-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2009.12.002. (Journal Articles)
  • Diez JM., Dickie I., Edwards G., Hulme PE., Sullivan JJ. and Duncan RP. (2010) Negative soil feedbacks accumulate over time for non-native plant species. Ecology Letters 13(7): 803-809. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01474.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Fukami T., Dickie IA., Paula Wilkie J., Paulus BC., Park D., Roberts A., Buchanan PK. and Allen RB. (2010) Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: Evidence from wood decomposer communities. Ecology Letters 13(6): 675-684. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01465.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Johnston P., Park D., Dickie I. and Walbert K. (2010) Using molecular techniques to combine taxonomic and ecological data for fungi: Reviewing the data deficient fungi list, 2009. Science for Conservation (306): 1-34. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Dentinger BTM., Avis PG., McLaughlin DJ. and Reich PB. (2009) Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities of oak savanna are distinct from forest communities. Mycologia 101(4): 473-483. http://dx.doi.org/10.3852/08-178. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Richardson SJ. and Wiser SK. (2009) Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities and soil chemistry in harvested and unharvested temperate Nothofagus rainforests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39(6): 1069-1079. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/X09-036. (Journal Articles)
  • Bruns TD., Blackwell M., Edwards I., Taylor AFS., Horton T., Zhang N., Kõljalg U., May G., Kuyper TW. and Bever JD. (2008) Preserving accuracy in GenBank. Science 319(5870): 1616. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA. and Moyersoen B. (2008) Towards a global view of ectomycorrhizal ecology. New Phytologist 180(2): 263-265. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02635.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA. (2007) Host preference, niches and fungal diversity. New Phytologist 174(2): 230-233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02055.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA. and Fitzjohn RG. (2007) Using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) to identify mycorrhizal fungi: A methods review. Mycorrhiza 17(4): 259-270. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00572-007-0129-2. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Montgomery RA., Reich PB. and Schnitzer SA. (2007) Physiological and phenological responses of oak seedlings to oak forest soil in the absence of trees. Tree Physiology 27(1): 133-140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/treephys/27.1.133. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Schnitzer SA., Reich PB. and Hobbie SE. (2007) Is oak establishment in old-fields and savanna openings context dependent? Journal of Ecology 95(2): 309-320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01202.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Thomas MM. and Bellingham PJ. (2007) On the perils of mycorrhizal status lists: The case of Buddleja davidii. Mycorrhiza 17(8): 687-688. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00572-007-0146-1. (Journal Articles)
  • Fitzjohn RG. and Dickie IA. (2007) TRAMPR: AN R package for analysis and matching of terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) profiles. Molecular Ecology Notes 7(4): 583-587. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01744.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Avis PG., Dickie IA. and Mueller GM. (2006) A 'dirty' business: Testing the limitations of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) analysis of soil fungi. Molecular Ecology 15(3): 873-882. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02842.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Oleksyn J., Reich PB., Karolewski P., Zytkowiak R., Jagodzinski AM. and Turzanska E. (2006) Soil modification by different tree species influences the extent of seedling ectomycorrhizal infection. Mycorrhiza 16(2): 73-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00572-005-0013-x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA. and Reich PB. (2005) Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities at forest edges. Journal of Ecology 93(2): 244-255. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.00977.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Schnitzer SA., Reich PB. and Hobbie SE. (2005) Spatially disjunct effects of co-occurring competition and facilitation. Ecology Letters 8(11): 1191-1200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00822.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Guza RC., Krazewski SE. and Reich PB. (2004) Shared ectomycorrhizal fungi between a herbaceous perennial (Helianthemum bicknellii) and oak (Quercus) seedlings. New Phytologist 164(2): 375-382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01177.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Avis PG., McLaughlin DJ. and Reich PB. (2003) Good-enough RFLP matcher (GERM) program. Mycorrhiza 13(3): 171-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00572-003-0225-x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Koide RT. and Steiner KC. (2002) Influences of established trees on mycorrhizas, nutrition, and growth of Quercus rubra seedlings. Ecological Monographs 72(4): 505-521. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/0012-9615(2002)072[0505:IOETOM]2.0.CO;2. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Xu B. and Koide RT. (2002) Vertical niche differentiation of ectomycorrhizal hyphae in soil as shown by T-RFLP analysis. New Phytologist 156(3): 527-535. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1469-8137.2002.00535.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Koide RT. and Dickie IA. (2002) Kit-based, low-toxicity method for extracting and purifying fungal DNA from ectomycorrhizal roots. BioTechniques 32(1): 52-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2144/02321bm06. (Journal Articles)
  • Koide RT. and Dickie IA. (2002) Effects of mycorrhizal fungi on plant populations. In Plant and Soil 244(1-2): 307-317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1020204004844. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Dickie IA., Koide RT. and Fayish AC. (2001) Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal infection of Quercus rubra seedlings. In New Phytologist 151(1): 257-264. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1469-8137.2001.00148.x. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Koide RT., Goff MD. and Dickie IA. (2000) Component growth efficiencies of mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal plants. New Phytologist 148(1): 163-168. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1469-8137.2000.00741.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Koide RT., Dickie IA. and Goff MD. (1999) Phosphorus deficiency, plant growth and the phosphorus efficiency index. Functional Ecology 13(5): 733-736. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2435.1999.00363.x. (Journal Articles)
  • Dickie IA., Koide RT. and Stevens CM. (1998) Tissue density and growth response of ectomycorrhizal fungi to nitrogen source and concentration. Mycorrhiza 8(3): 145-148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s005720050227. (Journal Articles)

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