A primary objective in our lab is to ensure that research led by BLERF members is fully reproducible and replicable through the use of best practices in Open Science.
Research that was started more than a few years ago will take time to "retrofit" to being more consistent with OS best practices... work in progress!
Registrations:
Kast, S., Shelton, B., and Pither, J. 2023. Mycorrhizal research reproducibility review. OSF registration.
Thomsen, C. and Pither, J. 2023. Exploring the correlation of mycorrhizal host type between forest layers. OSF registration.
Katchen, J. and Pither, J. 2022. With British Columbia's forested ecosystems, is the local species richness of vascular plants associated with the local dominance of ectomycorrhizal hosts? OSF registration.
Katchen, J., Vis-Dunbar, M., and Pither J. 2021. Protocol: UBC Okanagan's open science thesis project. OSF registration.
Data and Scripts supporting published papers:
Manning, F.S., Curtis, P.J., Walker, I.R. & Pither, J. 2022. Potential long-distance dispersal of freshwater diatoms adhering to waterfowl plumage. Freshwater Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13706. All scripts and data available on OSF.
Carturan B.S., Pither J., Maréchal J.-P., Bradshaw C.J. & Parrott L. (2020). Combining agent-based, trait-based and demographic approaches to model coral-community dynamics. Elife 9, e55993. article link. Supplemental materials posted on OSF.
Stotz, G.C., Cahill Jr, J.F., Bennett, J.A., Carlyle, C.N., Bork, E.W., Askarizadeh, D., et al. 2020. Not a melting pot: Plant species aggregate in their non-native range. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Article link. and Data on Dryad.
Pither, J., Pickles, B.J., Simard, S., Ordonez, A., and Williams, J.W. 2018. Belowground biotic interactions moderated the post-glacial range dynamics of trees. New Phytologist, 220 (4), 1148-1160. Article link. Data and scripts hosted on the Open Science Framework.
Carturan, B., Parrott, L., and Pither, J. 2018. A modified trait-based framework for assessing the resilience of ecosystem services provided by coral reef communities. Ecosphere. Article Link. Data and scripts hosted on the Open Science Framework.
Collette, L., and J. Pither. 2016. Insect assemblages associated with the exotic riparian shrub, Russian olive, and co-occurring native shrubs. The Canadian Entomologist. 148: 316–328. Data will soon be made available on the Open Science Framework. Apologies for the delay!
Fraser, L. H., J. Pither, A. Jentsch, M. Sternberg, M. Zobel, and members of the HerbDivNet network. 2015. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness. Science 349 :302–305. Article link. Data and scripts on Dryad.
Ensing, D.J. and Pither, J. 2015. A novel multiple-site extension to pairwise partitioned taxonomic beta diversity. Ecological Complexity, 21:62-69. Article link here. Data are publicly available (BBS data). Scripts available here.
Research that was started more than a few years ago will take time to "retrofit" to being more consistent with OS best practices... work in progress!
Registrations:
Kast, S., Shelton, B., and Pither, J. 2023. Mycorrhizal research reproducibility review. OSF registration.
Thomsen, C. and Pither, J. 2023. Exploring the correlation of mycorrhizal host type between forest layers. OSF registration.
Katchen, J. and Pither, J. 2022. With British Columbia's forested ecosystems, is the local species richness of vascular plants associated with the local dominance of ectomycorrhizal hosts? OSF registration.
Katchen, J., Vis-Dunbar, M., and Pither J. 2021. Protocol: UBC Okanagan's open science thesis project. OSF registration.
Data and Scripts supporting published papers:
Manning, F.S., Curtis, P.J., Walker, I.R. & Pither, J. 2022. Potential long-distance dispersal of freshwater diatoms adhering to waterfowl plumage. Freshwater Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13706. All scripts and data available on OSF.
Carturan B.S., Pither J., Maréchal J.-P., Bradshaw C.J. & Parrott L. (2020). Combining agent-based, trait-based and demographic approaches to model coral-community dynamics. Elife 9, e55993. article link. Supplemental materials posted on OSF.
Stotz, G.C., Cahill Jr, J.F., Bennett, J.A., Carlyle, C.N., Bork, E.W., Askarizadeh, D., et al. 2020. Not a melting pot: Plant species aggregate in their non-native range. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Article link. and Data on Dryad.
Pither, J., Pickles, B.J., Simard, S., Ordonez, A., and Williams, J.W. 2018. Belowground biotic interactions moderated the post-glacial range dynamics of trees. New Phytologist, 220 (4), 1148-1160. Article link. Data and scripts hosted on the Open Science Framework.
Carturan, B., Parrott, L., and Pither, J. 2018. A modified trait-based framework for assessing the resilience of ecosystem services provided by coral reef communities. Ecosphere. Article Link. Data and scripts hosted on the Open Science Framework.
Collette, L., and J. Pither. 2016. Insect assemblages associated with the exotic riparian shrub, Russian olive, and co-occurring native shrubs. The Canadian Entomologist. 148: 316–328. Data will soon be made available on the Open Science Framework. Apologies for the delay!
Fraser, L. H., J. Pither, A. Jentsch, M. Sternberg, M. Zobel, and members of the HerbDivNet network. 2015. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness. Science 349 :302–305. Article link. Data and scripts on Dryad.
Ensing, D.J. and Pither, J. 2015. A novel multiple-site extension to pairwise partitioned taxonomic beta diversity. Ecological Complexity, 21:62-69. Article link here. Data are publicly available (BBS data). Scripts available here.