Jonathan Silvertown
Research publications
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Community ecology (also see Phylogeny & ecology)
Tofts, R. & Silvertown, J. (2002) Community assembly from the local species pool: an experimental study using congeneric species pairs. Journal of Ecology, 90, 385-393. 
Tofts, R. & Silvertown, J. (2000) Niche differences and their relation to species' traits in Cirsium vulgare and Cirsium eriophorum. Folia Geobotanica, 35, 231-240. 
Silvertown, J., Araya, Y. N., Linder, H. P. & Gowing, D. J. (2012) Experimental investigation of the origin of fynbos plant community structure after fire. Annals of Botany. Doi: 10.1093/aob/mcs160 
Silvertown, J. & Wilson, J.B. (2000). Spatial interactions among grassland plant populations. In The geometry of ecological interactions (eds. U. Dieckman, R. Law & H. Metz), pp. 28-47. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Silvertown, J., Dodd, M.E., Gowing, D., & Mountford, O. (1999) Hydrologically-defined niches reveal a basis for species-richness in plant communities. Nature, 400, 61-63. 
Wilson, J.B., Lines, C.E.M., & Silvertown, J. (1996) Grassland community structure under different grazing regimes, with a method for examining species associations when local richness is constrained. Folia Geobotanica & Phytotaxonomica, 31, 197-206.
Wilson, J.B., Wells, T.C.E., Trueman, I.C., Jones, G., Atkinson, M.D., Crawley, M.J., Dodd, M.E., & Silvertown, J. (1996) Are there assembly rules for plant species abundance? An investigation in relation to soil resources and successional trends. Journal of Ecology, 84, 527-538. 
Silvertown, J., Lines, C.E.M., & Dale, M.P. (1994) Spatial competition between grasses - rates of mutual invasion between 4 species and the interaction with grazing. Journal of Ecology, 82, 31-38. 
Silvertown, J. & Wilson, J.B. (1994) Community structure in a desert perennial community. Ecology, 75, 409-417. 
Silvertown, J., Holtier, S., Johnson, J., & Dale, P. (1992) Cellular automaton models of interspecific competition for space - the effect of pattern on process. Journal of Ecology, 80, 527-534. 
Silvertown, J. & Dale, P. (1991) Competitive hierarchies and the structure of herbaceous plant communities. Oikos, 61, 441-444.
Silvertown, J. & Law, R. (1987) Do plants need niches? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2, 24-26. 
Silvertown, J. (1985) Fertile arguments in the desert. Nature, 316, 298.
Silvertown, J. (1983) The distribution of plants in limestone pavement: tests of species interaction and niche separation against null hypotheses. Journal of Ecology, 71, 819-828. 
Harvey, P.H., Colwell, R., Silvertown, J., & May, R.M. (1983) Null models in ecology. Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics, 14, 189-211. 
Silvertown, J. (1979) The maintenance of species diversity in grassland, with particular reference to chalk grassland. D.Phil., University of Sussex.
Comparative demography
Franco, M. & Silvertown, J. (2004) Comparative demography of plants based upon elasticities of vital rates. Ecology, 85, 531-538. 
Silvertown, J., Franco, M., & Menges, E. (1996) Interpretation of elasticity matrices as an aid to the management of plant populations for conservation. Conservation Biology, 10, 591-597. 
Franco, M. & Silvertown, J. (1996) Life history variation in plants: An exploration of the fast-slow continuum hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences, 351, 1341-1348. 
Enright, N.J., Franco, M., & Silvertown, J. (1995) Comparing plant life histories using elasticity analysis: The importance of lifespan and the number of life cycle stages. Oecologia, 104, 79-84. 
Franco, M. & Silvertown, J. (1994) On trade-offs, elasticities and the comparative method: a reply to Shea, Rees & Wood. Journal of Ecology, 82, 958. 
Silvertown, J. & Franco, M. (1993) Plant demography and habitat: a comparative approach. Plant Species Biology, 8, 67-73. 
Silvertown, J., Franco, M., Pisanty, I., & Mendoza, A. (1993) Comparative plant demography - relative importance of Life-Cycle components to the finite rate of increase in woody and herbaceous perennials. Journal of Ecology, 81, 465-476. 
Silvertown, J., Franco, M., & Mcconway, K. (1993) The eternal triangle - an attempt at reconciliation. Functional Ecology, 7, 380-381.
Franco, M. & Silvertown, J. (1990) Plant demography: What do we know? Evol.Trends Plants, 4, 74-76. 
Silvertown, J., Franco, M., & McConway, K. (1992) A demographic interpretation of Grime's triangle. Functional Ecology, 6, 130-136. 
Silvertown, J. & Tremlett, M. (1989) Interactive effects of disturbance and shade upon colonization of grassland: an experiment with Anthriscus sylvestris, Conium maculatum , Daucus carota and Heracleum sphodylium. Functional Ecology, 3, 229-235. 
Evolutionary ecology of plants:
General, Herbs, Seeds, Trees, Plant behaviour
General
Silvertown, J. (2008) The evolutionary maintenance of sex: evidence from the ecological distribution of asexual reproduction in clonal plants. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 169, 157-168. 
Silvertown, J., Franco, M., & Perez-Ishiwara, R. (2001) Evolution of senescence in iteroparous perennial plants. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 3, 1-20. 
Silvertown, J. (2001). Plants stand still, but their genes don't: non-trivial consequences of the obvious. In Integrating ecology and evolution in a spatial context (eds J. Silvertown & J. Antonovics), pp. 3-20. Blackwell, Oxford.
Silvertown, J. (1991) Dorothy's dilemma and the unification of plant population biology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 6, 346-348. 
Silvertown, J. (1989) A binary classification of plant life histories and some possibilities for its evolutionary application. Evolutionary Trends in Plants, 3, 87-90. 
Silvertown, J. (1987) The evolution of hermaphroditism. An experimental test of the resource model. Oecologia, 72, 157-159. 
Herbs
Silvertown, J. (1986) "Biennials": reply to Kelly. American Naturalist, 127, 721-724. 
Silvertown, J. (1984) Death of the elusive biennial. Nature, 310, 271.
Silvertown, J. (1983) Why are biennials sometimes not so few? American Naturalist, 121, 448-453. 
Seeds
Silvertown, J. & Bullock, J.M. (2003) Do seedlings in gaps interact? A field test of assumptions in ESS seed size models. Oikos, 101, 499-504. 
Silvertown, J. (1992) An experimental test of Frequency-Dependent fitness in mixtures of the 2 seed morphs of Spergula arvensis. Acta Oecologica, 13, 627-634. 
Silvertown, J. (1992). Seeds in natural populations and their significance for plant conservation. In Conservation Biology. A Training Manual for Biological Diversity and genetic resources (eds P. Kapoor-Vijay & J. White), pp. 133-145. Commonwealth Science Council, London.
Silvertown, J. & Smith, B. (1988) Gaps in the canopy: the missing dimension in vegetation dynamics. Vegetatio, 77, 56-60. 
Silvertown, J. (1988) The demographic and evolutionary consequences of seed dormancy. In Plant population ecology (eds A.J. Davy, M.J.Hutchings & A.R.Watkinson), pp. 205-219. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
Silvertown, J. (1985). When plants play the field. In Evolution: essays in honour of John Maynard Smith (eds P. Greenwood, P.H. Harvey & M. Slatkin), pp. 143-153. Cambridge University Press,, Cambridge.
Silvertown, J. (1984) Phenotypic variety in seed germination behaviour: the ontogeny and evolution of somatic polymorphism in seeds. American Naturalist, 124, 1-16. 
Silvertown, J. (1981) Seed Size, Life-Span, and Germination Date as Co-Adapted Features of Plant Life-History. American Naturalist, 118, 860-864. 
Silvertown, J. (1980) Leaf-canopy induced seed dormancy in a grassland flora. New Phytologist, 85, 109-118. 
Trees
Dodd, M.E. & Silvertown, J. (2000) Size-specific fecundity and the influence of lifetime size variation upon effective population size in Abies balsamea. Heredity, 85, 604-609. 
Silvertown, J. & Dodd, M.E. (1999) Evolution of life history in balsam fir (Abies balsamea) in sub-alpine forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 266, 729-733. 
Silvertown, J. & Dodd, M.E. (1999) The demographic cost of reproduction and its consequences in balsam fir (Abies balsamea). American Naturalist, 154, 321-332. 
Silvertown, J. (1996) Are sub-alpine firs evolving towards semelparity? Evolutionary Ecology, 10, 77-80. 
Silvertown, J. (1980) The evolutionary ecology of mast seeding in trees. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 14, 235-250. 
Plant behaviour
Silvertown, J. (1998) Plant phenotypic plasticity and non-cognitive behaviour. Trends In Ecology & Evolution, 13, 255-256. 
Silvertown, J. & Gordon, D. (1989) A framework for plant behaviour. Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics, 20, 349-366. 
Silvertown, J. & Rabinowitz, D. (1985) Reproductive decisions in the botanical world. New Scientist, 32-34.
Historical ecology
Silvertown, J. (1985) History of a latitudinal diversity gradient: woody plants in Europe 13,000 -- 1000 years B.P. Journal of Biogeography, 12, 519-525. 
Silvertown, J. (1978) The history of woodlands in Hornsey. London Naturalist, 57, 11-25.
Park Grass experiment
Freeland, J. R., Biss, P. & Silvertown, J. (2012) Contrasting Patterns of Pollen and Seed Flow Influence the Spatial Genetic Structure of Sweet Vernal Grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum) Populations. Journal of Heredity, 103, 28-35. 
Silvertown, J., Tallowin, J., Stevens, C., Power, S. A., Morgan, V., Emmett, B., Hester, A., Grime, P. J., Morecroft, M., Buxton, R., Poulton, P., Jinks, R. & Bardgett, R. (2010) Environmental myopia: a diagnosis and a remedy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 25, 547-618.
Freeland, J., Biss, P. M., Conrad, K. F. & Silvertown, J. (2010) Selection pressures have caused genome-wide population differentiation of Anthoxanthum odoratum despite the potential for high gene flow. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 4, 776-782.
Silvertown, J., Biss, P.M., Freeland, J. (2008) Community genetics: resource addition has opposing effects on genetic and species diversity in a 150-year experiment. Ecology Letters 12, 165-170. 
Freville, H., McConway, K., Dodd, M. & Silvertown, J. (2007) Prediction of extinction in plants: Interaction of extrinsic threats and life history traits. Ecology, 88, 2662-2672.
Silvertown, J., Poulton, P., Johnston, A.E., Edwards, G., Heard, M., & Biss, P.M. (2006) The Park Grass Experiment 1856 - 2006: Its Contribution to Ecology. Journal of Ecology, 94, 801-814. 
Silvertown, J., Servaes, C., Biss, P., & Macleod, D. (2005) Reinforcement of reproductive isolation between adjacent populations in the Park Grass Experiment. Heredity, 95, 198-205. 
Freville, H. & Silvertown, J. (2005) Analysis of interspecific competition in perennial plants using life table response experiments. Plant Ecology, 176, 69-78. 
Crawley, M.J., Johnston, A.E., Silvertown, J., Dodd, M., de Mazancourt, C., Heard, M.S., Henman, D.F., & Edwards, G.R. (2005) Determinants of species richness in the park grass experiment. American Naturalist, 165, 179-192. 
Biss, P., Freeland, J., Silvertown, J., McConway, K.J., & Lutman, P. (2003) Successful amplification of rice chloroplast microsatellites from century-old grass samples from the Park Grass Experiment. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 21, 249-257. 
Silvertown, J., McConway, K.J., Hughes, Z., Biss, P., Macnair, M., & Lutman, P. (2002) Ecological and genetic correlates of long-term population trends in the park grass experiment. American Naturalist, 160, 409-420. 
Wilson, J.B., Crawley, M.J., Dodd, M.E., & Silvertown, J. (1996) Evidence for constraint on species coexistence in vegetation of the Park Grass experiment. Vegetatio, 124, 183-190. 
Dodd, M., Silvertown, J., Mcconway, K., Potts, J., & Crawley, M. (1995) Community stability: A 60-year record of trends and outbreaks in the occurrence of species in the Park Grass Experiment. Journal of Ecology, 83, 277-285. 
Silvertown, J., Dodd, M., McConway, K., Crawley, M., & Potts, J. (1995) Species diversity and stability in grassland. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 287-288. 
Dodd, M.E., Silvertown, J., Mcconway, K., Potts, J., & Crawley, M. (1994) Application of the British National Vegetation Classification to the Communities of the Park Grass Experiment Through Time. Folia Geobotanica & Phytotaxonomica, 29, 321-334. 
Dodd, M.E., Silvertown, J., Mcconway, K., Potts, J., & Crawley, M. (1994) Stability in the plant communities of the Park Grass Experiment: The relationships between species richness, soil pH and biomass variability. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences, 346, 185-193. 
Silvertown, J., Dodd, M.E., Mcconway, K., Potts, J., & Crawley, M. (1994) Rainfall, biomass variation, and community composition in the Park Grass Experiment. Ecology, 75, 2430-2437. 
Tilman, D., Dodd, M.E., Silvertown, J., Poulton, P.R., Johnston, A.E., & Crawley, M.J. (1994). The Park Grass Experiment: Insights from the Most Long-Term Ecological Study. In Long - Term Experiments in Agricultural and Ecological Sciences (eds R.A. Leigh & A.E. Johnston), pp. 287-303. C a B International, Wallingford, United Kingdom 0X10 8DE.
Silvertown, J. (1987) Ecological stability: a test case. American Naturalist, 130, 807-810. 
Silvertown, J.W. (1980) The dynamics of a grassland ecosystem: botanical equilibrium in the Park Grass Experiment. Journal of Applied Ecology, 17, 491-504. 
Phylogeny and ecology
Silvertown, J., Dodd, M., Gowing, D., Lawson, C. & McConway, K. (2006) Phylogeny and the hierarchical organization of plant diversity. Ecology, 87, S39-S49. 
Silvertown, J., McConway, K.J., Gowing, D.J., Dodd, M.E., Fay, M.F., Joseph, J.A., & Dolphin, K. (2006) Absence of phylogenetic signal in the niche structure of meadow plant communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.,273, 39-44. 
Silvertown, J., Francisco-Ortega, J., & Carine, M. (2005) The monophyly of island radiations: an evaluation of niche pre-emption and some alternative explanations. Journal of Ecology, 93, 653-657. 
Silvertown, J. (2004) The ghost of competition past in the phylogeny of island endemic plants. Journal of Ecology, 92, 168-173. 
Silvertown, J., Dodd, M., & Gowing, D. (2001) Phylogeny and the niche structure of meadow plant communities. Journal of Ecology, 89, 428-435. 
Tofts, R. & Silvertown, J. (2000) A phylogenetic approach to community assembly from a local species pool. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 267, 363-370. 
Silvertown, J. & Dodd, M. (1997). Comparing plants and connecting traits. In Plant life histories: Ecology, phylogeny and evolution (eds J. Silvertown, M. Franco & J.L. Harper), pp. 3-16. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 
Population dynamics (mostly grassland plants)
Bullock, J.M., Franklin, J., Stevenson, M.J., Silvertown, J., Coulson, S.J., Gregory, S.J., & Tofts, R. (2001) A plant trait analysis of responses to grazing in a long-term experiment. Journal of Applied Ecology, 38, 253-267. 
Clear Hill, B.H. & Silvertown, J. (1997) Higher-order interaction between molluscs and sheep affecting seedling numbers in grassland. Acta Oecologica, 18, 587-596. 
Gillman, M.P. & Silvertown, J. (1997). Population extinction and IUCN categories: the uncertainty of ecological measurement. In The role of genetics in conserving small populations (eds T.E. Tew, T.J. Crawford, J.W. Spencer, D.P. Stevens, M.B. Usher & J. Warren), pp. 155-162. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.
Bullock, J.M., Silvertown, J., & Clear Hill, B. (1996) Plant demographic responses to environmental variation: Distinguishing between effects on age structure and effects on age-specific vital rates. Journal of Ecology, 84, 733-743. 
Bullock, J.M., Clear Hill, B., Silvertown, J., & Sutton, M. (1995) Gap Colonization as a Source of Grassland Community Change - Effects of Gap Size and Grazing on the Rate and Mode of Colonization by Different Species. Oikos, 72, 273-282. 
Bullock, J.M., Clear Hill, B., & Silvertown, J. (1994) Demography of Cirsium vulgare in a grazing experiment. Journal of Ecology, 82, 101-111. 
Bullock, J.M., Clear Hill, B., & Silvertown, J. (1994) Tiller dynamics of two grasses - Responses to grazing, density and weather. Journal of Ecology, 82, 331-340. 
Bullock, J.M., Clear Hill, B., Dale, M.P., & Silvertown, J. (1994) An Experimental Study of the Effects of Sheep Grazing on Vegetation Change in a Species-Poor Grassland and the Role of Seedlings Recruitment into Gaps. Journal of Applied Ecology, 31, 493-507. 
Silvertown, J., Wells, D.A., Gillman, M., Dodd, M.E., Robertson, H., & Lakhani, K.H. (1994) Short-Term Effects and Long-Term After-Effects of Fertilizer Application on the Flowering Population of Green-Winged Orchid Orchis morio. Biological Conservation, 69, 191-197. 
Briske, D.D. & Silvertown, J. (1993) Plant demography and grassland community balance: the contribution of population regulation mechanisms. In XVII International Grassland Congress, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Gillman, M., Bullock, J.M., Silvertown, J., & Clear Hill, B. (1993) A Density-Dependent model of Cirsium vulgare population dynamics using Field-Estimated parameter values. Oecologia, 96, 282-289. 
Silvertown, J., Watt, T.A., Smith, B., & Treweek, J.R. (1992) Complex effects of grazing treatment on the establishment, growth, survival & reproduction of an annual in a species-poor grassland community. Journal of Vegetation Science, 3, 35-40. 
Silvertown, J. (1991) Modularity, reproductive thresholds and plant population dynamics. Functional Ecology, 5, 577-582. 
Silvertown, J. & Smith, B. (1989) Germination and population structure of spear thistle Cirsium vulgare in relation to sheep grazing management of pasture. Oecologia, 81, 369-373. 
Symonides, E., Silvertown, J., & Andreasen, V. (1986) Population cycles caused by overcompensating density-dependence in an annual plant. Oecologia, 71, 156-158. 
Silvertown, J. (1985) Survival, fecundity and growth of wild cucumber Echinocystis lobata. Journal of Ecology, 73, 841-849. 
Tremlett, M., Silvertown, J.W., & Tucker, C. (1984) An analysis of spatial and temporal variation in seedling survival of a monocarpic perennial, Conium maculatum. Oikos, 43, 41-45. 
Silvertown, J.W. & Dickie, J.B. (1980) Seedling survivorship in natural populations of nine perennial chalk grassland plants. New Phytologist, 88, 555-558. 
Primula vulgaris and heterostyly
Valverde, T. & Silvertown, J. (1998) Variation in the demography of a woodland understorey herb (Primula vulgaris) along the forest regeneration cycle: projection matrix analysis. Journal Of Ecology, 86, 545-562. 
Valverde, T. & Silvertown, J. (1997) A metapopulation model for Primula vulgaris, a temperate forest understorey herb. Journal Of Ecology, 85, 193-210. 
Valverde, T. & Silvertown, J. (1997) An integrated model of demography, patch dynamics and seed dispersal in a woodland herb, Primula vulgaris. Oikos, 80, 67-77. 
Valverde, T. & Silvertown, J. (1997) Canopy closure rate and forest structure. Ecology, 78, 1555-1562. 
Valverde, T. & Silvertown, J. (1995) Spatial variation in the seed ecology of a woodland herb (Primula vulgaris) in relation to light environment. Functional Ecology, 9, 942-950. 
Boyd, M., Silvertown, J., & Tucker, C. (1990) Population ecology of heterostyle and homostyle Primula vulgaris: Growth, survival and reproduction in field populations. Journal of Ecology, 78, 799-813. 
Seed ecology
Silvertown, J. (2004) Sustainability in a nutshell. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 19, 276-278. 
Silvertown, J. (1989) The paradox of seed size and adaptation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 4, 24-26. 
Silvertown, J. & Smith, B. (1989) Mapping the microenvironment for seed germination in the field. Annals of Botany, 63, 163-167.
Silvertown, J., Smith, B., & Prince, S.D. (1988) A field instrument for mapping the microenvironment within grass canopies. Functional Ecology, 2, 263-268. 
Silvertown, J. (1987) Possible sexual dimorphism in the double coconut: a reinterpretation of the data of Savidge and Ashton. Biotropica, 19, 282-283. 
Silvertown, J. & Wilkin, F.R. (1983) An experimental test of the role of micro-spatial heterogeneity in the co-existence of congeneric plants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 19, 1-8.
Silvertown, J. (1981) Micro-spatial heterogeneity and seedling demography in species rich grassland. New Phytologist, 88, 117-125. 
Silvertown, J. (1980) Leaf-canopy induced seed dormancy in a grassland flora. New Phytologist, 85, 109-118. 
Everything else
Silvertown, J. & McConway, K.J. (1997) Does ''publication bias''' lead to biased science? Oikos, 79, 167-168.
Silvertown, J. (1989) China's Silent Spring. New Scientist, 123, 55-58.
Silvertown, J. (1989) Plant competition. Nature, 337, 122-123.
Silvertown, J. (1989) Reply from J.Silvertown. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 4, 145-146.
Recent papers (also listed under topics below)
Araya, Y. N., Silvertown, J., Gowing, D. J., McConway, K. J., Linder, H. P. & Midgley, G. (2012) Do niche-structured plant communities exhibit phylogenetic conservatism? A test case in an endemic clade. Journal of Ecology, 100, 1434-1439.
Silvertown, J., Araya, Y. N., Linder, H. P. & Gowing, D. J. (2012) Experimental investigation of the origin of fynbos plant community structure after fire. Annals of Botany. Doi: 10.1093/aob/mcs160 
Freeland, J. R., Biss, P. & Silvertown, J. (2012) Contrasting Patterns of Pollen and Seed Flow Influence the Spatial Genetic Structure of Sweet Vernal Grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum) Populations. Journal of Heredity, 103, 28-35. 
Silvertown, J. & 23 others (2011) Citizen Science Reveals Unexpected Continental-Scale Evolutionary Change in a Model Organism. PLoS One, 6, 8.
Worthington, J. P., Silvertown, J., Cook, L. M., Cameron, R. A. D., Dodd, M. E., Greenwood, R. M., McConway, K. J. & Skelton, P. W. (2011) Evolution MegaLab: a case-study in citizen science methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 
Silvertown, J., Tallowin, J., Stevens, C., Power, S. A., Morgan, V., Emmett, B., Hester, A., Grime, P. J., Morecroft, M., Buxton, R., Poulton, P., Jinks, R. & Bardgett, R. (2010) Environmental myopia: a diagnosis and a remedy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 25, 556-561. 
Araya, Y. N., Silvertown, J., Gowing, D. J., McConway, K. J., Peter Linder, H. & Midgley, G. (2011) A fundamental, eco-hydrological basis for niche segregation in plant communities. New Phytologist, 189, 253-258. 
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Araya, Y. N., Silvertown, J., Gowing, D. J., McConway, K. J., Linder, P. & Midgley, G. (2010) Variation in δ13C among species and sexes in the family Restionaceae along a fine-scale hydrological gradient. Austral Ecology, 
Silvertown, J., et al. (2010) Environmental myopia: a diagnosis and a remedy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 25, 547-618.
Freeland, J., Biss, P. M., Conrad, K. F. & Silvertown, J. (2010) Selection pressures have caused genome-wide population differentiation of Anthoxanthum odoratum despite the potential for high gene flow. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 4, 776-782.
Bartelheimer, M., Gowing, D. J. & Silvertown, J. (2010) Explaining hydrological niches: the decisive role of below-ground competition in two closely related Senecio species. Journal of Ecology, 98, 126-136. 
Silvertown, J. (2009) A new dawn for citizen science. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
Silvertown, J., Biss, P.M., Freeland, J. (2009) Community genetics: resource addition has opposing effects on genetic and species diversity in a 150-year experiment. Ecology Letters, 12, 165-170. 
Silvertown, J. (2008) The evolutionary maintenance of sex: evidence from the ecological distribution of asexual reproduction in clonal plants. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 169, 157-168. 
Freville, H., McConway, K., Dodd, M. & Silvertown, J. (2007) Prediction of extinction in plants: Interaction of extrinsic threats and life history traits. Ecology, 88, 2662-2672. 
Silvertown, J., Poulton, P., Johnston, A.E., Edwards, G., Heard, M., & Biss, P.M. (2006) The Park Grass Experiment 1856 - 2006: Its Contribution to Ecology. Journal of Ecology, 94, 801-814. 
Silvertown, J., McConway, K.J., Gowing, D.J., Dodd, M.E., Fay, M.F., Joseph, J.A., & Dolphin, K. (2006) Absence of phylogenetic signal in the niche structure of meadow plant communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.,273, 39-44. 
Silvertown, J., Dodd, M., Gowing, D., Lawson, C. & McConway, K. (2006) Phylogeny and the hierarchical organization of plant diversity. Ecology, 87, S39-S49. 
Silvertown, J., Servaes, C., Biss, P., & Macleod, D. (2005) Reinforcement of reproductive isolation between adjacent populations in the Park Grass Experiment. Heredity, 95, 198-205. 
Silvertown, J., Francisco-Ortega, J., & Carine, M. (2005) The monophyly of island radiations: an evaluation of niche pre-emption and some alternative explanations. Journal of Ecology, 93, 653-657. 
Freville, H. & Silvertown, J. (2005) Analysis of interspecific competition in perennial plants using life table response experiments. Plant Ecology, 176, 69-78. 