Dan Buonaiuto

My research is motivated by the question: how will ecological communities shift in composition and
function in response to anthropogenic global change? In this work, I draw heavily on approaches from
eco-physiology, community ecology and biogeography to assess and predict how climate change and
plant invasions impact ecological communities. My current projects focus on how plant invasions
influence regional patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity across North America.

Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts

Wolkovich E.M, J.L Auerbach, C.J Chamberlain, D.M Buonaiuto, A.K Ettinger; I. Morales-Castilla, A.
Gelman. (2021). A simple explanation for declining temperature sensitivity with warming. Global Change
Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15746

Buonaiuto, D.M., and Wolkovich, E.M. (2021). Differences between flower and leaf phenological
responses to environmental variation drive shifts in spring phenological sequences of temperate woody
plants. Journal of Ecology, 109, 2922– 2933. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13708

Buonaiuto, D.M., Morales‐Castilla, I. and Wolkovich, E.M. (2021). Reconciling competing hypotheses
regarding flower–leaf sequences in temperate forests for fundamental and global change biology. New
Phytologist, 229: 1206-1214. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16848

Ettinger, A.K, C.J Chamberlin, I. Morales-Castilla, D.M. Buonaiuto, D.F.B. Flynn, T. Savas, J.A. Samaha,
E.M Wolkovich. (2020). Winter temperatures predominate in spring phenological responses to warming.
Nature Climate Change. doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00917-3