Area of research
Nature and Landscape Conservation · Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Research interest
Research interests include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Biological Control of Invasive Species.
Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands
Forb diversity globally is harmed by nutrient enrichment but can be rescued by large mammalian herbivory
Interactions among nutrients govern the global grassland biomass–precipitation relationship
Biological invasions as burdens to primary economic sectors
Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s
A novel framework to generate plant functional groups for ecological modelling
The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate
Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass
Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change
A mechanistic framework of enemy release
Multidimensional responses of grassland stability to eutrophication
Nothing lasts forever: Dominant species decline under rapid environmental change in global grasslands
Decoupled phylogenetic and functional diversity in European grasslands
Compositional variation in grassland plant communities
Global relationships in tree functional traits
High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure
Global economic costs of aquatic invasive alien species
Addressing context dependence in ecology
AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora
Dimensions of invasiveness: Links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe’s alien and native floras
Relationships between plant–soil feedbacks and functional traits
Soil properties as key predictors of global grassland production: Have we overlooked micronutrients?
Plant functional traits reflect different dimensions of species invasiveness
Economic costs of biological invasions in the United Kingdom
Invasive plants and climate change
Phenotypic plasticity masks range‐wide genetic differentiation for vegetative but not reproductive traits in a short‐lived plant
Restored river-floodplain connectivity promotes riparian tree maintenance and recruitment
A conceptual map of invasion biology: Integrating hypotheses into a consensus network
Global root traits (GRooT) database
The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic