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Overview

Adrienne B. Nicotra is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology.

Their scholarly output addresses a range of ecological and environmental topics, including Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant and Animal Studies, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, and Plant Responses to Elevated CO2.

Significant publications by Adrienne B. Nicotra include:

  • The seed germination spectrum of alpine plants: a global meta-analysis (2020), New Phytologist
  • The thermal tolerance of photosynthetic tissues: a global systematic review and agenda for future research (2020), New Phytologist
  • Intraspecific trait variation in alpine plants relates to their elevational distribution (2022), Journal of Ecology
  • Polyploidy affects the seed, dormancy and seedling characteristics of a perennial grass, conferring an advantage in stressful climates (2020), Plant Biology
  • One hundred research questions in conservation physiology for generating actionable evidence to inform conservation policy and practice (2021), Conservation Physiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Adrienne B. Nicotra include:

  • Pieter A. Arnold
  • Andrea Leigh
  • Rosalie J. Harris
  • Verónica F. Briceño
  • Sonya R. Geange

Adrienne B. Nicotra's work has been published predominantly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Conservation Physiology
  • New Phytologist
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Plant phenotypic plasticity in a changing climate

    A.B. Nicotra;O.K. Atkin;S.P. Bonser;A.M. Davidson

  • Do invasive species show higher phenotypic plasticity than native species and, if so, is it adaptive? A meta‐analysis

    Amy Michelle Davidson;Michael Jennions;Adrienne B. Nicotra

  • The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change

    Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares;Silvia Matesanz;Francois Guilhaumon;Francois Guilhaumon;Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo

  • SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY OF LIGHT AND WOODY SEEDLING REGENERATION IN TROPICAL WET FORESTS

    Adrienne B. Nicotra;Robin L. Chazdon;Silvia V. B. Iriarte

  • The evolution and functional significance of leaf shape in the angiosperms

    Adrienne B. Nicotra;Andrea Leigh;C. Kevin Boyce;Cynthia S. Jones

  • Biological responses to the press and pulse of climate trends and extreme events

    R.M.B. Harris;R.M.B. Harris;L.J. Beaumont;T.R. Vance;C.R. Tozer;C.R. Tozer

  • Trees tolerate an extreme heatwave via sustained transpirational cooling and increased leaf thermal tolerance

    John E Drake;John E Drake;Mark G Tjoelker;Angelica Varhammar;Belinda E Medlyn

  • A research agenda for seed-trait functional ecology.

    Arne Saatkamp;Anne Cochrane;Lucy Commander;Lydia K. Guja;Lydia K. Guja

  • How plant life-history and ecological traits relate to species rarity and commonness at varying spatial scales

    Brad R. Murray;Peter H. Thrall;A. Malcolm Gill;Adrienne B. Nicotra

  • The influence of leaf size and shape on leaf thermal dynamics: does theory hold up under natural conditions?

    Andrea Leigh;S. Sevanto;John Close;Adrienne Nicotra

  • How to analyse plant phenotypic plasticity in response to a changing climate

    Pieter A. Arnold;Loeske E. B. Kruuk;Adrienne B. Nicotra

  • Will among‐population variation in seed traits improve the chance of species persistence under climate change?

    Anne Cochrane;Colin J. Yates;Gemma L. Hoyle;Adrienne B. Nicotra

  • The impact of beneficial plant-associated microbes on plant phenotypic plasticity.

    Chooi Hua Goh;Debora F. Veliz Vallejos;Adrienne B. Nicotra;Ulrike Mathesius

  • Adaptive phenotypic plasticity and plant water use

    Adrienne B. Nicotra;Amy Davidson

  • Compensation for herbivory by Cucumis sativus through increased photosynthetic capacity and efficiency

    Vivien P. Thomson;Saul A. Cunningham;Marilyn C. Ball;Adrienne B. Nicotra

  • Improving conservation outcomes with a new paradigm for understanding species’ fundamental and realized adaptive capacity

    Erik A. Beever;Erik A. Beever;John O’Leary;Claudia Mengelt;Jordan M. West

  • Do thick leaves avoid thermal damage in critically low wind speeds

    Andrea Leigh;S Sevanto;Marilyn Ball;John Close

  • EGRINs (Environmental Gene Regulatory Influence Networks) in Rice That Function in the Response to Water Deficit, High Temperature, and Agricultural Environments

    Olivia Wilkins;Christoph Hafemeister;Anne Plessis;Meisha Marika Holloway-Phillips

  • AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora.

    Daniel Falster;Rachael Gallagher;Rachael Gallagher;Elizabeth H. Wenk;Ian J. Wright

  • Aboveground interactions and productivity in mixed-species plantations of Acacia mearnsii and Eucalyptus globulus

    Jürgen Bauhus;Aaron P van Winden;Adrienne B Nicotra

  • Leaf shape linked to photosynthetic rates and temperature optima in South African Pelargonium species.

    Adrienne Nicotra;Meredith Cosgrove;Ann Cowling;Carl Schlichting

  • Seedling root anatomy and morphology: an examination of ecological differentiation with rainfall using phylogenetically independent contrasts.

    Adrienne Nicotra;N. Babicka;Mark Westoby

  • Assessing the components of adaptive capacity to improve conservation and management efforts under global change

    Adrienne B. Nicotra;Erik A. Beever;Amanda L. Robertson;Amanda L. Robertson;Gretchen E. Hofmann

  • High temperature acclimation of C4 photosynthesis is linked to changes in photosynthetic biochemistry

    Simon A Dwyer;Oula Ghannoum;Adrienne B Nicotra;Susanna Von Caemmerer

  • Nitrogen in cell walls of sclerophyllous leaves accounts for little of the variation in photosynthetic nitrogen-use efficiency

    Matthew T. Harrison;Everard J. Edwards;Graham D. Farquhar;Adrienne B. Nicotra

Frequent Co-Authors

Saul A. Cunningham
Saul A. Cunningham Australian National University
Marilyn C. Ball
Marilyn C. Ball Australian National University
Jürgen Bauhus
Jürgen Bauhus University of Freiburg
Ulrike Mathesius
Ulrike Mathesius Australian National University
Colin J. Yates
Colin J. Yates Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Carl D. Schlichting
Carl D. Schlichting University of Connecticut
Jeffrey Wood
Jeffrey Wood Australian National University
Loeske E. B. Kruuk
Loeske E. B. Kruuk University of Edinburgh
Fernando Valladares
Fernando Valladares Spanish National Research Council
Justin O. Borevitz
Justin O. Borevitz Australian National University

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