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Citations
27736
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4937
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1691

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Amy E. Zanne is a researcher affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their scholarly work spans environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a primary focus on insect science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, and plant science.

Their published research covers a range of topics within ecology and biology, including forest ecology and biodiversity studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, plant and animal studies, forest insect ecology and management, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, and forest management and policy.

Zanne has contributed to various scientific journals and venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Functional Ecology
  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science
  • Journal of Ecology

Their recent important papers include:

  • Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability, 2020, Science
  • A trait-based understanding of wood decomposition by fungi, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates, 2022, Science
  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset, 2022, Scientific Data
  • Maternal effects shape the seed mycobiome in Quercus petraea, 2020, New Phytologist

Zanne frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their notable co-authors are:

  • Habacuc Flores-Moreno
  • William K. Cornwell
  • Paul Eggleton
  • Alexander W. Cheesman
  • Steven Allison

Throughout their career, Amy E. Zanne has been recognized within the ecological community, including earning the distinction of Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

    Jerome Chave;David Coomes;Steven Jansen;Simon L. Lewis

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function

    Sandra Myrna Díaz;Jens Kattge;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Ian J. Wright

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

    Brendan Choat;Steven Jansen;Tim J. Brodribb;Hervé Cochard;Hervé Cochard

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

    Amy E. Zanne;David C. Tank;William K. Cornwell;Jonathan M. Eastman

  • Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

    S. Joseph Wright;Kaoru Kitajima;Kaoru Kitajima;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Peter B. Reich

  • Global patterns in plant height

    Angela T. Moles;David I. Warton;Laura Warman;Nathan G. Swenson

  • Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species

    Sean M. Gleason;Sean M. Gleason;Mark Westoby;Steven Jansen;Brendan Choat

  • Global wood density database

    AE Zanne;G Lopez-Gonzalez;DA Coomes;J Ilic

  • Global meta‐analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?

    James T. Weedon;William K. Cornwell;Johannes H.C. Cornelissen;Amy E. Zanne;Amy E. Zanne

  • Angiosperm wood structure: Global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relation to wood density and potential conductivity.

    Amy E. Zanne;Mark Westoby;Daniel S. Falster;David D. Ackerly

  • Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?

    William K. Cornwell;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Steven D. Allison;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Oak genome reveals facets of long lifespan.

    Christophe Plomion;Jean-Marc Aury;Joëlle Amselem;Thibault Leroy

  • A long-term evaluation of fruiting phenology: importance of climate change

    Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Thomas T. Struhsaker;Amy E. Zanne

  • Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

    Sandra Díaz;Noelia Zafra-Calvo;Andy Purvis;Peter H. Verburg

  • Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system

    Sally Archibald;Sally Archibald;C. E. R. Lehmann;C. E. R. Lehmann;Claire M. Belcher;William J. Bond

  • Fruit and flower phenology at two sites in Kibale National Park, Uganda

    C. A. Chapman;R. W. Wrangham;L. J. Chapman;D. K. Kennard

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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  • Fungal functional ecology: bringing a trait-based approach to plant-associated fungi.

    Amy E. Zanne;Kessy Abarenkov;Michelle E. Afkhami;Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros

  • Building a better foundation: improving root-trait measurements to understand and model plant and ecosystem processes

    M. Luke McCormack;Dali Guo;Colleen M. Iversen;Weile Chen

  • Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

    B. Choat;S. Jansen;T.J. Brodribb;H. Cochard

Frequent Co-Authors

William K. Cornwell
William K. Cornwell University of New South Wales
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Ian J. Wright
Ian J. Wright Western Sydney University
Colin A. Chapman
Colin A. Chapman Vancouver Island University
Mark Westoby
Mark Westoby Macquarie University
Angela T. Moles
Angela T. Moles University of New South Wales
Nathan G. Swenson
Nathan G. Swenson University of Notre Dame
Lauren J. Chapman
Lauren J. Chapman University of Florida
Steven Jansen
Steven Jansen University of Ulm
Jacek Oleksyn
Jacek Oleksyn Polish Academy of Sciences

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