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74

Overview

Andy Hector is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant work in nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, and various fields of ecology.

The scholar's work encompasses a variety of specialized subfields, including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and ecological modeling. Their main research topics include ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, forest management and policy, forest ecology and management, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Andy Hector has authored several recent papers that contribute to these areas. Notable publications include:

  • "For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!" (2021) in Conservation Letters
  • "Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential" (2023) in Nature
  • "General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales" (2020) in Nature Communications
  • "Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony" (2021) in Ecology
  • "Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time" (2020) in Ecology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter B. Reich
  • Nico Eisenhauer
  • Helge Bruelheide
  • Bruno Hérault
  • Julia Koricheva

Andy Hector publishes regularly in several scientific journals and venues. Among the most frequent are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Nature
  • Ecology and Evolution

In addition to journal articles, Andy Hector has contributed to academic books. Notably, they authored "The New Statistics with R: An Introduction for Biologists" in 2021, published by the University of Oxford, and another edition titled "The New Statistics with R," also published in 2021 by Oxford University Press.

Best Publications

  • EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

    D. U. Hooper;F. S. Chapin;J. J. Ewel;A. Hector

  • Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

    M. Loreau;S. Naeem;P. Inchausti;J. Bengtsson

  • Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments

    Michel Loreau;Andy Hector

  • Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands

    A. Hector;Bernhard Schmid;Carl Beierkuhnlein;M. C. Caldeira

  • Getting the measure of biodiversity

    Andy Purvis;Andy Hector

  • High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

    Forest Isbell;Vincent Calcagno;Andy Hector;John Connolly

  • Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

    Forest Isbell;Dylan Craven;John Connolly;Michael Loreau

  • Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity

    Bradley J. Cardinale;Justin P. Wright;Marc W. Cadotte;Ian T. Carroll

  • Biodiversity and resilience of ecosystem functions

    Tom H. Oliver;Matthew S. Heard;Nick J.B. Isaac;David B. Roy

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality

    Andy Hector;Robert Bagchi;Robert Bagchi

  • Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss after eutrophication

    Yann Hautier;Pascal A. Niklaus;Pascal A. Niklaus;Andy Hector

  • A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

    Henry D. Adams;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;William R.L. Anderegg;Henrik Hartmann

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

    Jarrett E. K. Byrnes;Lars Gamfeldt;Forest Isbell;Jonathan S. Lefcheck

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

    Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Jarrett E. K. Byrnes;Forest Isbell;Lars Gamfeldt

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

    Forest Isbell;Andrew Gonzalez;Michael Loreau;Jane Cowles

  • How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists

    C. E. Timothy Paine;Toby R. Marthews;Toby R. Marthews;Deborah R. Vogt;Drew Purves

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge: Ecological Monog

    David Hooper;F. Stuart Chapin;John J. Ewel;Andy Hector

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Michel Loreau
Michel Loreau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Lindsay A. Turnbull
Lindsay A. Turnbull University of Oxford
Forest Isbell
Forest Isbell University of Minnesota
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Maria C. Caldeira
Maria C. Caldeira University of Lisbon
Jasmin Joshi
Jasmin Joshi University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil

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