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Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht

Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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34
Citations
7550
World Ranking
5261
National Ranking
320

Ecology and Evolution

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35
Citations
7658
World Ranking
7272
National Ranking
376

Overview

Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with extensive contributions to the fields of nature and landscape conservation, plant science, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and forestry.

The scientist's research work revolves around several main topics, including:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Silicon effects in agriculture
  • Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Geochemistry and elemental analysis

Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht has published numerous papers in well-regarded venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Functional Ecology
  • Oecologia
  • Ecology
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Global Change Biology

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Increased mortality of tropical tree seedlings during the extreme 2015-16 El Niño," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Drought survival is positively associated with high turgor loss points in temperate perennial grassland species," 2020, Functional Ecology
  • "Turgor loss point predicts survival responses to experimental and natural drought in tropical tree seedlings," 2022, Ecology
  • "Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait-climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities," 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Comparative drought resistance of temperate grassland species: testing performance trade-offs and the relation to distribution," 2020, Oecologia

Their frequent coauthors reflect ongoing collaborations in related fields and include:

  • Liza S. Comita
  • F. Andrew Jones
  • Eric Manzané-Pinzón
  • Leonor Álvarez-Cansino
  • Marius Klotz

Best Publications

  • Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests.

    Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Liza S. Comita;Richard S. Condit;Thomas A. Kursar;Thomas A. Kursar

  • 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

  • Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

    Richard Condit;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Delicia Pino;Rolando Pérez

  • Comparative drought-resistance of seedlings of 28 species of co-occurring tropical woody plants.

    Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Thomas A. Kursar;Thomas A. Kursar

  • Soil organic phosphorus in lowland tropical rain forests

    Benjamin L. Turner;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht

  • The effect of nutrient enrichment on growth, photosynthesis and hydraulic conductance of dwarf mangroves in Panamá

    Catherine E. Lovelock;Ilka C. Feller;Karen L. McKee;Bettina Engelbrecht

  • Tolerance to low leaf water status of tropical tree seedlings is related to drought performance and distribution.

    Thomas A. Kursar;Thomas A. Kursar;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Amy Burke;Melvin T. Tyree;Melvin T. Tyree;Melvin T. Tyree

  • Drought effects on seedling survival in a tropical moist forest

    Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Thomas A. Kursar;Thomas A. Kursar;Melvin T. Tyree

  • Seasonal and spatial variation in water availability drive habitat associations in a tropical forest.

    Liza S. Comita;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht

  • A synthesis of tree functional traits related to drought-induced mortality in forests across climatic zones

    Michael J. O'Brien;Michael J. O'Brien;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Julia Joswig;Gabriela Pereyra

  • Desiccation tolerance of five tropical seedlings in panama. Relationship to a field assessment of drought performance.

    Melvin T. Tyree;Bettina M.J. Engelbrecht;Gustavo Vargas;Thomas A. Kursar

  • ECOLOGICAL DETERMINISM IN PLANT COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ACROSS A TROPICAL FOREST LANDSCAPE

    J.-C. Svenning;D. A. Kinner;D. A. Kinner;R. F. Stallard;R. F. Stallard;B. M. J. Engelbrecht

  • Evaluation of different methods to estimate understorey light conditions in tropical forests

    Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Hubert M. Herz

  • Linking physiological processes with mangrove forest structure: phosphorus deficiency limits canopy development, hydraulic conductivity and photosynthetic carbon gain in dwarf Rhizophora mangle

    Catherine E. Lovelock;Catherine E. Lovelock;Marilyn C. Ball;Brendan Choat;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht

  • Short dry spells in the wet season increase mortality of tropical pioneer seedlings

    Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;James W. Dalling;James W. Dalling;Timothy R. H. Pearson;Robert L. Wolf

  • Fungal endophytes nearly double minimum leaf conductance in seedlings of a neotropical tree species

    A. Elizabeth Arnold;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht

  • Differences in plant function in phosphorus‐ and nitrogen‐limited mangrove ecosystems

    Catherine E. Lovelock;Ilka C. Feller;Marilyn C. Ball;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht

  • Geological Substrates Shape Tree Species and Trait Distributions in African Moist Forests

    Adeline Fayolle;Adeline Fayolle;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Vincent Freycon;Frederic Mortier

  • Variation in hydraulic conductivity of mangroves: influence of species, salinity, and nitrogen and phosphorus availability

    Catherine E. Lovelock;Marilyn C. Ball;Ilka C. Feller;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht

  • Drought until death do us part: a case study of the desiccation-tolerance of a tropical moist forest seedling-tree, Licania platypus (Hemsl.) Fritsch.

    Melvin T. Tyree;Gustavo Vargas;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Thomas A. Kursar

  • Functional traits and the growth-mortality tradeoff in tropical trees

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Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. Kursar
Thomas A. Kursar University of Utah
Liza S. Comita
Liza S. Comita Yale University
Melvin T. Tyree
Melvin T. Tyree Zhejiang Normal University
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
S. Joseph Wright
S. Joseph Wright Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Benjamin L. Turner
Benjamin L. Turner Gyeongsang National University
Michael D. Swaine
Michael D. Swaine University of Aberdeen
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
James W. Dalling
James W. Dalling University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Catherine E. Lovelock
Catherine E. Lovelock University of Queensland

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