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Christopher H. Lusk

Christopher H. Lusk

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
47
Citations
18382
World Ranking
4321
National Ranking
46

Overview

Christopher H. Lusk is a researcher affiliated with the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Their work is concentrated mainly within the fields of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, contributing 38 and 24 publications respectively.

Their research covers several subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, global and planetary change, and ecological modeling.

Major topics addressed by their research include:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions
  • Forest ecology and biodiversity studies

Christopher H. Lusk has authored and co-authored several recent papers such as:

  • "Global relationships in tree functional traits" (2022) published in Nature Communications
  • "Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change" (2023) published in Science Advances
  • "High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure" (2022) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale" (2023) published in Nature Communications
  • "Macroclimate and Topography Interact to Influence the Abundance of Divaricate Plants in New Zealand" (2020) published in Frontiers in Plant Science

Their frequent co-authors include Akira Mori, Ülo Niinemets, Peter M. van Bodegom, Jens Kattge, and Jane A. Catford, each having collaborated on multiple publications.

Christopher H. Lusk has published extensively in venues such as the New Zealand Journal of Botany, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, the University of Canterbury Research Repository, and Science Advances.

Best Publications

  • The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

    Ian J. Wright;Peter B. Reich;Mark Westoby;David D. Ackerly

  • Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate

    Ian J. Wright;Peter B. Reich;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Daniel S. Falster

  • Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: Global patterns and paleoclimatic applications

    Daniel J. Peppe;Daniel J. Peppe;Dana L. Royer;Bárbara Cariglino;Sofia Y. Oliver

  • Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

    Owen K. Atkin;Keith J. Bloomfield;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Why are evergreen leaves so contrary about shade

    Christopher H. Lusk;Peter B Reich;Rebecca A Montgomery;David D. Ackerly

  • Predicting leaf physiology from simple plant and climate attributes: a global GLOPNET analysis.

    Peter B. Reich;Ian J. Wright;Christopher H. Lusk

  • Leaf area accumulation helps juvenile evergreen trees tolerate shade in a temperate rainforest

    Christopher H. Lusk

  • Irradiance, temperature and rainfall influence leaf dark respiration in woody plants: evidence from comparisons across 20 sites

    Ian J. Wright;Peter B. Reich;Owen K. Atkin;Christopher H. Lusk

  • BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

    Daniel S. Falster;Remko A. Duursma;Masae I. Ishihara;Diego R. Barneche

  • Leaf area and growth of juvenile temperate evergreens in low light: species of contrasting shade tolerance change rank during ontogeny

    C. H. Lusk

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

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

  • Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications

    Dana L. Royer;Lawren Sack;Peter Wilf;Christopher H. Lusk

  • Age structure and dynamics of a podocarp-broadleaf forest in Tongariro National Park, New Zealand.

    Chris Lusk;John Ogden

  • LIFE HISTORY DIFFERENCES AND TREE SPECIES COEXISTENCE IN AN OLD-GROWTH NEW ZEALAND RAIN FOREST

    Christopher H. Lusk;Benjamin Smith

  • Photosynthetic differences contribute to competitive advantage of evergreen angiosperm trees over evergreen conifers in productive habitats.

    Christopher H. Lusk;Ian Wright;Peter B. Reich

  • Global relationships in tree functional traits

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  • Global meta‐analysis shows that relationships of leaf mass per area with species shade tolerance depend on leaf habit and ontogeny

    Christopher H. Lusk;David I. Warton

  • Survival and growth of seedlings of 12 Chilean rainforest trees in two light environments: Gas exchange and biomass distribution correlates

    Christopher H. Lusk;Alejandro Del Pozo

  • Relationships of leaf dark respiration with light environment and tissue nitrogen content in juveniles of 11 cold-temperate tree species.

    Christopher H. Lusk;Peter B. Reich

  • Light interception efficiency explained by two simple variables: a test using a diversity of small- to medium-sized woody plants

    Remko A Duursma;Daniel S Falster;Fernando Valladares;Frank J Sterck

  • Seed size, establishment sites and species coexistence in a Chilean rain forest

    Christopher H. Lusk

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Ian J. Wright
Ian J. Wright Western Sydney University
Daniel C. Laughlin
Daniel C. Laughlin University of Wyoming
Ülo Niinemets
Ülo Niinemets Estonian University of Life Sciences
Daniel S. Falster
Daniel S. Falster University of New South Wales
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Mark Westoby
Mark Westoby Macquarie University
Yusuke Onoda
Yusuke Onoda Kyoto University
Tianhua He
Tianhua He Curtin University
Jacek Oleksyn
Jacek Oleksyn Polish Academy of Sciences

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