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Overview

Daniel S. Falster is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Plant Science.

The main topics covered by their work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, as well as Marine and Fisheries Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Daniel S. Falster include Rachael V. Gallagher, Elizabeth Wenk, Hervé Sauquet, Ian J. Wright, and William K. Cornwell.

Their publication record features contributions to various scientific venues. These include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Data
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Recent papers by Daniel S. Falster include:

  • "Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life" (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics" (2020, Nature Plants)
  • "AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora" (2021, Scientific Data)
  • "Sexual dimorphism in trait variability and its eco-evolutionary and statistical implications" (2020, eLife)
  • "Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database" (2022, Global Change Biology)

Best Publications

  • Plant Ecological Strategies: Some Leading Dimensions of Variation Between Species

    Mark Westoby;Daniel S. Falster;Angela T. Moles;Peter A. Vesk

  • Bivariate line-fitting methods for allometry.

    David I. Warton;Ian J. Wright;Daniel S. Falster;Mark Westoby

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships

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

  • SMATR 3 - an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines

    David I. Warton;Remko A. Duursma;Daniel S. Falster;Sara Taskinen

  • Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate

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

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

    Georges Kunstler;Georges Kunstler;Daniel Falster;David A. Coomes;Francis Hui

  • Plant height and evolutionary games

    Daniel S. Falster;Mark Westoby

  • Leaf size and angle vary widely across species: what consequences for light interception?

    Daniel S. Falster;Mark Westoby

  • 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

  • Small-seeded species produce more seeds per square metre of canopy per year, but not per individual per lifetime

    Angela T. Moles;Daniel S. Falster;Michelle R. Leishman;Mark Westoby

  • User's guide to SMATR : standardised major axis tests and routines version 2.0, copyright 2006

    Daniel S Falster;David I Warton;Ian J Wright

  • The Coral Trait Database, a curated database of trait information for coral species from the global oceans

    Joshua S. Madin;Kristen D. Anderson;Magnus Heide Andreasen;Tom C.L. Bridge;Tom C.L. Bridge

  • Alternative height strategies among 45 dicot rain forest species from tropical Queensland, Australia.

    Daniel S. Falster;Mark Westoby

  • A Trait-Based Approach to Advance Coral Reef Science

    Joshua S. Madin;Mia O. Hoogenboom;Sean R. Connolly;Emily S. Darling

  • On the link between functional traits and growth rate : meta-analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted

    Anaïs Gibert;Emma F. Gray;Mark Westoby;Ian J. Wright

  • Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

    Rachael V. Gallagher;Daniel S. Falster;Brian S. Maitner;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez

  • Testing the generality of above-ground biomass allometry across plant functional types at the continent scale

    Keryn I. Paul;Stephen H. Roxburgh;Jerome Chave;Jacqueline R. England

  • Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics.

    Oskar Franklin;Oskar Franklin;Sandy P Harrison;Roderick C Dewar;Roderick C Dewar;Caroline Farrior

  • How functional traits influence plant growth and shade tolerance across the life cycle.

    Daniel S. Falster;Daniel S. Falster;Remko A. Duursma;Richard G. FitzJohn

  • BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

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

  • Influence of four major plant traits on average height, leaf-area cover, net primary productivity, and biomass density in single-species forests: a theoretical investigation

    Daniel S. Falster;Åke Brännström;Åke Brännström;Ulf Dieckmann;Mark Westoby

  • Cross‐species patterns in the coordination between leaf and stem traits, and their implications for plant hydraulics

    Ian J. Wright;Daniel S. Falster;Melinda Pickup;Mark Westoby

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Westoby
Mark Westoby Macquarie University
Ian J. Wright
Ian J. Wright Western Sydney University
William K. Cornwell
William K. Cornwell University of New South Wales
Rachael V. Gallagher
Rachael V. Gallagher Macquarie University
Remko A. Duursma
Remko A. Duursma Western Sydney University
Christopher H. Lusk
Christopher H. Lusk University of Waikato
Jacek Oleksyn
Jacek Oleksyn Polish Academy of Sciences
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Roberto Salguero-Gómez University of Oxford
Amy E. Zanne
Amy E. Zanne University of Miami
Maurizio Rossetto
Maurizio Rossetto Royal Botanic Garden Sydney

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