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51
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3530
National Ranking
243

Overview

Diane S. Srivastava is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada, contributing research across multiple fields within environmental and biological sciences. Their work emphasizes areas such as Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus spanning Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, and Genetics.

The main topics covered in Diane S. Srivastava's research include Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, and Fern and Epiphyte Biology.

The following recent scientific papers highlight notable examples of their published work:

  • Ecological response to altered rainfall differs across the Neotropics, 2020, Ecology
  • Scaling-up biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Extreme rainfall events alter the trophic structure in bromeliad tanks across the Neotropics, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The Role of Evolution in Shaping Ecological Networks, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Strategies and support for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in ecology and evolutionary biology, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Diane S. Srivastava's frequent coauthors include Gustavo Q. Romero, Vinicius F. Farjalla, Pierre Rogy, Nicholas A. C. Marino, and Régis Céréghino, indicating a collaborative approach with peers in related fields.

Their research has been published in several prominent venues multiple times, such as:

  • Ecology (5 publications)
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution (3 publications)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution (3 publications)
  • Functional Ecology (3 publications)
  • Biotropica (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

    Bradley J. Cardinale;J. Emmett Duffy;Andrew Gonzalez;David U. Hooper

  • Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems

    Bradley J. Cardinale;Diane S. Srivastava;J. Emmett Duffy;Justin P. Wright

  • Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

    Stilianos Louca;Martin F Polz;Florent Mazel;Florent Mazel;Michaeline B N Albright

  • 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 inventories, indicator taxa and effects of habitat modification in tropical forest

    J. H. Lawton;D. E. Bignell;B. Bolton;G. F. Bloemers;G. F. Bloemers;G. F. Bloemers

  • Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation?

    Diane S. Srivastava;Mark Vellend

  • Extinction and Ecosystem Function in the Marine Benthos

    Martin Solan;Bradley J. Cardinale;Amy L. Downing;Katharina A. M. Engelhardt

  • Why More Productive Sites Have More Species: An Experimental Test of Theory Using Tree‐Hole Communities

    Diane S. Srivastava;John H. Lawton

  • Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems

    Diane S. Srivastava;Marc W. Cadotte;A. Andrew M. MacDonald;Robin G. Marushia

  • High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities

    Stilianos Louca;Saulo M S Jacques;Aliny P F Pires;Juliana S Leal

  • Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

    Mark Vellend;Diane S. Srivastava;Kathryn M. Anderson;Carissa D. Brown

  • Are natural microcosms useful model systems for ecology

    Diane S. Srivastava;Jurek Kolasa;Jan Bengtsson;Andrew Gonzalez

  • Using local–regional richness plots to test for species saturation: pitfalls and potentials

    Diane S. Srivastava

  • Scaling-up biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research.

    Andrew Gonzalez;Rachel M. Germain;Diane S. Srivastava;Elise Filotas

  • Corrigendum: Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

    Bradley J. Cardinale;J. Emmett Duffy;Andrew Gonzalez;David U. Hooper

  • Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition.

    Diane S. Srivastava;Bradley J. Cardinale;Amy L. Downing;J. Emmett Duffy

  • Ecological determinism increases with organism size.

    Vinicius F. Farjalla;Diane S. Srivastava;Nicholas A. C. Marino;Fernanda D. Azevedo

  • From Populations to Ecosystems: Theoretical Foundations for a New Ecological Synthesis. Monographs in Population Biology, Volume 46. By Michel Loreau. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $99.50 (hardcover); $45.00 (paper). xv + 297 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-691-12269-4 (hc); 978-0

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  • A POSITIVE FEEDBACK : HERBIVORY, PLANT GROWTH, SALINITY, AND THE DESERTIFICATION OF AN ARCTIC SALT-MARSH

    Diane S. Srivastava;R. L. Jefferies

  • Predators Accelerate Nutrient Cycling in a Bromeliad Ecosystem

    Jacqueline T. Ngai;Diane S. Srivastava

  • Habitat structure, trophic structure and ecosystem function: interactive effects in a bromeliad-insect community.

    Diane S. Srivastava

Frequent Co-Authors

Vinicius F. Farjalla
Vinicius F. Farjalla Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Gustavo Q. Romero
Gustavo Q. Romero State University of Campinas
Pavel Kratina
Pavel Kratina Queen Mary University of London
Mary I. O'Connor
Mary I. O'Connor University of British Columbia
Régis Céréghino
Régis Céréghino Paul Sabatier University
Bruno Corbara
Bruno Corbara University of Clermont Auvergne
Trisha B. Atwood
Trisha B. Atwood Utah State University
Jennifer M. Sunday
Jennifer M. Sunday McGill University
Bradley J. Cardinale
Bradley J. Cardinale Pennsylvania State University
Gavin Simpson
Gavin Simpson University of Regina

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