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43
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9160
World Ranking
5249
National Ranking
572

Overview

Eimear Nic Lughadha is affiliated with the Royal Botanic Gardens in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily across Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Plant Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics in their work involve plant and animal studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, plant diversity and evolution, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, fern and epiphyte biology, and plant and fungal species descriptions.

Frequent co-authors include Barnaby E. Walker, Tarciso C. C. Leão, Félix Forest, Steven P. Bachman, and Matilda J. M. Brown, reflecting collaborative efforts within their field.

Their research has been published in key venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), New Phytologist, Plants People Planet, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and Scientific Data.

Notable recent papers include:

  • The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity (2021, Scientific Data)
  • Extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi (2020, Plants People Planet)
  • New scientific discoveries: Plants and fungi (2020, Plants People Planet)
  • Brazilian Flora 2020: Leveraging the power of a collaborative scientific network (2021, Taxon)
  • Molecules from nature: Reconciling biodiversity conservation and global healthcare imperatives for sustainable use of medicinal plants and fungi (2020, Plants People Planet)

Best Publications

  • The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity.

    Rafaël Govaerts;Eimear Nic Lughadha;Nicholas Black;Robert Turner

  • Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery

    Aelys M. Humphreys;Aelys M. Humphreys;Rafaël Govaerts;Sarah Z. Ficinski;Eimear Nic Lughadha

  • New Brazilian Floristic List Highlights Conservation Challenges

    Rafaela C. Forzza;José Fernando A. Baumgratz;Carlos Eduardo M. Bicudo;Dora A. L. Canhos

  • Extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi

    Eimear Nic Lughadha;Steven P. Bachman;Tarciso C.C. Leão;Félix Forest

  • World Checklist of Myrtaceae

    R. Govaerts;M. Sobral;P. Ashton;F. Barrie

  • Green Plants in the Red: A Baseline Global Assessment for the IUCN Sampled Red List Index for Plants

    Neil A. Brummitt;Steven P. Bachman;Janine Griffiths-Lee;Maiko Lutz

  • Plant diversity hotspots in the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil.

    Charlotte Murray-Smith;Neil A. Brummitt;Ary T. Oliveira-Filho;Steven Bachman

  • Suprageneric phylogenetics of Myrteae, the generically richest tribe in Myrtaceae (Myrtales)

    Eve J. Lucas;Stephen A. Harris;Fiorella F. Mazine;Stephen R. Belsham

  • A Phytogeographical Metaanalysis of the Semiarid Caatinga Domain in Brazil

    Marcelo Freire Moro;Eimear Nic Lughadha;Francisca Soares de Araújo;Fernando Roberto Martins

  • Important Plant Areas: revised selection criteria for a global approach to plant conservation

    Iain Darbyshire;Seona Anderson;Anna Asatryan;Andrew Byfield

  • New scientific discoveries: Plants and fungi

    Martin Cheek;Eimear Nic Lughadha;Paul Kirk;Heather Lindon

  • Biodiversity: Where's Hot and Where's Not

    Neil Brummitt;Eimear Nic Lughadha

  • Towards Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation : a working list of all known plant species-progress and prospects

    Alan J. Paton;Neil Brummitt;Rafaël Govaerts;Kehan Harman

  • High extinction risk for wild coffee species and implications for coffee sector sustainability

    Aaron P. Davis;Helen Chadburn;Justin Moat;Justin Moat;Robert O’Sullivan;Robert O’Sullivan

  • Molecules from nature: Reconciling biodiversity conservation and global healthcare imperatives for sustainable use of medicinal plants and fungi

    Melanie‐Jayne R. Howes;Melanie‐Jayne R. Howes;Cassandra L. Quave;Jérôme Collemare;Evangelos C. Tatsis

  • Counting counts: revised estimates of numbers of accepted species of flowering plants, seed plants, vascular plants and land plants with a review of other recent estimates

    Eimear Nic Lughadha;Rafaël Govaerts;Irina Belyaeva;Nicholas Black

  • Floristics and biogeography of a rain forest in the Venezuelan Andes

    D. L. Kelly;E. V. J. Tanner;E. M. Nic Lughadha;V. Kapos

  • A catalogue of the vascular plants of the Caatinga Phytogeographical Domain: a synthesis of floristic and phytosociological surveys

    Marcelo Freire Moro;Eimear Nic Lughadha;Denis L. Filer;Francisca Soares de Araújo

  • New Guinea has the world’s richest island flora

    Rodrigo Cámara-Leret;Rodrigo Cámara-Leret;David G. Frodin;Frits Adema;Christiane Anderson

  • Progress, challenges and opportunities for Red Listing

    Steven P. Bachman;Steven P. Bachman;Richard Field;Tom Reader;Domitilla Raimondo

  • How many herbarium specimens are needed to detect threatened species

    Malin C. Rivers;Malin C. Rivers;Lin Taylor;Neil A. Brummitt;Thomas R. Meagher

  • Phylogenetics, Morphology, and Evolution of the Large Genus Myrcia s.l. (Myrtaceae)

    Eve J. Lucas;Kazue Matsumoto;Stephen A. Harris;Eimear M. Nic Lughadha

Frequent Co-Authors

Rafaël Govaerts
Rafaël Govaerts Royal Botanic Gardens
Justin Moat
Justin Moat Royal Botanic Gardens
Thomas R. Meagher
Thomas R. Meagher University of St Andrews
Thomas M. Brooks
Thomas M. Brooks International Union for Conservation of Nature
Alexandre Antonelli
Alexandre Antonelli University of Gothenburg
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Jon Paul Rodríguez
Jon Paul Rodríguez Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Michael R. Hoffmann
Michael R. Hoffmann California Institute of Technology
Lúcia G. Lohmann
Lúcia G. Lohmann Universidade de São Paulo
David A. Keith
David A. Keith University of New South Wales

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