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77
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930
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35

Overview

Eric Garnier is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work focuses on key topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Horticultural and Viticultural Research, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies.

They have published several papers in well-recognized journals. Recent publications include:

  • "A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements" (2021, New Phytologist)
  • "Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle" (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset" (2022, Scientific Data)
  • "Managing data locally to answer questions globally: The role of collaborative science in ecology" (2020, Journal of Vegetation Science)

Eric Garnier frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Ecology
  • Functional Ecology

Co-authorship is a notable aspect of Garnier's work. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Francesco de Bello
  • Sandra Lavorel
  • Lars Götzenberger
  • Jan Lepš
  • Josep Peñuelas

Best Publications

  • The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

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

  • Let the concept of trait be functional

    Cyrille Violle;Marie-Laure Navas;Denis Vile;Elena Kazakou

  • A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    J. H. C. Cornelissen;S. Lavorel;E. Garnier;S. Diaz

  • New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    N. Pérez-Harguindeguy;S. Díaz;E. Garnier;S. Lavorel

  • Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: revisiting the Holy Grail

    S. Lavorel;E. Garnier

  • Corrigendum to: New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    N. Pérez-Harguindeguy;S. Díaz;E. Garnier;S. Lavorel

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function

    Sandra Myrna Díaz;Jens Kattge;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Ian J. Wright

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • PLANT FUNCTIONAL MARKERS CAPTURE ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES DURING SECONDARY SUCCESSION

    Eric Garnier;Jacques Cortez;Georges Billès;Marie-Laure Navas

  • Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

    William K. Cornwell;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Kathryn Amatangelo;Ellen Dorrepaal

  • 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

  • The LEDA Traitbase: A database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

    M Kleyer;RM Bekker;RM Bekker;IC Knevel;IC Knevel;JP Bakker

  • Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

    Katharine N. Suding;Sandra Lavorel;F. S. Chapin;Johannes H. Cornelissen

  • Challenging Theophrastus: A common core list of plant traits for functional ecology

    E Weiher;A Van der Werf;Ken Thompson;Michael Roderick

  • A standardized protocol for the determination of specific leaf area and leaf dry matter content

    E. Garnier;B. Shipley;C. Roumet;G. Laurent

  • From Plant Traits to Plant Communities: A Statistical Mechanistic Approach to Biodiversity

    Bill Shipley;Denis Vile;Denis Vile;Éric Garnier

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

    Simon Pierce;Daniel Negreiros;Bruno E. L. Cerabolini;Jens Kattge

  • Specific Leaf Area and dry Matter Content Estimate thickness in Laminar Leaves

    Denis Vile;Éric Garnier;Bill Shipley;Gérard Laurent

  • Assessing the effects of land-use change on plant traits, communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: a standardized methodology and lessons from an application to 11 European sites.

    Eric Garnier;Sandra Lavorel;Pauline Ansquer;Helena Castro

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie-Laure Navas
Marie-Laure Navas University of Montpellier
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University
Denis Vile
Denis Vile Montpellier SupAgro
Catherine Roumet
Catherine Roumet University of Montpellier
Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba
Hendrik Poorter
Hendrik Poorter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Bill Shipley
Bill Shipley Université de Sherbrooke
Ian J. Wright
Ian J. Wright Western Sydney University

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