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Glenda M. Wardle

Glenda M. Wardle

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
7714
World Ranking
4854
National Ranking
387

Overview

Glenda M. Wardle is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research spans several interconnected areas within environmental and biological sciences, focusing prominently on ecology and ecosystem dynamics.

Their recent publications include:

  • Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Effective ecosystem monitoring requires a multi-scaled approach (2020, Biological Reviews)
  • The power of forecasts to advance ecological theory (2022, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Wardle include:

  • Chris R. Dickman
  • Aaron C. Greenville
  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Risto Virtanen

Wardle's publications are commonly found in these venues:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Ecology Letters
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The main fields of study for Wardle's work are Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research further delves into the following subfields:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics explored in Wardle's research comprise:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Best Publications

  • Value of long-term ecological studies

    David B. Lindenmayer;Gene E. Likens;Gene E. Likens;Alan Andersen;David Bowman

  • Emergent insights from the synthesis of conceptual frameworks for biological invasions

    J. Gurevitch;G. A. Fox;G. M. Wardle;Inderjit

  • A fresh framework for the ecology of arid Australia

    S.R. Morton;D.M. Stafford Smith;C.R. Dickman;D.L. Dunkerley

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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  • The compadre Plant Matrix Database: an open online repository for plant demography

    Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Owen R. Jones;C. Ruth Archer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Yvonne M. Buckley

  • Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value?

    T. D. Penman;T. D. Penman;F. J. Christie;F. J. Christie;A. N. Andersen;A. N. Andersen;R. A. Bradstock;R. A. Bradstock

  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

    Yann Hautier;Forest Isbell;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Improving biodiversity monitoring

    David B Lindenmayer;Philip Gibbons;Max Bourke;Mark Burgman

  • Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

    Dana M. Bergstrom;Dana M. Bergstrom;Barbara C. Wienecke;John van den Hoff;Lesley Hughes

  • Causes and consequences of variation in plant population growth rate: a synthesis of matrix population models in a phylogenetic context

    Yvonne M. Buckley;Satu Ramula;Simon P. Blomberg;Jean H. Burns

  • Evaluation of Common Methods for Sampling Invertebrate Pollinator Assemblages: Net Sampling Out-Perform Pan Traps

    Tony J. Popic;Yvonne C. Davila;Glenda M. Wardle;Glenda M. Wardle

  • Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity

    Annabel L. Smith;Annabel L. Smith;Trevor R. Hodkinson;Jesus Villellas;Jane A. Catford

  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

    Yann Hautier;Pengfei Zhang;Michel Loreau;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

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  • Extreme climatic events drive mammal irruptions: regression analysis of 100-year trends in desert rainfall and temperature.

    Aaron C. Greenville;Glenda M. Wardle;Chris R. Dickman

  • Social organization and movements of desert rodents during population booms and busts in central Australia

    Christopher R. Dickman;Aaron C. Greenville;Chin-Liang Beh;Bobby Tamayo

  • Flower-visitor networks only partially predict the function of pollen transport by bees

    Tony J. Popic;Glenda M. Wardle;Yvonne C. Davila

  • Bottom-up and top-down processes interact to modify intraguild interactions in resource-pulse environments

    Aaron C. Greenville;Glenda M. Wardle;Bobby Tamayo;Chris R. Dickman

  • Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: Is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • The fire history of an arid grassland: the influence of antecedent rainfall and ENSO

    Aaron C Greenville;Christopher R Dickman;Glenda M Wardle;Mike Letnic

  • Spatial dynamics of small mammals in central Australian desert habitats: the role of drought refugia

    Christopher R. Dickman;Aaron C. Greenville;Bobby Tamayo;Glenda M. Wardle

  • Contemplating the future: acting now on long-term monitoring to answer 2050’s questions

    David B. Lindenmayer;David B. Lindenmayer;Emma L. Burns;Emma L. Burns;Philip Tennant;Philip Tennant;Chris R. Dickman;Chris R. Dickman

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris R. Dickman
Chris R. Dickman University of Sydney
Yvonne M. Buckley
Yvonne M. Buckley Trinity College Dublin
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Roberto Salguero-Gómez University of Oxford
Andrew J. Lowe
Andrew J. Lowe University of Adelaide
David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Christiane Roscher
Christiane Roscher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
John W. Morgan
John W. Morgan La Trobe University
Anu Eskelinen
Anu Eskelinen University of Oulu

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