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Grégory Mahy is affiliated with Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech in Belgium and has a research profile strongly centered on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their scholarly work spans several interconnected subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Ecology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research topics focus on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Urban Green Space and Health, Plant and Animal Studies, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Botany and Plant Ecology Studies, and Silicon Effects in Agriculture.

Grégory Mahy has contributed to various scientific articles published in venues such as Biological Invasions, Journal for Nature Conservation, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Research Square, and Journal of Environmental Management, reflecting a broad engagement with ecological and environmental management disciplines.

Frequent coauthors include Arnaud Monty, Thierry Dutoit, Marc Dufrêne, Julien Piqueray, and Aurore Fanal, indicating a collaborative approach to research with multiple experts in related fields.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Mahy include:

  • Plants sustain the terrestrial silicon cycle during ecosystem retrogression, 2020, Science
  • Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A shift from phenol to silica-based leaf defences during long-term soil and ecosystem development, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Ecological restoration and rewilding: two approaches with complementary goals?, 2024, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Interspecific trait integration increases with environmental harshness: A case study along a metal toxicity gradient, 2020, Functional Ecology

In addition to journal publications, Mahy has contributed to the book titled Origin, Conservation, and Restoration of the Threatened European Grassland Ecosystem in the Anthropocene, published by Frontiers Media in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Joseph W. Veldman;Gerhard E. Overbeck;Daniel Negreiros;Gregory Mahy

  • Toward an old-growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands

    Joseph W Veldman;Elise Buisson;Giselda Durigan;G Wilson Fernandes;G Wilson Fernandes

  • Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands.

    Elise Buisson;Soizig Le Stradic;Soizig Le Stradic;Fernando A. O. Silveira;Giselda Durigan

  • Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

    Joseph W. Veldman;Julie C. Aleman;Julie C. Aleman;Swanni T. Alvarado;T. Michael Anderson

  • Copper and cobalt accumulation in plants: a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge

    Bastien Lange;Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Alan John Martin Baker;Alan John Martin Baker;Alan John Martin Baker;Guillaume Echevarria

  • Tyranny of trees in grassy biomes

    Joseph W. Veldman;Gerhard E. Overbeck;Daniel Negreiros;Gregory Mahy

  • Mucilage and polysaccharides in the halophyte plant species Kosteletzkya virginica: localization and composition in relation to salt stress.

    Michel Edmond Ghanem;Rui-Ming Han;Birgit Classen;Joëlle Quetin-Leclerq

  • Assessment of soil metal distribution and environmental impact of mining in Katanga (Democratic Republic of Congo)

    Olivier Pourret;Bastien Lange;Jessica Bonhoure;Gilles Colinet

  • Hybridization and Sexual Reproduction in the Invasive Alien Fallopia (Polygonaceae) Complex in Belgium

    Marie-Solange Tiébré;Sonia Vanderhoeven;Layla Saad;Grégory Mahy

  • Kosteletzkya virginica, an agroecoengineering halophytic species for alternative agricultural production in China's east coast: Ecological adaptation and benefits, seed yield, oil content, fatty acid and biodiesel properties

    C. J. Ruan;H. Li;Y. Q. Guo;P. Qin

  • Plants sustain the terrestrial silicon cycle during ecosystem retrogression

    F. de Tombeur;B. L. Turner;E. Laliberté;E. Laliberté;H. Lambers

  • Clinal differentiation during invasion: Senecio inaequidens (Asteraceae) along altitudinal gradients in Europe

    Arnaud Monty;Grégory Mahy

  • Hybridization and morphogenetic variation in the invasive alien Fallopia (Polygonaceae) complex in Belgium

    Marie-Solange Tiebre;Jean-Philippe Bizoux;Olivier J. Hardy;John Bailey

  • Genetic Structure Of Quinoa (Chenopodium Quinoa Willd.) From The Bolivian Altiplano As Revealed By Rapd Markers

    Carmen del Castillo;Thierry Winkel;Grégory Mahy;Jean-Philippe Bizoux

  • Plant species extinction debt in a temperate biodiversity hotspot: Community, species and functional traits approaches

    Julien Piqueray;Emmanuelle Bisteau;Sara Cristofoli;Rodolphe Palm

  • Allozyme evidence for genetic autopolyploidy and high genetic diversity in tetraploid cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos (Ericaceae)

    Grégory Mahy;Leo P. Bruederle;Bridget Connors;Michael Van Hofwegen

  • Perception and understanding of invasive alien species issues by nature conservation and horticulture professionals in Belgium.

    Sonia Vanderhoeven;Julien Piqueray;Mathieu Halford;Greet Nulens

  • Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa.

    J. C. Aleman;J. C. Aleman;A. Fayolle;C. Favier;A. C. Staver

  • Vegetation and seed bank in a calcareous grassland restored from a Pinus forest

    E. Bisteau;G. Mahy

  • Rapid restoration of a species-rich ecosystem assessed from soil and vegetation indicators: the case of calcareous grasslands restored from forest stands

    Julien Piqueray;Gaëtan Bottin;Louis-Marie Delescaille;Emmanuelle Bisteau

  • Evolution of dispersal traits along an invasion route in the wind-dispersed Senecio inaequidens (Asteraceae)

    Arnaud Monty;Grégory Mahy

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Jacques Meerts
Pierre Jacques Meerts Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jan Bogaert
Jan Bogaert KU Leuven
Anne-Laure Jacquemart
Anne-Laure Jacquemart Université Catholique de Louvain
Olivier J. Hardy
Olivier J. Hardy Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jean-Louis Doucet
Jean-Louis Doucet Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Nathalie Verbruggen
Nathalie Verbruggen Université Libre de Bruxelles
G. Wilson Fernandes
G. Wilson Fernandes Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Elise Buisson
Elise Buisson University of Avignon
Gerhard E. Overbeck
Gerhard E. Overbeck Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Etienne Laliberté
Etienne Laliberté University of Montreal

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