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35
Citations
5375
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7336
National Ranking
570

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Gunnar Keppel is affiliated with the University of South Australia in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a substantial focus on various subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • African Botany and Ecology Studies
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Gunnar Keppel's publication record features articles in several prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Pacific Conservation Biology
  • Trends in Plant Science
  • Environmental Modeling & Assessment
  • Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

Recent papers by Gunnar Keppel include:

  • "The number of tree species on Earth," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Linking Plant Functional Ecology to Island Biogeography," 2020, Trends in Plant Science
  • "Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients," 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Environmental heterogeneity dynamics drive plant diversity on oceanic islands," 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • "Global tropical dry forest extent and cover: A comparative study of bioclimatic definitions using two climatic data sets," 2021, PLoS ONE

Gunnar Keppel has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Stefan Peters
  • Thomas Ibanez
  • Jiří Doležal
  • Mark J. Carey
  • John Boland

Best Publications

  • Refugia: identifying and understanding safe havens for biodiversity under climate change

    Gunnar Keppel;K. Van Niel;Grant Wardell-Johnson;C. Yates

  • The capacity of refugia for conservation planning under climate change

    Gunnar Keppel;Karel Mokany;Grant W Wardell-Johnson;Ben L Phillips;Ben L Phillips

  • The number of tree species on Earth

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  • Refugia: keys to climate change management

    Gunnar Keppel;Grant W. Wardell-Johnson

  • Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

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  • Characteristics of climate change refugia for Australian biodiversity

    April E. Reside;Justin A. Welbergen;Ben L. Phillips;Ben L. Phillips;Grant W. Wardell-Johnson

  • Linking Plant Functional Ecology to Island Biogeography.

    Gianluigi Ottaviani;Gunnar Keppel;Lars Götzenberger;Susan Harrison

  • Changing perspectives on the biogeography of the tropical South Pacific: influences of dispersal, vicariance and extinction

    Gunnar Keppel;Andrew J. Lowe;Hugh P. Possingham

  • Drivers of lowland rain forest community assembly, species diversity and forest structure on islands in the tropical South Pacific

    Gunnar Keppel;Yvonne M. Buckley;Yvonne M. Buckley;Hugh P. Possingham

  • Isolated with persistence or dynamically connected? Genetic patterns in a common granite outcrop endemic

    S.L. Tapper;M. Byrne;C.J. Yates;G. Keppel;G. Keppel

  • The rarest and least protected forests in biodiversity hotspots

    Thomas W. Gillespie;Boris Lipkin;Lauren Sullivan;David R. Benowitz

  • Conservation in tropical Pacific Island countries: why most current approaches are failing

    Gunnar Keppel;Clare Morrison;Dick Watling;Marika V. Tuiwawa

  • Globally consistent impact of tropical cyclones on the structure of tropical and subtropical forests

    Thomas Ibanez;Thomas Ibanez;Gunnar Keppel;Gunnar Keppel;Christophe Menkes;Thomas W. Gillespie

  • Rapid Characterisation of Vegetation Structure to Predict Refugia and Climate Change Impacts across a Global Biodiversity Hotspot

    Antonius G. T. Schut;Grant W. Wardell-Johnson;Colin J. Yates;Gunnar Keppel

  • Current climate, isolation and history drive global patterns of tree phylogenetic endemism

    Brody Sandel;Patrick Weigelt;Holger Kreft;Gunnar Keppel;Gunnar Keppel

  • Environmental heterogeneity dynamics drive plant diversity on oceanic islands

    Martha Paola Barajas‐Barbosa;Patrick Weigelt;Michael Krabbe Borregaard;Gunnar Keppel;Gunnar Keppel

  • Isolated and vulnerable: the history and future of Pacific Island terrestrial biodiversity

    Gunnar Keppel;Clare Morrison;Jean-Yves Meyer;Hans Juergen Boehmer

  • Clarifying the concept of climate change refugia for coral reefs

    Javid Kavousi;Gunnar Keppel

  • Regional forcing explains local species diversity and turnover on tropical islands

    Thomas Ibanez;Gunnar Keppel;Cláudia Baider;Chris Birkinshaw

  • Large- and small-scale environmental factors drive distributions of cool-adapted plants in karstic microrefugia.

    Zoltán Bátori;András Vojtkó;Tünde Farkas;Anna Szabó

  • Karst dolines provide diverse microhabitats for different functional groups in multiple phyla.

    Zoltán Bátori;András Vojtkó;István Elek Maák;István Elek Maák;Gábor Lőrinczi

  • Towards an eco-evolutionary understanding of endemism hotspots and refugia.

    Gunnar Keppel;Gunnar Keppel;Gianluigi Ottaviani;Gianluigi Ottaviani;Susan Harrison;Grant W Wardell-Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Grant Wardell-Johnson
Grant Wardell-Johnson Curtin University
Ladislav Mucina
Ladislav Mucina Murdoch University
Thomas W. Gillespie
Thomas W. Gillespie University of California, Los Angeles
Holger Kreft
Holger Kreft University of Göttingen
Patrick Weigelt
Patrick Weigelt University of Göttingen
Tiffany M. Knight
Tiffany M. Knight Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Margaret Byrne
Margaret Byrne University of Western Australia
Colin J. Yates
Colin J. Yates Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Stephen D. Hopper
Stephen D. Hopper University of Western Australia
Dylan Craven
Dylan Craven Universidad Mayor

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