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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
7007
World Ranking
5103
National Ranking
417

Overview

Heloise Gibb is affiliated with La Trobe University in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's research focuses on a range of ecological and environmental topics. Key areas include:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Gibb has contributed to multiple scholarly publications, with notable papers including:

  • Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life (2020) published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity (2022) published in Science Advances
  • A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space (2020) published in Scientific Data
  • Biodiversity impacts of the 2019-2020 Australian megafires (2024) published in Nature
  • Rewilding with invertebrates and microbes to restore ecosystems: Present trends and future directions (2021) published in Ecology and Evolution

Their publications frequently appear in journals that include:

  • Ecology
  • Austral Ecology
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Nature

Gibb collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Nicholas P. Murphy
  • Orsi Decker
  • Nathan J. Sanders
  • Ian J. Wright
  • Peter Contos

Best Publications

  • Habitat fragmentation in an urban environment: large and small fragments support different arthropod assemblages

    Heloise Gibb;Dieter F Hochuli

  • Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

    Robert R. Dunn;Donat Agosti;Alan N. Andersen;Xavier Arnan;Xavier Arnan

  • The fourth-corner solution – using predictive models to understand how species traits interact with the environment

    Alexandra M. Brown;David I. Warton;Nigel R. Andrew;Matthew Binns

  • The spatial scaling of beta diversity

    Philip S. Barton;Philip S. Barton;Saul A. Cunningham;Adrian D. Manning;Heloise Gibb

  • REVIEW: Refuges for fauna in fire‐prone landscapes: their ecological function and importance

    Natasha M. Robinson;Steve W.J. Leonard;Euan G. Ritchie;Michelle Bassett

  • Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

    Rachael V. Gallagher;Daniel S. Falster;Brian S. Maitner;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez

  • The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity

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  • Competition and the role of dominant ants

    Catherine. Parr;Heloise. Gibb

  • GlobalAnts: a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Catherine L. Parr;Catherine L. Parr;Robert R. Dunn;Nathan J. Sanders;Michael D. Weiser

  • How does habitat complexity affect ant foraging success? A test using functional measures on three continents.

    H. Gibb;H. Gibb;H. Gibb;C. L. Parr

  • Conservation-oriented forestry and early successional saproxylic beetles: Responses of functional groups to manipulated dead wood substrates

    H. Gibb;R.B. Pettersson;J. Hjältén;J. Hilszczański;J. Hilszczański

  • A global database and “state of the field” review of research into ecosystem engineering by land animals

    Nicole V. Coggan;Matthew W. Hayward;Matthew W. Hayward;Heloise Gibb

  • Effects of landscape composition and substrate availability on saproxylic beetles in boreal forests: a study using experimental logs for monitoring assemblages

    Heloise Gibb;Joakim Hjältén;John P. Ball;Ola Atlegrim

  • Ant assemblages have darker and larger members in cold environments

    Tom R. Bishop;Tom R. Bishop;Mark P. Robertson;Heloise Gibb;Berndt J. van Rensburg;Berndt J. van Rensburg

  • Effects of management on coarse woody debris volume and composition in boreal forests in northern Sweden

    Heloise Gibb;John P. Ball;Therese Johansson;Ola Atlegrim

  • Does morphology predict trophic position and habitat use of ant species and assemblages

    Heloise Gibb;Jakub Stoklosa;David I Warton;A M Brown

  • Parasitoids (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea) of Saproxylic beetles are affected by forest successional stage and dead wood characteristics in boreal spruce forest.

    Jacek Hilszczański;Jacek Hilszczański;Heloise Gibb;Joakim Hjältén;Ola Atlegrim

  • REMOVAL EXPERIMENT REVEALS LIMITED EFFECTS OF A BEHAVIORALLY DOMINANT SPECIES ON ANT ASSEMBLAGES

    Heloise Gibb;Dieter F. Hochuli

  • Does Structural Complexity Determine the Morphology of Assemblages? An Experimental Test on Three Continents

    Heloise Gibb;Heloise Gibb;Catherine L. Parr;Catherine L. Parr

  • Colonisation by a dominant ant facilitated by anthropogenic disturbance: effects on ant assemblage composition, biomass and resource use

    Heloise Gibb;Dieter F. Hochuli

  • Experimental reduction of native vertebrate grazing and addition of logs benefit beetle diversity at multiple scales

    Philip S. Barton;Philip S. Barton;Adrian D. Manning;Heloise Gibb;Jeff T. Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine L. Parr
Catherine L. Parr University of Liverpool
Joakim Hjältén
Joakim Hjältén Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Philip S. Barton
Philip S. Barton Deakin University
Saul A. Cunningham
Saul A. Cunningham Australian National University
Kjell Danell
Kjell Danell Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Robert R. Dunn
Robert R. Dunn North Carolina State University
Nathan J. Sanders
Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Matt W. Hayward
Matt W. Hayward University of Newcastle Australia
Javier Retana
Javier Retana Autonomous University of Barcelona
Nigel R. Andrew
Nigel R. Andrew University of New England

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