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Overview

Jan Plue is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work extensively covers several subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Plant Science.

The main topics addressed in Jan Plue's research include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Urban Heat Island Mitigation.

Jan Plue has contributed to multiple scientific publications, with frequent appearances in journals like the Journal of Ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Landscape Ecology, and the Journal of Applied Ecology.

The following are some recent papers authored or co-authored by Jan Plue, highlighting their research focus and publication venues:

  • Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Other notable publications associated with Jan Plue's research network or frequent collaboration include:

  • Plant diversity in hedgerows and road verges across Europe, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Microclimatic edge-to-interior gradients of European deciduous forests, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Forest understorey communities respond strongly to light in interaction with forest structure, but not to microclimate warming, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Microclimate and forest density drive plant population dynamics under climate change, 2023, Nature Climate Change

Jan Plue collaborates frequently with several researchers, indicating interdisciplinary and networked scientific engagement. Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Sara A. O. Cousins
  • Pieter De Frenne
  • Pieter Vangansbeke
  • Jonathan Lenoir
  • Thomas Vanneste

Best Publications

  • Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Bente J. Graae;Francisco Rodríguez‐Sánchez;Annette Kolb

  • Seed dispersal by ungulates as an ecological filter: a trait-based meta-analysis

    Aurélie Albert;Alistair G. Auffret;Eric Cosyns;Sara A. O. Cousins

  • The spatial and temporal components of functional connectivity in fragmented landscapes.

    Alistair G. Auffret;Jan Plue;Sara A. O. Cousins

  • Abiotic rather than biotic filtering shapes the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities of European seminatural grasslands.

    Maarten Van Geel;Hans Jacquemyn;Jan Plue;Liina Saar

  • Function of small habitat elements for enhancing plant diversity in different agricultural landscapes

    Regina Lindborg;Jan Plue;K. Andersson;Sara A. O. Cousins

  • Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate.

    Jan Plue;Hans Van Calster;Inger Auestad;Sofia Basto

  • Low genetic diversity despite multiple introductions of the invasive plant species Impatiens glandulifera in Europe.

    Jenny Hagenblad;Jenny Hagenblad;Jennifer Hülskötter;Kamal Prasad Acharya;Jörg Brunet

  • Super-regional land-use change and effects on the grassland specialist flora

    Alistair G. Auffret;Alistair G. Auffret;Alistair G. Auffret;Adam Kimberley;Jan Plue;Jan Plue;Emelie Waldén

  • Persistent changes in forest vegetation and seed bank 1,600 years after human occupation

    Jan Plue;Martin Hermy;Kris Verheyen;Patrice Thuillier

  • Microclimate and forest density drive plant population dynamics under climate change

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  • Microclimatic edge-to-interior gradients of European deciduous forests

    Camille Meeussen;Sanne Govaert;Thomas Vanneste;Kurt Bollmann

  • Plant diversity in hedgerows and road verges across Europe

    Thomas Vanneste;Sanne Govaert;Willem de Kesel;Sanne van den Berge

  • Forest understorey communities respond strongly to light in interaction with forest structure, but not to microclimate warming.

    Karen De Pauw;Pieter Sanczuk;Camille Meeussen;Leen Depauw

  • Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of understorey plants respond differently to environmental conditions in European forest edges

    Karen De Pauw;Camille Meeussen;Sanne Govaert;Pieter Sanczuk

  • Structural variation of forest edges across Europe

    Camille Meeussen;Sanne Govaert;Thomas Vanneste;Kim Calders

  • Biotic and abiotic drivers of intraspecific trait variation within plant populations of three herbaceous plant species along a latitudinal gradient.

    Kenny Helsen;Kamal Prasad Acharya;J Brunet;Sara A. O. Cousins

  • Edge influence on understorey plant communities depends on forest management

    Sanne Govaert;Camille Meeussen;Thomas Vanneste;Kurt Bollmann

  • Interacting effects of change in climate, human population, land use, and water use on biodiversity and ecosystem services

    Bodil Elmhagen;Georgia Destouni;Anders Angerbjorn;Sara Borgstrom

  • Drivers of carbon stocks in forest edges across Europe

    Camille Meeussen;Sanne Govaert;Thomas Vanneste;Stef Haesen

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in European grasslands under nutrient pollution

    Tobias Ceulemans;Maarten Van Geel;Hans Jacquemyn;Margaux Boeraeve

  • Seed dispersal in both space and time is necessary for plant diversity maintenance in fragmented landscapes

    Jan Plue;Jan Plue;Sara A. O. Cousins

  • Temporal dispersal in fragmented landscapes

    Jan Plue;Sara A.O. Cousins

Frequent Co-Authors

Sara A. O. Cousins
Sara A. O. Cousins Stockholm University
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Jörg Brunet
Jörg Brunet Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
Martin Hermy
Martin Hermy KU Leuven
Martin Diekmann
Martin Diekmann University of Bremen
Guillaume Decocq
Guillaume Decocq University of Picardie Jules Verne
Bente J. Graae
Bente J. Graae Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Monika Wulf
Monika Wulf University of Potsdam

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