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Jennifer L. Funk is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research mainly addresses topics within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. They have contributed extensively to subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Plant Science.

Their work covers key research topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis.

Jennifer L. Funk has published multiple papers in various academic journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Keys to enhancing the value of invasion ecology research for management, 2020, Biological Invasions
  • Intraspecific trait variation in plants: a renewed focus on its role in ecological processes, 2021, Annals of Botany
  • AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora, 2021, Scientific Data
  • Ecological strategies begin at germination: Traits, plasticity and survival in the first 4 days of plant life, 2020, Functional Ecology
  • Patterns of intraspecific trait variation along an aridity gradient suggest both drought escape and drought tolerance strategies in an invasive herb, 2020, Annals of Botany

Frequent co-authors with whom Jennifer L. Funk collaborates include Amelia A. Wolf, Duncan N. L. Menge, Eleinis Ávila-Lovera, Gregory R. Goldsmith, and Kathleen M. Kay.

The researcher commonly publishes in scientific venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biological Invasions, Journal of Ecology, Annals of Botany, and Restoration Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Resource-use efficiency and plant invasion in low-resource systems

    Jennifer L. Funk;Peter M. Vitousek

  • Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

    Jennifer L. Funk;Julie E. Larson;Gregory M. Ames;Bradley J. Butterfield

  • Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance

    Jennifer L. Funk;Elsa E. Cleland;Katherine N. Suding;Erika S. Zavaleta

  • Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

    Rachel J. Standish;Richard J. Hobbs;Margaret M. Mayfield;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer

  • Differences in plasticity between invasive and native plants from a low resource environment

    Jennifer L. Funk

  • A functional trait perspective on plant invasion

    Rebecca E. Drenovsky;Brenda J. Grewell;Carla M. D'Antonio;Jennifer L. Funk

  • Intraspecific trait variation in plants: a renewed focus on its role in ecological processes.

    A C Westerband;J L Funk;K E Barton

  • The physiology of invasive plants in low-resource environments

    Jennifer L. Funk

  • Regeneration: an overlooked aspect of trait‐based plant community assembly models

    Julie E. Larson;Jennifer L. Funk

  • Plant functional traits of dominant native and invasive species in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems

    Jennifer L. Funk;Rachel J. Standish;Rachel J. Standish;William D. Stock;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares

  • AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora.

    Daniel Falster;Rachael Gallagher;Rachael Gallagher;Elizabeth H. Wenk;Ian J. Wright

  • Leaf traits within communities: Context may affect the mapping of traits to function

    Jennifer L. Funk;William K. Cornwell

  • Closing the Knowing–Doing Gap in Invasive Plant Management: Accessibility and Interdisciplinarity of Scientific Research

    Virginia Matzek;Justin Covino;Jennifer L. Funk;Martin Saunders

  • Diversity of nitrogen fixation strategies in Mediterranean legumes.

    Duncan N. L. Menge;Amelia A. Wolf;Jennifer L. Funk

  • Seedling root responses to soil moisture and the identification of a belowground trait spectrum across three growth forms.

    Julie E. Larson;Jennifer L. Funk

  • Stress-induced changes in carbon sources for isoprene production in Populus deltoides

    J. L. Funk;J. E. Mak;M. T. Lerdau

  • Testing the trait-based community framework: Do functional traits predict competitive outcomes?

    Jennifer L. Funk;Amelia A. Wolf

  • Differential allocation to photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic nitrogen fractions among native and invasive species.

    Jennifer L. Funk;Lori Ann Glenwinkel;Lawren Sack

  • Ecological strategies begin at germination: Traits, plasticity and survival in the first 4 days of plant life

    Julie E. Larson;Brian L. Anacker;Sara Wanous;Jennifer L. Funk

  • Altering Light Availability to Restore Invaded Forest: The Predictive Role of Plant Traits

    Jennifer L. Funk;Sierra McDaniel

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel T. Lerdau
Manuel T. Lerdau University of Virginia
Rachel J. Standish
Rachel J. Standish Murdoch University
Daniel C. Laughlin
Daniel C. Laughlin University of Wyoming
Ariana E. Sutton-Grier
Ariana E. Sutton-Grier United States Geological Survey
Ingrid M. Parker
Ingrid M. Parker University of California, Santa Cruz
Fernando Valladares
Fernando Valladares Spanish National Research Council
Clive G. Jones
Clive G. Jones Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
William K. Cornwell
William K. Cornwell University of New South Wales
Christina L. Richards
Christina L. Richards University of South Florida

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