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47
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4345
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5

Overview

John Connolly is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and conducts research primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans a variety of subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

Their research topics include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Forest Ecology and Management, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Connolly has contributed to multiple scientific publications in diverse peer-reviewed journals. Recent papers include:

  • Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony, 2021, Ecology
  • The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning, 2021, Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Mechanistic links between biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and stability in a multi-site grassland experiment, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity-productivity relationships, 2023, Ecology Letters
  • Going beyond richness: Modelling the BEF relationship using species identity, evenness, richness and species interactions via the DImodels R package, 2023, Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Connolly include Shaopeng Wang, Nico Eisenhauer, Stefan Trogisch, Ulrich Brose, and Werner Härdtle. Each of these collaborators has worked on multiple projects alongside Connolly.

Their work has been published in frequently contributing venues such as Ecology, Basic and Applied Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Ecology Letters, and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Best Publications

  • High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

    Forest Isbell;Vincent Calcagno;Andy Hector;John Connolly

  • Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

    Forest Isbell;Dylan Craven;John Connolly;Michael Loreau

  • Weed suppression greatly increased by plant diversity in intensively managed grasslands: A continental-scale experiment

    John Connolly;Maria Teresa Sebastià;Laura Kirwan;Laura Kirwan;John Anthony Finn

  • Production of allergenic pollen by ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) is increased in CO2-enriched atmospheres

    Peter Wayne;Susannah Foster;John Connolly;Fakhri Bazzaz

  • The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

    Kathryn E. Barry;Liesje Mommer;Jasper van Ruijven;Christian Wirth;Christian Wirth

  • Ecosystem function enhanced by combining four functional types of plant species in intensively managed grassland mixtures: a 3‐year continental‐scale field experiment

    John A. Finn;Laura Kirwan;John Connolly;M. Teresa Sebastià

  • Designs for greenhouse studies of interactions between plants

    David. J. Gibson;John Connolly;David. C. Hartnett;Jeffrey. D. Weidenhamer

  • Evenness drives consistent diversity effects in intensive grassland systems across 28 European sites

    L. Kirwan;A. Luscher;M. T. Sebastia;J. A. Finn

  • Strong mixture effects among four species in fertilized agricultural grassland led to persistent and consistent transgressive overyielding

    Daniel Nyfeler;Olivier Huguenin‐Elie;Matthias Suter;Emmanuel Frossard

  • Diversity–interaction modeling: estimating contributions of species identities and interactions to ecosystem function

    L. Kirwan;L. Kirwan;J. Connolly;J. A. Finn;C. Brophy

  • Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

    Dylan Craven;Forest Isbell;Pete Manning;John Connolly

  • Nitrogen yield advantage from grass–legume mixtures is robust over a wide range of legume proportions and environmental conditions

    Matthias Suter;John Connolly;John A. Finn;Ralf Loges

  • Impact of lime, nitrogen and plant species on fungal community structure in grassland microcosms

    Nabla Kennedy;John Connolly;Nicholas Clipson

  • Interspecific Competition in Plants: How Well Do Current Methods Answer Fundamental Questions?

    John Connolly;Peter Wayne;Fakhri A. Bazzaz

  • Digital mapping of peatlands – A critical review

    Budiman Minasny;Örjan Berglund;John Connolly;Carolyn Hedley

  • The peatland map of Europe

    F. Tanneberger;C. Tegetmeyer;S. Busse;A. Barthelmes

  • The information content of indicators in intercropping research

    J Connolly;H.C Goma;K Rahim

  • Nitrous Oxide Emissions

    Bernard Hyde;Mary Ryan;M. Hawkins;John Connolly

  • Asymmetric competition between plant species

    J. Connolly;J. Connolly;P. Wayne

  • Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony.

    Shaopeng Wang;Michel Loreau;Claire de Mazancourt;Forest Isbell

  • On the use of response models in mixture experiments.

    J. Connolly

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Anjo Elgersma
Anjo Elgersma Wageningen University & Research
Maria-Teresa Sebastià
Maria-Teresa Sebastià University of Lleida
Forest Isbell
Forest Isbell University of Minnesota
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Thomas Bolger
Thomas Bolger University College Dublin
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Gilles Bélanger
Gilles Bélanger Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Christiane Roscher
Christiane Roscher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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