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D-Index
83
Citations
27394
World Ranking
708
National Ranking
104

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Marsh Award for Ecology, British Ecological Society

Overview

Julia Koricheva is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple aspects of environmental science, focusing on ecological and biological systems.

The scientist has published extensively in fields such as Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, contributing to both main disciplines and specialized subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Insect Science.

Core topics investigated by Julia Koricheva include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Forest Ecology and Management, Plant and Animal Studies, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, and Meta-analysis and Systematic Reviews.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Koricheva have been:

  • Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
  • Andy Hector
  • Alain Paquette
  • Nico Eisenhauer
  • Hervé Jactel

Publication venues frequently featuring Julia Koricheva's work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Recent published papers include:

  • Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension, 2021, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Methods for testing publication bias in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!, 2021, Conservation Letters
  • Agrochemicals interact synergistically to increase bee mortality, 2021, Nature
  • Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Julia Koricheva received the Marsh Award for Ecology from the British Ecological Society in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis and the science of research synthesis

    Jessica Gurevitch;Julia Koricheva;Shinichi Nakagawa;Gavin Stewart

  • Handbook of Meta-analysis in Ecology and Evolution

    Julia Koricheva;Jessica Gurevitch;Kerrie L. Mengersen

  • How general are positive relationships between plant population size, fitness and genetic variation?

    Roosa Leimu;Roosa Leimu;Pia Mutikainen;Julia Koricheva;Markus Fischer

  • Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors

    Amber E. Budden;Amber E. Budden;Tom Tregenza;Lonnie W. Aarssen;Julia Koricheva

  • Regulation of Woody Plant Secondary Metabolism by Resource Availability: Hypothesis Testing by Means of Meta-Analysis

    Julia Koricheva;Stig Larsson;Erkki Haukioja;Markku Keinänen

  • The Ontogeny of Plant Defense and Herbivory: Characterizing General Patterns Using Meta‐Analysis

    Kasey E Barton;Julia Koricheva

  • Drought effects on damage by forest insects and pathogens: a meta-analysis

    Hervé Jactel;Jérôme Petit;Marie-Laure Desprez-Loustau;Sylvain Delzon

  • ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY MANIPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS

    E. M. Spehn;A. Hector;J. Joshi;M. Scherer-Lorenzen

  • Tree Diversity Drives Forest Stand Resistance to Natural Disturbances

    Hervé Jactel;Jürgen Bauhus;Johanna Boberg;Damien Bonal

  • Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension.

    Rose E. O'Dea;Malgorzata Lagisz;Michael D. Jennions;Julia Koricheva

  • Insect performance on experimentally stressed woody plants: a meta-analysis.

    Julia Koricheva;Stig Larsson;Erkki Haukioja

  • What determines the citation frequency of ecological papers

    Roosa Leimu;Julia Koricheva

  • META-ANALYSIS OF SOURCES OF VARIATION IN FITNESS COSTS OF PLANT ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSES

    Julia Koricheva

  • Can retention forestry help conserve biodiversity? A meta-analysis

    Katja Fedrowitz;Julia Koricheva;Susan C. Baker;David B. Lindenmayer

  • Uses and misuses of meta‐analysis in plant ecology

    Julia Koricheva;Jessica Gurevitch

  • Effects of mycorrhizal fungi on insect herbivores: a meta-analysis.

    Julia Koricheva;Alan C. Gange;Tara Jones

  • Damage-induced changes in woody plants and their effects on insect herbivore performance: a meta-analysis

    Heli Nykänen;Julia Koricheva

  • Numerical responses of different trophic groups of invertebrates to manipulations of plant diversity in grasslands.

    Julia Koricheva;Julia Koricheva;Christa P H Mulder;Bernhard Schmid;Jasmin Joshi

  • Tree diversity and species identity effects on soil fungi, protists and animals are context dependent

    Leho Tedersoo;Mohammad Bahram;Tomáš Cajthaml;Sergei Põlme

  • Meta‐analysis of Trade‐offs among Plant Antiherbivore Defenses: Are Plants Jacks‐of‐All‐Trades, Masters of All?

    Julia Koricheva;Heli Nykänen;Ernesto Gianoli

  • Methods for testing publication bias in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses

    Shinichi Nakagawa;Malgorzata Lagisz;Michael D. Jennions;Julia Koricheva

  • Model systems in ecology: dissecting the endophyte–grass literature

    Kari Saikkonen;Päivi Lehtonen;Marjo Helander;Julia Koricheva

Frequent Co-Authors

Bastien Castagneyrol
Bastien Castagneyrol University of Bordeaux
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Hervé Jactel
Hervé Jactel University of Bordeaux
Erkki Haukioja
Erkki Haukioja University of Turku
Roosa Leimu
Roosa Leimu University of Turku
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Andy Hector
Andy Hector University of Oxford
Christopher J. Lortie
Christopher J. Lortie York University
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Olivier Bouriaud
Olivier Bouriaud Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava

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