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31
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5891
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8189
National Ranking
639

Overview

Karel Mokany is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their primary research focus lies within Environmental Science, with a notable concentration on subfields such as Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Plant and animal studies

Karel Mokany has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Global Change Biology
  • Conservation Biology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Protecting Biodiversity (in All Its Complexity): New Models and Methods," 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns," 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment," 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Reconciling global priorities for conserving biodiversity habitat," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Assessing the vulnerability of plant functional trait strategies to climate change," 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Karel Mokany's frequent co-authors include:

  • Simon Ferrier
  • Chris Ware
  • Samuel C. Andrew
  • Peyman Moghadam
  • Shaun R. Levick

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Critical analysis of root : shoot ratios in terrestrial biomes

    Karel Mokany;R. John Raison;R. John Raison;Anatoly S. Prokushkin

  • Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

    Karel Mokany;Julian Ash;Stephen H. Roxburgh

  • The capacity of refugia for conservation planning under climate change

    Gunnar Keppel;Karel Mokany;Grant W Wardell-Johnson;Ben L Phillips;Ben L Phillips

  • Incorporating evolutionary adaptation in species distribution modelling reduces projected vulnerability to climate change

    Alex Bush;Karel Mokany;Renee Catullo;Renee Catullo;Renee Catullo;Ary Hoffmann

  • Protecting Biodiversity (in All Its Complexity): New Models and Methods.

    Laura J. Pollock;Laura J. Pollock;Louise M.J. O’Connor;Karel Mokany;Dan F. Rosauer

  • BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

    Daniel S. Falster;Remko A. Duursma;Masae I. Ishihara;Diego R. Barneche

  • A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment

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

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

  • Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns

    Tamara Münkemüller;Laure Gallien;Laura J. Pollock;Laura J. Pollock;Ceres Barros;Ceres Barros

  • Appropriateness of full-, partial- and no-dispersal scenarios in climate change impact modelling

    Brooke L. Bateman;Helen T. Murphy;April E. Reside;Karel Mokany

  • Predicting impacts of climate change on biodiversity: a role for semi‐mechanistic community‐level modelling

    Karel Mokany;Simon Ferrier

  • Reconciling global priorities for conserving biodiversity habitat.

    Karel Mokany;Simon Ferrier;Thomas D. Harwood;Chris Ware

  • Are traits measured on pot grown plants representative of those in natural communities

    Karel Mokany;Julian Ash

  • Scenarios and Models to Support Global Conservation Targets.

    Emily Nicholson;Elizabeth A. Fulton;Elizabeth A. Fulton;Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks;Ryan Blanchard

  • Biodiversity Models: What If Unsaturation Is the Rule?

    Rubén G. Mateo;Rubén G. Mateo;Karel Mokany;Antoine Guisan

  • Dynamic macroecology and the future for biodiversity.

    Karel Mokany;Thomas D. Harwood;Kristen J. Williams;Simon Ferrier

  • Combining α - and β -diversity models to fill gaps in our knowledge of biodiversity.

    Karel Mokany;Thomas D. Harwood;Jacob McC. Overton;Gary M. Barker

  • Loss of frugivore seed dispersal services under climate change

    Karel Mokany;Soumya Prasad;David A. Westcott

  • Assessing the vulnerability of plant functional trait strategies to climate change

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  • Functional diversity of the Australian flora: Strong links to species richness and climate

    Samuel C. Andrew;Karel Mokany;Daniel S. Falster;Elizabeth Wenk

  • Truncation of thermal tolerance niches among Australian plants

    Alex Bush;Renee A. Catullo;Renee A. Catullo;Karel Mokany;Andrew H. Thornhill;Andrew H. Thornhill

  • Comment on "From Plant Traits to Plant Communities: A Statistical Mechanistic Approach to Biodiversity"

    Stephen H. Roxburgh;Stephen H. Roxburgh;Karel Mokany;Karel Mokany

  • no-dispersal scenarios in climate change impact modelling

    Brooke L. Bateman;Helen T. Murphy;April E. Reside;Karel Mokany

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Ferrier
Simon Ferrier Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Stephen H. Roxburgh
Stephen H. Roxburgh Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
James E. M. Watson
James E. M. Watson University of Queensland
Daniel S. Falster
Daniel S. Falster University of New South Wales
Rachael V. Gallagher
Rachael V. Gallagher Macquarie University
Daniel J. Metcalfe
Daniel J. Metcalfe Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Ian J. Wright
Ian J. Wright Western Sydney University
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
David T. Tissue
David T. Tissue Western Sydney University
Erik J. Veneklaas
Erik J. Veneklaas University of Western Australia

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