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Karen I. Bonner

Karen I. Bonner

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
32
Citations
6560
World Ranking
7998
National Ranking
106

Overview

Karen I. Bonner is affiliated with Landcare Research in New Zealand. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with specific attention to the subfields of Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's recent research publications span multiple topics, such as Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Fire effects on ecosystems, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Recent papers include:

  • Vertical distribution of prokaryotes communities and predicted metabolic pathways in New Zealand wetlands, and potential for environmental DNA indicators of wetland condition (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Integrating permanent plot and palaeoecological data to determine subalpine post-fire succession, recovery and convergence over 128 years (2020, Journal of Vegetation Science)
  • We need to raise awareness about prostate cancer (2021, Cancer Nursing Practice)

Frequent coauthors in their publications are:

  • Jamie R. Wood
  • Olivia R. Burge
  • Sarah J. Richardson
  • Janet M. Wilmshurst
  • Nic Bolstridge

They have published multiple papers in prominent scientific venues including PLoS ONE, Journal of Vegetation Science, and Cancer Nursing Practice.

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity and Plant Litter: Experimental Evidence Which Does Not Support the View That Enhanced Species Richness Improves Ecosystem Function

    D. A. Wardle;K. I. Bonner;K. S. Nicholson

  • PLANT REMOVALS IN PERENNIAL GRASSLAND: VEGETATION DYNAMICS, DECOMPOSERS, SOIL BIODIVERSITY, AND ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES

    David A. Wardle;Karen I. Bonner;Gary M. Barker;Gregor W. Yeates

  • Above‐ and below‐ground impacts of introduced predators in seabird‐dominated island ecosystems

    Tadashi Fukami;Tadashi Fukami;David A. Wardle;David A. Wardle;Peter J. Bellingham;Christa P. H. Mulder

  • INTRODUCED BROWSING MAMMALS IN NEW ZEALAND NATURAL FORESTS: ABOVEGROUND AND BELOWGROUND CONSEQUENCES

    David A. Wardle;Gary M. Barker;Gregor W. Yeates;Karen I. Bonner

  • Linkages between plant litter decomposition, litter quality, and vegetation responses to herbivores

    D. A. Wardle;D. A. Wardle;K. I. Bonner;G. M. Barker

  • The influence of plant litter diversity on decomposer abundance and diversity

    David A. Wardle;David A. Wardle;Gregor W. Yeates;Gary M. Barker;Karen I. Bonner

  • Can comparative approaches based on plant ecophysiological traits predict the nature of biotic interactions and individual plant species effects in ecosystems

    D. A. Wardle;G. M. Barker;K. I. Bonner;K. S. Nicholson

  • The response of a three trophic level soil food web to the identity and diversity of plant species and functional groups

    David A. Wardle;Gregor W. Yeates;Wendy Williamson;Karen I. Bonner

  • Response of soil microbial biomass dynamics, activity and plant litter decomposition to agricultural intensification over a seven-year period

    D.A. Wardle;G.W. Yeates;K.S. Nicholson;K.I. Bonner

  • Stability of ecosystem properties in response to above‐ground functional group richness and composition

    David A. Wardle;Karen I. Bonner;Gary M. Barker

  • Effects of agricultural intensification on soil-associated arthropod population dynamics, community structure, diversity and temporal variability over a seven-year period

    D.A. Wardle;K.S. Nicholson;K.I. Bonner;G.W. Yeates

  • Predation of seabirds by invasive rats: multiple indirect consequences for invertebrate communities

    David R. Towns;David A. Wardle;Christa P. H. Mulder;Gregor W. Yeates

  • Direct and indirect effects of rats: does rat eradication restore ecosystem functioning of New Zealand seabird islands?

    Christa P. H. Mulder;M. Nicole Grant-Hoffman;David R. Towns;Peter J. Bellingham

  • Effects of defoliation intensity on soil food‐web properties in an experimental grassland community

    Juha Mikola;Gregor W. Yeates;Gary M. Barker;David A. Wardle

  • Island biology and ecosystem functioning in epiphytic soil communities.

    David A. Wardle;Gregor W. Yeates;Gary M. Barker;Peter J. Bellingham

  • Plasticity in above- and belowground resource acquisition traits in response to single and multiple environmental factors in three tree species

    Grégoire T. Freschet;Peter J. Bellingham;Philip O'b. Lyver;Karen I. Bonner

  • Belowground legacies of Pinus contorta invasion and removal result in multiple mechanisms of invasional meltdown

    Ian A. Dickie;Ian A. Dickie;Mark G. St John;Mark G. St John;Gregor W. Yeates;Chris W. Morse

  • Linking aboveground and belowground communities: the indirect influence of aphid species identity and diversity on a three trophic level soil food web

    D. A. Wardle;G. W. Yeates;W. M. Williamson;K. I Bonner

  • Among- and within-species variation in plant litter decomposition in contrasting long-term chronosequences

    David A. Wardle;David A. Wardle;Richard D. Bardgett;Lawrence R. Walker;Karen I. Bonner

  • Trickle‐down effects of aboveground trophic cascades on the soil food web

    David A. Wardle;Wendy M. Williamson;Gregor W. Yeates;Karen I. Bonner

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University
Gregor W. Yeates
Gregor W. Yeates Landcare Research
Peter J. Bellingham
Peter J. Bellingham Landcare Research
Ian A. Dickie
Ian A. Dickie University of Canterbury
Janet M. Wilmshurst
Janet M. Wilmshurst Landcare Research
Jamie R. Wood
Jamie R. Wood University of Adelaide
Tadashi Fukami
Tadashi Fukami Stanford University
Christa P. H. Mulder
Christa P. H. Mulder University of Alaska Fairbanks
David R. Towns
David R. Towns Auckland University of Technology
Sarah J. Richardson
Sarah J. Richardson Landcare Research

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