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43
Citations
7808
World Ranking
5286
National Ranking
575

Overview

Keith Kirby is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to environmental science, particularly within the subfields of global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, ecological modeling, and plant science. Their research activities span several interconnected topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, land use and ecosystem services, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, and forest management and policy.

The scientist's publication record highlights significant work in notable scientific journals. Among the recent papers are:

  • The importance of livestock grazing at woodland-grassland interface in the conservation of rich oakwood plant communities in temperate Europe (2021, Biodiversity and Conservation)
  • A horizon scan of issues affecting UK forest management within 50 years (2023, Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research)
  • Five decades of ground flora changes in a temperate forest: The good, the bad and the ambiguous in biodiversity terms (2021, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Combining multiple investigative approaches to unravel functional responses to global change in the understorey of temperate forests (2023, Global Change Biology)
  • Predicting trajectories of temperate forest understorey vegetation responses to global change (2024, Forest Ecology and Management)

Keith Kirby has collaborated with several frequent co-authors including Simon M. Smart, Dries Landuyt, Michael P. Perring, Haben Blondeel, and Leen Depauw. Their research contributions have been published primarily in venues such as Forest Ecology and Management, Global Change Biology, Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research, Biodiversity and Conservation, and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

The scientist's focus on environmental science is evident through the breadth of their contributions, with 24 publications under the main field and additional work covering agricultural and biological sciences. Subfields of particular emphasis include global and planetary change with 9 papers, nature and landscape conservation with 6, and ecology with 5. This distribution underlines a multidisciplinary approach that intersects ecological modeling and plant science alongside more applied areas like forest management and policy.

Best Publications

  • Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;David Anthony Coomes;Lander Baeten

  • Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics

    Jamie Lorimer;Chris Sandom;Paul Jepson;Chris Doughty

  • Wood-pastures of Europe: Geographic coverage, social–ecological values, conservation management, and policy implications

    Tobias Plieninger;Tibor Hartel;Berta Martín-López;Berta Martín-López;Guy Beaufoy

  • Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests

    Kris Verheyen;Lander Baeten;Pieter De Frenne;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann

  • Preliminary estimates of fallen dead wood and standing dead trees in managed and unmanaged forests in Britain

    K.J. Kirby;C.M. Reid;R.C. Thomas;F.B. Goldsmith

  • An inventory of ancient woodland for England and Wales

    J.W. Spencer;K.J. Kirby

  • Seasonal drivers of understorey temperature buffering in temperate deciduous forests across Europe

    Florian Zellweger;Florian Zellweger;David Coomes;Jonathan Lenoir;Leen Depauw

  • The impact of deer on the ground flora of British broadleaved woodland

    K.J. Kirby

  • The Ecological History of European Forests

    Keith J. Kirby;Charles Watkins

  • The impact of large herbivores on the conservation of semi-natural woods in the British uplands.

    F. J. G. Mitchell;K. J. Kirby

  • Wood-pastures of Europe

    Tobias Plieninger;Tibor Hartel;Berta Martin-Lopez;Guy Beaufoy

  • Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales

    Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Lander Baeten;Dylan Craven;Pieter De Frenne

  • Ecological diversity and its measurement: by Anne E. Magurran, Croom Helm, 1988. £9.95 pbk (x+ 179 pages) ISBN 0709935404

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  • The creation of compensatory habitat—Can it secure sustainable development?

    R.K.A. Morris;I. Alonso;R.G. Jefferson;K.J. Kirby

  • Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies.

    Michael P. Perring;Michael P. Perring;Markus Bernhardt‐Römermann;Lander Baeten;Gabriele Midolo;Gabriele Midolo

  • Slow responses of ecosystems to reductions in deer (Cervidae) populations and strategies for achieving recovery

    Andrew J. Tanentzap;Keith J. Kirby;Emma Goldberg

  • Europe's Changing Woods and Forests: From Wildwood to Managed Landscapes

    K. J. Kirby;C. Watkins

  • Changes in the ground flora under plantations on ancient woodland sites

    K. J. Kirby

  • Seasonal and observer differences in vascular plant records from British woodlands

    K. J. Kirby;T. Bines;A. Burn;J. Mackintosh

  • Beyond the obvious impact of domestic livestock grazing on temperate forest vegetation – A global review

    Kinga Öllerer;Anna Varga;Keith Kirby;László Demeter

  • Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

    Kris Verheyen;Pieter De Frenne;Lander Baeten;Donald M Waller

  • Changes in the ground flora in Wytham Woods, southern England from 1974 to 1991 - implications for nature conservation.

    K.J. Kirby;R.C. Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian C. Newton
Adrian C. Newton James Hutton Institute
Martin Kopecký
Martin Kopecký Czech Academy of Sciences
Radim Hédl
Radim Hédl Czech Academy of Sciences
Simon M. Smart
Simon M. Smart Lancaster University
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Michael P. Perring
Michael P. Perring Ghent University
Monika Wulf
Monika Wulf University of Potsdam
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Thilo Heinken
Thilo Heinken University of Potsdam
Guillaume Decocq
Guillaume Decocq University of Picardie Jules Verne

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