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Lindsay A. Turnbull

Lindsay A. Turnbull

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
10040
World Ranking
5455
National Ranking
589

Overview

Lindsay A. Turnbull is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to specialized subfields such as Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

Their work covers a range of main topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Plant and Animal Studies, Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution.

Recent publications by Lindsay A. Turnbull include:

  • The costs of removing the unsanctioned import of marine plastic litter to small island states (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Conditional sanctioning in a legume- Rhizobium mutualism (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Sources of marine debris for Seychelles and other remote islands in the western Indian Ocean (2023, Marine Pollution Bulletin)
  • The function-dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships (2021, Ecology Letters)
  • Fast and furious: Early differences in growth rate drive short-term plant dominance and exclusion under eutrophication (2020, Ecology and Evolution)

Lindsay A. Turnbull frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Nancy Bunbury
  • April Burt
  • Adam Thomas Clark
  • Frauke Fleischer-Dogley
  • Philip S. Poole

Their research has been published repeatedly in venues such as Scientific Reports, Ecology and Evolution, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford), and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), demonstrating a consistent engagement with high-impact journals and repositories.

Best Publications

  • Are plant populations seed-limited? A review of seed sowing experiments.

    Lindsay A. Turnbull;Michael J. Crawley;Mark Rees

  • Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

    William J. Sutherland;Robert P. Freckleton;H. Charles J. Godfray;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Land-use intensity and the effects of organic farming on biodiversity: a hierarchical meta-analysis

    Sean L. Tuck;Camilla Winqvist;Flávia Mota;Johan Ahnström

  • Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

    Forest Isbell;Andrew Gonzalez;Michael Loreau;Jane Cowles

  • How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists

    C. E. Timothy Paine;Toby R. Marthews;Toby R. Marthews;Deborah R. Vogt;Drew Purves

  • JANZEN‐CONNELL EFFECTS ARE WIDESPREAD AND STRONG ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN DIVERSITY IN GRASSLANDS

    Jana S. Petermann;Alexander J. F. Fergus;Lindsay A. Turnbull;Bernhard Schmid

  • Seed mass and the competition/colonization trade-off: a sowing experiment

    Lindsay A. Turnbull;Mark Rees;Michael J. Crawley

  • Natural Enemies Drive Geographic Variation in Plant Defenses

    Tobias Züst;Christian Heichinger;Ueli Grossniklaus;Richard Harrington

  • Fear of the dark or dinner by moonlight? Reduced temporal partitioning among Africa's large carnivores

    Gabriele Cozzi;Femke Broekhuis;John W. McNutt;Lindsay A. Turnbull

  • Coexistence, niches and biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning.

    Lindsay Ann Turnbull;Jonathan M. Levine;Jonathan M. Levine;Michel Loreau;Andy Hector

  • Seed mass and the competition/colonization trade-off: Competitive interactions and spatial patterns in a guild of annual plants

    Lindsay A. Turnbull;Lindsay A. Turnbull;David Coomes;David Coomes;Andy Hector;Mark Rees

  • Partitioning the Components of Relative Growth Rate: How Important Is Plant Size Variation?

    Mark Rees;Colin P. Osborne;F. Ian Woodward;Stephen P. Hulme

  • Contribution of epigenetic variation to adaptation in Arabidopsis.

    Marc W. Schmid;Christian Heichinger;Christian Heichinger;Diana Coman Schmid;Diana Coman Schmid;Daniela Guthörl

  • Gains to species diversity in organically farmed fields are not propagated at the farm level

    Manuel K. Schneider;Gisela Lüscher;Philippe Jeanneret;Michaela Arndorfer

  • Understanding the value of plant diversity for ecosystem functioning through niche theory.

    Lindsay A. Turnbull;Forest Isbell;Drew W. Purves;Michel Loreau

  • The costs of removing the unsanctioned import of marine plastic litter to small island states.

    April J. Burt;April J. Burt;Jeremy Raguain;Cheryl Sanchez;Jude Brice

  • Using knockout mutants to reveal the growth costs of defensive traits

    Tobias Züst;Bindu Joseph;Kentaro K. Shimizu;Daniel J. Kliebenstein

  • Policing the legume-Rhizobium symbiosis: a critical test of partner choice

    Annet Westhoek;Elsa Field;Finn Rehling;Finn Rehling;Geraldine Mulley

  • Different but equal: the implausible assumption at the heart of neutral theory.

    Drew W. Purves;Lindsay A. Turnbull

  • GROWTH RATES, SEED SIZE, AND PHYSIOLOGY: DO SMALL‐SEEDED SPECIES REALLY GROW FASTER

    Lindsay A. Turnbull;Cloé Paul-Victor;Bernhard Schmid;Drew W. Purves

  • Identifying aggregation and association in fully mapped spatial data

    David A. Coomes;Mark Rees;Lindsay Turnbull

  • PERSPECTIVE Coexistence, niches and biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning

    Lindsay Ann Turnbull;Michel Loreau;Andy Hector

Frequent Co-Authors

Andy Hector
Andy Hector University of Oxford
Mark Rees
Mark Rees University of Sheffield
Drew W. Purves
Drew W. Purves DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
David A. Coomes
David A. Coomes University of Cambridge
Daniel J. Kliebenstein
Daniel J. Kliebenstein University of California, Davis
Toby R. Marthews
Toby R. Marthews University of Oxford
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Ueli Grossniklaus
Ueli Grossniklaus University of Zurich
Jonathan M. Levine
Jonathan M. Levine Princeton University

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