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Overview

Lynda D. Prior is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia. Their work primarily lies within the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on areas including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Lynda D. Prior are:

  • Classification of Post-Fire Responses of Woody Plants to include Pyrophobic Communities, 2020, Fire
  • Soil moisture thresholds for combustion of organic soils in western Tasmania, 2020, International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Fire risk and severity decline with stand development in Tasmanian giant Eucalyptus forest, 2021, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Bioclimatic drivers of fire severity across the Australian geographical range of giant Eucalyptus forests, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Population collapse of a Gondwanan conifer follows the loss of Indigenous fire regimes in a northern Australian savanna, 2022, Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Prior include:

  • David M. J. S. Bowman
  • Grant J. Williamson
  • Scott M. Foyster
  • Stefania Ondei
  • Ben J. French

The venues in which Lynda D. Prior frequently publishes their work are:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Fire
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Australian Journal of Botany
  • Ecological Management & Restoration

Best Publications

  • The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

    Ian J. Wright;Peter B. Reich;Mark Westoby;David D. Ackerly

  • Detecting trends in tree growth: not so simple

    David M.J.S. Bowman;Roel J.W. Brienen;Emanuel Gloor;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Ecophysiology of trees of seasonally dry tropics: Comparisons among phenologies

    Derek Eamus;Lynda Prior

  • Abrupt fire regime change may cause landscape-wide loss of mature obligate seeder forests

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Brett P. Murphy;Dominic L. J. Neyland;Grant J. Williamson

  • Leaf trait relationships in Australian plant species

    Ian J Wright;Philip K Groom;Byron B Lamont;Pieter Poot

  • Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes

    Angela T. Moles;Ian R. Wallis;William J. Foley;David I. Warton

  • Seasonal and Diurnal Patterns of Carbon Assimilation, Stomatal Conductance and Leaf Water Potential in Eucalyptus tetrodonta Saplings in a Wet–Dry Savanna in Northern Australia

    LD Prior;D Eamus;GA Duff

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

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

  • Landscape analysis of Aboriginal fire management in Central Arnhem Land, north Australia

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Angie Walsh;Lynda D. Prior

  • Leaf attributes in the seasonally dry tropics: a comparison of four habitats in northern Australia

    Lynda D. Prior;Derek Eamus;David M. J. S. Bowman

  • Frequent fires reduce tree growth in northern Australian savannas: implications for tree demography and carbon sequestration

    Brett P. Murphy;Jeremy Russell-Smith;Lynda D. Prior;Lynda D. Prior

  • Why do evergreen trees dominate the Australian seasonal tropics

    David Bowman;Lynda Dorothy Prior

  • Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

    Fabien H. Wagner;Bruno Hérault;Damien Bonal;Clément Stahl;Clément Stahl

  • Sodium chloride and soil texture interactions in irrigated field grown sultana grapevines. II. Plant mineral content, growth and physiology

    L. D Prior;A. M Grieve;Brian R Cullis

  • Tree growth rates in north Australian savanna habitats: seasonal patterns and correlations with leaf attributes

    Lynda Dorothy Prior;Derek Eamus;David M. J. S. Bowman

  • Yield-salinity relationships of different grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) scion-rootstock combinations

    Xike Zhang;Xike Zhang;Rob R. Walker;Rob R. Walker;Rob M. Stevens;Rob M. Stevens;Lynda D. Prior

  • Water Relations and Ion Concentrations of Leaves on Salt-stressed Citrus Plants

    RR Walker;E Torokfalvy;AM Grieve;LD Prior

  • Have plants evolved to self-immolate?

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Ben J. French;Lynda D. Prior

  • Demography and growth of subadult savanna trees: interactions of life history, size, fire season, and grassy understory

    Patricia A. Werner;Lynda D. Prior

  • Conservative water management in the widespread conifer genus Callitris

    Timothy J. Brodribb;David M. J. S. Bowman;Pauline F. Grierson;Brett P. Murphy;Brett P. Murphy

  • Ecological Models and Data in R

    Lynda D. Prior

  • World-wide leaf economics spectrum

    I. J. Wright;P. B. Reich;M. Westoby;David D. Ackerly

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. J. S. Bowman
David M. J. S. Bowman University of Tasmania
Grant J. Williamson
Grant J. Williamson University of Tasmania
Brett P. Murphy
Brett P. Murphy Charles Darwin University
Derek Eamus
Derek Eamus University of Technology Sydney
Timothy J. Brodribb
Timothy J. Brodribb University of Tasmania
Ian J. Wright
Ian J. Wright Western Sydney University
Byron B. Lamont
Byron B. Lamont Curtin University
Kaiyu Guan
Kaiyu Guan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Erik J. Veneklaas
Erik J. Veneklaas University of Western Australia
Pauline F. Grierson
Pauline F. Grierson University of Western Australia

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