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Overview

Mark G. Tjoelker is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia. Their research focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, contributing extensively to the understanding of plant responses and ecosystem dynamics.

Their work centers on several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Plant Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Environmental Engineering

Main research topics addressed by Mark G. Tjoelker include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Mark G. Tjoelker has co-authored frequently with several researchers, evidencing collaborative work across multiple studies. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Manuel Esperón-Rodríguez
  • Sally A. Power
  • Paul D. Rymer
  • John E. Drake
  • Elise Pendall

Publications by Mark G. Tjoelker appear regularly in prominent journals and venues such as:

  • Urban forestry & urban greening
  • New Phytologist
  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Plants People Planet

Representative recent papers co-authored by Mark G. Tjoelker include:

  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment, 2020, Nature
  • Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought-induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Climate change increases global risk to urban forests, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Functional adaptations and trait plasticity of urban trees along a climatic gradient, 2020, Urban forestry & urban greening

Best Publications

  • The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

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

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Thermal acclimation and the dynamic response of plant respiration to temperature

    Owen K. Atkin;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Linking litter calcium, earthworms and soil properties: a common garden test with 14 tree species

    Peter B. Reich;Jacek Oleksyn;Jacek Oleksyn;Jerzy Modrzynski;Pawel Mrozinski

  • Plant diversity enhances ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition

    Peter Bernard Reich;Jean Knops;David Tilman;Joseph M Craine

  • The hot and the cold: unravelling the variable response of plant respiration to temperature.

    Owen Kenneth Atkin;Dan Bruhn;Vaughan Hurry;Mark G Tjoelker

  • Universal scaling of respiratory metabolism, size and nitrogen in plants

    Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker;Jose Luis Machado;Jacek Oleksyn

  • Modelling respiration of vegetation: evidence for a general temperature-dependent Q10.

    Mark G. Tjoelker;Jacek Oleksyn;Jacek Oleksyn;Peter B. Reich

  • Linking leaf and root trait syndromes among 39 grassland and savannah species

    M. G. Tjoelker;M. G. Tjoelker;J. M. Craine;D. Wedin;Peter B Reich

  • Photosynthesis and respiration rates depend on leaf and root morphology and nitrogen concentration in nine boreal tree species differing in relative growth rate

    Peter B Reich;M. B. Walters;M. G. Tjoelker;D. Vanderklein

  • Close association of RGR, leaf and root morphology, seed mass and shade tolerance in seedlings of nine boreal tree species grown in high and low light

    Peter B Reich;M. G. Tjoelker;M. B. Walters;D. W. Vanderklein

  • Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plants

    Peter Bernard Reich;Mark G Tjoelker;Kurt S Pregitzer;Ian J Wright

  • Functional traits, productivity and effects on nitrogen cycling of 33 grassland species

    J. M. Craine;D. Tilman;D. Wedin;P. Reich

  • Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

    Owen K. Atkin;Keith J. Bloomfield;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Growth and physiology of Picea abies populations from elevational transects: common garden evidence for altitudinal ecotypes and cold adaptation

    J. Oleksyn;J. Oleksyn;J. Modrzýnski;M. G. Tjoelker;R. Z·ytkowiak

  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment

    Mingkai Jiang;Belinda E. Medlyn;John E. Drake;John E. Drake;Remko A. Duursma

  • Trees tolerate an extreme heatwave via sustained transpirational cooling and increased leaf thermal tolerance

    John E Drake;John E Drake;Mark G Tjoelker;Angelica Varhammar;Belinda E Medlyn

  • Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation

    Grégoire T. Freschet;Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes;Caroline M. Tucker;Joseph M. Craine

  • Survival, growth, and photosynthesis of tree seedlings competing with herbaceous vegetation along a water-light-nitrogen gradient

    Mark A. Davis;Keith J. Wrage;Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought-induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species.

    Renée M. Marchin;Diana Backes;Alessandro Ossola;Michelle R. Leishman

  • Leaf gas exchange responses of 13 prairie grassland species to elevated CO2 and increased nitrogen supply

    Tali D. Lee;Mark G. Tjoelker;David S. Ellsworth;Peter B. Reich

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Jacek Oleksyn
Jacek Oleksyn Polish Academy of Sciences
David T. Tissue
David T. Tissue Western Sydney University
Kristine Y. Crous
Kristine Y. Crous Western Sydney University
Owen K. Atkin
Owen K. Atkin Australian National University
Belinda E. Medlyn
Belinda E. Medlyn Western Sydney University
David S. Ellsworth
David S. Ellsworth Western Sydney University
Teresa E. Gimeno
Teresa E. Gimeno Basque Centre for Climate Change
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Remko A. Duursma
Remko A. Duursma Western Sydney University

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