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Overview

Mark J. Hovenden is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, and Plant Science.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Horticultural and Viticultural Research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology

Mark J. Hovenden's recent publications span a range of ecological and environmental science topics, reflecting their diverse research interests:

  • Forensic carbon accounting: Assessing the role of seaweeds for carbon sequestration, 2022, Journal of Phycology
  • Aridity drives coordinated trait shifts but not decreased trait variance across the geographic range of eight Australian trees, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra, 2024, Nature
  • Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Warming increases soil respiration in a carbon-rich soil without changing microbial respiratory potential, 2020, Biogeosciences

The frequent publication venues that feature their work include:

  • Journal of Phycology
  • New Phytologist
  • Biogeosciences
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Ecology and Evolution

Collaboration plays a notable role in their research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Rose Brinkhoff
  • Travis G. Britton
  • Shane A. Richards
  • Daniel S. Mendham
  • MA Hunt

Best Publications

  • Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities

    Mark Hovenden;M. Holyoak;M. A. Leibold;R. D. Holt

  • A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

    Jian Song;Jian Song;Shiqiang Wan;Shiqiang Wan;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Alan K. Knapp

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

    César Terrer;César Terrer;César Terrer;Robert B. Jackson;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan

  • Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO2 and temperature.

    Wouter I. J. Dieleman;Wouter I. J. Dieleman;Sara Vicca;Feike A. Dijkstra;Frank Hagedorn

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Forensic carbon accounting: Assessing the role of seaweeds for carbon sequestration

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  • Seasonal not annual rainfall determines grassland biomass response to carbon dioxide

    Mark J. Hovenden;Paul C. D. Newton;Karen E. Wills

  • Changes in the microbial community structure of bacteria, archaea and fungi in response to elevated CO 2 and warming in an Australian native grassland soil

    Helen L. Hayden;Pauline M. Mele;Damian S. Bougoure;Claire Y. Allan

  • Nature vs nurture in the leaf morphology of Southern beech, Nothofagus cunninghamii (Nothofagaceae)

    Mark J. Hovenden;Jacqueline K. Vander Schoor

  • Predicting soil carbon loss with warming

    Natasja C. Van Gestel;Zheng Shi;Kees J. Van Groenigen;Craig W. Osenberg

  • Warming and free-air CO2 enrichment alter demographics in four co-occurring grassland species.

    Amity L. Williams;Karen E. Wills;Jasmine K. Janes;Jacqueline K. Vander Schoor

  • Partitioning direct and indirect effects reveals the response of water-limited ecosystems to elevated CO2

    Simone Fatichi;Sebastian Leuzinger;Athanasios Paschalis;Athanasios Paschalis;J Adam Langley

  • Warming and elevated CO2 affect the relationship between seed mass, germinability and seedling growth in Austrodanthonia caespitosa, a dominant Australian grass

    Mark J. Hovenden;Karen E. Wills;Rebecca E. Chaplin;Jacqueline K. Vander Schoor

  • Warming prevents the elevated CO2‐induced reduction in available soil nitrogen in a temperate, perennial grassland

    Mark J. Hovenden;P. C. D. Newton;R. A. Carran;P. Theobald

  • Photosynthesis does influence superoxide production in the ichthyotoxic alga Chattonella marina (Raphidophyceae)

    Judith-Anne Marshall;Mark Hovenden;Tatsuya Oda;Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff

  • Flowering phenology in a species-rich temperate grassland is sensitive to warming but not elevated CO2.

    Mark J. Hovenden;Karen E. Wills;Jacqueline K. Vander Schoor;Amity L. Williams

  • Altitude of origin influences stomatal conductance and therefore maximum assimilation rate in Southern Beech, Nothofagus cunninghamii

    Mark J. Hovenden;Tim Brodribb

  • The response of leaf morphology to irradiance depends on altitude of origin in Nothofagus cunninghamii

    Mark J. Hovenden;Jacqueline K. Vander Schoor

  • Soil carbon storage under simulated climate change is mediated by plant functional type

    Elise Pendall;Yui Osanai;Amity L Williams;Mark J Hovenden

  • Aridity drives coordinated trait shifts but not decreased trait variance across the geographic range of eight Australian trees

    Leander D. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Xingwen Loy;Ian P. Markham;Christina M. Elmer

  • Effect of limited water availability on foliar plant secondary metabolites of two Eucalyptus species

    Adam B. McKiernan;Mark J. Hovenden;Timothy J. Brodribb;Brad M. Potts

  • Phytogeography of bryophyte and lichen vegetation in the Windmill Islands, Wilkes Land, Continental Antarctica

    D. R. Melick;M. J. Hovenden;R. D. Seppelt

  • Vegetation of Tasmania

    JB Reid;RS Hill;Michael Brown;MJ Hovenden

  • SHORT COMMUNICATION Photosynthesis does influence superoxide production in the ichthyotoxic alga Chattonella marina (Raphidophyceae)

    Judith-Anne Marshall;Mark Hovenden;Tatsuya Oda;Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Sebastian Leuzinger
Sebastian Leuzinger Auckland University of Technology
Jeffrey S. Dukes
Jeffrey S. Dukes Purdue University West Lafayette
Sara Vicca
Sara Vicca University of Antwerp
Jian Song
Jian Song Tsinghua University
Timothy J. Brodribb
Timothy J. Brodribb University of Tasmania
Christopher L. Beadle
Christopher L. Beadle University of Tasmania
Noel W. Davies
Noel W. Davies University of Leicester

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