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Mark Rees is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant body of work addressing ecology, evolution, and plant science.

The scientist's work spans major subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Plant Science; Global and Planetary Change; and Ecology. Their research addresses several key topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Family Dynamics and Relationships, as well as demographic modeling and climate adaptation.

Mark Rees has contributed to the scientific literature through publications in various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include Ecology and Evolution, New Phytologist, Ecology, Journal of Archaeological Science, and Journal of Ecology.

Some recent papers associated with Mark Rees are:

  • The origins of agriculture: Intentions and consequences, 2020, Journal of Archaeological Science
  • C4 photosynthesis and the economic spectra of leaf and root traits independently influence growth rates in grasses, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • A critical comparison of integral projection and matrix projection models for demographic analysis: Comment, 2021, Ecology
  • Large seeds provide an intrinsic growth advantage that depends on leaf traits and root allocation, 2021, Functional Ecology
  • Individual differences determine the strength of ecological interactions, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, most notably Colin P. Osborne, Lindsay A. Turnbull, Dylan Z. Childs, Glynis Jones, and Catherine Preece.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Long-Term Studies of Vegetation Dynamics

    Mark Rees;Richard S. Condit;Mick Crawley;Steve Pacala

  • 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

  • Integral projection models for species with complex demography.

    Stephen P. Ellner;Mark Rees

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

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

  • Ecology of transgenic oilseed rape in natural habitats

    M. J. Crawley;R. S. Hails;M. Rees;D. Kohn

  • Evolutionary bet-hedging in the real world: empirical evidence and challenges revealed by plants

    Dylan Z. Childs;Charlotte Jessica Eland Metcalf;Mark Rees

  • Transgenic crops in natural habitats

    M. J. Crawley;S. L. Brown;R. S. Hails;D. D. Kohn

  • Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: A practical guide

    Cory Merow;Cory Merow;Johan P. Dahlgren;Johan P. Dahlgren;C. Jessica E. Metcalf;C. Jessica E. Metcalf;Dylan Z. Childs

  • Evolutionary ecology of seed dormancy and seed size

    Mark Rees

  • How can we make plants grow faster? A source–sink perspective on growth rate

    Angela C. White;Alistair Rogers;Mark Rees;Colin P. Osborne

  • Models suggesting field experiments to test two hypotheses explaining successional diversity.

    Stephen Wilson Pacala;Mark Rees

  • Ecophysiological traits in C3 and C4 grasses: a phylogenetically controlled screening experiment.

    Samuel H. Taylor;Stephen P. Hulme;Mark Rees;Brad S. Ripley

  • QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF COMPETITION AND SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY ON THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF A FOUR-SPECIES GUILD OF WINTER ANNUALS

    Mark Rees;Peter J. Grubb;Dave Kelly

  • Determinants and patterns of population growth in water hyacinth

    John R. Wilson;Niels Holst;Mark Rees;Mark Rees

  • Mutualistic mycorrhiza-like symbiosis in the most ancient group of land plants

    Claire P. Humphreys;Peter J. Franks;Peter J. Franks;Mark Rees;Martin I. Bidartondo

  • Trade-offs among dispersal strategies in British plants

    Mark Rees

  • Delayed Germination of Seeds: A Look at the Effects of Adult Longevity, the Timing of Reproduction, and Population Age/Stage Structure

    Mark Rees

  • Biological control of Scotch broom : modelling the determinants of abundance and the potential impact of introduced insect herbivores

    Mark Rees;Quentin Paynter

  • Coexistence and relative abundance in annual plant assemblages: the roles of competition and colonization.

    Jonathan M. Levine;Mark Rees

  • Large−scale disturbances, biological control and the dynamics of gorse populations

    M. Rees;R.L. Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin P. Osborne
Colin P. Osborne University of Sheffield
Lindsay A. Turnbull
Lindsay A. Turnbull University of Oxford
Stephen P. Ellner
Stephen P. Ellner Cornell University
Yvonne M. Buckley
Yvonne M. Buckley Trinity College Dublin
Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson University of Sheffield
Robert P. Freckleton
Robert P. Freckleton University of Sheffield
Andy W. Sheppard
Andy W. Sheppard Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Andy Hector
Andy Hector University of Oxford
David A. Coomes
David A. Coomes University of Cambridge
Peter J. Grubb
Peter J. Grubb University of Cambridge

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