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75
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33168
World Ranking
1026
National Ranking
59

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Non-climatic constraints on upper elevational plant range expansion under climate change. Proc. Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281:20141779

Overview

Mark Vellend is affiliated with the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable work in subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Mark Vellend has published widely in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist
  • Global Change Biology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Recent publications by Vellend include:

  • "Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes" (2020) in People and Nature
  • "Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome" (2020) in Nature Communications
  • "Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead" (2023) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats" (2021) in Ecology Letters
  • "Predicting leaf traits across functional groups using reflectance spectroscopy" (2023) in New Phytologist

Frequent co-authors of Mark Vellend include:

  • Étienne Laliberté
  • Anna L. Crofts
  • Margaret Kalácska
  • Nicholas C. Coops
  • Christine I.B. Wallis

Mark Vellend received the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2015 for work related to non-climatic constraints on upper elevational plant range expansion under climate change, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

    Mark Vellend

  • Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

    Marti J. Anderson;Thomas O. Crist;Jonathan M. Chase;Mark Vellend

  • Ecological consequences of genetic diversity.

    A. Randall Hughes;Brian D. Inouye;Marc T. J. Johnson;Nora Underwood

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity

    Jonathan M. Chase;Jonathan M. Chase;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Kevin G. Smith;Mark Vellend

  • Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation?

    Diane S. Srivastava;Mark Vellend

  • Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Liza S. Comita;Liza S. Comita;Jonathan M. Chase;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders

  • Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;David Anthony Coomes;Lander Baeten

  • The Theory of Ecological Communities (MPB-57)

    Mark Vellend

  • Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

    Pieter De Frenne;Florian Zellweger;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;Brett R. Scheffers

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Connections between species diversity and genetic diversity

    Mark Vellend;Monica A. Geber

  • Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Pieter S. A. Beck;Martin Wilmking

  • Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time

    Mark Vellend;Lander Baeten;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf

  • The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages.

    Shane A. Blowes;Sarah R. Supp;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Amanda Bates

  • Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity

    Lenore Fahrig;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Joseph R. Bennett;Véronique Boucher-Lalonde

  • Recovery of forest plant communities in post‐agricultural landscapes

    Kathryn M. Flinn;Mark Vellend

  • Extinction debt of forest plants persists for more than a century following habitat fragmentation.

    Mark Vellend;Kris Verheyen;Hans Jacquemyn;Annette Kolb

  • Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

    Mark Vellend;Diane S. Srivastava;Kathryn M. Anderson;Carissa D. Brown

  • Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

    Maud Bernard-Verdier;Marie-Laure Navas;Marie-Laure Navas;Mark Vellend;Cyrille Violle

Frequent Co-Authors

Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Martin Hermy
Martin Hermy KU Leuven
Jonathan M. Chase
Jonathan M. Chase Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
James C. Stegen
James C. Stegen Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Maria Dornelas
Maria Dornelas University of St Andrews

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