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Neal J. Enright

Neal J. Enright

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
58
Citations
12264
World Ranking
2565
National Ranking
196

Overview

Neal J. Enright is affiliated with Murdoch University in Australia and conducts research primarily in the field of environmental science. Their work spans various subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, plant science, and ecological modeling.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, particularly related to fire and its effects on ecosystems. These topics include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Rangeland and wildlife management
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Plant parasitism and resistance
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics

Neal J. Enright's recent publications cover various aspects of ecological research related to fire dynamics, resilience, and climate change impacts. Selected recent papers include:

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • A trait-based approach to assessing resistance and resilience to wildfire in two iconic North American conifers, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • Forest fire and its key drivers in the tropical forests of northern Vietnam, 2022, International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Demographic processes underpinning post-fire resilience in California closed-cone pine forests: the importance of fire interval, stand structure, and climate, 2022, Plant Ecology
  • Climate change and altered fire regimes: impacts on plant populations, species, and ecosystems in both hemispheres, 2022, Plant Ecology

The frequent venues for publication include:

  • Plant Ecology
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Australian Journal of Botany

Collaborative work is evident from the regular co-authorship with several researchers, notably:

  • Joseph B. Fontaine
  • Ben P. Miller
  • Russell G. Miller
  • David J. Merritt
  • Brian J. Harvey

Best Publications

  • Resprouting as a key functional trait: how buds, protection and resources drive persistence after fire

    P.J. Clarke;M.J. Lawes;J.J Midgley;B.B. Lamont;B.B. Lamont

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers

    Kendra K. McLauchlan;Philip E. Higuera;Jessica Miesel;Brendan M. Rogers

  • Canopy seed storage in woody plants

    Byron B. Lamont;D. C. Le Maitre;R. M. Cowling;N. J. Enright

  • Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes

    Neal J Enright;Joseph B Fontaine;David Mjs Bowman;Ross A Bradstock

  • A comparison of methods for the statistical analysis of spatial point patterns in plant ecology

    George L. W. Perry;Ben P. Miller;Neal J. Enright

  • Seed banks, fire season, safe sites and seedling recruitment in five co-occurring Banksia species

    N.J. Enright;B.B. Lamont

  • Post-fire litter microsites: Safe for seeds, unsafe for seedlings

    Byron B. Lamont;E. T. F. Witkowski;N. J. Enright

  • Ecology of the southern conifers

    Neal J. Enright;Robert S. Hill

  • Applications of transition matrix models in forest dynamics: Araucaria in Papua New Guinea and Nothofagus in New Zealand

    Neal Enright;John Ogden

  • Performance of nonparametric species richness estimators in a high diversity plant community

    Alessandro Chiarucci;N. J. Enright;G. L. W. Perry;B. P. Miller

  • Resistance and resilience to changing climate and fire regime depend on plant functional traits

    Neal J. Enright;Joseph B. Fontaine;Byron B. Lamont;Byron B. Lamont;Ben P. Miller;Ben P. Miller

  • A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems.

    Peter J. Clarke;Michael J. Lawes;Brett P. Murphy;Jeremy Russell-Smith

  • The ecological significance of canopy seed storage in fire-prone environments: a model for non-sprouting shrubs

    Neal J. Enright;Neal J. Enright;Ralf Marsula;Byron B. Lamont;Christian Wissel

  • Long‐distance seed dispersal in a metapopulation of Banksia hookeriana inferred from a population allocation analysis of amplified fragment length polymorphism data

    Tianhua He;Siegfried L. Krauss;Siegfried L. Krauss;Byron B. Lamont;Ben P. Miller;Ben P. Miller

  • Anthropogenic disturbance promotes hybridization between Banksia species by altering their biology.

    B.B. Lamont;T. He;N.J. Enright;N.J. Enright;Siegfried Krauss

  • Desert vegetation and vegetation-environment relationships in Kirthar National Park, Sindh, Pakistan

    N.J. Enright;B.P. Miller;R. Akhter

  • Subcontinental heat wave triggers terrestrial and marine, multi-taxa responses.

    Katinka X. Ruthrof;David D. Breshears;Joseph B. Fontaine;Ray H. Froend

  • Comparing plant life histories using elasticity analysis: the importance of life span and the number of life-cycle stages.

    N.J. Enright;M. Franco;J. Silvertown

  • Interactions between climate change, fire regimes and biodiversity in Australia: A preliminary assessment

    R.J. Williams;R.A. Bradstock;G.J. Cary;N.J. Enright

  • The independent effects of heat, smoke and ash on emergence of seedlings from the soil seed bank of a heathy Eucalyptus woodland in Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park, western Victoria

    N. J. Enright;D. Goldblum;P. Ata;D. H. Ashton

  • Altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes

    N. Enright;J. Fontaine

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben P. Miller
Ben P. Miller University of Western Australia
Byron B. Lamont
Byron B. Lamont Curtin University
George L. W. Perry
George L. W. Perry University of Auckland
Joseph B. Fontaine
Joseph B. Fontaine Murdoch University
Tianhua He
Tianhua He Curtin University
Siegfried L. Krauss
Siegfried L. Krauss University of Western Australia
Tanguy Jaffré
Tanguy Jaffré Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Mark K. J. Ooi
Mark K. J. Ooi University of New South Wales
Ed T.F. Witkowski
Ed T.F. Witkowski University of the Witwatersrand
Jeremy J. Midgley
Jeremy J. Midgley University of Cape Town

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