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37
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5495
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6866
National Ranking
80

Overview

Nicole Hagenah is affiliated with the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a considerable body of work dedicated to the subfields of nature and landscape conservation, ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, soil science, and plant science.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, notably ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, plant and animal studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, evolution and paleontology studies, animal ecology and behavior studies, and rangeland and wildlife management.

Nicole Hagenah has published extensively, with frequent contributions appearing in notable venues such as:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Communications Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Ecology

Several recent publications illustrate the research scope and collaborative nature of their work. These include:

  • Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time, 2020, Ecology
  • The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nutrient availability controls the impact of mammalian herbivores on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in grasslands, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands, 2021, Journal of Ecology

The scientist frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, including:

  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Yann Hautier
  • Anita C. Risch
  • Carly Stevens

This combination of research topics, publication venues, and collaboration networks reflects a sustained engagement with ecological and environmental challenges related to nutrient dynamics, plant diversity, and ecosystem productivity.

Best Publications

  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

    Suzanne M. Prober;Jonathan W. Leff;Scott T. Bates;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

    W. Stanley Harpole;W. Stanley Harpole;Lauren L. Sullivan;Eric M. Lind;Jennifer Firn

  • African Wild Ungulates Compete with or Facilitate Cattle Depending on Season

    Wilfred O. Odadi;Moses K. Karachi;Shaukat A. Abdulrazak;Truman P. Young

  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

    Yann Hautier;Forest Isbell;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

    A.C. Risch;S. Zimmermann;R. Ochoa-Hueso;M. Schütz

  • The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

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  • Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs

    Jennifer Firn;James M. McGree;Eric Harvey;Habacuc Flores-Moreno

  • Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time.

    Eric W. Seabloom;Peter B. Adler;Juan Alberti;Lori Biederman

  • Regional Contingencies in the Relationship between Aboveground Biomass and Litter in the World's Grasslands

    Lydia R. O’Halloran;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Andrew S. MacDougall

  • Sensitivity of global soil carbon stocks to combined nutrient enrichment

    Thomas Crowther;Charlotte Riggs;Eric Lind;Elizabeth Borer

  • Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities

    Jennifer Firn;Joslin L. Moore;Andrew S. MacDougall;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: Is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide.

    Pedro M. Tognetti;Suzanne M. Prober;Selene Báez;Enrique J. Chaneton

  • Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands.

    Sally E. Koerner;Deron E. Burkepile;Richard W. S. Fynn;Catherine E. Burns

  • Mole rats act as ecosystem engineers within a biodiversity hotspot, the Cape Fynbos

    N. Hagenah;N. C. Bennett

  • Response to Comments on “Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness”

    James B. Grace;Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Social Organization of the Golden Brown Mouse Lemur (Microcebus ravelobensis)

    Andrea Weidt;Nicole Hagenah;Blanchard Randrianambinina;Ute Radespiel

  • Nutrient availability controls the impact of mammalian herbivores on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in grasslands

    Judith Sitters;E. R. Jasper Wubs;Elisabeth S. Bakker;Thomas W. Crowther

  • Out of the shadows : multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light and plant diversity

    W. Stanley Harpole;W. Stanley Harpole;Lauren L. Sullivan;Eric M. Lind;Jennifer Firn

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky
Suzanne M. Prober
Suzanne M. Prober Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Kevin P. Kirkman
Kevin P. Kirkman University of KwaZulu-Natal
Jonathan D. Bakker
Jonathan D. Bakker University of Washington

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