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Overview

Nikolaos M. Fyllas is a researcher affiliated with the University of the Aegean in Greece. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Ecology, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research topics encompass areas such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant and Animal Studies, Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment, Tree-ring Climate Responses, and Forest Insect Ecology and Management.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Functional Trait Variation Among and Within Species and Plant Functional Types in Mountainous Mediterranean Forests, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Habitat Suitability of the Dominant Tree Species in Greece, 2022, Plants

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nikolaos M. Fyllas are:

  • Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos
  • Anastasia Christopoulou
  • Μαργαρίτα Αριανούτσου
  • Christodoulos I. Sazeides
  • Michail S. Fountoulakis

Their research has been published in multiple venues, with a notable number of papers appearing in:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Plants
  • ARPHA Conference Abstracts
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Global NEST International Conference on Environmental Science & Technology

Within their publication record, they have contributed to studies on various ecological and environmental processes, such as the variation of functional traits in Mediterranean forests and the potential effects of climate change on tree species habitat suitability in Greece.

Nikolaos M. Fyllas's work integrates interdisciplinary approaches relevant to environmental science and biology, emphasizing both ecosystem dynamics and applied environmental engineering aspects.

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

    C. A. Quesada;C. A. Quesada;O. L. Phillips;M. Schwarz;C. I. Czimczik

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

    T.R. Feldpausch;L. Banin;O.L. Phillips;T.R. Baker

  • Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests

    Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje van der Heijden;Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela López-González

  • Soils of Amazonia with particular reference to the RAINFOR sites

    C. A. Quesada;C. A. Quesada;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;L. O. Anderson;N. M. Fyllas

  • Variations in chemical and physical properties of Amazon forest soils in relation to their genesis

    C. A. Quesada;J. Lloyd;M. Schwarz;S. Patiño;S. Patiño

  • Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

    Owen K. Atkin;Keith J. Bloomfield;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate.

    N. M. Fyllas;S. Patiño;S. Patiño;T. R. Baker;G. Bielefeld Nardoto

  • The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

    Nathan G. Swenson;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Jason Pither;Andrew J. Kerkhoff

  • Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro)

    Bradley O. Christoffersen;Bradley O. Christoffersen;Manuel Gloor;Sophie Fauset;Nikolaos M. Fyllas

  • Regional and large-scale patterns in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by variations in soil physical and chemical properties

    C.A. Quesada;J. Lloyd;M. Schwarz;T.R. Baker

  • On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions

    Mireia Torello-Raventos;Ted R. Feldpausch;Elmar Veenendaal;Franziska Schrodt

  • Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient

    Nikolaos M. Fyllas;Lisa Patrick Bentley;Alexander Shenkin;Gregory P. Asner

  • Variation in plant diversity in mediterranean-climate ecosystems: The role of climatic and topographical stability

    Richard M. Cowling;Alastair J. Potts;Peter L. Bradshaw;Jonathan Colville

  • Analysing Amazonian forest productivity using a new individual and trait-based model (TFS v.1)

    N. M. Fyllas;N. M. Fyllas;E. Gloor;L. M. Mercado;S. Sitch

  • Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?

    E Veenendaal;M. Torello-Raventos;T.R. Feldpausch;T.F. Domingues

  • Variations in Amazon forest productivity correlated with foliar nutrients and modelled rates of photosynthetic carbon supply

    Lina M. Mercado;Sandra Patiño;Tomas F. Domingues;Nikolaos M. Fyllas

  • Grazing effects on plant functional group diversity in Mediterranean shrublands

    Alexandra D. Papanikolaou;Nikolaos M. Fyllas;Antonios D. Mazaris;Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos

  • Viticulture–climate relationships in Greece: the impacts of recent climate trends on harvest date variation

    George Koufos;Theodoros Mavromatis;Stefanos Koundouras;Nikolaos M. Fyllas

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London
Carlos A. Quesada
Carlos A. Quesada National Institute of Amazonian Research
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos
Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos University of the Aegean
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Margarita Arianoutsou
Margarita Arianoutsou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Michael Schwarz
Michael Schwarz Flinders University

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