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Norman W. H. Mason

Norman W. H. Mason

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
18209
World Ranking
7237
National Ranking
93

Overview

Norman W. H. Mason is affiliated with Landcare Research in New Zealand and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work encompasses subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science.

The scientist's research covers diverse topics focusing on ecological and environmental processes. Among the main areas of study are:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Mason has published research in several scientific journals, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • Biological Invasions
  • New Zealand Journal of Ecology
  • Oecologia
  • Geoderma
  • Forest Ecology and Management

Some recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Mason include:

  • Resource-use efficiency drives overyielding via enhanced complementarity, 2020, Oecologia
  • Integrating across knowledge systems to drive action on chronic biological invasions, 2020, Biological Invasions

Norman W. H. Mason frequently collaborates with several other researchers. Their regular co-authors include:

  • Paul L. Mudge
  • Sarah J. Richardson
  • Bob Carswell
  • Kate H. Orwin
  • Suzanne Lambie

Best Publications

  • New multidimensional functional diversity indices for a multifaceted framework in functional ecology.

    Sébastien Villéger;Norman W. H. Mason;David Mouillot

  • Functional richness, functional evenness and functional divergence: the primary components of functional diversity

    Norman W. H. Mason;David Mouillot;William G. Lee;J. Bastow Wilson

  • A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

    David Mouillot;David Mouillot;Nicholas A.J. Graham;Sébastien Villéger;Sébastien Villéger;Norman W.H. Mason

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

    Maud A. Mouchet;Sébastien Villéger;Norman W. H. Mason;David Mouillot

  • A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

    Andrew Siefert;Cyrille Violle;Loïc Chalmandrier;Loïc Chalmandrier;Cécile H Albert

  • Functional Structure of Biological Communities Predicts Ecosystem Multifunctionality

    David Mouillot;Sébastien Villéger;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen;Norman W. H. Mason

  • A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients

    Norman W.H. Mason;Francesco de Bello;David Mouillot;Sandrine Pavoine

  • Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

    Carlos P. Carmona;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Norman W.H. Mason;Jan Lepš;Jan Lepš

  • An index of functional diversity

    Norman W.H. Mason;Kit MacGillivray;John B. Steel;J. Bastow Wilson

  • Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long‐term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

    Norman W. H. Mason;Sarah J. Richardson;Duane A. Peltzer;Francesco de Bello

  • Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

    Norman W.H. Mason;Francesco de Bello;Jiři Doležal;Jiři Doležal;Jan Lepš;Jan Lepš

  • Evidence that niche specialization explains species–energy relationships in lake fish communities

    Norman W. H. Mason;Pascal Irz;Cédric Lanoiselée;David Mouillot

  • Functional diversity: a tool for answering challenging ecological questions

    Norman W. H. Mason;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello

  • Towards a consensus for calculating dendrogram-based functional diversity indices

    Maud Mouchet;François Guilhaumon;Sébastien Villéger;Norman W. H. Mason

  • Correlations between phylogenetic and functional diversity: mathematical artefacts or true ecological and evolutionary processes?

    Sandrine Pavoine;Sandrine Pavoine;Amandine Gasc;Michael B. Bonsall;Michael B. Bonsall;Norman W.H. Mason

  • Trait probability density (TPD): measuring functional diversity across scales based on TPD with R.

    Carlos P. Carmona;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Norman W. H. Mason;Jan Lepš;Jan Lepš

  • Functional characters combined with null models reveal inconsistency in mechanisms of species turnover in lacustrine fish communities.

    Norman W. H. Mason;Cédric Lanoiselée;David Mouillot;Pascal Irz

  • Does niche overlap control relative abundance in French lacustrine fish communities? A new method incorporating functional traits

    Norman W. H. Mason;Cédric Lanoiselée;David Mouillot;J. Bastow Wilson

  • Which trait dissimilarity for functional diversity: trait means or trait overlap?

    Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Carlos P. Carmona;Norman W. H. Mason;Maria-Teresa Sebastià

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco de Bello
Francesco de Bello Spanish National Research Council
Sarah J. Richardson
Sarah J. Richardson Landcare Research
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Duane A. Peltzer
Duane A. Peltzer Landcare Research
Carlos P. Carmona
Carlos P. Carmona University of Tartu
Jan Lepš
Jan Lepš University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Robert B. Allen
Robert B. Allen Landcare Research
J. Bastow Wilson
J. Bastow Wilson University of Otago
Sébastien Villéger
Sébastien Villéger Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University

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