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Plant Science and Agronomy

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50
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12865
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2094
National Ranking
133

Ecology and Evolution

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13847
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3568
National Ranking
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Overview

Oliver Bossdorf is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research portfolio focuses primarily on agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science, with notable contributions also in the subfields of plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, and ecology.

Their work covers a diversity of main topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, plant parasitism and resistance, genetic diversity and population structure, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, and mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions.

Oliver Bossdorf has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), New Phytologist, Global Change Biology, and PLoS Genetics.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Madalin Parepa, J. F. Scheepens, Zhiyong Liao, Christina L. Richards, and Walter Durka.

A selection of recent papers by Oliver Bossdorf includes:

  • Epigenetics and the success of invasive plants, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Climate warming changes synchrony of plants and pollinators, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Rapid genomic and phenotypic change in response to climate warming in a widespread plant invader, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Evolution of plant drought strategies and herbivore tolerance after two decades of climate change, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Climate warming can reduce biocontrol efficacy and promote plant invasion due to both genetic and transient metabolomic changes, 2022, Ecology Letters

Best Publications

  • Jack of all trades, master of some? On the role of phenotypic plasticity in plant invasions

    Christina L. Richards;Oliver Bossdorf;Norris Z. Muth;Jessica Gurevitch

  • Phenotypic and genetic differentiation between native and introduced plant populations

    Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Harald Auge;Lucile Lafuma;William E. Rogers;William E. Rogers

  • Epigenetics for ecologists

    Oliver Bossdorf;Christina L. Richards;Massimo Pigliucci

  • Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

    Markus Fischer;Markus Fischer;Oliver Bossdorf;Sonja Gockel;Falk Hansel

  • The scale of population structure in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Alexander Platt;Matthew Horton;Yu S. Huang;Yan Li

  • Epigenetic variation creates potential for evolution of plant phenotypic plasticity

    Yuan-Ye Zhang;Markus Fischer;Vincent Colot;Oliver Bossdorf

  • Allelopathic inhibition of germination by Alliaria petiolata (Brassicaceae).

    Daniel Prati;Oliver Bossdorf

  • Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity.

    Eric Allan;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati

  • Ecological plant epigenetics: Evidence from model and non-model species, and the way forward

    Christina L. Richards;Conchita Alonso;Claude Becker;Oliver Bossdorf

  • Do invasive species perform better in their new ranges

    John D. Parker;Mark E. Torchin;Ruth A. Hufbauer;Nathan P. Lemoine

  • Natural selection on the Arabidopsis thaliana genome in present and future climates

    Moises Exposito-Alonso;Moises Exposito-Alonso;Moises Exposito-Alonso;Genomes Field Experiment Team;Genomes Field Experiment Team;Hernán A Burbano;Hernán A Burbano;Oliver Bossdorf

  • Reduced competitive ability in an invasive plant

    Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Daniel Prati;Harald Auge;Bernhard Schmid

  • What Role Does Heritable Epigenetic Variation Play in Phenotypic Evolution

    Christina L. Richards;Oliver Bossdorf;Massimo Pigliucci

  • Experimental alteration of DNA methylation affects the phenotypic plasticity of ecologically relevant traits in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Oliver Bossdorf;Davide Arcuri;Christina L. Richards;Massimo Pigliucci

  • Molecular evidence for multiple introductions of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata, Brassicaceae) to North America.

    Walter Durka;Oliver Bossdorf;Daniel Prati;Harald Auge

  • Invasive knotweed affects native plants through allelopathy

    Craig Murrell;Esther Gerber;Christine Krebs;Madalin Parepa

  • Using herbaria to study global environmental change.

    Patricia L. M. Lang;Franziska M. Willems;J. F. Scheepens;Hernán A. Burbano

  • The Ecology and Evolution of Alien Plants

    Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Oliver Bossdorf;Wayne Dawson

  • Mix and match: regional admixture provenancing strikes a balance among different seed-sourcing strategies for ecological restoration

    Anna Bucharova;Anna Bucharova;Anna Bucharova;Oliver Bossdorf;Norbert Hölzel;Johannes Kollmann

  • Environmental variability promotes plant invasion.

    Madalin Parepa;Markus Fischer;Oliver Bossdorf

  • Citizen science reveals unexpected continental-scale evolutionary change in a model organism

    Jonathan Silvertown;Laurence Cook;Robert Cameron;Mike Dodd

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Prati
Daniel Prati University of Bern
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Mark van Kleunen
Mark van Kleunen University of Konstanz
Walter Durka
Walter Durka Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Harald Auge
Harald Auge Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Christina L. Richards
Christina L. Richards University of South Florida
Norbert Hölzel
Norbert Hölzel University of Münster
Massimo Pigliucci
Massimo Pigliucci City College of New York
Wayne Dawson
Wayne Dawson Durham University
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences

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