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Ecology and Evolution
Ireland
2023

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
56
Citations
15528
World Ranking
2798
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Paul S. Giller is affiliated with University College Cork in Ireland and specializes in Environmental Science, with a research focus spanning multiple subfields. These subfields include Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Social Psychology. Their work covers a range of topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Primate Behavior and Ecology, and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies.

Giller has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • A function-based typology for Earth's ecosystems, 2022, Nature
  • Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition, 2021, Science Advances
  • The genetic diversity-productivity effect in wheat cultivar mixtures at multiple levels, 2022, European Journal of Agronomy
  • Indicative distribution maps for Ecosystem Functional Groups - Level 3 of IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology, 2020, UEF eRepo (University of Eastern Finland)
  • Indicative distribution maps for Ecological Functional Groups - Level 3 of IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology, 2020, UEF eRepo (University of Eastern Finland)

Frequent co-authors of Paul S. Giller include:

  • David A. Keith
  • Ralph Mac Nally
  • José R. Ferrer-Paris
  • Emily Nicholson
  • Melanie J. Bishop

Publication venues where Giller's work has appeared include:

  • UEF eRepo (University of Eastern Finland)
  • Nature
  • Science Advances
  • European Journal of Agronomy
  • Global Change Biology

In addition to journal articles, Giller has contributed to book publications, with a title titled "F1.1 Permanent Upland Streams" published by the University of South Florida in 2020.

Paul S. Giller received recognition as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands

    A. Hector;Bernhard Schmid;Carl Beierkuhnlein;M. C. Caldeira

  • The biology of streams and rivers

    Paul S. Giller;Björn Malmqvist

  • Continental-scale effects of nutrient pollution on stream ecosystem functioning.

    Guy Woodward;Guy Woodward;Mark O Gessner;Paul S Giller;Vladislav Gulis

  • Community structure and the niche

    Paul S. Giller

  • The diversity of soil communities, the 'poor man's tropical rainforest'

    Paul S. Giller

  • ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY MANIPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS

    E. M. Spehn;A. Hector;J. Joshi;M. Scherer-Lorenzen

  • Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: emerging issues and their experimental test in aquatic environments

    Paul S. Giller;Helmut Hillebrand;Ulrike G. Berninger;Mark O. Gessner

  • No Consistent Effect of Plant Diversity on Productivity

    M. A. Huston;L. W. Aarssen;M. P. Austin;B. S. Cade

  • Aquatic Ecology: Scale, Pattern and Process.

    P. S. Giller;A. G. Hildrew;D. G. Raffaelli

  • Analytical Biogeography: An Integrated Approach to the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions

    Alan A. Myers;Paul S. Giller

  • Community Ecology: Pattern and Process

    P. S. Giller;J. Kikkawa;D. Anderson

  • Biodiversity evaluation tools for European forests

    T.B. Larsson;P. Angelstam;G. Balent;A. Barbati

  • A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems

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  • Resource quality and stoichiometric constraints on stream ecosystem functioning

    Sally Hladyz;Sally Hladyz;Mark O. Gessner;Paul S. Giller;Jeśus Pozo

  • River restoration: seeking ecological standards. Editor's introduction

    Paul S. Giller

  • The effects of the intensification of agriculture on northern temperate dung beetle communities

    Stephen A. Hutton;Paul S. Giller

  • Structural indicators of spider communities across the forest plantation cycle

    Anne G. Oxbrough;Tom Gittings;John O’Halloran;Paul S. Giller

  • Ecosystem functioning in stream assemblages from different regions: contrasting responses to variation in detritivore richness, evenness and density

    Brendan McKie;G Woodward;G Woodward;S Hladyz;S Hladyz;M Nistorescu

  • Diet variability and foraging strategies in brown trout (Salmo trutta): an analysis from subpopulations to individuals

    Emily E. Bridcut;Paul S. Giller

  • Impacts of an aggressive riparian invader on community structure and ecosystem functioning in stream food webs

    Sally Hladyz;Sally Hladyz;Kajsa Åbjörnsson;Paul S. Giller;Guy Woodward;Guy Woodward

  • Aquatic Ecology: Scale, Pattern and Process

    J.M. Elliott;P.S. Giller;A.G. Hildrew;D.G. Raffaelli

  • Aquatic ecology: scale, pattern and process. The 34th Symposium of the British Ecological Society with the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, University College, Cork, 1992.

    Paul S. Giller;A. G. Hildrew;D. G. Raffaelli

Frequent Co-Authors

John O'Halloran
John O'Halloran University College Cork
Guy Woodward
Guy Woodward Imperial College London
Mark O. Gessner
Mark O. Gessner Technical University of Berlin
Scott D. Tiegs
Scott D. Tiegs Oakland University
Ari Jumpponen
Ari Jumpponen Kansas State University
João Santos Pereira
João Santos Pereira University of Lisbon
David Read
David Read University of Sheffield
Peter Högberg
Peter Högberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Kerstin Huss-Danell
Kerstin Huss-Danell Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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