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Peter Manning is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway.

Their research spans primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Key subfields include Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Soil Science.

The main topics of their work cover Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Plant and Animal Studies, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Forest Management and Policy, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

Peter Manning has contributed numerous papers published in prestigious venues. Some recent prominent publications include:

  • Combatting global grassland degradation, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • COVID-19: Lessons for the climate change emergency, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global root traits (GRooT) database, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Gaëtane Le Provost
  • Margot Neyret
  • Markus Fischer
  • Valentin H. Klaus
  • Till Kleinebecker

Peter Manning often publishes in several key venues, reflecting the breadth of their work. These frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecosystem Services

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

  • Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

    Forest Isbell;Dylan Craven;John Connolly;Michael Loreau

  • Combatting global grassland degradation.

    Richard D. Bardgett;James M. Bullock;Sandra Lavorel;Peter Manning

  • Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality.

    Peter Manning;Fons van der Plas;Santiago Soliveres;Eric Allan

  • Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

    Eric Allan;Pete Manning;Fabian Alt;Julia Binkenstein

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

    Santiago Soliveres;Fons van der Plas;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities

    Franciska T. de Vries;Pete Manning;Jerry R. B. Tallowin;Simon R. Mortimer

  • Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

    Dylan Craven;Nico Eisenhauer;William D. Pearse;Yann Hautier

  • Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Jason Pither;Anke Jentsch;Marcelo Sternberg

  • Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services.

    María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Markus Fischer

  • Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

    María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Peter Manning

  • Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

    Fons van der Plas;Pete Manning;Santiago Soliveres;Eric Allan

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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  • Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

    Fons Van der Plas;Peter Manning;Eric Allan;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

  • Hierarchical responses of plant-soil interactions to climate change:consequences for the global carbon cycle

    Richard D. Bardgett;Pete Manning;Elly Morriën;Franciska T. De Vries

  • COVID-19: Lessons for the climate change emergency.

    Rubén Delgado Manzanedo;Rubén Delgado Manzanedo;Peter Manning

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

  • Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

    Dylan Craven;Forest Isbell;Pete Manning;John Connolly

  • Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition

    Mark A. Bradford;Stephen A. Wood;Richard D. Bardgett;Helaina I. J. Black

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Fons van der Plas
Fons van der Plas Wageningen University & Research
Eric Allan
Eric Allan University of Bern
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba
Steffen Boch
Steffen Boch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Daniel Prati
Daniel Prati University of Bern
Sally A. Power
Sally A. Power Western Sydney University

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