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51
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3580
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398

Overview

T. Hefin Jones is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a specialization in ecology, insect science, and plant science. They have contributed extensively to subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, as well as water science and technology.

The main topics covered by their work include forest ecology and biodiversity studies, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, hydrology and sediment transport processes, and hydrology and watershed management studies. Additional research interests involve plant and animal studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, and peatlands and wetlands ecology.

The scientist has published research in various academic venues, with recurrent publications appearing in:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Aquatic Ecology
  • British Journal of Surgery
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frequent collaborators include Sara Simões, José Paulo Sousa, Cristina Canhoto, Jordan P. Cuff, and Emma C. Gilmartin. Each of these coauthors has collaborated on multiple occasions, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by T. Hefin Jones include:

  • International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Civil disobedience movements such as School Strike for the Climate are raising public awareness of the climate change emergency, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Air temperature more than drought duration affects litter decomposition under flow intermittency, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Annual patterns of litter decomposition in the channel and riparian areas of an intermittent stream, 2021, Aquatic Ecology
  • Induced plant resistance and its influence on natural enemy use of plant-derived foods, 2024, Current Opinion in Insect Science

Best Publications

  • Herbivory in global climate change research: direct effects of rising temperature on insect herbivores

    Jeffery S. Bale;Gregory J. Masters;Ian D. Hodkinson;Caroline Awmack

  • Plant-Insect Herbivore Interactions in Elevated Atmospheric CO 2 : Quantitative Analyses and Guild Effects

    T. Martijn Bezemer;T. Hefin Jones

  • Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate-dependent

    Diana H. Wall;Mark A. Bradford;Mark G. St. John;John A. Trofymow

  • Microbiota, fauna, and mesh size interactions in litter decomposition

    Mark A. Bradford;George M. Tordoff;Till Eggers;T. Hefin Jones

  • Impacts of Soil Faunal Community Composition on Model Grassland Ecosystems

    M. A. Bradford;T. H. Jones;Richard D. Bardgett;Helaina I. J. Black

  • Development of a recA gene-based identification approach for the entire Burkholderia genus.

    George W. Payne;Peter Vandamme;Sara H. Morgan;John J. LiPuma

  • Functional and ecological consequences of saprotrophic fungus-grazer interactions.

    Thomas W Crowther;Thomas W Crowther;Lynne Boddy;T Hefin Jones

  • International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

    Jeffrey A. Harvey;Robin Heinen;Inge Armbrecht;Yves Basset

  • Links between the detritivore and the herbivore system: effects of earthworms and Collembola on plant growth and aphid development.

    Stefan Scheu;Anne Theenhaus;T. Hefin Jones

  • 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

  • Long-term effects of elevated CO2 and temperature on populations of the peach potato aphid Myzus persicae and its parasitoid Aphidius matricariae.

    T. Martijn Bezemer;T. Hefin Jones;Kevin J. Knight

  • Relative roles of top-down and bottom-up forces in terrestrial tritrophic plant-insect herbivore-natural enemy systems

    Matthew Walker;T. Hefin Jones

  • "Insectageddon": A call for more robust data and rigorous analyses.

    Chris D. Thomas;T. Hefin Jones;Sue E. Hartley

  • Interactive effects of temperature and soil moisture on fungal-mediated wood decomposition and extracellular enzyme activity

    Andrew Donald A'Bear;Thomas Hefin Jones;Ellen Kandeler;Lynne Boddy

  • Host-plant mediated effects of root herbivory on insect seed predators and their parasitoids

    Gregory J. Masters;T. Hefin Jones;Matthew Rogers

  • Leaf endophytes affect mycorrhizal status and growth of co‐infected and neighbouring plants

    M. Omacini;T. Eggers;M. Bonkowski;A. C. Gange

  • Biosynthesis of plant phenolic compounds in elevated atmospheric CO2.

    Susan E. Hartley;Clive G. Jones;Gordon C. Couper;T. Hefin Jones

  • Outcomes of fungal interactions are determined by soil invertebrate grazers.

    Thomas W. Crowther;Lynne Boddy;T. Hefin Jones

  • Aboveground-belowground herbivore interactions: a meta-analysis.

    Scott N. Johnson;Katherine E. Clark;Katherine E. Clark;Susan E. Hartley;T. Hefin Jones

  • Changes in Volatile Production During the Course of Fungal Mycelial Interactions Between Hypholoma fasciculare and Resinicium bicolor

    Juliet Hynes;Carsten T. Müller;Thomas Hefin Jones;Lynne Boddy

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynne Boddy
Lynne Boddy Cardiff University
Thomas W. Crowther
Thomas W. Crowther King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Scott N. Johnson
Scott N. Johnson Western Sydney University
Susan E. Hartley
Susan E. Hartley University of Sheffield
T. Martijn Bezemer
T. Martijn Bezemer Leiden University
Adam J. Vanbergen
Adam J. Vanbergen INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Mark A. Bradford
Mark A. Bradford Yale University
Rosemary S. Hails
Rosemary S. Hails Mansfield University
Ellen Kandeler
Ellen Kandeler University of Hohenheim
Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University

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