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Overview

Tianhua He is a researcher affiliated with Curtin University in Australia. Their primary fields of study are Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with substantial contributions to related subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research spans diverse topics centered around plant and ecological sciences. Key areas of focus include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Tianhua He has collaborated extensively with multiple co-authors. The most frequent collaborators include:

  • Chengdao Li
  • Byron B. Lamont
  • Gaofeng Zhou
  • Yong Jia
  • Tefera Tolera Angessa

The researcher's publications are found primarily in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Crop Journal

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Tianhua He include:

  • "Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation" (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Harness the power of genomic selection and the potential of germplasm in crop breeding for global food security in the era with rapid climate change" (2020, The Crop Journal)
  • "Fire as a Selective Agent for both Serotiny and Nonserotiny Over Space and Time" (2020, Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences)
  • "The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset" (2022, Scientific Data)
  • "Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change" (2023, Science Advances)

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Fire as a key driver of Earth's biodiversity

    Tianhua He;Tianhua He;Byron B. Lamont;Juli G. Pausas

  • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

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  • Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system

    Sally Archibald;Sally Archibald;C. E. R. Lehmann;C. E. R. Lehmann;Claire M. Belcher;William J. Bond

  • Fire‐adapted traits of Pinus arose in the fiery Cretaceous

    Tianhua He;Tianhua He;Tianhua He;Juli G. Pausas;Claire M. Belcher;Dylan W. Schwilk

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

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  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

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

  • Banksia born to burn

    Tianhua He;Tianhua He;Byron B. Lamont;Katherine S. Downes

  • Long‐distance seed dispersal in a metapopulation of Banksia hookeriana inferred from a population allocation analysis of amplified fragment length polymorphism data

    Tianhua He;Siegfried L. Krauss;Siegfried L. Krauss;Byron B. Lamont;Ben P. Miller;Ben P. Miller

  • Anthropogenic disturbance promotes hybridization between Banksia species by altering their biology.

    B.B. Lamont;T. He;N.J. Enright;N.J. Enright;Siegfried Krauss

  • Ex situ genetic conservation of endangered Vatica guangxiensis (Dipterocarpaceae) in China

    Qiaoming Li;Qiaoming Li;Zaifu Xu;Tianhua He

  • Fitness and evolution of resprouters in relation to fire

    Byron B. Lamont;Byron B. Lamont;Neal J. Enright;Tianhua He;Tianhua He

  • Evolutionary history of fire-stimulated resprouting, flowering, seed release and germination.

    Byron B. Lamont;Tianhua He;Zhaogui Yan

  • Contrasting impacts of pollen and seed dispersal on spatial genetic structure in the bird-pollinated Banksia hookeriana

    S. Krauss;S. Krauss;Tianhua He;Tianhua He;Luke Barrett;Luke Barrett;Byron Lamont

  • Harness the power of genomic selection and the potential of germplasm in crop breeding for global food security in the era with rapid climate change

    Tianhua He;Chengdao Li;Chengdao Li;Chengdao Li

  • Baptism by fire: the pivotal role of ancient conflagrations in evolution of the Earth's flora

    Tianhua He;Byron B Lamont

  • Fire as a selective agent for both Serotiny and Nonserotiny over space and time

    Byron B. Lamont;Juli G. Pausas;Tianhua He;Ed T. F. Witkowski

  • Fire-Proneness as a Prerequisite for the Evolution of Fire-Adapted Traits

    Byron B. Lamont;Tianhua He

  • Fine scale genetic structure in a wild soybean ( Glycine soja ) population and the implications for conservation

    Yan Jin;Tianhua He;Bao-Rong Lu

  • Covariation between intraspecific genetic diversity and species diversity within a plant functional group

    Tianhua He;Tianhua He;Byron B. Lamont;Siegfried L. Krauss;Siegfried L. Krauss;Neal J. Enright;Neal J. Enright

  • Fire-adapted Gondwanan Angiosperm floras evolved in the Cretaceous

    Byron B Lamont;Byron B Lamont;Tianhua He

  • Phylogenetic patterns and phenotypic profiles of the species of plants and mammals farmed for food

    Rubén Milla;Jesús M. Bastida;Martin M. Turcotte;Glynis Jones

  • Temporal patterns of genetic variation across a 9‐year‐old aerial seed bank of the shrub Banksia hookeriana (Proteaceae)

    Luke G. Barrett;Tianhua He;Tianhua He;Byron B. Lamont;Siegfried L. Krauss;Siegfried L. Krauss

  • A 350‐million‐year legacy of fire adaptation among conifers

    Tianhua He;Claire M. Belcher;Byron B. Lamont;Sim Lin Lim

Frequent Co-Authors

Byron B. Lamont
Byron B. Lamont Curtin University
Siegfried L. Krauss
Siegfried L. Krauss University of Western Australia
Neal J. Enright
Neal J. Enright Murdoch University
Chengdao Li
Chengdao Li Murdoch University
Ben P. Miller
Ben P. Miller University of Western Australia
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Ülo Niinemets
Ülo Niinemets Estonian University of Life Sciences

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