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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
5201
World Ranking
6443
National Ranking
401

Overview

Zoë Lindo is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research spans a range of topics primarily centered on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their scholarly contributions emphasize ecological dynamics, soil science, and the impacts of climate change on ecosystems.

Their recent publications include works such as:

  • Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails, 2023, Nature Communications
  • A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Response of soil fauna to simulated global change factors depends on ambient climate conditions, 2020, Pedobiologia
  • Impact of changing climate on bryophyte contributions to terrestrial water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles, 2024, New Phytologist
  • Multiple dimensions of soil food-web research: History and prospects, 2023, European Journal of Soil Biology

Lindo's frequent co-authors include Carlos Barreto, Robert W. Buchkowski, Anton Potapov, Matthew L. Meehan, and Brian A. Branfireun. Collaborative research with these scientists has contributed to a body of work in soil biology and ecosystem ecology.

Among the venues where Lindo commonly publishes are:

  • Pedobiologia
  • European Journal of Soil Biology
  • Scientific Data
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Functional Ecology

Their main fields of study are Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with noted subfields including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Research topics addressed by Lindo include:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Study of Mite Species

In addition to journal articles, Lindo has contributed to book publications with one title released by Frontiers Media in 2024 titled Women in Biogeochemical Dynamics Research: 2022. Another forthcoming book, Measuring and assessing the biological health of soils, is set for publication by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited in 2025.

Best Publications

  • The Bryosphere: An Integral and Influential Component of the Earth’s Biosphere

    Zoë Lindo;Andrew Gonzalez

  • Climate change drives a shift in peatland ecosystem plant community: Implications for ecosystem function and stability

    Catherine M. Dieleman;Brian A. Branfireun;James W. McLaughlin;Zoë Lindo

  • Bryophyte-cyanobacteria associations as regulators of the northern latitude carbon balance in response to global change.

    Zoë Lindo;Marie‐Charlotte Nilsson;Michael J. Gundale

  • Connectivity, non‐random extinction and ecosystem function in experimental metacommunities

    Philip Staddon;Zoë Lindo;Peter D. Crittenden;Francis Gilbert

  • The disentangled bank: How loss of habitat fragments and disassembles ecological networks

    Andrew Gonzalez;Bronwyn Rayfield;Zoë Lindo

  • Microbial biomass, nitrogen and phosphorus mineralization, and mesofauna in boreal conifer and deciduous forest floors following partial and clear-cut harvesting

    Zoë Lindo;Suzanne Visser

  • Metacommunity diversity depends on connectivity and patch arrangement in heterogeneous habitat networks

    Chelsea Chisholm;Zoë Lindo;Andrew Gonzalez

  • A methodological framework to embrace soil biodiversity

    Stefan Geisen;Maria J.I. Briones;Huijie Gan;Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier

  • A comparison of microarthropod assemblages with emphasis on oribatid mites in canopy suspended soils and forest floors associated with ancient western redcedar trees

    Zoë Lindo;Neville N. Winchester

  • Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails

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  • Forest floor microarthropod abundance and oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida) composition following partial and clear-cut harvesting in the mixedwood boreal forest

    Zoë Lindo;Suzanne Visser

  • A community of metacommunities: exploring patterns in species distributions across large geographical areas.

    Renato Henriques-Silva;Zoë Lindo;Pedro R. Peres-Neto

  • Quantifying and mapping ecosystem service use across stakeholder groups: Implications for conservation with priorities for cultural values

    Rachel Darvill;Zoë Lindo

  • Spatial and environmental factors contributing to patterns in arboreal and terrestrial oribatid mite diversity across spatial scales

    Zoë Lindo;Neville N. Winchester

  • The inclusion of stakeholders and cultural ecosystem services in land management trade-off decisions using an ecosystem services approach

    Rachel Darvill;Zoë Lindo

  • Traits explain community disassembly and trophic contraction following experimental environmental change

    Zoë Lindo;Jonathan Whiteley;Andrew Gonzalez

  • Priorities for research in soil ecology

    Nico Eisenhauer;Pedro M Antunes;Alison E Bennett;Klaus Birkhofer

  • Are leaf litter and microbes team players? Interpreting home-field advantage decomposition dynamics

    Julia E. Palozzi;Zoë Lindo

  • Old trees contribute bio-available nitrogen through canopy bryophytes

    Zoë Lindo;Jonathan A. Whiteley

  • Post-fire succession of collembolan communities in a northern hardwood forest

    K. Huebner;Z. Lindo;M.J. Lechowicz

  • Oribatid mite communities and foliar litter decomposition in canopy suspended soils and forest floor habitats of western redcedar forests, Vancouver Island, Canada

    Zoë Lindo;Neville N. Winchester

  • Forest floor microarthropod abundance and oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida) composition following partial and clear-cut harvesting in the

    Zoë Lindo;Suzanne Visser

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian A. Branfireun
Brian A. Branfireun University of Western Ontario
Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier
Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Andrew Gonzalez
Andrew Gonzalez McGill University
Matthias C. Rillig
Matthias C. Rillig Freie Universität Berlin
Franciska T. de Vries
Franciska T. de Vries University of Amsterdam
Christoph F. J. Meyer
Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford
Diana H. Wall
Diana H. Wall Colorado State University
Adrià López-Baucells
Adrià López-Baucells Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers
Ignacio Ribera
Ignacio Ribera Spanish National Research Council
Tancredi Caruso
Tancredi Caruso Queen's University Belfast

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