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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Plant Community Ecology

The research interests of Andy Hector’s group focus on how biodiversity is maintained, how it is lost, and the consequences for the functioning of ecosystems and the provision of ecological services.

Ongoing Projects:

  • Aboveground resource competition and partitioning in grasslands

  • The functional ecology of Bornean Dipterocarps: ecological trade-offs related to light, growth and dispersal.

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services: Carbon sequestration in enrichment planted forests in Malaysian Borneo

  • Belowground resource competition and partitioning in grasslands

  • Ecosystem multifunctionality

  • Mechanisms of biodiversity loss

Research topics

  • Community ecology

  • Life-history trade-offs

  • Ecosystem processes

  • Ecological stability

Interdisciplinary

  • Population biology

  • Ecological services

  • Systems biology

  • Ecological statistics and graphics

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Contact Person

Prof. Dr. Andy Hector

University of Zurich
Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
Website
andrew.hector-at-uzh.ch
+41 (0)44 635 48 04

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Recent publications

  • Title: How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists
    Author(s): Paine, C. E. Timothy; Marthews, Toby R.; Vogt, Deborah R.; et al.
    Source: METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 3 (2): 245-256 APR 2012
    Document type: Article (Details)
  • Title: Response to Comments on "Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness"
    Author(s): Grace, James B.; Adler, Peter B.; Seabloom, Eric W.; et al.
    Source: SCIENCE, 335 (6075): MAR 23 2012
    Document type: Editorial Material (Details)
  • Title: Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Tropical Lowland Dipterocarp Rainforests in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
    Author(s): Saner, Philippe; Loh, Yen Yee; Ong, Robert C.; et al.
    Source: PLOS ONE, 7 (1): JAN 3 2012
    Document type: Article (Details)
  • Title: Impacts of logging on density-dependent predation of dipterocarp seeds in a South East Asian rainforest
    Author(s): Bagchi, Robert; Philipson, Christopher D.; Slade, Eleanor M.; et al.
    Source: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 366 (1582): 3246-3255 NOV 27 2011
    Document type: Article (Details)
  • Title: A large-scale forest fragmentation experiment: the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems Project
    Author(s): Ewers, Robert M.; Didham, Raphael K.; Fahrig, Lenore; et al.
    Source: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 366 (1582): 3292-3302 NOV 27 2011
    Document type: Article (Details)