Christopher H. Lusk

University of Waikato — New Zealand

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

45h-index15.9kcitations182works1.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(109), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(53), Forest ecology and management(44), Plant and animal studies(33), Species Distribution and Climate Change(23)

Publications180 total

Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction
Nature Plants·2026
Looking at the Wood, Seeing the Trees and More: Australia-New Zealand Tree-Ring Science Conference, January 2025
Tree-Ring Research·2025
Soil carbon:nitrogen ratios explain successional trajectories in the mycorrhizal makeup of south‐temperate humid forests
Ecology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Site‐Specific Nutrient Data Reveal the Importance of Soils in Driving the Mycorrhizal Make‐Up of Woody Vegetation Worldwide
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Ecological succession shapes size–density scaling relationships of trees and soil invertebrates
Functional Ecology·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Environmental filtering of regeneration patterns in a forest dynamic mosaic in south-central Chile
Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Soil nutrient availability and understorey composition beneath plantations of ecto- and arbuscular mycorrhizal Chilean native trees
Plant and Soil·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Review for "Individual and combined effects of non‐native earthworms and native white‐tailed deer on understorey plant survival, growth and reproduction"
2023
Canopy structure and understorey light availability in <i>Nothofagus</i> and podocarp-broadleaf stands in a New Zealand forest
New Zealand Journal of Botany·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale
Nature Communications·2023· 35 citedOpen Access
Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change
Science Advances·2023· 50 citedOpen Access
Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
The role of the peat seed bank in plant community dynamics of a fire‐prone New Zealand restiad bog
Austral Ecology·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
How the Ice Ages spurred the evolution of New Zealand’s weird and wiry native plants
2022
High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2022· 42 citedOpen Access
Global relationships in tree functional traits
Nature Communications·2022· 123 citedOpen Access
A field test of forest canopy structure measurements with the CanopyCapture smartphone application
PeerJ·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Peer Review #1 of "A field test of forest canopy structure measurements with the CanopyCapture smartphone application (v0.1)"
2022Open Access
Editorial
New Zealand Journal of Botany·2022
Dynamics of southern beech (Nothofagaceae) stands in the lowland North Island of New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Botany·2021· 5 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Ian J. Wright(10), Peter B. Reich(9), Ülo Niinemets(9), Jens Kattge(5), Mark Westoby(4), Daniel S. Falster(4), Josep Peñuelas(4), Fernando Valladares(4), Akira Mori(4), Peter M. van Bodegom(4), Alfredo Saldaña(4), Daniel C. Laughlin(4), Frida I. Piper(4), Yusuke Onoda(4), Noriyuki Osada(3), Hendrik Poorter(3), Mark G. Tjoelker(3), Gregory J. Jordan(3), Nathan J. B. Kraft(3), Martijn Slot(3)