Robert J. Holdaway

Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research — New Zealand

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

28h-index3.9kcitations55works7.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(18), Forest ecology and management(16), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology(9), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies(9), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(8)

Publications55 total

Assessing the impact of honey bees on invertebrate communities in mānuka shrublands in New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Ecology·2025Open Access
The global spectrum of tree crown architecture
Nature Communications·2025· 15 citedOpen Access
Pioneers of post‐agricultural forest successions are adapted for herbivory avoidance but not biotic seed dispersal
Journal of Vegetation Science·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database
Global Change Biology·2022· 99 citedOpen Access
Tallo database
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
Tallo database
Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Environmental and plant community drivers of plant pathogen composition and richness
New Phytologist·2021· 30 citedOpen Access
Land use, but not distance, drives fungal beta diversity
Ecology·2021· 12 cited
Review for "Keep your friends close: Host compartmentalisation of microbial communities facilitates decoupling from effects of habitat fragmentation"
2021Open Access
Data to Land-use but not distance drives fungal beta diversity
Figshare·2021Open Access
Rarity is a more reliable indicator of land-use impacts on soil invertebrate communities than other diversity metrics
eLife·2020· 30 citedOpen Access
Author response: Rarity is a more reliable indicator of land-use impacts on soil invertebrate communities than other diversity metrics
2020Open Access
Land use is a determinant of plant pathogen alpha‐ but not beta‐diversity
Molecular Ecology·2019· 60 cited
DNA metabarcoding as a tool for invertebrate community monitoring: a case study comparison with conventional techniques
Austral Entomology·2019· 68 cited
Biases in the metabarcoding of plant pathogens using rust fungi as a model system
MicrobiologyOpen·2018· 20 citedOpen Access
Towards robust and repeatable sampling methods in <scp>eDNA</scp>‐based studies
Molecular Ecology Resources·2018· 199 citedOpen Access
Incorporating measurement error in testing for changes in biodiversity
Methods in Ecology and Evolution·2018· 20 citedOpen Access
Airborne laser scanning of natural forests in New Zealand reveals the influences of wind on forest carbon
Forest Ecosystems·2018· 26 citedOpen Access
Methods for the extraction, storage, amplification and sequencing of DNA from environmental samples
New Zealand Journal of Ecology·2018· 181 citedOpen Access
Post-fire recovery of a dryland forest remnant in the Wither Hills, Marlborough
New Zealand Journal of Ecology·2018· 3 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Ian A. Dickie(16), David A. Coomes(13), Jamie R. Wood(12), Kate H. Orwin(10), Lourens Poorter(8), Bob Carswell(8), Tommaso Jucker(7), Sarah J. Richardson(7), Peter J. Bellingham(7), Norman W. H. Mason(7), John P. Caspersen(6), Cécile Antin(6), Nicolas Barbier(6), Frans Bongers(6), David I. Forrester(6), Matthias Haeni(6), Steven I. Higgins(6), Y. Iida(6), Craig G. Lorimer(6), Peter Marshall(6)