Etienne LalibertéAssistant Professor & ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher
School of Plant Biology
I am a plant ecologist with interests in both natural and human-modified ecosystems. I use observational and experimental approaches to understand vegetation patterns, especially plant functional composition and diversity. I am also interested in the consequences of changes in vegetation for ecosystem functioning. My research is strongly field-based, but rooted in theory.
Recent news
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Plant-soil feedback special issue in J Ecol
A new special feature on plant-soil feedback has just been published in Journal of Ecology. With Paul Kardol (lead author), we wrote one of the articles. The article reviews ...
Posted Feb 25, 2013, 10:21 PM by Etienne Laliberté
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Pedogenesis and plant diversity
We wrote a review that presents different hypotheses to explain why older, more strongly-weathered soils generally show greater plant diversity. This review has just been accepted in Trends in ...
Posted Feb 20, 2013, 8:10 PM by Etienne Laliberté
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New article in Journal of Vegetation Science
A study exploring how plant functional diversity changes with long-term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity in New Zealand grasslands has just been published in Journal of ...
Posted Feb 11, 2013, 5:53 PM by Etienne Laliberté
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Welcome to Felipe and Kenny
Two new PhD students joined the group in the last few months: Felipe Albornoz, who will work on plant interactions along soil nutrient availability gradients, and Kenny Png, who will ...
Posted Jan 21, 2013, 4:50 PM by Etienne Laliberté
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PLoS ONE article on litter decomposition
We just had a paper published that explores the use of nonlinear beta regression for estimating litter decomposition rates in single-pool models. Our initial hypothesis was that beta regression ...
Posted Sep 29, 2012, 11:35 PM by Etienne Laliberté
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