Etienne Laliberté
Assistant Professor &
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher
School of Plant Biology
The University of Western Australia
UWA webpage


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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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