Distinguished Professor Ian Wright

Distinguished Professor Ian Wright

Professor in Plant Functional Ecology,
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

Professor in Plant Functional Ecology,
Dean's Unit, School of Science

Biography

Plant ecologist. Chief Scientist, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment. Distinguished Professor of Plant Functional Ecology.

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Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
  • Dean's Unit, School of Science

Contact

Email: Ian.J.Wright@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone:
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Location: HawkesburyR2.1.21
Hawkesbury

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Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Onoda, Y. and Wright, I. (2018), 'The leaf economics spectrum and its underlying physiological and anatomical principles', The Leaf: A Platform for Performing Photosynthesis, Springer 9783319935928.

Journal Articles

  • Tsujii, Y., Atwell, B., Lambers, H. and Wright, I. (2024), 'Leaf phosphorus fractions vary with leaf economic traits among 35 Australian woody species', New Phytologist, vol 241, no 5 , pp 1985 - 1997.
  • Westerband, A., Wright, I., Maire, V., Paillassa, J., Prentice, I., Atkin, O., Bloomfield, K., Cernusak, L., Dong, N., Gleason, S., Guilherme Pereira, C., Lambers, H., Leishman, M., Malhi, Y. and Nolan, R. (2023), 'Coordination of photosynthetic traits across soil and climate gradients', Global Change Biology, vol 29, no 3 , pp 856 - 873.
  • Dong, N., Dechant, B., Wang, H., Wright, I. and Prentice, I. (2023), 'Global leaf-trait mapping based on optimality theory', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 32, no 7 , pp 1152 - 1162.
  • Tsujii, Y., Fan, B., Atwell, B., Lambers, H., Lei, Z. and Wright, I. (2023), 'A survey of leaf phosphorus fractions and leaf economic traits among 12 co-occurring woody species on phosphorus-impoverished soils', Plant and Soil, , pp 107 - 124.
  • Gallagher, R., Allen, S., Govaerts, R., Rivers, M., Allen, A., Keith, D., Merow, C., Maitner, B., Butt, N., Auld, T., Enquist, B., Eiserhardt, W., Wright, I., Mifsud, J., Espinosa-Ruiz, S., Possingham, H. and Adams, V. (2023), 'Global shortfalls in threat assessments for endemic flora by country', Plants, People, Planet, vol 5, no 6 , pp 885 - 898.
  • Wang, H., Prentice, I., Wright, I., Warton, D., Qiao, S., Xu, X., Zhou, J., Kikuzawa, K. and Stenseth, N. (2023), 'Leaf economics fundamentals explained by optimality principles', Science Advances, vol 9, no 3 .
  • Schrader, J., Wright, I., Kreft, H., Dixon, K., Gallagher, R., Andrew, S., Weigelt, P. and Westoby, M. (2023), '[In Press] Trait filtering in island floras : a conceptual framework', Journal of Biogeography, .
  • Schrader, J., Wright, I., Kreft, H., Weigelt, P., Andrew, S., Abbott, I. and Westoby, M. (2023), 'ETIB-T : an equilibrium theory of island biogeography for plant traits', Journal of Biogeography, vol 50, no 1 , pp 223 - 234.
  • Vecera, M., Axmanova, I., Chytry, M., Divi-sek, J., Ndiribe, C., Mones, G., Ceplova, N., Acic, S., Bahn, M., Bergamini, A., Boenisch, G., Biurrun, I., Bruun, H., Byun, C., Catford, J., Cerabolini, B., Cornelissen, J., Dengler, J., Jansen, F., Jansen, S., Kattge, J., Kozub, L., Kuzemko, A., Minden, V., Mitchell, R., Moeslund, J., Mori, A., Niinemets, U., Ruprecht, E., Rusina, S., Silc, U., Soudzilovskaia, N., van Bodegom, P., Vassilev, K., Weiher, E., Wright, I. and Lososova, Z. (2023), 'Decoupled phylogenetic and functional diversity in European grasslands', Preslia, vol 95, no 4 , pp 413 - 445.
  • James, M., Brodribb, T., Wright, I., Rieseberg, L. and Ortiz-Barrientos, D. (2023), 'Replicated evolution in plants', Annual Review of Plant Biology, vol 74 , pp 697 - 725.
  • Lei, Z., Liu, F., Wright, I., Carriqui, M., Niinemets, U., Han, J., Jia, M., Atwell, B., Cai, X., Zhang, W., Zhou, Z. and Zhang, Y. (2022), 'Comparisons of photosynthetic and anatomical traits between wild and domesticated cotton', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol 73, no 3 , pp 873 - 885.
  • Westerband, A., Wright, I., Eller, A., Cernusak, L., Reich, P., Perez-Priego, O., Chhajed, S., Hutley, L. and Lehmann, C. (2022), 'Nitrogen concentration and physical properties are key drivers of woody tissue respiration', Annals of Botany, vol 129, no 6 , pp 633 - 646.
  • Lei, Z., Westerband, A., Wright, I., He, Y., Zhang, W., Cai, X., Zhou, Z., Liu, F. and Zhang, Y. (2022), 'Leaf trait covariation and controls on leaf mass per area (LMA) following cotton domestication', Annals of Botany, vol 130, no 2 , pp 231 - 243.
  • Poorter, H., Knopf, O., Wright, I., Temme, A., Hogewoning, S., Graf, A., Cernusak, L. and Pons, T. (2022), 'A meta-analysis of responses of C3 plants to atmospheric CO2 : dose-response curves for 85 traits ranging from the molecular to the whole-plant level', New Phytologist, vol 233, no 4 , pp 1560 - 1596.
  • He, P., Lian, J., Ye, Q., Liu, H., Zheng, Y., Yu, K., Zhu, S., Li, R., Yin, D., Ye, W. and Wright, I. (2022), 'How do functional traits influence tree demographic properties in a subtropical monsoon forest?', Functional Ecology, vol 36, no 12 , pp 3200 - 3210.
  • Gibb, H., Bishop, T., Leahy, L., Parr, C., Lessard, J., Sanders, N., Shik, J., Ibarra-Isassi, J., Narendra, A., Dunn, R. and Wright, I. (2022), 'Ecological strategies of (pl)ants : towards a world-wide worker economic spectrum for ants', Functional Ecology, vol 37, no 1 , pp 13 - 25.
  • Andrew, S., Gallagher, R., Wright, I. and Mokany, K. (2022), 'Assessing the vulnerability of plant functional trait strategies to climate change', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 31, no 6 , pp 1194 - 1206.
  • Dong, N., Wright, I., Chen, J., Luo, X., Wang, H., Keenan, T., Smith, N. and Prentice, I. (2022), 'Rising CO2 and warming reduce global canopy demand for nitrogen', New Phytologist, vol 235, no 5 , pp 1692 - 1700.
  • Ellsworth, D., Crous, K., De Kauwe, M., Verryckt, L., Goll, D., Zaehle, S., Bloomfield, K., Ciais, P., Cernusak, L., Domingues, T., Dusenge, M., Garcia, S., Guerrieri, R., Ishida, F., Janssens, I., Kenzo, T., Ichie, T., Medlyn, B., Meir, P., Norby, R., Reich, P., Rowland, L., Santiago, L., Sun, Y., Uddling, J., Walker, A., Weerasinghe, K., Van de Weg, M., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J. and Wright, I. (2022), 'Convergence in phosphorus constraints to photosynthesis in forests around the world', Nature Communications, vol 13, no 1 .
  • Wang, Z., Huang, H., Wang, H., Penuelas, J., Sardans, J., Niinemets, U., Niklas, K., Li, Y., Xie, J. and Wright, I. (2022), 'Leaf water content contributes to global leaf trait relationships', Nature Communications, vol 13, no 1 .
  • Dong, N., Prentice, I., Wright, I., Wang, H., Atkin, O., Bloomfield, K., Domingues, T., Gleason, S., Maire, V., Onoda, Y., Poorter, H. and Smith, N. (2022), 'Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function', Journal of Ecology, vol 110, no 11 , pp 2585 - 2602.
  • Diaz, S., Kattge, J., Cornelissen, J., Wright, I., Lavorel, S., Dray, S., Reu, B., Kleyer, M., Wirth, C., Prentice, I., Garnier, E., Bonisch, G., Westoby, M., Poorter, H., Reich, P., Moles, A., Dickie, J., Zanne, A., Chave, J., Wright, S., Sheremetiev, S., Jactel, H., Baraloto, C., Cerabolini, B., Pierce, S., Shipley, B., Casanoves, F., Joswig, J., Gunther, A., Falczuk, V., Ruger, N., Mahecha, M., Gorne, L., Amiaud, B., Atkin, O., Bahn, M., Baldocchi, D., Beckmann, M., Blonder, B., Bond, W., Bond-Lamberty, B., Brown, K., Burrascano, S., Byun, C., Campetella, G., Cavender-Bares, J., Chapin, F., Choat, B., Coomes, D., Cornwell, W. and et al, .. (2022), 'The global spectrum of plant form and function : enhanced species-level trait dataset', Scientific Data, vol 9, no 1 .
  • Gleason, S., Barnard, D., Green, T., Mackay, S., Wang, D., Ainsworth, E., Altenhofen, J., Brodribb, T., Cochard, H., Comas, L., Cooper, M., Creek, D., DeJonge, K., Delzon, S., Fritschi, F., Hammer, G., Hunter, C., Lombardozzi, D., Messina, C., Ocheltree, T., Stevens, B., Stewart, J., Vadez, V., Wenz, J., Wright, I., Yemoto, K. and Zhang, H. (2022), 'Physiological trait networks enhance understanding of crop growth and water use in contrasting environments', Plant Cell and Environment, vol 45, no 9 , pp 2554 - 2572.
  • Nolan, R., Gauthey, A., Losso, A., Medlyn, B., Smith, R., Chhajed, S., Fuller, K., Song, M., Li, X., Beaumont, L., Boer, M., Wright, I., Wright, I. and Choat, B. (2021), 'Hydraulic failure and tree size linked with canopy die-back in eucalypt forest during extreme drought', New Phytologist, vol 230, no 4 , pp 1354 - 1365.
  • Schrader, J., Shi, P., Royer, D., Peppe, D., Gallagher, R., Li, Y., Wang, R., Wright, I. and Wright, I. (2021), 'Leaf size estimation based on leaf length, width and shape', Annals of Botany, vol 128, no 4 , pp 395 - 406.
  • Andrew, S., Mokany, K., Falster, D., Wenk, E., Wright, I., Wright, I., Merow, C., Adams, V. and Gallagher, R. (2021), 'Functional diversity of the Australian flora : strong links to species richness and climate', Journal of Vegetation Science, vol 32, no 2 .
  • Lambers, H., Wright, I., Guilherme Pereira, C., Bellingham, P., Bentley, L., Boonman, A., Cernusak, L., Foulds, W., Gleason, S., Gray, E., Hayes, P., Kooyman, R., Malhi, Y., Richardson, S., Shane, M., Staudinger, C., Stock, W., Swarts, N., Turner, B., Turner, J., Veneklaas, E., Wasaki, J., Westoby, M. and Xu, Y. (2021), 'Leaf manganese concentrations as a tool to assess belowground plant functioning in phosphorus-impoverished environments', Plant and Soil, vol 461, no 1-2 , pp 43 - 61.
  • Harrison, S., Cramer, W., Franklin, O., Prentice, I., Wang, H., Brannstrom, A., Boer, H., Dieckmann, U., Joshi, J., Keenan, T., Lavergne, A., Manzoni, S., Mengoli, G., Morfopoulos, C., Penuelas, J., Pietsch, S., Rebel, K., Ryu, Y., Smith, N., Stocker, B. and Wright, I. (2021), 'Eco-evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land-surface models', New Phytologist, vol 231, no 6 , pp 2125 - 2141.
  • Migliavacca, M., Musavi, T., Mahecha, M., Nelson, J., Knauer, J., Baldocchi, D., Perez-Priego, O., Christiansen, R., Peters, J., Anderson, K., Bahn, M., Black, T., Blanken, P., Bonal, D., Buchmann, N., Caldararu, S., Carrara, A., Carvalhais, N., Cescatti, A., Chen, J., Cleverly, J., Cremonese, E., Desai, A., El-Madany, T., Farella, M., Fernandez-Martinez, M., Filippa, G., Forkel, M., Galvagno, M., Gomarasca, U., Gough, C., Gockede, M., Ibrom, A., Ikawa, H., Janssens, I., Jung, M., Kattge, J., Keenan, T., Knohl, A., Kobayashi, H., Kraemer, G., Law, B., Liddell, M., Ma, X., Mammarella, I., Martini, D., Macfarlane, C., Matteucci, G., Montagnani, L., Pabon-Moreno, D., Panigada, C., Papale, D., Pendall, E., Penuelas, J., Phillips, R., Reich, P., Rossini, M., Rotenberg, E., Scott, R., Stahl, C., Weber, U., Wohlfahrt, G., Wolf, S., Wright, I., Yakir, D., Zaehle, S. and Reichstein, M. (2021), 'The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function', Nature, vol 598, no 7881 , pp 468 - 472.
  • Schrader, J., Westoby, M., Wright, I. and Kreft, H. (2021), 'Disentangling direct and indirect effects of island area on plant functional trait distributions', Journal of Biogeography, vol 48, no 8 , pp 2098 - 2110.
  • Scarff, F., Lenz, T., Richards, A., Zanne, A., Wright, I. and Westoby, M. (2021), 'Effects of plant hydraulic traits on the flammability of live fine canopy fuels', Functional Ecology, vol 35, no 4 , pp 835 - 846.
  • Schrader, J., Wright, I., Kreft, H. and Westoby, M. (2021), 'A roadmap to plant functional island biogeography', Biological Reviews, vol 96, no 6 , pp 2851 - 2870.
  • Pinho, B., Tabarelli, M., ter Braak, C., Wright, S., Arroyo-Rodriguez, V., Benchimol, M., Engelbrecht, B., Pierce, S., Hietz, P., Santos, B., Peres, C., Muller, S., Wright, I., Bongers, F., Lohbeck, M., Niinemets, U., Slot, M., Jansen, S., Jamelli, D., Lima, R., Swenson, N., Condit, R., Barlow, J., Slik, F., Hernandez-Ruedas, M., Mendes, G., Martinez-?Ramos, M., Pitman, N., Kraft, N., Garwood, N., Guevara Andino, J., Faria, D., Chacon-Madrigal, E., Mariano-Neto, E., Junior, V., Kattge, J. and Melo, F. (2021), 'Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests : trait-climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 30, no 7 , pp 1430 - 1446.
  • Villar, R., Olmo, M., Atienza, P., Garzon, A., Wright, I., Poorter, H. and Hierro, L. (2021), 'Applying the economic concept of profitability to leaves', Scientific Reports, vol 11, no 1 .
  • Xu, H., Wang, H., Prentice, I., Harrison, S. and Wright, I. (2021), 'Coordination of plant hydraulic and photosynthetic traits : confronting optimality theory with field measurements', New Phytologist, vol 232, no 3 , pp 1286 - 1296.
  • Lei, Z., Wang, H., Wright, I., Zhu, X., Niinemets, U., Li, Z., Sun, D., Dong, N., Zhang, W., Zhou, Z., Liu, F. and Zhang, Y. (2021), 'Enhanced photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency and increased nitrogen allocation to photosynthetic machinery under cotton domestication', Photosynthesis Research, vol 150, no 1-3 , pp 239 - 250.
  • He, P., Gleason, S., Wright, I., Wright, I., Weng, E., Liu, H., Zhu, S., Lu, M., Luo, Q., Li, R., Wu, G., Yan, E., Song, Y., Mi, X., Hao, G., Reich, P., Wang, Y., Ellsworth, D. and Ye, Q. (2020), 'Growing-season temperature and precipitation are independent drivers of global variation in xylem hydraulic conductivity', Global Change Biology, vol 26, no 3 , pp 1833 - 1841.
  • Wang, H., Atkin, O., Keenan, T., Smith, N., Wright, I., Wright, I., Bloomfield, K., Kattge, J., Reich, P. and Prentice, I. (2020), 'Acclimation of leaf respiration consistent with optimal photosynthetic capacity', Global Change Biology, vol 26, no 4 , pp 2573 - 2583.
  • Asao, S., Hayes, L., Aspinwall, M., Rymer, P., Blackman, C., Bryant, C., Cullerne, D., Egerton, J., Fan, Y., Innes, P., Millar, A., Tucker, J., Shah, S., Wright, I., Wright, I., Yvon-Durocher, G., Tissue, D. and Atkin, O. (2020), 'Leaf trait variation is similar among genotypes of Eucalyptus camaldulensis from differing climates and arises as plastic response to season rather than water availability', New Phytologist, vol 227, no 3 , pp 780 - 793.
  • Kattge, J., Bonisch, G., Diaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I., Leadley, P., Tautenhahn, S., Werner, G., Aakala, T., Abedi, M., Acosta, A., Adamidis, G., Adamson, K., Aiba, M., Albert, C., Alcantara, J., Alcazar C, C., Aleixo, I., Ali, H., Amiaud, B., Ammer, C., Amoroso, M., Anand, M., Anderson, C., Anten, N., Antos, J., Apgaua, D., Ashman, T., Asmara, D., Asner, G., Aspinwall, M., Atkin, O., Aubin, I., Baastrup-Spohr, L., Bahalkeh, K., Bahn, M., Baker, T., Baker, W., Bakker, J., Baldocchi, D., Baltzer, J., Banerjee, A., Baranger, A., Barlow, J., Barneche, D., Baruch, Z., Bastianelli, D., Battles, J., Bauerle, W., Bauters, M., Bazzato, E., Beckmann, M., Beeckman, H., Beierkuhnlein, C., Bekker, R., Belfry, G., Belluau, M., Beloiu, M., Benavides, R., Benomar, L., Berdugo-Lattke, M., Berenguer, E., Bergamin, R., Bergmann, J., Bergmann Carlucci, M., Berner, L., Bernhardt-Romermann, M., Bigler, C., Bjorkman, A., Blackman, C., Blanco, C., Blonder, B., Blumenthal, D., Bocanegra-Gonzalez, K., Boeckx, P., Bohlman, S., Bohning-Gaese, K., Boisvert-Marsh, L., Bond, W., Bond-Lamberty, B., Boom, A., Boonman, C., Bordin, K., Boughton, E., Boukili, V., Bowman, D., Bravo, S., Brendel, M., Broadley, M., Brown, K., Bruelheide, H., Brumnich, F., Bruun, H., Bruy, D., Buchanan, S., Bucher, S., Buchmann, N., Buitenwerf, R., Bunker, D., Burger, J., Burrascano, S., Burslem, D., Butterfield, B., Byun, C., Marques, M., Scalon, M., Caccianiga, M., Cadotte, M., Cailleret, M., Camac, J., Camarero, J., Campany, C., Campetella, G., Campos, J., Cano-Arboleda, L., Canullo, R., Carbognani, M., Carvalho, F., Casanoves, F., Castagneyrol, B., Catford, J., Cavender-Bares, J., Cerabolini, B., Cervellini, M., Chacon-Madrigal, E., Chapin, K., Chapin, F., Chelli, S., Chen, S., Chen, A., Cherubini, P., Chianucci, F., Choat, B., Chung, K., Chytry, M., Ciccarelli, D., Coll, L., Collins, C., Conti, L., Coomes, D., Cornelissen, J., Cornwell, W., Corona, P., Coyea, M., Craine, J., Craven, D., Cromsigt, J., Csecserits, A., Cufar, K., Cuntz, M., da Silva, A., Dahlin, K., Dainese, M., Dalke, I., Dalle Fratte, M., Dang-Le, A., Danihelka, J., Dannoura, M., Dawson, S., De Beer, A., De Frutos, A., De Long, J., Dechant, B., Delagrange, S., Delpierre, N., Derroire, G., Dias, A., Diaz-Toribio, M., Dimitrakopoulos, P., Dobrowolski, M., Doktor, D., Drevojan, P., Dong, N., Dransfield, J., Dressler, S., Duarte, L., Ducouret, E., Dullinger, S., Durka, W., Duursma, R., Dymova, O., E-Vojtko, A., Eckstein, R., Ejtehadi, H., Elser, J., Emilio, T., Engemann, K., Erfanian, M., Erfmeier, A., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Esser, G., Estiarte, M., Domingues, T., Fagan, W., Fagundez, J., Falster, D., Fan, Y., Fang, J., Farris, E., Fazlioglu, F., Feng, Y., Fernandez-Mendez, F., Ferrara, C., Ferreira, J., Fidelis, A., Finegan, B., Firn, J., Flowers, T., Flynn, D., Fontana, V., Forey, E., Forgiarini, C., Francois, L., Frangipani, M., Frank, D., Frenette-Dussault, C., Freschet, G., Fry, E., Fyllas, N., Mazzochini, G., Gachet, S., Gallagher, R., Ganade, G., Ganga, F., Garcia-Palacios, P., Gargaglione, V., Garnier, E., Garrido, J., Gasper, A., Gea-Izquierdo, G., Gibson, D., Gillison, A., Giroldo, A., Glasenhardt, M., Gleason, S., Gliesch, M., Goldberg, E., Goldel, B., Gonzalez-Akre, E., Gonzalez-Andujar, J., Gonzalez-Melo, A., Gonzalez-Robles, A., Graae, B., Granda, E., Graves, S., Green, W., Gregor, T., Gross, N., Guerin, G., Gunther, A., Gutierrez, A., Haddock, L., Haines, A., Hall, J., Hambuckers, A., Han, W., Harrison, S., Hattingh, W., Hawes, J., He, T., He, P., Heberling, J., Helm, A., Hempel, S., Hentschel, J., Herault, B., Heres, A., Herz, K., Heuertz, M., Hickler, T., Hietz, P., Higuchi, P., Hipp, A., Hirons, A., Hock, M., Hogan, J., Holl, K., Honnay, O., Hornstein, D., Hou, E., Hough-Snee, N., Hovstad, K., Ichie, T., Igic, B., Illa, E., Isaac, M., Ishihara, M., Ivanov, L., Ivanova, L., Iversen, C., Izquierdo, J., Jackson, R., Jackson, B., Jactel, H., Jagodzinski, A., Jandt, U., Jansen, S., 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Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Lososova, Z., Louault, F., Lukacs, B., Kukes, P., Luo, Y., Lussu, M., Ma, S., Maciel Rabelo Pereira, C., Mack, M., Maire, V., Makela, A., Makinen, H., Malhado, A., Mallik, A., Manning, P., Manzoni, S., Marchetti, Z., Marchino, L., Marcilio-Silva, V., Marcon, E., Marignani, M., Markesteijn, L., Martin, A., Martinez-Garza, C., Martinez-Vilalta, J., Maskova, T., Mason, K., Mason, N., Massad, T., Masse, J., Mayrose, I., McCarthy, J., McCormack, M., McCulloch, K., McFadden, I., McGill, B., McPartland, M., Medeiros, J., Medlyn, B., Meerts, P., Mehrabi, Z., Meir, P., Melo, F., Mencuccini, M., Meredieu, C., Messier, J., Meszaros, I., Metsaranta, J., Michaletz, S., Michelaki, C., Migalina, S., Milla, R., Miller, J., Minden, V., Ming, R., Mokany, K., Moles, A., Molnar, A., Molofsky, J., Molz, M., Montgomery, R., Monty, A., Moravcova, L., Moreno-Martinez, A., Moretti, M., Mori, A., Mori, S., Morris, D., Morrison, J., Mucina, L., Mueller, S., Muir, C., Muller, S., Munoz, F., Myers-Smith, I., Myster, R., Nagano, M., Naidu, S., Narayanan, A., Natesan, B., Negoita, L., Nelson, A., Neuschulz, E., Ni, J., Niedrist, G., Nieto, J., Niinemets, U., Nolan, R., Power, S., Reich, P., Tissue, D., Tjoelker, M. and Wright, I. (2020), 'TRY plant trait database : enhanced coverage and open access', Global Change Biology, vol 26, no 1 , pp 119 - 188.
  • Gallagher, R., Falster, D., Maitner, B., Salguero-Gomez, R., Vandvik, V., Pearse, W., Schneider, F., Kattge, J., Poelen, J., Madin, J., Ankenbrand, M., Penone, C., Feng, X., Adams, V., Alroy, J., Andrew, S., Balk, M., Bland, L., Boyle, B., Bravo-Avila, C., Brennan, I., Carthey, A., Catullo, R., Cavazos, B., Conde, D., Chown, S., Fadrique, B., Gibb, H., Halbritter, A., Hammock, J., Hogan, J., Holewa, H., Hope, M., Iversen, C., Jochum, M., Kearney, M., Keller, A., Mabee, P., Manning, P., McCormack, L., Michaletz, S., Park, D., Perez, T., Pineda-Munoz, S., Ray, C., Rossetto, M., Sauquet, H., Sparrow, B., Spasojevic, M., Telford, R., Tobias, J., Violle, C., Walls, R., Weiss, K., Westoby, M., Wright, I., Wright, I. and Enquist, B. (2020), 'Open science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life', Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol 4, no 3 , pp 294 - 303.
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  • Wright, I., Wright, I., Reich, P., Westoby, M., Ackerly, D., Baruch, Z., Bongers, F., Cavender-Bares, J., Chapin, T., Cornelissen, J., Diemer, M., Flexas, J., Garnier, E., Groom, P., Gulias, J., Hikosaka, K., Lamont, B., Lee, T., Lee, W., Lusk, C., Midgley, J., Navas, M., Niinemets, U., Oleksyn, J., Osada, N., Poorter, H., Poot, P., Prior, L., Pyankov, V., Roumet, C., Thomas, S., Tjoelker, M., Veneklaas, E. and Villar, R. (2004), 'The worldwide leaf economics spectrum', Nature, vol 428 , pp 821 - 827.

Current Projects

Title: Leaf and wood physiology and biomass allocation as drivers of plant growth
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Ian Wright
Years: 2022-07-01 - 2025-06-30
ID: P00027768
Title: ARC CoE: Integrating physiological responses to drought into plant extinction risk assessment and conservation [Via University of Queensland]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Ian Wright and Rachael Gallagher
Years: 2024-01-31 - 2025-12-31
ID: P00028996
Title: ARC CoE: Field-sampling in support of the Centre's Themeda triandra (Andropogoneae) experimental platform [Via University of Queensland]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Ian Wright
Years: 2023-11-30 - 2024-12-31
ID: P00028997
Title: ARC CoE: Linking field-sampling of Australian wild sorghum to accessions used in experimental work [Via University of Queensland]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Ian Wright
Years: 2023-11-27 - 2024-12-31
ID: P00028998
Title: ARC CoE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture [Via Uni of Qld]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: Ian Wright and Rachael Gallagher
Years: 2022-01-31 - 2027-12-31
ID: P00027678
Title: The pristine myth: Markers of the Anthropocene in Australian montane peatlands [Rani Carroll]
Funder:
  • Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering Ltd (non ACRG)
Western Researchers: Jason Reynolds and Ian Wright
Years: 2022-07-01 - 2024-06-14
ID: P00028071
Title: ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture - Strategic Funds Bid - Field & glasshouse studies on eucalypts and native grasses [Via UQ]
Funder:
  • ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture
Western Researchers: Ian Wright
Years: 2022-03-01 - 2025-02-28
ID: P00028003
Title: ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture - Strategic Funds Bid - PhD Scholarships [via University of Queensland]
Funder:
  • ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture
Western Researchers: Ian Wright
Years: 2021-07-01 - 2027-06-30
ID: P00028004

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