Suzanne M. Prober
A5080556942- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Pasture and Agricultural Systems
- Forest ecology and management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Management and Policy
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Climate variability and models
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2014-2025
CSIRO Scientific Computing
2023-2025
ACT Government
2023-2025
The University of Western Australia
2017-2024
Health Sciences and Nutrition
2022-2024
CSIRO Land and Water
2014-2023
Australian National University
1990-2023
Murdoch University
2019-2023
Ecosystem Sciences
2010-2022
Charles Sturt University
2005-2019
Significance Human activities have resulted in large increases the availability of nutrients terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. Although plant community responses to elevated been well studied, soil microbial remain poorly understood, despite their critical importance ecosystem functioning. Using DNA-sequencing approaches, we assessed response communities experimentally added nitrogen and phosphorus at 25 grassland sites across globe. Our results demonstrate that composition these shifts...
Abstract Aboveground–belowground interactions exert critical controls on the composition and function of terrestrial ecosystems, yet fundamental relationships between plant diversity soil microbial remain elusive. Theory predicts predominantly positive associations but tests within single sites have shown variable relationships, across broad spatial scales largely unexplored. We compared plant, bacterial, archaeal fungal communities in one hundred forty‐five 1 m 2 plots 25 temperate...
For more than 30 years, the relationship between net primary productivity and species richness has generated intense debate in ecology about processes regulating local diversity. The original view, which is still widely accepted, holds that hump-shaped, with first rising then declining increasing productivity. Although recent meta-analyses questioned generality of hump-shaped patterns, these syntheses have been criticized for failing to account methodological differences among studies. We...
OPINION article Front. Ecol. Evol., 23 June 2015Sec. Interdisciplinary Climate Studies Volume 3 - 2015 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2015.00065
Abstract. OzFlux is the regional Australian and New Zealand flux tower network that aims to provide a continental-scale national research facility monitor assess trends, improve predictions, of Australia's terrestrial biosphere climate. This paper describes evolution, design, current status as well provides an overview data processing. We analyse measurements from all sites within portion two Zealand. The response biomes climate was largely consistent with global studies except systems had...
Abstract Globally, collapse of ecosystems—potentially irreversible change to ecosystem structure, composition and function—imperils biodiversity, human health well‐being. We examine the current state recent trajectories 19 ecosystems, spanning 58° latitude across 7.7 M km 2 , from Australia's coral reefs terrestrial Antarctica. Pressures global climate regional impacts, occurring as chronic ‘presses’ and/or acute ‘pulses’, drive collapse. Ecosystem responses 5–17 pressures were categorised...
Humans dominate many important Earth system processes including the nitrogen (N) cycle. Atmospheric N deposition affects fundamental such as carbon cycling, climate regulation, and biodiversity, could result in changes to primary production. Both modelling experimentation have suggested a role for anthropogenically altered increasing productivity, nevertheless, current understanding of relative strength with respect other controls on production edaphic conditions is limited. Here we use an...
Abstract Changes in Earth's climate are accelerating, prompting increasing calls to ensure that investments ecological restoration and nature conservation accommodate such changes. To acknowledge this need, we propose the term “ecological renovation” describe management actions actively allow for environmental change. evaluate progress development of renovation related intervention options a change context, reviewed literature established typology have been proposed. We explored how these...
Deadwood is a large global carbon store with its size partially determined by biotic decay. Microbial wood decay rates are known to respond changing temperature and precipitation. Termites also important decomposers in the tropics but less well studied. An understanding of their climate sensitivities needed estimate change effects on pools. Using data from 133 sites spanning six continents, we found that termite discovery consumption were highly sensitive (with increasing >6.8 times per 10°C...
Summary Ecological invasions are often associated with persistent changes to underlying ecological processes. Restoration of invaded communities is dependent on manipulation these processes favour the target species composition and impart resistance further invasion. We applied principles extensively degraded grassy woodlands in temperate agricultural regions Australia, where widespread invasion by mediterranean annuals related altered such as soil nutrient cycling. investigated carbon...
Abstract Exotic species dominate many communities; however the functional significance of species’ biogeographic origin remains highly contentious. This debate is fuelled in part by lack globally replicated, systematic data assessing relationship between provenance, function and response to perturbations. We examined abundance native exotic plant at 64 grasslands 13 countries, a subset sites we experimentally tested responses two fundamental drivers invasion, mineral nutrient supplies...
Prober, S. M., M. H. O'Connor, and F. J. Walsh. 2011. Australian Aboriginal peoples' seasonal knowledge: a potential basis for shared understanding in environmental management. Ecology Society 16(2): 12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04023-160212
Patterns of adaptive variation within plant species are best studied through common garden experiments, but these costly and time-consuming, especially for trees that have long generation times. We explored whether genome-wide scanning technology combined with outlier marker detection could be used to detect adaptation climate provide an alternative experiments. As a case study, we sampled nine provenances the widespread forest tree species, Eucalyptus tricarpa, across aridity gradient in...
Abstract Widespread species often occur across a range of climatic conditions, through combination local genetic adaptations and phenotypic plasticity. Species with greater plasticity are likely to be better positioned cope rapid anthropogenic climate changes, while those displaying strong might benefit from translocations assist the movement adaptive genes as changes. E ucalyptus tricarpa occurs gradient in south‐eastern A ustralia, region increasing aridity, we hypothesized that this would...
Soil nitrogen mineralisation (Nmin), the conversion of organic into inorganic N, is important for productivity and nutrient cycling. The balance between immobilisation (net Nmin) varies with soil properties climate. However, because most global-scale assessments net Nmin are laboratory-based, its regulation under field-conditions implications real-world functioning remain uncertain. Here, we explore drivers realised (field) potential (laboratory) across 30 grasslands worldwide. We find that...