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Biography

Dr Jane Catford is a plant community ecologist with an interest in community assembly, biological invasions, environmental change and biodiversity. She has worked in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems across the world, and uses theoretical, quantitative and empirical approaches in her work. She has established and maintains long-term field experiments in the US, UK and Australia, and collaborates widely.

She joined the Department of Geography in September 2018. Before moving to King’s, she was a Lecturer in Community Ecology at the University of Southampton. From 2012-2016, she held a research fellowship with the Australian Research Council and worked at The University of Melbourne, University of Minnesota and Australian National University.

She has worked as a consultant on projects involving: the prediction and management of exotic plant invasion; river health and environmental flow assessments; river restoration and rehabilitation; water sensitive urban design and the design of constructed wetlands.

She is an Editor for the journals Conservation Letters, Journal of Ecology and Neobiota, and is a member of the British Ecological Society's Publications Committee.

Qualifications

BA/BSc (Honours), Monash University, Australia
PGCAP, University of Southampton, UK
PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Research

  • Causes and consequences of biological invasions
  • Using plant functional traits to understand responses to, and impacts of, global environmental change
  • Prediction and management of novel ecosystems
  • Community assembly, species coexistence and biodiversity
  • Ecosystem restoration and management
  • Ecosystem services (especially in rivers, wetlands, riparian zones and grasslands)
  • Ecological impacts of global environmental change, including climate change, river regulation and nitrogen deposition

Teaching

PhD supervision

Jane welcomes interested students to contact her about potential projects. 

Principal supervisor

Second supervisor

Further details

See Jane's research profile

  • Community diversity outweighs effect of warming on plant colonization

    Catford, J. A., Dwyer, J. M., Palma, E., Cowles, J. M. & Tilman, D., 1 May 2020, In : GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY. 26, 5, p. 3079-3090 12 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15017

  • Testing Darwin's naturalization conundrum based on taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional dimensions of vascular plants

    Pinto-Ledezma, J. N., Villalobos, F., Reich, P. B., Catford, J., Larkin, D. J. & Bares, J. C., 14 Apr 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article

  • Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity

    Smith, A. L. & Catford, J. A., 25 Feb 2020, In : PNAS. 117, 8, p. 4218-4227 10 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915848117

  • A conceptual map of invasion biology: integrating hypotheses into a consensus network

    Enders, M., Havemann, F., Bernard-Verdier, M., Catford, J. A., Gómez-Aparicio, L., Haider, S., Heger, T., Kueffer, C., Kühn, I., Meyerson, L. A., Musseau, C., Novoa, A., Ricciardi, A., Sagouis, A., Schittko, C., Strayer, D. L., Vilà, M., Essl, F., Hulme, P. E., van Kleunen, M. & 9 others, Kumschick, S., Lockwood, J. L., Mabey, A. L., McGeoch, M., Palma, E., PyÅ¡ek, P., Saul, W-C., Yannelli, F. A. & Jeschke, J. M., 31 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article

  • Fine-scale variables associated with the presence of native forbs in natural temperate grassland

    Johnson, D. P., Driscoll, D. A., Catford, J. & Gibbons, P., 17 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : AUSTRAL ECOLOGY. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article

  • Invasion syndromes: a systematic approach for predicting biological invasions and facilitating effective management

    Novoa, A., Richardson, D. M., Pyšek, P., Meyerson, L. A., Bacher, S., Canavan, S., Catford, J. A., Čuda, J., Essl, F., Foxcroft, L. C., Genovesi, P., Hirsch, H., Hui, C., Jackson, M. C., Kueffer, C., Le Roux, J. J., Measey, J., Mohanty, N. P., Moodley, D., Müller-Schärer, H. & 9 others, Packer, J. G., Pergl, J., Robinson, T. B., Saul, W. C., Shackleton, R. T., Visser, V., Weyl, O. L. F., Yannelli, F. A. & Wilson, J. R. U., 1 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02220-w

  • TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

    Kattge, J., Bönisch, G., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I. C., Leadley, P., Tautenhahn, S., Werner, G. D. A., Aakala, T., Abedi, M., Acosta, A. T. R., Adamidis, G. C., Adamson, K., Aiba, M., Albert, C. H., Alcántara, J. M., Alcázar C, C., Aleixo, I., Ali, H., Amiaud, B. & 708 others, Ammer, C., Amoroso, M. M., Anand, M., Anderson, C., Anten, N., Antos, J., Apgaua, D. M. G., Ashman, T., Asmara, D. H., Asner, G. P., Aspinwall, M., Atkin, O., Aubin, I., Baastrup-spohr, L., Bahalkeh, K., Bahn, M., Baker, T., Baker, W. J., Bakker, J. P., Baldocchi, D., Baltzer, J., Banerjee, A., Baranger, A., Barlow, J., Barneche, D. R., 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. L., Berenguer, E., Bergamin, R., Bergmann, J., Bergmann Carlucci, M., Berner, L., Bernhardt-römermann, M., Bigler, C., Bjorkman, A. 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  • Invasive shrub re-establishment following management has contrasting effects on biodiversity

    O'Loughlin, L. S., Gooden, B., Foster, C. N., MacGregor, C. I., Catford, J. A. & Lindenmayer, D. B., 1 Dec 2019, In : Scientific Reports. 9, 1, 4083. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40654-y

  • Measuring competitive impact: joint-species modelling of invaded plant communities

    O'Reilly-Nugent, A., Wandrag, E. M., Catford, J. A., Gruber, B., Driscoll, D. & Duncan, R. P., 2 Sep 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article

  • Quantifying niche availability, niche overlap and competition for recruitment sites in plant populations without explicit knowledge of niche axes

    Wandrag, E. M., Catford, J. A. & Duncan, R. P., 1 Jul 2019, In : JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY. 107, 4, p. 1791-1803 13 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13137
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