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
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Latombe, G., Catford, J. & al., E., 16 Sep 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Ecosphere. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article
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Guerrero-Ramírez, N. R., Mommer, L., Freschet, G. T., Iversen, C. M., McCormack, M. L., Kattge, J., Poorter, H., van der Plas, F., Bergmann, J., Kuyper, T. W., York, L. M., Bruelheide, H., Laughlin, D. C., Meier, I. C., Roumet, C., Semchenko, M., Sweeney, C. J., van Ruijven, J., Valverde-Barrantes, O. J., Aubin, I. & 29 others, Catford, J. A., Manning, P., Martin, A., Milla, R., Minden, V., Pausas, J. G., Smith, S. W., Soudzilovskaia, N. A., Ammer, C., Butterfield, B., Craine, J., Cornelissen, J. H. C., de Vries, F. T., Isaac, M. E., Kramer, K., König, C., Lamb, E. G., Onipchenko, V. G., Peñuelas, J., Reich, P. B., Rillig, M. C., Sack, L., Shipley, B., Tedersoo, L., Valladares, F., van Bodegom, P., Weigelt, P., Wright, J. P. & Weigelt, A., 28 Jul 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13179https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.17.095851
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Jochum, M., Fischer, M., Isbell, F., Roscher, C., von der Plas, F., Boch, S., Boenisch, G., Buchmann, N., Catford, J., Cavender-Bares, J. & Manning, P., 17 Jul 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Nature Ecology and Evolution. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article
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Wandrag, E., Bates, S., Barrett, L., Catford, J., Thrall, P., van der Putten, W. & Duncan, R., 3 Jul 2020, In : NEW PHYTOLOGIST. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16768
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Pyšek, P., Bacher, S., Kühn, I., Novoa, A., Catford, J., Hulme, P., Pergl, J., Richardson, D., Wilson, J. & Blackburn, T., 30 Jun 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Neobiota. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article
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Pinto-Ledezma, J. N., Villalobos, F., Reich, P. B., Catford, J. A., Larkin, D. J. & Cavender-Bares, J., 23 Jun 2020, In : ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1420
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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
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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 May 2020, In : BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS. 22, 5, p. 1801-1820 20 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02220-w
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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
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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