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Jennifer Firn

Researcher at Queensland University of Technology

Publications -  153
Citations -  10500

Jennifer Firn is an academic researcher from Queensland University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Species richness. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 146 publications receiving 7380 citations. Previous affiliations of Jennifer Firn include Visayas State University & Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

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TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

Jens Kattge, +754 more
- 01 Jan 2020 - 
TL;DR: The extent of the trait data compiled in TRY is evaluated and emerging patterns of data coverage and representativeness are analyzed to conclude that reducing data gaps and biases in the TRY database remains a key challenge and requires a coordinated approach to data mobilization and trait measurements.
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Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

Jonathan W. Leff, +17 more
- 01 Sep 2015 - 
TL;DR: The results suggest that elevated N and P inputs lead to predictable shifts in the taxonomic and functional traits of soil microbial communities, including increases in the relative abundances of faster-growing, copiotrophic bacterial taxa, with these shifts likely to impact belowground ecosystems worldwide.
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Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

Elizabeth T. Borer, +55 more
- 24 Apr 2014 - 
TL;DR: Testing the hypothesis that herbaceous plant species losses caused by eutrophication may be offset by increased light availability due to herbivory demonstrates that nutrients and herbivores can serve as counteracting forces to control local plant diversity through light limitation, independent of site productivity, soil nitrogen, herbivore type and climate.
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Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

Suzanne M. Prober, +26 more
- 01 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the diversity of plant, bacterial, archaeal and fungal communities in one hundred and forty-five 1 m 2 plots across 25 temperate grassland sites from four continents.
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Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

Peter B. Adler, +59 more
- 23 Sep 2011 - 
TL;DR: This article conducted a standardized sampling in 48 herbaceous-dominated plant communities on five continents and found no clear relationship between productivity and fine-scale (meters−2) richness within sites, within regions, or across the globe.