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Laura Kirwan
Researcher at University College Dublin
Publications - 73
Citations - 2243
Laura Kirwan is an academic researcher from University College Dublin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Cystic fibrosis. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 57 publications receiving 1902 citations. Previous affiliations of Laura Kirwan include Waterford Institute of Technology & Waterford Institute.
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Evenness drives consistent diversity effects in intensive grassland systems across 28 European sites
Laura Kirwan,Andreas Lüscher,Maria-Teresa Sebastià,John A. Finn,Rosemary P. Collins,C. Porqueddu,Áslaug Helgadóttir,Ole Hans Baadshaug,Caroline Brophy,C. Coran,Sigridur Dalmannsdottir,Ignacio Delgado,Anjo Elgersma,Michael Fothergill,B. E. Frankow-Lindberg,Piotr Golinski,Philippe Grieu,Anne-Maj Gustavsson,Mats Höglind,Olivier Huguenin-Elie,C. Iliadis,Marit Jørgensen,Zydre Kadziuliene,T. Karyotis,Tor Lunnan,M. Malengier,S. Maltoni,Victoria Meyer,D. Nyfeler,P. Nykanen-Kurki,J. Parente,H.J. Smit,Ulrich Thumm,John Connolly +33 more
TL;DR: In this article, the above-ground biomass of four-species mixtures (two legumes and two grasses) in intensive grassland systems was consistently greater than that expected from monoculture performance, even at high productivity levels.
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Ecosystem function enhanced by combining four functional types of plant species in intensively managed grassland mixtures: a 3‐year continental‐scale field experiment
John A. Finn,Laura Kirwan,John Connolly,M. Teresa Sebastià,Áslaug Helgadóttir,Ole Hans Baadshaug,Gilles Bélanger,Alistair Black,Caroline Brophy,Rosemary P. Collins,Jure Čop,Sigridur Dalmannsdottir,Ignacio Delgado,Anjo Elgersma,Michael Fothergill,B. E. Frankow-Lindberg,An Ghesquiere,Barbara Golińska,Piotr Golinski,Philippe Grieu,Anne-Maj Gustavsson,Mats Höglind,Olivier Huguenin-Elie,Marit Jørgensen,Zydre Kadziuliene,Päivi Kurki,R. Llurba,Tor Lunnan,C. Porqueddu,Matthias Suter,Ulrich Thumm,Andreas Lüscher +31 more
TL;DR: A coordinated continental-scale field experiment was used to compare the biomass yield of monocultures and four species mixtures associated with intensively managed agricultural grassland systems and found that mixtures maintained a resistance to weed invasion over at least 3 years.
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Diversity–interaction modeling: estimating contributions of species identities and interactions to ecosystem function
Laura Kirwan,Laura Kirwan,John Connolly,John A. Finn,Caroline Brophy,Andreas Lüscher,D. Nyfeler,Maria-Teresa Sebastià +7 more
TL;DR: A modeling framework that estimates the effects of species identity and diversity on ecosystem function and permits prediction of the diversity-function relationship across different types of community composition and describes community-level performance, which can be tailored to test many hypotheses in biodiversity research.
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Nitrogen yield advantage from grass–legume mixtures is robust over a wide range of legume proportions and environmental conditions
Matthias Suter,John Connolly,John A. Finn,Ralf Loges,Laura Kirwan,Maria-Teresa Sebastià,Andreas Lüscher +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that the use of grass-legume mixtures can substantially contribute to resource-efficient agricultural grassland systems over a wide range of productivity levels, implying important savings in N fertilizers and thus greenhouse gas emissions and a considerable potential for climate change mitigation.
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Evaluation of cover crop and reduced cultivation for reducing nitrate leaching in Ireland.
TL;DR: It is suggested that cover crops will be of particular value in reducing NO(3) loss in temperate regions with mild winters, where winter N mineralization is important and high winter temperatures favor a long growing season.