Dr Nicola Kuhn
Dr Nicola Kuhn
Nicola is a plant ecologist focusing on climate change ecology. Her DPhil research aims to understand the role that plant traits, in particular root traits, play in determining plant response to environmental change with a focus on South African ecosystems. Further research interests include applying a traits-based lens to agriculture, conservation, and restoration issues.
Selected Publications
Nicola Kühn, Marcus P Spiegel, Carolina Tovar, Katherine J Willis and Marc Macias-Fauria, "Seeing roots from space: aboveground fingerprints of root depth in vegetation sensitivity to climate in dry biomes" Environmental Research Letters, 17(11) 2023. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ac9d4f
David Satori, Carolina Tovar, Aisyah Faruk, Eleanor Hammond Hunt, Gemma Muller, Christopher Cockel, Nicola Kühn, Ilia J Leitch, Ermias Lulekal, Laura Pereira, Philippa Ryan, Katherine J Willis, Samuel Pironon, "Prioritising crop wild relatives to enhance agricultural resilience in sub‐Saharan Africa under climate change" Plants, People, Planet 4(3) 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10247
Nicola Kühn, Carolina Tovar, Julia Carretero, Vigdis Vandvik, Brian J Enquist, Kathy J Willis, Globally important plant functional traits for coping with climate change, Frontiers of Biogeography, 13(4) 2021. https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG53774
Adolf, C., C. Tovar, N. Kühn, H. Behling, J. C. Berrío, G. Dominguez-Vázquez, B. Figueroa-Rangel et al. “Identifying drivers of forest resilience in long-term records from the Neotropics.” Biology letters 16, no. 4 (2020): 20200005. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0005
Tellez, O., E. Mattana, M. Diazgranados, N. Kühn, E. Castillo-Lorenzo, R. Lira, L. Montes-Leyva et al. “Native trees of Mexico: diversity, distribution, uses and conservation.” PeerJ 8 (2020): e9898. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9898
Pironon, S., T. R. Etherington, J.S. Borrell, N. Kühn, M. Macias-Fauria, I. Ondo, C. Tovar, P. Wilkin, and K. J. Willis. “Potential adaptive strategies for 29 sub-Saharan crops under future climate change.” Nature Climate Change 9, no. 10 (2019): 758-763. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0585-7
