Lindsay A. Turnbull
Research interests
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Publications
Research interests
Plant community ecology, plant growth, plant defence, hemi-parasitic plants, plant-soil feedbacks, organic farming
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Education and professional positions
| 2003 - present | Post-doctoral research assistant, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2001 - 2002 | Graveney School, London: Teacher of Science |
| 2000 | University of Surrey, Roehampto: Postgraduate Certificate in Secondary Education |
| 1997 - 1999 | Biology Department, Imperial College, London: Post-doctoral research associate with Dr. M. Rees and Prof. P.J. Grubb (Coexistence mechanisms in short-lived chalk-grassland plants) |
| 1994 - 1996 | Imperial College, London: PhD: The Role of Spatial Processes in a Limestone Grassland (supervised by Prof. M.J. Crawley and Dr. M. Rees) |
| 1992 | Cambridge University: B.A. (Hons.) First Class; Natural Sciences (Zoology). Drewett's prize for ecology; elected scholar of King's College, Cambridge |
Publications
Turnbull L.A., Hector A. (2010) Applied Ecology: How to get even with pests. Nature 466: 36-37.
Turnbull, L.A., Levine, J.M., Fergus, A.F., Petermann, J.S. (2010) Species diversity reduces invasion success in pathogen-regulated communities. Oikos 119: 1040-1046.
Fakheran S, Paul-Victor C, Heichinger C, Schmid B, Grossniklaus U, Turnbull LA (2010) Adaptation and extinction in experimentally fragmented landscapes. PNAS 107: 19120-19125.
Hautier Y., Hector A., Vojtech E., Purves D., Turnbull L.A. (2010) Modelling the growth of parasitic plants. Journal of Ecology 98: 857-866.
Paul-Victor C., Züst T., Rees M., Kliebenstein D.J., Turnbull L.A. (2010) A new method for measuring relative growth rate can uncover the costs of defensive compounds in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist 187: 1102-1111.
Petermann, J.S., Fergus, A.J., Roscher, C., Turnbull, L.A., Weigelt, A., Schmid, B. (2010) Biology, chance, or history? The predictable reassembly of temperate grassland communities. Ecology 91: 408-421.
Purves DW, Turnbull LA (2010) Different but equal: the implausible assumption at the heart of neutral theory. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:1215-1225.
Paul-Victor, C. and Turnbull, L.A. (2009) The effect of growth conditions on the seed size/number trade-off. PLOS-ONE 4(9): e6917. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006917
Rees, M., Osborne, C., Woodward, I., Hulme, S., Turnbull, L.A., Taylor, S. (2010) Partitioning the components of RGR: how important is plant size variation? American Naturalist 176: E152 – E161.
Rose, K., Atkinson, R., Turnbull, L.A. and Rees, M. (2009) The costs and benefits of fast living. Ecology Letters 12: 1-6.
Turnbull, L.A., Rees, M., Purves, D.W. (2008) Why equalising trade-offs aren't always neutral. Ecology Letters 11: 1037-1046.
Turnbull, L.A., Paul-Victor, C., Schmid, B.S., Purves, D.W. (2008) Growth rates, seed size, and physiology: do small-seeded species really grow faster? Ecology 89: 1352-1363.
Petermann, J., Fergus, A., Turnbull, L.A. and Schmid B. (2008) Janzen-Connell effects are widespread and strong enough to maintain diversity in grasslands. Ecology 89: 2399-2406.
