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Johannes Knops

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Johannes (Jean) M H Knops is Professor and Head of the Department of Health and Environmental Sciences at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. He obtained his PhD from Arizona State University in the USA, was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Minnesota. Previously he has served on the faculty of the University of Nebraska and was director of the Cedar Point Biological Station. His teaching, research, and publications focus on the drivers that control biodiversity and the importance of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems. Current research emphasis is on examining plant diversity in Qinghai-Tibetan alpine meadows and developing a framework to study biodiversity in an rapidly changing urban environment in China.

Research interests

biodiversity, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, plant-herbivore interactions, plant ecology, biological invasions urban ecology

Experience

2012 - 2013, Visiting Professor. Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

2012 - 2013, Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China.

1999 - 2018 Assistant, Associate and Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, USA.

2018 present, Professor Head of Department Health and Environmental Science, Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land

Education/Academic qualification

1982 Ing. Horticulture, Higher Agricultural College, The Netherlands

1989 Drs. Plant Ecology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

1994 Ph.D. Botany, Arizona State University, USA

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  • Co-mast: Harmonized seed production data for woody plants across US long-term research sites

    Nigro, K. M., Barton, J. H., Macias, D., Chaudhary, V. B., Pearse, I. S., Bell, D. M., Chen, A., Cleavitt, N. L., Crone, E. E., Greene, D. F., Holland, E. P., Johnstone, J. F., Koenig, W. D., Lyon, N. J., Miller, T. E. X., Schulze, M., Snell, R. S., Zimmerman, J. K., Knops, J. M. H., McNulty, S., & 5 othersParmenter, R. R., Winterstein, M. A., Zlotin, R. I., LaMontagne, J. M. & Redmond, M. D., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Ecology.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Correction to: Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s (Nature Ecology & Evolution, (2024), 10.1038/s41559-024-02500-x)

    MacDougall, A. S., Esch, E., Chen, Q., Carroll, O., Bonner, C., Ohlert, T., Siewert, M., Sulik, J., Schweiger, A. K., Borer, E. T., Naidu, D., Bagchi, S., Hautier, Y., Wilfahrt, P., Larson, K., Olofsson, J., Cleland, E., Muthukrishnan, R., O’Halloran, L., Alberti, J., & 66 othersAnderson, T. M., Arnillas, C. A., Bakker, J. D., Barrio, I. C., Biederman, L., Boughton, E. H., Brudvig, L. A., Bruschetti, M., Buckley, Y., Bugalho, M. N., Cadotte, M. W., Caldeira, M. C., Catford, J. A., D’Antonio, C., Davies, K., Daleo, P., Dickman, C. R., Donohue, I., DuPre, M. E., Elgersma, K., Eisenhauer, N., Eskelinen, A., Estrada, C., Fay, P. A., Feng, Y., Gruner, D. S., Hagenah, N., Haider, S., Harpole, W. S., Hersch-Green, E., Jentsch, A., Kirkman, K., Knops, J. M. H., Laanisto, L., Lannes, L. S., Laungani, R., Lkhagva, A., Macek, P., Martina, J. P., McCulley, R. L., Melbourne, B., Mitchell, R., Moore, J. L., Morgan, J. W., Muraina, T. O., Niu, Y., Pärtel, M., Peri, P. L., Power, S. A., Price, J. N., Prober, S. M., Ren, Z., Risch, A. C., Smith, N. G., Sonnier, G., Standish, R. J., Stevens, C. J., Tedder, M., Tognetti, P., Veen, G. F., Virtanen, R., Wardle, G. M., Waring, E., Wolf, A. A., Yahdjian, L. & Seabloom, E. W., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 8, 10, p. 2003 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

    Open Access

  • Preferential Carbon Allocation Into Vegetative Ramets and Belowground Organs During the Seed-Filling Stage Limits Seed Set in Leymus chinensis

    Ao, Y., Wang, Z., Yang, X., Knops, J. M. H., Wang, J., Shi, Y. & Wang, J., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Plant Cell and Environment.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Summer Warming Limited Bud Output Drives a Decline in Daughter Shoot Biomass through Reduced Photosynthetis of Parent Shoots in Leymus chinensis Seedlings

    Gao, S., Xu, R., Li, L., Wang, J., Liu, N., Knops, J. M. H. & Wang, J., 1 Jul 2024, In: Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany. 93, 7, p. 1667-1675 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

    MacDougall, A. S., Esch, E., Chen, Q., Carroll, O., Bonner, C., Ohlert, T., Siewert, M., Sulik, J., Schweiger, A., Borer, E. T., Naidu, D., Bagchi, S., Hautier, Y., Wilfahrt, P., Larson, K., Olofsson, J., Cleland, E., Muthukrishnan, R., O’Halloran, L., Alberti, J., & 66 othersAnderson, T. M., Arnillas, C. A., Bakker, J. D., Barrio, I. C., Biederman, L., Boughton, E. H., Brudvig, L. A., Bruschetti, M., Buckley, Y., Bugalho, M. N., Cadotte, M. W., Caldeira, M. C., Catford, J. A., D’Antonio, C., Davies, K., Daleo, P., Dickman, C. R., Donohue, I., DuPre, M. E., Elgersma, K., Eisenhauer, N., Eskelinen, A., Estrada, C., Fay, P. A., Feng, Y., Gruner, D. S., Hagenah, N., Haider, S., Harpole, W. S., Hersch-Green, E., Jentsch, A., Kirkman, K., Knops, J. M. H., Laanisto, L., Lannes, L. S., Laungani, R., Lkhagva, A., Macek, P., Martina, J. P., McCulley, R. L., Melbourne, B., Mitchell, R., Moore, J. L., Morgan, J. W., Muraina, T. O., Niu, Y., Pärtel, M., Peri, P. L., Power, S. A., Price, J. N., Prober, S. M., Ren, Z., Risch, A. C., Smith, N. G., Sonnier, G., Standish, R. J., Stevens, C. J., Tedder, M., Tognetti, P., Veen, G. F., Virtanen, R., Wardle, G. M., Waring, E., Wolf, A. A., Yahdjian, L. & Seabloom, E. W., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 8, 10, p. 1877-1888 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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