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Insu Jo

Researcher - Ecology
Ecosystems & Conservation
Insu Jo
Location
Lincoln
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Research interests

Selected Publications

For a full list of my publications, please see my Google Scholar profile:

Jo, I., Bellingham, P.J., Richardson, S.J., Hawcroft, A.L., Wright, E.F. 2024. Tree demographic drivers across temperate rain forests, after accounting for site-, species-, and stem-level attributesEcology, in press. 

Jo, I., Bellingham, P.J., Mason, N.W.H., McCarthy, J.K., Peltzer, D.A., Richardson, S.J., Wright, E.F. 2024. Disturbance-mediated community characteristics and anthropogenic pressure intensify understorey plant invasions in natural forestsJournal of Ecology 112:1856-1871. 

Luo, S., Phillips, R. P., Jo, I., Fei, S., Liang, J., Schmid, B., Eisenhauer, N. 2023. Higher productivity in forests with mixed mycorrhizal strategies. Nature Communications 14: 1377. 

Jo, I., Bellingham P.J., Easdale T., McCarthy J., Richardson S., Wiser, S., Padamsee, M. 2022. Ecological importance of the Myrtaceae in New Zealand’s natural forestsJournal of Vegetation Science 31: e13106. 

Fridley, J.D., Bauerle, T.L., Craddock A., Ebert, A.R., Frank, D.A., Heberling, J.M., Hinman, E.D., Jo, I., Martinez, K.A., Smith, M.S., Woolhiser, L.J., Yin, J. 2022. Fast but steady: an integrated leaf-stem-root trait syndrome for woody forest invadersEcology Letters 25: 900-912.

Novick, K.A., Jo, I., D’Orangeville, L., Benson, M., Au, T.F., Barnes, M., Denham, S., Fei, S., Heilman, K., Hwang, T,. Keyser, T., Maxwell, J.T., Miniat, C., McLauchlan, J., Pederson, N., Wang, L., Wood, J.D. and R.P. Phillips. 2022. The drought response of Eastern US oaks in the context of their declining abundanceBioScience 72: 333-346.

Fei, S., Phillips R.P., Kivlin S.N., Domke G., Jo, I., LaRue, E.A. 2022. Coupling of plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity - its occurrence, relevance, and possible implications under global changeNew Phytologist 234: 1960-1966.

Jo, I., Fei, S., Oswalt, C.M., Domke, G.M., and Phillips, R.P. 2019. Shifts in dominant tree mycorrhizal associations in response to anthropogenic impactsScience Advances 5:eaav6358.

McCallen, E., Knott, J., Nunez-Mir, G., Taylor, B., Jo, I., and Fei, S. 2019. Trends in Ecology: Shifts of ecological research themes in the last four decadesFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17:109-116.

Fei, S.*, Jo, I.*, Guo, Q., Wardle, D.A., Fang, J., Chen, A., Oswalt, C.M., and Brockerhoff, E. 2018. Climate determines the relationship between biodiversity and productivity in natural forestsNature Communications 9:5436. *Contributed-Equally.

Jo, I., Potter, K., Domke, G., and Fei, S. 2018. Dominant forest tree mycorrhizal type mediates understory plant invasionsEcology Letters 21:217-224. Highlighted in ScienceDaily.

Jo, I., Fridley, J.D., and Frank, D.A. 2017. Invasive plants accelerate nitrogen cycling: evidence from experimental woody monoculturesJournal of Ecology 105:1105–1110.

Fei, S., Desprez, J.M., Potter, K.M., Jo, I., Knott, J.A., and Oswalt, C.M. 2017. Divergence of species responses to climate changeScience Advances 3:e1603055. Highlighted in Nature, AP News, and The Atlantic. One of top 100 scientific stories of the year in Discover MagazineReceived W.S. Cooper Award, 2019 from Ecological Society of America

Jo, I., Fridley, J.D., and Frank, D.A. 2016. More of the same? In situ leaf and root decomposition rates do not vary between 80 native and non-native deciduous forest speciesNew Phytologist 209: 115-122. Highlighted in the issue by Prescott and Zukswert. Included in the Virtual Issue on Root traits, edited by Richard J. Norby, Colleen M. Iversen.

Jo, I., Fridley, J.D., and Frank, D.A. 2015. Linking above- and belowground resource use strategies for native and invasive species of temperate deciduous forestsBiological Invasions 17: 1545-1554.


Memberships

  • Associate Editor, Ecological Solutions and Evidence
  • Editorial Advisor, Plants, People, Planet

Qualifications

Syracuse
PhD Biology
2015