Dr Hannah White

Research interests

I am a macroecologist and biogeographer interested in spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity, particularly functional diversity, and the mechanisms underlying these patterns. I am interested in fundamental ecological patterns and processes and have studied these across multiple taxa and systems including birds, plants and soil organisms. I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on an Irish Research Council funded project investigating the contribution of commonness and rarity to spatial patterns of functional diversity.

Publications:

Gaul, W., Sadykova, D., White, H.J., León-Sánchez, L., Caplat, P., Emmerson, M.C., Murray, T. & Yearsley, J.M. (2020) Data quantity is more important than its spatial bias for predictive species distribution modelling. PeerJ, 8, e10411 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10411

Gaul, W., Sadykova, D., Roark, E., White, H.J., León-Sánchez, L., Caplat, P., Emmerson, M.C. & Yearsley, J.M. (2020) What have biological records ever done for us? A systematic scoping review. Frontiers of Biogeography, 12, e48607 https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG48607

White, H.J. et al. (2020) Methods and approaches to advance soil macroecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29, 1674-1690. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13156

White, H.J. et al. (2020) Quantifying large-scale ecosystem stability with remote sensing data. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 6, 354-365. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.148

Dengler, J., Matthews, T.J., Steinbauer, M.J., Wolfrum, S., Boch, S., Chiarucci, A., …White, H.J., Winkler, M. & Biurrun, I. (2020) Species-area relationships in continuous vegetation: evidence from Palaearctic grasslands. Journal of Biogeography, 47, 72-86. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13697

Tiley, A.M.M., White, H.J. et al. (2019) The ZtvelB gene is required for vegetative growth and sporulation in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 2210. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02210

White, H.J., Gaul, W., Sadykova, D., León-Sánchez, L., Caplat, P., Emmerson, M.C. & Yearsley, J. (2019) Land cover drives large scale productivity-diversity relationships in Irish vascular plants. PeerJ, 7, e7035. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7035

White, H.J., Montgomery, W.I. & Lennon, J.J. (2018) Contribution of local rarity and climatic suitability to local extinction and colonisation varies with species traits. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87, 1560-1572. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12881

White, H.J., Montgomery, W.I., Storchová, L., Hořák, D. & Lennon, J.J. (2018) Does functional homogenisation accompany taxonomic homogenisation of British birds and do biotic factors and climate affect these processes? Ecology and Evolution, 8, 7365-7377. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4267

White, H.J., Montgomery, W.I., Pakeman, R.J. & Lennon, J.J. (2018) Spatiotemporal scaling of plant species richness and functional diversity in a temperate semi-natural grassland. Ecography, 41, 845-856. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03111

Dengler, J., Wagner, V., Dembicz, I., Garcia-Mijangos, I., Naqinezhd, A., Boch, S., … White, H.J., … Biurrun, I. (2018) GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palearctic grasslands. Phytocoenologia, 48, 331-347. 10.1127/phyto/2018/0267

Phillips, N.D., Reid, N., Thys, T., Harrod, C., Payne, N., Morgan, C., White, H.J., Porter, S., & Houghton, J.D.R (2017) Applying species distribution modelling to a data poor, pelagic fish complex: the ocean sunfishes. Journal of Biogeography, 44, 2176-2187. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13033

Hudson, L.N., Newbold, T., Contu, S., Hill, S.L.L., Lysenko, I., De Palma, A., Phillips, H.R.P., Alhusseini, T.I., Bedford, F.E., Bennett, D.J., Booth, H., Burton, V.J., Chng, C.W.T., Choimes, A., Correia, D.L.P., Day, J., Echeverría-Londoño, S., Emerson, S.R., Gao, D., Garon, M., Harrison, M.K., Ingram, D.J., Jung, M., Kemp, V., Kirkpatrick, L., Martin, C.D., Pan, Y., Pask-Hale, G.D., Pynegar, E.L., Robinson, A.N., Sanchez-Ortiz, K., Senior, R.A., Simmons, B.I., White, H.J. … & Purvis, A. (2017) The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecology and Evolution, 7, 145-188. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2579

Newbold, T., Hudson, L., Hill, S.L.L., Contu, S., Lysenko, I., Senior, R.A., Börger, L., Bennett, D., Choimes, A., Collen, B., Day, J., De Palma, A., Diaz, S., Echeverria-Londono, S., Edgar, M., Feldman, A., Garon, M., Harrison, M.L.K., Ingram, D.J., Itescu, Y., Kattage, J., Kemp, V., Kirkpatrick, L., Kleyer, M., Laginha Pinto Correia, D., Martin, C., Meiri, S., Novosolov, M., Pan, Y., Phillips, H.R.P., Purves, D.W.,  Robinson, A., Simpson, J., Tuck, S., Weiher, E., White, H.J., Ewers, R.M., Mace, G.M., Scharlemann, J.P.W. & Purvis, A. (2015) Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity. Nature, 520, 45–50. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14324

Hudson, L., Newbold, T., Contu, S., Hill, S.L.L., Lysenko, I., De Palma, A., Phillips, H.R.P., Senior, R.A., Bennett, D., Booth, H., Choimes, A., Correia, D., Day, J., Echeverría-Londoño, S., Garon, M., Harrison, M.L.K., Ingram, D.J., Jung, M., Kemp, V., Kirkpatrick, L., Martin, C., Pan, Y., White, H.J., Collen, B., Ewers, R.M., Mace, G.M., Purves, D., Scharlemann, J.P.W. & Purvis, A. (2014) The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts. Ecology and Evolution, 4, 4701–4725. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1303