Dr Nicola Stevens
Trapnell Research Fellow in African Environments
Trapnell Research Fellow in African Environments
Academic Profile
Nicola is the current Trapnell Fellow in African Environments. My current research interests are centred around understanding the dynamics of African grassy ecosystems and how they are changing in the Anthropocene. I'm especially interested in understanding how altered fire and herbivory regimes against a backdrop of changing CO2 concentrations are driving changes. Along this vein I have become particularly interested in the phenomenon of woody encroachment where open ecosystems across the tropics are being invaded by native woody species. It has also driven me to improve our ability to predict future species ranges under global change by improving our mechanistic understanding of range edges in disturbance limited systems. I have ongoing projects in Southern and East Africa.
Selected Publications
For a full publications list, please see Google Scholar
Gopalakrishna, T., Rifai, S., Ratnam, J., Oliveras Menor, I., Stevens, N. and Malhi, Y. (2024) Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1).
Mochi, L., Morrison, T., Stevens, N., Mazía, N., Anderson, T. and Holdo, R. (2024) Journal of Vegetation Science, 35(4).
Loft, T., Cardoso, A., Bond, W., Gonçalves, F., Machado, M., Oliveras Menor, I., Staver, C. and Stevens, N. (2024) Global change biology, 30(6), p. e17369.
White, J., Stevens, N., Fisher, J. and Reynolds, C. (2024) Global change biology, 30(6), p. e17340.
Ernst, Y., Archibald, S., Balzter, H., Chevallier, F., Ciais, P., Fischer, C., Gaubert, B., Higginbottom, T., Higgins, S., Lawal, S., Lacroix, F., Lauerwald, R., Lourenco, M., Martens, C., Mengistu, A., Merbold, L., Mitchard, E., Moyo, M., Nguyen, H., O’Sullivan, M., Rodríguez‐Veiga, P., Rosan, T., Rosentreter, J., Ryan, C., Scheiter, S., Sitch, S., Stevens, N., Tagesson, T., Tian, H., Wang, M., Woon, J., Zheng, B., Zhou, Y. and Scholes, R. (2024) Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38(4).
Millan, M., Ottaviani, G., Beckett, H., Archibald, S., Mangena, H. and Stevens, N. (2024) Plant Biology [Preprint].
Loft, T., Stevens, N., Gonçalves, F. and Menor, I. (2024) Global Change Biology, 30(2).
Clements, H., Do Linh San, E., Hempson, G., Linden, B., Maritz, B., Monadjem, A., Reynolds, C., Siebert, F., Stevens, N., Biggs, R., De Vos, A., Blanchard, R., Child, M., Esler, K., Hamann, M., Loft, T., Reyers, B., Selomane, O., Skowno, A., Tshoke, T., Abdoulaye, D., Aebischer, T., Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Alexander, G., Ali, A., Allan, D., Amoako, E., Angedakin, S., Aruna, E., Avenant, N., Badjedjea, G., Bakayoko, A., Bamba-Kaya, A., Bates, M., Bates, P., Belmain, S., Bennitt, E., Bradley, J., Brewster, C., Brown, M., Brown, M., Bryja, J., Butynski, T., Carvalho, F., Channing, A., Chapman, C., Cohen, C., Cords, M., Cramer, J., Cronk, N., Cunneyworth, P., Dalerum, F., Danquah, E., Davies-Mostert, H., de Blocq, A., De Jong, Y., Demos, T., Denys, C., Djagoun, C., Doherty-Bone, T., Drouilly, M., du Toit, J., Ehlers Smith, D., Ehlers Smith, Y., Eiseb, S., Fashing, P., Ferguson, A., Fernández-García, J., Finckh, M., Fischer, C., Gandiwa, E., Gaubert, P., Gaugris, J., Gibbs, D., Gilchrist, J., Gil-Sánchez, J., Githitho, A., Goodman, P., Granjon, L., Grobler, J., Gumbi, B., Gvozdik, V., Harvey, J., Hauptfleisch, M., Hayder, F., Hema, E., Herbst, M., Houngbédji, M., Huntley, B., Hutterer, R., Ivande, S., Jackson, K., Jongsma, G., Juste, J., Kadjo, B., Kaleme, P., Kamugisha, E., Kaplin, B., Kato, H., Kiffner, C., Kimuyu, D., Kityo, R., Kouamé, N., Kouete T, M., le Roux, A., Lee, A., Lötter, M., Lykke, A., MacFadyen, D., Macharia, G., Madikiza, Z., Mahlaba, T., Mallon, D., Mamba, M., Mande, C., Marchant, R., Maritz, R., Markotter, W., McIntyre, T., Measey, J., Mekonnen, A., Meller, P., Melville, H., Mganga, K., Mills, M., Minnie, L., Missoup, A., Mohammad, A., Moinde, N., Moise, B., Monterroso, P., Moore, J., Musila, S., Nago, S., Namoto, M., Niang, F., Nicolas, V., Nkenku, J., Nkrumah, E., Nono, G., Norbert, M., Nowak, K., Obitte, B., Okoni-Williams, A., Onongo, J., O’Riain, M., Osinubi, S., Parker, D., Parrini, F., Peel, M., Penner, J., Pietersen, D., Plumptre, A., Ponsonby, D., Porembski, S., Power, R., Radloff, F., Rambau, R., Ramesh, T., Richards, L., Rödel, M.-O., Rollinson, D., Rovero, F., Saleh, M., Schmiedel, U., Schoeman, M., Scholte, P., Serfass, T., Shapiro, J., Shema, S., Siebert, S., Slingsby, J., Sliwa, A., Smit-Robinson, H., Sogbohossou, E., Somers, M., Spawls, S., Streicher, J., Swanepoel, L., Tanshi, I., Taylor, P., Taylor, W., Te Beest, M., Telfer, P., Thompson, D., Tobi, E., Tolley, K., Turner, A., Twine, W., Van Cakenberghe, V., Van de Perre, F., van der Merwe, H., van Niekerk, C., van Wyk, P., Venter, J., Verburgt, L., Veron, G., Vetter, S., Vorontsova, M., Wagner, T., Webala, P., Weber, N., Weier, S., White, P., Whitecross, M., Wigley, B., Willems, F., Winterbach, C. and Woodhouse, G. (2024) Scientific data, 11(1), p. 191.
Parr, C., Te Beest, M. and Stevens, N. (2024) Science (New York, N.Y.), 383(6684), pp. 698–701.
Gopalakrishna, T., Rifai, S., Ratnam, J., Menor, I., Stevens, N. and Malhi, Y. (2024) Research Square.
Environmental Change Institute
