David Coomes
Post - Lecturer
Cambridge University Address
David CoomesDepartment of Plant Sciences
University of Cambridge
Downing Street, Cambridge.
CB2 3EA. United Kingdom.
Main research topics
David Coomes is interested in the processes that drive change in natural ecoystems. He is interested in forest dynamics with a paticular emphasis on the mechanisms that allow conifers to persist in New Zealand lowland rain forests despite competition from angiosperms. Furthermore his group is interested in land use and is assessing the vulnerability of Chilean forests to logging.
David has a great interest in studying invasive organisms, and is studying the long term affect of deer introduction into New Zealand, and the ability of a forest to recover in areas where the deer population is controlled.
Selected publications
Coomes, D.A., Duncan, R.P., Allen R.B. and Truscott, J. (2003) Tree size-frequency distributions are not described by simple scaling rules. Ecology Letters 6, 980-989.
Coomes, D.A. and Grubb, P.J (2003) Colonization, tolerance, competition and seed-size variation within functional groups. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18, 283-291.
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