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Department of Plant Sciences

 

Key Publications

Grubb, P.J., Jackson, R.V., Barberis, I.M., Bee, J.N., Coomes, D.A., Dominy, N.J., De la Fuente, M.A.S., Lucas, P.W., Metcalfe, D.J., Svenning, J.-C., Turner, I.M. & Vargas, O., 'Monocot leaves are eaten less than dicot leaves in tropical lowland rain forests: correlations with toughness and leaf presentation, (2008), Annals of Botany.

Dominy, N.J., Grubb, P.J., Jackson, R.V., Lucas, P.W., Metcalfe, D.J., Svenning, J.-C. & Turner, I.M., 'In tropical lowland rain forests monocots have tougher leaves than dicots, and include a new kind of tough leaf, (2008), Annals of Botany.

Grubb, P.J. & Jackson, R.V.,' The adaptive value of young leaves being tightly folded or rolled on monocotyledons in tropical lowland rain forest: an hypothesis in two parts', (2007) Plant Ecology.

Jankowska-Blaszczuk, M. & Grubb, P.J., 'Changing perspectives on the role of the soil seed bank in northern temperate deciduous forests and in tropical lowland rain forests: parallels and contrasts', (2006), Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics.

Grubb, P.J., Coomes, D.A. & Metcalfe, D.J., 'Comment on A brief history of seed size', (2005), Science.

Grubb, P.J., 'The impact of nutrient supply on the kind of vegetation found in the western semi-deserts of southern Africa', (2005), Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa.

Bloor, J.M.G. & Grubb, P.J., 'Morphological plasticity of shade-tolerant tropical rainforest tree seedlings exposed to light changes', (2004), Functional Ecology.

Grubb, P.J., Stow, E.A. & Walters, S.M., '100 Years of Plant Sciences in Cambridge: 1904-2004', (2004), Department of Plant Sciences.

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Investigative Plant Ecology, retired
Professor Peter  Grubb

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