List of works - Hao Ran Lai

Distinct invasion strategies operating within a natural annual plant system

scientific article published on 24 February 2015

Nitrogen fixer abundance has no effect on biomass recovery during tropical secondary forest succession

scientific article published in 2018

Liana effects on biomass dynamics strengthen during secondary forest succession.

scientific article

Accurate predictions of coexistence in natural systems require the inclusion of facilitative interactions and environmental dependency

article published in 2018

Distinct responses of niche and fitness differences to water availability underlie variable coexistence outcomes in semi-arid annual plant communities

article

Soil nutrients and dispersal limitation shape compositional variation in secondary tropical forests across multiple scales

article

Biotic interactions among temperate rainforest trees are non-additive and environmentally dependent

Eltonian niche modelling: applying joint hierarchical niche models to ecological networks

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

publication published on 30 September 2021

novelforestSG: Dataset from the Novel Forests of Singapore

Habitat Adaptation Mediates the Influence of Leaf Traits on Canopy Productivity: Evidence from a Tropical Freshwater Swamp Forest

scientific article published on 13 September 2021

Links between community ecology theory and ecological restoration are on the rise

scientific article published on 18 July 2017

Leaf‐Litter Depth, Not Canopy Openness, Mediates the Occurrence of an Invasive Shrub From the Forest Edge to Interior

scientific article published in January 2025

Non‐additive biotic interactions improve predictions of tropical tree growth and impact community size structure

scientific article published on 19 November 2021

Decoupled responses of native and exotic tree diversities to distance from old‐growth forest and soil phosphorus in novel secondary forests

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

Proximity to seabird colonies and water availability shape moss distributions in Antarctica

Mobile species’ responses to surrounding land use generate trade-offs and synergies among nature’s contributions to people

scientific article published on 3 November 2025

Potential Effects of an Emerging Disease on Tree Communities Around a Susceptible Foundation Tree Species

scientific article published in July 2025

AusTraits – a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

Short‐term responses in a secondary tropical forest after a severe windstorm event

scientific article published on 19 April 2019

Species- and community-level demographic responses of saplings to drought during tropical secondary succession

Eltonian Niche Modelling: Applying Joint Hierarchical Niche Models to Ecological Networks

scientific article published on 29 May 2025

Functional traits that moderate tropical tree recruitment during post‐windstorm secondary succession

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Successional syndromes of saplings in tropical secondary forests emerge from environment‐dependent trait–demography relationships

scientific article

Height–diameter allometry for the management of city trees in the tropics

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

Particulate matter mitigation via plants: Understanding complex relationships with leaf traits

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Changes in quantity and timing of foliar and reproductive phenology of tropical dry‐forest trees under a warming and drying climate

Non-additive biotic interactions improve predictions of tropical tree growth and impact community size structure

Deforestation scenarios show the importance of secondary forest for meeting Panama’s carbon goals

scientific article published in 2022

Model‐based ordination for phenological studies: From controlling sampling bias to inferring temporal associations

scientific article published on 7 June 2025

Landscape patterns drive provision of nature's contributions to people by mobile species

Evidence for pitcher trait-mediated coexistence between sympatric Nepenthes pitcher plant species across geographical scales

scientific article published on 02 October 2018

Changes in quantity and timing of foliar and reproductive phenology of tropical dry-forest trees under a warming and drying climate

Identifying potentially suitable and accessible refugia to mitigate impacts of an emerging disease on a rare tree

scientific article published on 30 June 2025

List of works by Hao Ran Lai