Joanne Bennett

Dr Joanne Bennett

Ecologist, Gulbali Senior Research Fellow

Gulbali Institute

Biography

I seek to understand how global change is impacting biodiversity and the ways that species interact with one another, potentially jeopardising ecosystem services such as pollination. This requires an understanding of how the current and predicted future distributions of species are affected by their evolutionary history, physiology, and interaction patterns. My research spans these core disciplines and provides an integrated perspective through mobilising historical collections, conducting long-term field studies, and performing meta-analyses.

I am currently an ARC DECRA fellow leading a project that will test how the reproduction of both natural and crop plant species is affected by changes in plant-pollinator interactions over space and time.

Research
  • Plant-Animal Interactions
  • Plant-pollinator interactions
  • Pollination
  • Plant reproduction
  • Natures contribution to society
  • Global Change Biology
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Ecosystem services
Publications
Full publications list on CRO

Recent Publications

  • Bennett, J. M., Steets, J. A., Burns, J. H., Burkle, L. A., Vamosi, J. C., Wolowski, M., ... & Ashman, T. L. (2020). Land use and pollinator dependency drives global patterns of pollen limitation in the Anthropocene. Nature Communications, 11(1), 3999.
  • Bennett, J. M., Sunday, J., Calosi, P., Villalobos, F., Martínez, B., Molina-Venegas, R., ... & Olalla-Tárraga, M. Á. (2021). The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth. Nature communications, 12(1), 1198.
  • Zoller, L., Bennett, J., & Knight, T. M. (2023). Plant–pollinator network change across a century in the subarctic. Nature ecology & evolution, 7(1), 102-112.
  • Rodger, J. G., Bennett, J. M., Razanajatovo, M., Knight, T. M., van Kleunen, M., Ashman, T. L., ... & Ellis, A. G. (2021). Widespread vulnerability of flowering plant seed production to pollinator declines. Science advances, 7(42), eabd3524.
  • Bennett, J. M., Calosi, P., Clusella-Trullas, S., Martínez, B., Sunday, J., Algar, A. C., ... & Morales-Castilla, I. (2018). GlobTherm, a global database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Scientific Data, 5(1), 1-7.