Jodi Price

Associate Professor Jodi Price

Plant community ecologist

Biography

Jodi Price is a plant community ecologist, who is broadly interested in community assembly processes, and species coexistence. She is interested in small-scale patterns and processes, and their generalities (and contingencies) at broad spatial scales. Her research has been conducted in herbaceous dominated communities, favouring temperate woodlands and grasslands, in Australia and abroad (Estonia, Spain, Canada). Jodi received her PhD in 2007 from La Trobe University, which focused on mechanisms governing species richness patterns in herb-rich woodlands. She then worked at the University of New England, exploring invasion, flooding, and grazing interactions in floodplain wetlands in north-western NSW. She also worked abroad for 3 years, undertaking a post doctoral position at the University of Tartu in Estonia, where she explored global scale patterns in grassland community assembly. Jodi's research questions address both fundamental ecology, as well as topics that are more directly applied, such as restoration, disturbance and invasion ecology.

Research
  • Disturbance and management of vegetation communities
Publications
Full publications list on CRO

Recent Publications

  • Pillar, V. D., Price, J., Wagner, V., & Chytrý, M. (2025). Cross-Citation Patterns Between the Journal of Vegetation Science and Other Ecological Journals. Journal of Vegetation Science, 36(1), Article e70009. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70009
  • Linley, G.D., Jolly, C.J., Doherty, T.S., Geary, W.L., Armenteras, D., Belcher, C.M., Bliege Bird, R., Duane, A., Fletcher, M.-S., Giorgis, M.A., Haslem, A., Jones, G.M., Kelly, L.T., Lee, C.K.F., Nolan, R.H., Parr, C.L., Pausas, J.G., Price, J.N., Regos, A., Ritchie, E.G., Ruffault, J., Williamson, G.J., Wu, Q. & Nimmo, D.G. (2025). ‘Megafire’—You May Not Like It, But You Cannot Avoid It. Global Ecol Biogeogr, 34: e70032. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70032
  • Westaway, D. M., Jolly, C. J., Watson, D. M., Jessop, T. S., Michael, D. R., Linley, G. D., Aristova, A., Holmes, B., Price, J. N., Ritchie, E. G., Geary, W. L., Buchan, A., Loeffler, E., & Nimmo, D. G. (2024). Fragments maintain similar herpetofauna and small mammal richness and diversity to continuous habitat, but community composition and traits differ. Landscape Ecology, 39(8), 138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01927-8
  • Munro, T., Erickson, T. E., Nimmo, D., Dadzie, F. A., Muñoz-Rojas, M., & Price, J. (2024). Exploring the potential of topsoil pellets to improve native seedling establishment on degraded agricultural land. Plant and Soil.
  • Greenwood, L., Bliege Bird, R., McGuire, C., Jadai, N., Price, J., Skroblin, A., van Leeuwen, S., & Nimmo, D. (2024). Indigenous pyrodiversity promotes plant diversity. Biological Conservation, 291, Article 110479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110479