Professor Adrienne Nicotra
Research School of Biology
ANU College of Science
Professor Adrienne Nicotra is a Professor at the ANU Research School of Biology.
Adrienne is a plant evolutionary ecologist with interest in the capacity of plants to respond to environment and environmental change – particularly plastic responses to warming and drying climate.
Her work focuses on native species from a wide range of environments, though she is particularly interested in mountain flora.
Adrienne joined ANU as a postdoctoral fellow in 1998 and is now a Professor in the Division of Ecology and Evolution in the Research School of Biology. Adrienne is the director of the Australian Mountain Research Facility.
Fields of expertise
Articles
Australia’s rainforests first to switch from carbon sink to source
The trunks and branches of trees in Australia’s tropical rainforests – also known as woody biomass – have…