Dr John Devaney
Biography
John joined the Department of Biology in 2020 as a Lecturer in Plant Ecology. Having graduated with a BSc in Environmental Science, John received a PhD in Forest Ecology from University College Cork in 2012. From 2011 – 2014 John was an EPA Ireland research fellow, using Earth Observation approaches to assess contemporary deforestation in Ireland. In 2015, John was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship and was based at the Terrestrial Ecology Lab at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre in Maryland, USA. Following this, John was a Marie Curie/Irish Research Council COFUND postdoctoral fellow from 2018 – 2020. During this time, John was based at the Botany Department in Trinity College Dublin where his research focused on the impact of elevated atmospheric CO2 on mangrove forests in semi-arid regions.
John is currently the Principal Investigator of the Forest Ecology and Global Change Lab at the Department of Biology, Maynooth University. John also currently serves as the coordinator of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) working party on Forest Biodiversity and Resilience.
Twitter: @johnldevaney
Research Interests
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Devaney, J.L., Pullen, J., Feller, I.C. and Parker, J.D (2020) 'Low humidity and hypersalinity reduce cold tolerance in mangroves'. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, . [Full-Text] | |
| 2020 | Devaney, John L and Pullen, Jamie and Cook-Patton, Susan C and Burghardt, Karin T and Parker, John D (2020) 'Tree diversity promotes growth of late successional species despite increasing deer damage in a restored forest'. . [Full-Text] | |
| 2020 | Yang Yu, San-Ping Xie, John Devaney, Si-Hang Zhang, Tian-Yu Chen, Xu Zeng, Bing Wang & Yu Zhang (2020) 'A new species of Drynaria (Polypodiaceae) from the late Miocene of Yunnan, Southwest China and implications on the genus evolution'. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, . [Full-Text] | |
| 2020 | Sedio, Brian E and Devaney, John L and Pullen, Jamie and Parker, Geoffrey G and Wright, S Joseph and Parker, John D (2020) 'Chemical novelty facilitates herbivore resistance and biological invasions in some introduced plant species'. . [Full-Text] | |
| 2020 | Hayes, Matthew A and Chapman, Samantha and Jesse, Amber and O'Brien, Elizabeth and Langley, J Adam and Bardou, Remi and Devaney, John and Parker, John D and Cavanaugh, Kyle C (2020) 'Foliar water uptake by coastal wetland plants: A novel water acquisition mechanism in arid and humid subtropical mangroves'. . [Full-Text] | |
| 2020 | John Devaney, Diatta Marone, Jennifer McElwain (2020) 'Impact of soil salinity on mangrove restoration in a semi‐arid region: a case study from the Saloum Delta, Senegal'. Restoration Ecology, . [Full-Text] | |
| 2018 | Devaney, John L and Whelan, P\'adraig M and Jansen, Marcel AK (2018) 'Conspecific negative density dependence in a long-lived conifer, yew Taxus baccata L'. 137 (1):69-78. [Full-Text] | |
| 2018 | Davidson, Ian C and Cott, Grace M and Devaney, John L and Simkanin, Christina (2018) 'Differential effects of biological invasions on coastal blue carbon: A global review and meta-analysis'. 24 (11):5218-5230. [Full-Text] | |
| 2017 | Devaney, John L and Lehmann, Michael and Feller, Ilka C and Parker, John D (2017) 'Mangrove microclimates alter seedling dynamics at the range edge'. 98 (10):2513-2520. [Full-Text] | |
| 2016 | Devaney, John L and Redmond, John J and Cott, Grace M and O'Halloran, John (2016) 'Deforestation in Ireland 2000--2012'. . [Full-Text] | |
| 2015 | Devaney, John L and Redmond, John J and O'Halloran, John (2015) 'Contemporary forest loss in Ireland; quantifying rare deforestation events in a fragmented forest landscape'. 63 :346-356. [Full-Text] | |
| 2015 | Devaney, John and Barrett, Brian and Barrett, Frank and Redmond, John and John, OHalloran (2015) 'Forest cover estimation in Ireland using radar remote sensing: a comparative analysis of forest cover assessment methodologies'. 10 (8). [Full-Text] | |
| 2015 | Devaney, John L and Whelan, P\'adraig M and Jansen, Marcel AK (2015) 'Light responses of yew (Taxus baccata L.); does size matter?'. 29 (1):109-118. [Full-Text] | |
| 2014 | Devaney, John L and Jansen, Marcel AK and Whelan, P\'adraig M (2014) 'Spatial patterns of natural regeneration in stands of English yew (Taxus baccata L.); Negative neighbourhood effects'. 321 :52-60. [Full-Text] |