Professional summary

Alan is a plant ecologist with research interests in plant and invertebrate ecology, plant physiology, population genetics, taxonomy, and the distribution of island plants and invertebrates. Alan's most recent research has focused on the conservation of endangered island species and habitats leading to research in the Mid/South Atlantic, Caribbean and Indian Oceans. Other research interests include, agroforestry in East Africa, peatland ecology and hydrology, especially the interactions between vegetation, land management, fire, biogeochemistry, and climate change.

Selected publications

Davies G. Matt et al. , (2015), Don't let spurious accusations of pseudoreplication limit our ability to learn from natural experiments (and other messy kinds of ecological monitoring). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.1782/abstract

Gray Alan; , (2018), The ecology of plant extinction: rates, traits and island comparisons. Oryx, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605318000315

Gray Alan et al. , (2018), The status of the invertebrate fauna on the South Atlantic island of St Helena: problems, analysis, and recommendations. Biodiversity and Conservation, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-018-1653-4

Thomson Scott A. et al. , (2018), Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLoS Biology, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075

Gray Alan et al. , (2016), Hybrid plants preserve unique genetic variation in the St Helena endemic trees Commidendrum rotundifolium DC Roxb. and C. spurium (G.Forst.) DC. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-016-0884-8

Gray, Alan; Cavers, Stephen, (2014), Island biogeography, the effects of taxonomic effort and the importance of island niche diversity to single-island endemic spec. Systematic Biology, 63, 55-65, http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/content/63/1/55

Gray Alan et al. , (2020), Peatland wildfire severity and post-fire gaseous carbon fluxes. Ecosystems, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00545-0

Gray, Alan et al. , (2013), Methane indicator values for peatlands: a comparison of species and functional groups. Global Change Biology, 19, 1141-1150, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12120/abstract