Zoe A. XirocostasUNSW Sydney | UNSW · School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES)
Zoe A. Xirocostas
Doctor of Philosophy
Postdoc at UNSW Sydney researching mechanisms affecting non-native establishment & plant responses to climate change.
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Introduction
I am a recently completed PhD graduate with interests spanning invasion, plant-animal interactions, macroecology, and species' responses to climate change. I am a proud advocate for women and girls in science, and communicate my findings to broad audiences such as academic conferences, public outreach events and even comedy shows!
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Education
February 2019 - November 2022
February 2018 - October 2018
March 2014 - November 2017
Publications
Publications (7)
A global comparison of plant trait patterns calculated using citizen science observations versus those calculated using traditional scientific data reveals remarkable congruence between the two approaches.
Eucalypts have a widespread global distribution owing to their popularity for agroforestry and as environmental plantings. Despite an abundance of site‐specific evidence that eucalypts modify soils and soil processes, we lack a quantitative synthesis of their overall effects at the global scale. This limits our capacity to assess the likely impacts...
Urbanization transforms environments in ways that alter biological evolution. We examined whether urban environmental change drives parallel evolution by sampling 110,019 white clover plants from 6169 populations in 160 cities globally. Plants were assayed for a Mendelian antiherbivore defense that also affects tolerance to abiotic stressors. Urban...
Urbanization transforms environments in ways that alter biological evolution. We examined whether urban environmental change drives parallel evolution by sampling 110,019 white clover plants from 6169 populations in 160 cities globally. Plants were assayed for a Mendelian antiherbivore defense that also affects tolerance to abiotic stressors. Urban...
Plants lose a remarkable amount of energy to herbivorous animals, and this damage has substantial impacts on plant fitness and species' distributions. There are many ways ecologists can measure leaf damage, with some methods being more time‐consuming than others. Due to a high variance in herbivory, accurate quantification of damage at the populati...
Many taxa show substantial differences in lifespan between the sexes. However, these differences are not always in the same direction. In mammals, females tend to live longer than males, while in birds, males tend to live longer than females. One possible explanation for these differences in lifespan is the unguarded X hypothesis, which suggests th...
