Dr. Nicole L. Kinlock
I am broadly interested in cultivation, and a major part of my work in the van Kleunen lab involves leading the construction of a global database of cultivated plants.
I am particularly interested in historical patterns of cultivation, as the plants that people have cultivated in an area over time creates an ecological and evolutionary context that influences the environment as we experience it today (see Kinlock et al. 2022 PPP for an exploration of this context in the US).
Knowing what species where cultivated, when they were cultivated, and where they were cultivated is important for understanding why only some of the plants that were introduced to a new area and cultivated there establish and potentially become invasive while others do not (see Kinlock et al. 2022 GEB for an analysis of plants introduced/cultivated in Great Britain).
I'm also interested in investigating the way that characteristics of the plants and the environment (both the present-day and historical environment) interact with cultivation to influence naturalization.
For more information, see my personal website: Nicole Kinlock
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Publications
Guo K, Pyšek P, van Kleunen M, Kinlock NL, Lučanová M, Leitch IJ, Pierce S, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Lenzner B, Pergl J, Weigelt P & Guo WY(2024) Plant invasion and naturalization are influenced by genome size, ecology and economic use globally. Nature Communications 15:1330 (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45667-4)
Dong BC, Yang Q, Kinlock NL, Pouteau R, Pyšek P, Weigelt P, Yu FH & van Kleunen M (2023) Naturalization of introduced plants is driven by life-form-dependent cultivation biases. Diversity and Distribution 30:55-70 (DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13788)
Fristoe TS, Bleilevens J, Kinlock NL, Yang Q, Zhang ZJ, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Weigelt P, Dufour-Dror JM, Sennikov A, Wasowicz P, Westergaard K & van Kleunen M (2023) Evolutionary imbalance, climate and human history jointly shape the global biogeography of alien plants. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7:1633-1644 (DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02172-z)
Kinlock NL, Adams D & van Kleunen M (2022) An ecological and evolutionary perspective of the historical United States nursery flora. Plants, People, Planet 5:146-159 (DOI: 10.1002/ppp3.10336 )
Kinlock NL, Dehnen-Schmutz K, Essl F, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Kreft H, Weigelt P, Yang Q & van Kleunen M (2022) Introduction history mediates naturalization and invasiveness of cultivated plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31:1104-1119. (DOI:10.1111/geb.13486)
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(Update: 30.10.2023)