Publications
Preprints and in review
X Pan, Y Hautier,…, N Mohanbabu,…, F de Bello. Reconciling links between diversity and population stability across global plant communities. (in review) [preprint]
K Anujan, N Mohanbabu,…, M Sankaran. Harmonising distributed tree inventory datasets across India can fill critical gaps in tropical ecology. (in review) [preprint]
X Qiao, J Zscheischler, …., N Mohanbabu, …, S Wang. Biodiversity buffers forest ecosystems from compound climate extremes. (in review)
N Mohanbabu, TM Anderson, A Joern and ME Ritchie. Multiple resource limitation of plants and its consequences for herbivores and their impacts. [older version of preprint]
2025
E Butler, N Mohanbabu*, Z Wong, F Isbell and P Reich. Elevated CO2 and enriched nitrogen decrease species richness most at small spatial scales in a grassland experiment (2025). Journal of Ecology [PDF] *equal contribution first authorship
M Huang, P Reich,….., N Mohanbabu,…, Y Hautier. Nitrogen and CO2 enrichment interact to decrease biodiversity impact on complementarity and selection effects (2025). Nature Communications [PDF]
N Mohanbabu, F Isbell, S Hobbie and P Reich. Elevated CO2 and N gradually weaken the influence of diversity on ecosystem stability (2025). Ecology Letters [PDF]
R Sunny, A Guha, ….N Mohanbabu and D Barua. Responses to water limitation are independent of light for saplings of a seasonally dry tropical forest (2025). Biotropica. [PDF]
2024
N Mohanbabu, F Isbell, S Hobbie and P Reich. Species interactions amplify functional group responses to elevated CO2 and N enrichment in a 24-year grassland experiment (2024). Global Change Biology [PDF]
P Reich, N Mohanbabu, F Isbell, S Hobbie and E Butler. High CO2 dampens then amplifies N-induced diversity loss over 24 years (2024). Nature [PDF] (Research briefings of this article can be found here)
N Eisenhauer, K Mueller, …, N Mohanbabu,… F Isbell. The multiple mechanisms hypothesis of diversity-stability relationships (2024). Basic and Applied Ecology [PDF]
AT Karp, S Koerner, …, N Mohanbabu, …C Staver. Grazing herbivores reduce herbaceous biomass and fire activity across African savannas (2024). Ecology Letters [PDF]
2023
D Luna, N Mohanbabu, J Johnson and DM Althoff. Host use by 2 sibling species of bogus yucca moths in relation to plant hardiness and saponin content (2023). Environmental Entomology [PDF]
N Mohanbabu, M. Veldhuis, D Jung and ME Ritchie. Integrating defense and leaf economic spectrum traits in a tropical savanna plant (2023). Frontiers in Plant Science [PDF]
N Mohanbabu, M. Veldhuis, D Jung and ME Ritchie. Landscape variation in defense traits along gradients of multiple resources in a tropical savanna plant (2023). Oikos [PDF]
2022
N Mohanbabu and ME Ritchie. Large herbivore impact on plant biomass along multiple resource gradients in the Serengeti (2022). Journal of Ecology [PDF]* shortlisted for the Harper Prize
2021
RJ Griffin-Nolan, N Mohanbabu, … and JD Fridley (2021). Friend or foe? The role of biotic agents in drought-induced plant mortality. Plant Ecology [PDF]