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Dr. Sophia Turner

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C13.125
Fon +49.4131.677-2843, sophia.turner@leuphana.de
Research associate, Professorship of Vegetation Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation

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Vita

  • 2024-Present: Research Associate, Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg
  • 2023-2024: Science Alliance GATE Research Fellow, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, and Oakridge National Lab (ORNL)
  • 2019- 2023: PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
  • 2014-2019: Science Outreach Officer, DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. Ecology is not at risk of a methodological balance crisis
    Shannon L.J. Bayliss (Author) , Sophia Turner (Author) , 01.09.2026 , in: Nature Climate Change, 16, 9 , p. 1000-1001 , 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research

  2. No Signal of Biotic Resistance to Non-Native Species Establishment in High-Elevation Communities
    Meike Buhaly (Author) , Sophia Turner (Author) , Noemi Katalin Kreuz (Author) , Vigdis Vandvik (Author) , Benedikt Veltmann (Author) , Jake M. Alexander (Author) , Jonas J. Lembrechts (Author) , Ivan Nijs (Author) , Maria Alisa Alvarez (Author) , José Ramón Arévalo (Author) , Valeria Aschero (Author) , Joshua P. Averett (Author) , Agustina Barros (Author) , Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo (Author) , Lohengrin A. Cavieres (Author) , Vincent Ralph Clark (Author) , Curtis C. Daehler (Author) , Pervaiz A. Dar (Author) , Franz Essl (Author) , Georg V. Flückiger (Author) , Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo (Author) , Casey Gibson (Author) , Christian Larson (Author) , Keith McDougall (Author) , Martin A. Nuñez (Author) , Aníbal Pauchard (Author) , Stephanie Payne (Author) , Tobias Proß (Author) , Petr Pyšek (Author) , Irfan Rashid (Author) , Amanda Ratier Backes (Author) , Zafar A. Reshi (Author) , Lisa J. Rew (Author) , Tim Seipel (Author) , Sandy Lynn Steenhuisen (Author) , Michaela Vítková (Author) , Genevieve Wright (Author) , Shengwei Zong (Author) , Sylvia Haider (Author) , 01.09.2026 , in: Journal of Vegetation Science, 37, 5 , 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. The MIREN Road Survey Database: Standardized Vegetation Sampling to Advance Our Understanding of Biodiversity Responses in Mountain Systems Across the Globe
    Sylvia Haider (Author) , Jonas J. Lembrechts (Author) , Jake Alexander (Author) , Vincent Ralph Clark (Author) , Lisa J. Rew (Author) , Meike Buhaly (Author) , Marc Achermann (Author) , Alla Aleksanyan (Author) , Alisa Alvarez (Author) , Marco Andrello (Author) , José R. Arévalo (Author) , Valeria Aschero (Author) , Joshua P. Averett (Author) , Agustina Barros (Author) , Lorena Bonjour (Author) , Marta Carboni (Author) , Clinton Carbutt (Author) , Lohengrin A. Cavieres (Author) , Kent Coe (Author) , Curtis Daehler (Author) , Pervaiz A. Dar (Author) , Alix Dejonckheere (Author) , Bryan Endress (Author) , Franz Essl (Author) , Georgi Fayvush (Author) , Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo (Author) , Andrea Galmán (Author) , Susan Geer (Author) , Onalenna Gwate (Author) , Barbora Hubáčková (Author) , Anke Jentsch (Author) , Alejandra Jiménez (Author) , Paul Kühn (Author) , Josef Kutlvašr (Author) , Greta La Bella (Author) , Christian Larson (Author) , Bernd Lenzner (Author) , Anna Lučanová (Author) , Keith McDougall (Author) , Maritza Mihoc (Author) , Ann Milbau (Author) , John W. Morgan (Author) , Bridgett J. Naylor (Author) , Ivan Nijs (Author) , Rüdiger Otto (Author) , Aníbal Pauchard (Author) , Gwendolyn Peyre (Author) , Irfan Rashid (Author) , Amanda Ratier Backes (Author) , Sophia Turner (Author) , Zafar A. Reshi (Author) , Damiano Righetti (Author) , Verónica Sandoya (Author) , Lucia Antonietta Santoianni (Author) , Andreas H. Schweiger (Author) , James M. Shannon (Author) , Hana Skálová (Author) , Karina L. Speziale (Author) , Angela Stanisci (Author) , Koenraad Van Meerbeek (Author) , Marco Varricchione (Author) , Vernon Visser (Author) , Vojtěch Vítek (Author) , Michaela Vitková (Author) , Tom Vorstenbosch (Author) , Zac C. Walker (Author) , Neville G Walsh (Author) , Peter Wolff (Author) , Tim Seipel (Author) , 01.08.2026 , in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 35, 8 , 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  4. Does increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide facilitate plant invasions?
    Marc W. Cadotte (Author) , Sophia Turner (Author) , Guy F. Midgley (Author) , 02.03.2026 , in: Global Change Biology, 32, 3 , 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research

  5. Plant neighbors differentially alter a focal species' biotic interactions through changes to resource allocation
    Sophia Turner (Author) , Jennifer A. Schweitzer (Author) , 01.11.2024 , in: Ecology, 105, 11 , 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Activities

Courses

Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Maraja Riechers, Sophia Carmel Turner
Next appointment:
Monday, 2026-10-19 at 12:15
Room: C 40.164 Seminarraum