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Thresholds and tipping points in ecosystem responses to global warming

Principal Investigator: Max Mallen-Cooper
Status: active
Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas: Biogeochemistry; Climate change; Community ecology; Species Interactions
Items: 36 (30 publications, 0 datasets, 6 documents)

Publications (30)

Book

Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming

2019
Chapter

Global Warming and Biodiversity

1992
Book

The use and misuse of species area relationship in predicting climate-driven extinction

2012
Article

Feedbacks, thresholds and synergies in global change: population as a dynamic factor

1996Biodiversity and ConservationDOI: 10.1007/bf00052717
Article

Global warming and terrestrial ecosystems: response from Harte

2001BioScience
Thesis

Global climate change and ecosystem carbon storage: an experimental investigation of ecologically-mediated feedbacks to climate in montane meadows

1998
Thesis

Global change implications of adaption to climatic variability

2010
Chapter

Wildlife Responses to Climate Change: North American Case Studies

2001
Publication

Climate-ecosystem interactions in montane meadows

2002
Thesis

Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

2022
Thesis

Climate change impacts on community and ecosystem properties: Integrating manipulations and gradient studies in montane meadows

2000
Student Paper

The effect of global warming on soil mesofauna

1992
Publication

Effects of frost on wildflowers: an unexpected consequence of climate change

2011
Thesis

Effects of microclimate, dispersal, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on demography

2023
Chapter

Towards a More Exact Ecology

1989
Thesis

Ecosystem responses to warming-induced plant species loss and increased nitrogen availability in a Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow

2006
Thesis

Forest carbon cycling along an elevation gradient: the influence of species and climate

2003
Student Paper

The species-area relationship and spatial turnover

1996
Thesis

Causes and consequences of plant responses to environmental change over physiological, ecological, and evolutionary time.

2015
Chapter

Dynamics of Lotic Ecosystems

1983
Thesis

Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

2019
Chapter

Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

2025DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-75027-4_13
Student Paper

Herbivory patterns in response to climate change in a sub-alpine meadow

1998
Student Paper

Plant and insect diversity and abundance: resilience in response to human disturbance

1997
Student Paper

A report on aspen ecotones

1970
Chapter

Perspectives in Biophysical Ecology

1975
Student Paper

Change in terrestrial vegetation and the relating consequences for stream communities

1995
Book

Life in the Cold: Ecological, Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms

1993
Thesis

From populations to ecosystems: studies on the distribution, importance, and loss of biodiversity

1999
Article

Climate Warming Drives Local Extinction: Evidence from Observation and Experimentation

2018ScienceAdvancesDOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq1819