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47
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13228
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4343
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482

Overview

Alistair S. Jump is affiliated with the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom and specializes in environmental science with a focus on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, atmospheric science, ecological modeling, and ecology.

Their research spans several interconnected fields and topics, including:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest management and policy
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

Among their frequent collaborators are Miroslav Svoboda, Christian Zang, Andrew Hacket-Pain, Vojtěch Čada, and Jüergen Kreyling. Their partnerships have contributed to research published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Restoration Ecology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Alistair S. Jump include:

  • "Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests," 2022, Communications Biology
  • "SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Reviewing the Use of Resilience Concepts in Forest Sciences," 2020, Current Forestry Reports
  • "Life after recovery: Increased resolution of forest resilience assessment sheds new light on post-drought compensatory growth and recovery dynamics," 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • "Impacts of recurrent dry and wet years alter long-term tree growth trajectories," 2020, Journal of Ecology

Best Publications

  • Running to stand still: adaptation and the response of plants to rapid climate change.

    Alistair S. Jump;Josep Peñuelas

  • Rapid climate change-related growth decline at the southern range edge of Fagus sylvatica

    Alistair S. Jump;Jenny M. Hunt;Josep Peñuelas

  • Environmental change and the option value of genetic diversity

    Alistair S. Jump;Alistair S. Jump;Alistair S. Jump;Rob Marchant;Josep Peñuelas

  • The altitude-for-latitude disparity in the range retractions of woody species

    Alistair S. Jump;Alistair S. Jump;Csaba Mátyás;Josep Peñuelas

  • Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf area

    Sarah Greenwood;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Jordi Martínez-Vilalta;Francisco Lloret

  • Climate Relicts: Past, Present, Future

    Arndt Hampe;Alistair S. Jump

  • Evidence of current impact of climate change on life: a walk from genes to the biosphere

    Josep Penuelas;Jordi Sardans;Marc Estiarte;Roma Ogaya

  • Natural selection and climate change: temperature-linked spatial and temporal trends in gene frequency in Fagus sylvatica.

    Alistair S. Jump;Jenny M. Hunt;José Antonio Martínez-Izquierdo;Josep Peñuelas

  • Genetic effects of chronic habitat fragmentation in a wind-pollinated tree

    Alistair S. Jump;Josep Peñuelas

  • Migration, invasion and decline: changes in recruitment and forest structure in a warming-linked shift of European beech forest in Catalonia (NE Spain)

    Josep Peñuelas;Romà Ogaya;Martí Boada;Alistair S. Jump

  • Structural overshoot of tree growth with climate variability and the global spectrum of drought-induced forest dieback

    Alistair S. Jump;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Sarah Greenwood;Craig D. Allen

  • Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation

    Manuel J. Steinbauer;Richard Field;John-Arvid Grytnes;Panayiotis Trigas

  • Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests

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  • Twentieth century changes of tree‐ring δ13C at the southern range‐edge of Fagus sylvatica: increasing water‐use efficiency does not avoid the growth decline induced by warming at low altitudes

    Josep Peñuelas;Jenny M. Hunt;Romà Ogaya;Alistair S. Jump

  • Highest drought sensitivity and lowest resistance to growth suppression are found in the range core of the tree Fagus sylvatica L. not the equatorial range edge.

    Liam Cavin;Alistair S. Jump

  • Extreme drought alters competitive dominance within and between tree species in a mixed forest stand

    Liam Cavin;Edward P. Mountford;George F. Peterken;Alistair S. Jump

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Seed production and population density decline approaching the range‐edge of Cirsium species

    Alistair S. Jump;F. Ian Woodward

  • Reviewing the Use of Resilience Concepts in Forest Sciences

    Laura Nikinmaa;Laura Nikinmaa;Marcus Lindner;Elena Cantarello;Alistair S Jump

  • Interactions between growth, demography and biotic interactions in determining species range limits in a warming world: the case of Pinus sylvestris

    Luis Matías;Alistair S. Jump

  • Summer season and long-term drought increase the richness of bacteria and fungi in the foliar phyllosphere of Quercus ilex in a mixed Mediterranean forest

    Josep Penuelas;Laura Rico;Roma Ogaya;Alistair Jump;Alistair Jump

  • Taking a tree's perspective on forest fragmentation genetics

    Cecile F.E. Bacles;Alistair S. Jump

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Paloma Ruiz-Benito
Paloma Ruiz-Benito University of Alcalá
Francisco Lloret
Francisco Lloret Autonomous University of Barcelona
Romà Ogaya
Romà Ogaya Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
J. Julio Camarero
J. Julio Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Aleksi Lehtonen
Aleksi Lehtonen Finnish Forest Research Institute
Marc Estiarte
Marc Estiarte Spanish National Research Council
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Juan Carlos Linares
Juan Carlos Linares Pablo de Olavide University
Miguel A. Zavala
Miguel A. Zavala University of Alcalá

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