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Allen H. Hurlbert is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science with significant contributions within several subfields including Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Genetics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Animal and Plant Science Education, as well as Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Recent publications by Allen H. Hurlbert include the following papers:

  • Observing the Observers: How Participants Contribute Data to iNaturalist and Implications for Biodiversity Science, 2021, BioScience
  • Migratory Strategy Drives Species-level Variation in Bird Sensitivity to Vegetation Green-up, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Identifying the Identifiers: How iNaturalist Facilitates Collaborative, Research-relevant Data Generation and Why It Matters for Biodiversity Science, 2023, BioScience
  • Demographic Consequences of Phenological Asynchrony for North American Songbirds, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Genetic Diversity and Thermal Performance in Invasive and Native Populations of African Fig Flies, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Allen H. Hurlbert has frequently collaborated with researchers including Grace J. Di Cecco, Sara Taylor, Robert Guralnick, Michael W. Belitz, and Terry A. Gates.

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BioScience, Global Ecology and Biogeography, and PLoS ONE.

Best Publications

  • Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Douglas W. Schemske;Howard V. Cornell;Andrew P. Allen

  • Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework

    Brian J. McGill;Rampal S. Etienne;John S. Gray;David Alonso

  • Species richness, hotspots, and the scale dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation

    Allen H. Hurlbert;Walter Jetz

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • The effect of energy and seasonality on avian species richness and community composition.

    Allen H. Hurlbert;John P. Haskell

  • Species–energy relationships and habitat complexity in bird communities

    Allen H. Hurlbert

  • Broad-scale ecological implications of ectothermy and endothermy in changing environments

    Lauren B. Buckley;Allen Hartley Hurlbert;Walter Jetz

  • Species richness at continental scales is dominated by ecological limits

    Daniel L. Rabosky;Allen H. Hurlbert

  • Spatiotemporal variation in avian migration phenology: citizen science reveals effects of climate change.

    Allen H. Hurlbert;Zhongfei Liang

  • Disparity between range map- and survey-based analyses of species richness: patterns, processes and implications

    Allen H. Hurlbert;Ethan P. White;Ethan P. White

  • Observing the Observers: How Participants Contribute Data to iNaturalist and Implications for Biodiversity Science

    Grace J Di Cecco;Vijay Barve;Michael W Belitz;Brian J Stucky

  • The Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Novel Understanding through Mechanistic Eco-evolutionary Models

    Mikael Pontarp;Lynsey Bunnefeld;Juliano Sarmento Cabral;Rampal S. Etienne

  • Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity

    Nathan G. Swenson;James C. Stegen;James C. Stegen;Stuart James Davies;Stuart James Davies;David L. Erickson

  • Shaking a leg and hot to trot: the effects of body size and temperature on running speed in ants

    Allen H. Hurlbert;Ford Iv. Ballantyne;Scott Powell

  • PAPER Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities

    James C. Stegen;James C. Stegen;Amy L. Freestone;Thomas O. Crist;Marti J. Anderson

  • Using trait and phylogenetic diversity to evaluate the generality of the stress-dominance hypothesis in eastern North American tree communities

    Jessica R. Coyle;Fletcher W. Halliday;Bianca E. Lopez;Kyle A. Palmquist

  • Bird communities in future bioenergy landscapes of the Upper Midwest

    Timothy D. Meehan;Allen H. Hurlbert;Claudio Gratton

  • When should species richness be energy limited, and how would we know?

    Allen H. Hurlbert;James C. Stegen

  • Integrating spatial and temporal approaches to understanding species richness

    Ethan P. White;S. K. Morgan Ernest;Peter B. Adler;Allen H. Hurlbert

  • Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals

    Hélène Morlon;Ethan P. White;Rampal S. Etienne;Rampal S. Etienne;Jessica L. Green;Jessica L. Green

Frequent Co-Authors

Ethan P. White
Ethan P. White University of Florida
James C. Stegen
James C. Stegen Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Rampal S. Etienne
Rampal S. Etienne University of Groningen
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
S. K. Morgan Ernest
S. K. Morgan Ernest University of Florida
Jessica L. Green
Jessica L. Green University of Oregon
Anne E. Magurran
Anne E. Magurran University of St Andrews
David Storch
David Storch Charles University
Morgan W. Tingley
Morgan W. Tingley University of Connecticut
Walter Jetz
Walter Jetz Yale University

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