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Overview

Andrew J. Tanentzap is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on ecology and related subfields.

Tanentzap has published extensively on topics such as microbial community ecology, marine and coastal ecosystems, and plant and animal studies. Specific research interests include ecological interactions, species distribution under climate change, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Frequent coauthors in Tanentzap's work include Jianjun Wang, Erik J. S. Emilson, Ang Hu, Lucas P. P. Braga, and Thorsten Dittmar.

The main venues for Tanentzap's publications include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Nature Communications

Among recent papers, several notable publications are:

  • Ecological networks of dissolved organic matter and microorganisms under global change, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Plastic pollution fosters more microbial growth in lakes than natural organic matter, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Angiosperm speciation cools down in the tropics, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Assessing the Potential for Mobilization of Old Soil Carbon After Permafrost Thaw: A Synthesis of 14C Measurements From the Northern Permafrost Region, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Microbial and Environmental Processes Shape the Link between Organic Matter Functional Traits and Composition, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology

The disciplinary scope of Tanentzap's research includes several main fields:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, the scientist engages with subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Atmospheric Science

Key thematic areas in Tanentzap's work cover:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Best Publications

  • Ecological networks of dissolved organic matter and microorganisms under global change

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  • Looking forward through the past: Identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

    Alistair W. R. Seddon;Alistair W. R. Seddon;Anson W. Mackay;Ambroise G. Baker;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • Carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems: do browsing and grazing herbivores matter?

    Andrew J. Tanentzap;David A. Coomes

  • Chemical and microbial diversity covary in fresh water to influence ecosystem functioning

    Andrew J. Tanentzap;Amelia Fitch;Chloe Orland;Erik J. S. Emilson

  • Landscape‐level vegetation recovery from herbivory: progress after four decades of invasive red deer control

    Andrew J. Tanentzap;Larry E. Burrows;William G. Lee;Graham Nugent

  • Forests fuel fish growth in freshwater deltas

    Andrew J. Tanentzap;Andrew J. Tanentzap;Erik J. Szkokan-Emilson;Brian W. Kielstra;Michael T. Arts;Michael T. Arts

  • Slow responses of ecosystems to reductions in deer (Cervidae) populations and strategies for achieving recovery

    Andrew J. Tanentzap;Keith J. Kirby;Emma Goldberg

  • Seeing the forest for the deer: Do reductions in deer-disturbance lead to forest recovery?

    Andrew J. Tanentzap;Dawn R. Bazely;Saewan Koh;Mika Timciska

  • Terrestrial support of lake food webs: Synthesis reveals controls over cross-ecosystem resource use

    Andrew J. Tanentzap;Brian W. Kielstra;Grace M. Wilkinson;Martin Berggren

  • Microbial and Environmental Processes Shape the Link between Organic Matter Functional Traits and Composition.

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  • Angiosperm speciation cools down in the tropics.

    Javier Igea;Andrew J. Tanentzap

  • The benefits of being in a bad neighbourhood: plant community composition influences red deer foraging decisions

    Jennie N. Bee;Andrew J. Tanentzap;William G. Lee;Roger B. Lavers

  • Microbiome functioning depends on individual and interactive effects of the environment and community structure.

    Chloé Orland;Erik J. S. Emilson;Erik J. S. Emilson;Nathan Basiliko;Nadia C. S. Mykytczuk

  • Assessing the Potential for Mobilization of Old Soil Carbon After Permafrost Thaw: A Synthesis of 14 C Measurements From the Northern Permafrost Region

    Cristian Estop‐Aragonés;Cristian Estop‐Aragonés;David Olefeldt;Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeffrey P. Chanton

  • Resource limitation underlying multiple masting models makes mast seeding sensitive to future climate change.

    Adrian Monks;Joanne M. Monks;Andrew J. Tanentzap;Andrew J. Tanentzap

  • From theory to experiments for testing the proximate mechanisms of mast seeding: an agenda for an experimental ecology

    Michał Bogdziewicz;Davide Ascoli;Andrew Hacket‐Pain;Walter D. Koenig

  • The potential impact of Brexit on the energy, water and food nexus in the UK: A fuzzy cognitive mapping approach

    Guy Ziv;Elizabeth Watson;Dylan Young;David C. Howard

  • The jellification of north temperate lakes.

    Adam Jeziorski;Andrew Joseph Tanentzap;Norman D Yan;Andrew M Paterson

  • Seasonal shifts in export of DOC and nutrients from burned and unburned peatland-rich catchments, Northwest Territories, Canada

    Katheryn Burd;Suzanne E. Tank;Nicole Dion;William L. Quinton

  • Environmental and Human Security in the Arctic

    Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv;Dawn R. Bazely;Marina Goloviznina;Andrew Tanentzap

  • Impacts of culling and exclusion of browsers on vegetation recovery across New Zealand forests

    David M. Wright;Andrew J. Tanentzap;Olivier Flores;Sean W. Husheer

  • Calibrating the Dynamic Reservoir Simulation Model (DYRESM) and filling required data gaps for one‐dimensional thermal profile predictions in a boreal lake

    Andrew J. Tanentzap;David P. Hamilton;Norman D. Yan;Norman D. Yan

Frequent Co-Authors

William G. Lee
William G. Lee Landcare Research
David A. Coomes
David A. Coomes University of Cambridge
John M. Gunn
John M. Gunn Laurentian University
Nathan Basiliko
Nathan Basiliko Laurentian University
Norman D. Yan
Norman D. Yan York University
Michał Bogdziewicz
Michał Bogdziewicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Tadashi Fukami
Tadashi Fukami Stanford University
Alan F. Mark
Alan F. Mark University of Otago
David Olefeldt
David Olefeldt University of Alberta
Thorsten Dittmar
Thorsten Dittmar Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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