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Andrew P. Beckerman is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of research is Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's research extensively covers a variety of topics, notably Plant and Animal Studies, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Genetic Diversity and Population Structure.

Beckerman has contributed to multiple research articles published across diverse academic venues. Frequent publication platforms include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Ecology and Evolution, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Global Change Biology, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

  • Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • New perspectives on the bioremediation of endocrine disrupting compounds from wastewater using algae-, bacteria- and fungi-based technologies, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
  • Revealing uncertainty in the status of biodiversity change, 2024, Nature
  • Reproducibility in ecology and evolution: Minimum standards for data and code, 2023, Ecology and Evolution

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Dylan Z. Childs, Alexander M. Dunhill, Allen J. Moore, Alain Danet, and Gareth Jenkins.

Best Publications

  • Trophic cascades in terrestrial systems: a review of the effects of carnivore removals on plants.

    Oswald J. Schmitz;Peter A. Hambäck;Andrew P. Beckerman

  • Behaviorally mediated trophic cascades : Effects of predation risk on food web interactions

    Oswald J. Schmitz;Andrew P. Beckerman;Kathleen M. O’Brien

  • Adaptation genomics: the next generation.

    Jessica Stapley;Julia Reger;Philine G.D. Feulner;Carole Smadja

  • Size, foraging, and food web structure

    Owen L. Petchey;Andrew P. Beckerman;Jens O. Riede;Philip H. Warren

  • Human–predator–prey conflicts: ecological correlates, prey losses and patterns of management

    Kate Graham;Andrew P. Beckerman;Simon Thirgood

  • The relationship of leaf photosynthetic traits – Vcmax and Jmax – to leaf nitrogen, leaf phosphorus, and specific leaf area: a meta-analysis and modeling study

    Anthony P. Walker;Anthony P. Walker;Andrew P. Beckerman;Lianhong Gu;Jens Kattge

  • Experimental evidence for a behavior-mediated trophic cascade in a terrestrial food chain.

    Andrew P. Beckerman;Maria Uriarte;Oswald J. Schmitz

  • Population dynamic consequences of delayed life-history effects

    Andrew Beckerman;Tim G. Benton;Esa Ranta;Veijo Kaitala

  • The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants.

    Owen L Petchey;Owen L Petchey;Mikael Pontarp;Mikael Pontarp;Thomas M Massie;Sonia Kéfi

  • Foraging biology predicts food web complexity.

    Andrew P. Beckerman;Owen L. Petchey;Philip H. Warren

  • Oil pollution and climate have wide-scale impacts on seabird demographics.

    Stephen C. Votier;Ben J. Hatchwell;Andrew Beckerman;Robin H. McCleery

  • Urban bird declines and the fear of cats

    A. P. Beckerman;M. Boots;K. J. Gaston

  • Herbivory and plant resource competition: a review of two interacting interactions

    Peter A. Hamback;Andrew P. Beckerman

  • Climate warming strengthens indirect interactions in an old-field food web.

    Brandon T. Barton;Andrew P. Beckerman;Oswald J. Schmitz

  • Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100.

    Christopher Lyon;Christopher Lyon;Erin E Saupe;Christopher J Smith;Christopher J Smith;Daniel J Hill

  • Changes in maternal investment in eggs can affect population dynamics

    T.G Benton;S.J Plaistow;S.J Plaistow;A.P Beckerman;C.T Lapsley

  • Age and size at maturity: sex, environmental variability and developmental thresholds

    Stewart J. Plaistow;Craig T. Lapsley;Andrew P. Beckerman;Tim G. Benton

  • Daphnia magna transcriptome by RNA-Seq across 12 environmental stressors

    Luisa Orsini;Donald Gilbert;Ram Podicheti;Mieke Jansen

  • Costs, benefits and the evolution of inducible defences: A case study with Daphnia pulex

    Edd Hammill;A. Rogers;A. P. Beckerman

  • Behavioural versus physiological mediation of life history under predation risk

    Andrew P. Beckerman;Kazimierz Wieski;Donald J. Baird

  • Experimental evidence for a behavior-mediated trophic cascade in a terrestrial food chain (herbivore-mediated effectsypredationyold field food chainsygrasshoppers)

    Andrew P. Beckerman;Maria Uriarte;Oswald J. Schmitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Owen L. Petchey
Owen L. Petchey University of Zurich
Tim G. Benton
Tim G. Benton Chatham House
Oswald J. Schmitz
Oswald J. Schmitz Yale University
Philip H. Warren
Philip H. Warren University of Sheffield
Sebastian H. Mernild
Sebastian H. Mernild University of Southern Denmark
Arpat Ozgul
Arpat Ozgul University of Zurich
Allen J. Moore
Allen J. Moore University of Georgia
Ben J. Hatchwell
Ben J. Hatchwell University of Sheffield
Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Tiffany M. Knight
Tiffany M. Knight Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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