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D-Index
57
Citations
14288
World Ranking
2677
National Ranking
947

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - George Mercer Award, The Ecological Society of America

Overview

Bethany A. Bradley is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong emphasis on ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their published work spans several subfields such as ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, and global and planetary change. The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects including species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, biological control of invasive species, and forest insect ecology and management.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Bethany A. Bradley include Evelyn M. Beaury, Toni Lyn Morelli, Emily J. Fusco, Inés Ibáñez, and Montserrat Vilà.

Key recent publications authored or coauthored by this scientist are:

  • Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • In the Line of Fire: Consequences of Human-Ignited Wildfires to Homes in the U.S. (1992-2015), 2020, MDPI (MDPI AG)
  • Global environmental changes more frequently offset than intensify detrimental effects of biological invasions, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Invaders for sale: the ongoing spread of invasive species by the plant trade industry, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Understanding the combined impacts of weeds and climate change on crops, 2021, Environmental Research Letters

The scientist has published multiple times in venues such as Biological Invasions, Ecology, Ecological Applications, BioScience, and Global Ecology and Biogeography.

In 2021, Bethany A. Bradley received the George Mercer Award from The Ecological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Global threats from invasive alien species in the twenty-first century and national response capacities

    Regan Early;Bethany A. Bradley;Jeffrey S. Dukes;Joshua J. Lawler

  • Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States

    Jennifer K. Balch;Bethany A. Bradley;John T. Abatzoglou;R. Chelsea Nagy

  • Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980–2009)

    Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Bethany A. Bradley;Carla M. D'Antonio;José Gómez-Dans

  • Predicting plant invasions in an era of global change

    Bethany A. Bradley;Bethany A. Bradley;Dana M. Blumenthal;David S. Wilcove;Lewis H. Ziska

  • Will Extreme Climatic Events Facilitate Biological Invasions

    Jeffrey M Diez;Carla M D'Antonio;Jeffrey S Dukes;Edwin D Grosholz

  • A curve fitting procedure to derive inter-annual phenologies from time series of noisy satellite NDVI data

    Bethany A. Bradley;Robert W. Jacob;John F. Hermance;John F. Mustard

  • Resilience to Stress and Disturbance, and Resistance to Bromus tectorum L. Invasion in Cold Desert Shrublands of Western North America

    Jeanne C. Chambers;Bethany A. Bradley;Cynthia S. Brown;Carla D'Antonio

  • Will remote sensing shape the next generation of species distribution models

    Kate S. He;Bethany A. Bradley;Anna F. Cord;Duccio Rocchini

  • Climate change increases risk of plant invasion in the Eastern United States

    Bethany A. Bradley;Bethany A. Bradley;David S. Wilcove;Michael Oppenheimer

  • Characterizing the landscape dynamics of an invasive plant and risk of invasion using remote sensing.

    Bethany A. Bradley;John F. Mustard

  • Regional analysis of the impacts of climate change on cheatgrass invasion shows potential risk and opportunity

    Bethany A. Bradley

  • Climate change and plant invasions: restoration opportunities ahead?

    Bethany A. Bradley;Michael Oppenheimer;David S. Wilcove

  • Identifying land cover variability distinct from land cover change: Cheatgrass in the Great Basin

    Bethany A. Bradley;John F. Mustard

  • Remote detection of invasive plants: a review of spectral, textural and phenological approaches

    Bethany A. Bradley

  • Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) distribution in the intermountain Western United States and its relationship to fire frequency, seasonality, and ignitions

    Bethany A. Bradley;Caroline A. Curtis;Emily J. Fusco;John T. Abatzoglou

  • Global change, global trade, and the next wave of plant invasions

    Bethany A. Bradley;Dana M. Blumenthal;Regan Early;Edwin D. Grosholz

  • Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions.

    Emily J. Fusco;John T. Finn;Jennifer K. Balch;R. Chelsea Nagy

  • Disentangling the abundance-impact relationship for invasive species.

    Bethany A Bradley;Brittany B Laginhas;Raj Whitlock;Jenica M Allen

  • Invasive grass reduces aboveground carbon stocks in shrublands of the Western US

    Bethany A. Bradley;R. A. Houghton;John F. Mustard;Steven P. Hamburg

  • Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts

    Piper D. Wallingford;Toni Lyn Morelli;Toni Lyn Morelli;Jenica M. Allen;Jenica M. Allen;Jenica M. Allen;Evelyn M. Beaury

  • Predicting species distributions across the Amazonian and Andean regions using remote sensing data. Commentary

    Bethany A. Bradley;Erica Fleishman;Wolfgang Buermann;Sassan Saatchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer K. Balch
Jennifer K. Balch University of Colorado Boulder
John F. Mustard
John F. Mustard Brown University
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University
Regan Early
Regan Early University of Exeter
David S. Wilcove
David S. Wilcove Princeton University
Toni Lyn Morelli
Toni Lyn Morelli United States Geological Survey
Cascade J. B. Sorte
Cascade J. B. Sorte University of California, Irvine
John T. Abatzoglou
John T. Abatzoglou University of California, Merced
Roland Schulze
Roland Schulze University of KwaZulu-Natal
Dana M. Blumenthal
Dana M. Blumenthal Agricultural Research Service

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