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Brian Beckage is affiliated with the University of Vermont in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research has contributed to multiple topics central to understanding environmental processes and climate interactions. These include Climate Change Communication and Perception, Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

Brian Beckage has authored or co-authored research published in a range of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues for their work include PLOS Climate, Atmosphere, Climatic Change, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, and Ecology and Society.

Recent papers featuring Brian Beckage's work include:

  • Incorporating human behaviour into Earth system modelling, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate-social system, 2022, Nature
  • Understanding the uncertainty in global forest carbon turnover, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Robust bias-correction of precipitation extremes using a novel hybrid empirical quantile-mapping method, 2022, Theoretical and Applied Climatology
  • From moral hazard to risk-response feedback, 2021, Climate Risk Management

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Katherine Lacasse, Patrick J. Clemins, Jonathan M. Winter, Louis J. Gross, and Asim Zia.

Best Publications

  • A rapid upward shift of a forest ecotone during 40 years of warming in the Green Mountains of Vermont

    Brian Beckage;Ben Osborne;Daniel G. Gavin;Carolyn Pucko

  • Interpreting recruitment limitation in forests.

    J. S. Clark;B. Beckage;P. Camill;B. Cleveland

  • Density-dependent mortality and the latitudinal gradient in species diversity

    Janneke Hille Ris Lambers;James S. Clark;Brian Beckage;Brian Beckage

  • SEEDLING SURVIVAL AND GROWTH OF THREE FOREST TREE SPECIES: THE ROLE OF SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY

    Brian Beckage;James S. Clark

  • A long-term study of tree seedling recruitment in southern Appalachian forests: the effects of canopy gaps and shrub understories

    Brian Beckage;James S. Clark;Barton D. Clinton;Bruce L. Haines

  • Similarity of introduced plant species to native ones facilitates naturalization, but differences enhance invasion success.

    Jan Divíšek;Milan Chytrý;Brian Beckage;Nicholas J. Gotelli

  • Vegetation, fire, and feedbacks: a disturbance-mediated model of savannas.

    Brian Beckage;William J. Platt;Louis J. Gross

  • INFLUENCE OF THE EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION ON FIRE REGIMES IN THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES

    Brian Beckage;William J. Platt;Matthew G. Slocum;Bob Panko

  • Linking models of human behaviour and climate alters projected climate change

    Brian Beckage;Louis J. Gross;Louis J. Gross;Katherine Lacasse;Eric Carr

  • A long-term study of tree seedling recruitment in southern Appalachian forests: the effects of canopy gaps and shrub understories

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  • TOTAL AND EXTREME PRECIPITATION CHANGES OVER THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES.

    Huanping Huang;Jonathan M. Winter;Erich C. Osterberg;Radley M. Horton

  • The ubiquity of phenotypic plasticity in plants: a synthesis.

    Kattia Palacio-López;Brian Beckage;Samuel M. Scheiner;Jane Molofsky

  • INTERACTIONS OF LARGE‐SCALE DISTURBANCES: PRIOR FIRE REGIMES AND HURRICANE MORTALITY OF SAVANNA PINES

    William J. Platt;Brian Beckage;Robert F. Doren;Harold H. Slater

  • The limits to prediction in ecological systems

    Brian Beckage;Louis J. Gross;Stuart Kauffman

  • Characterization of increased persistence and intensity of precipitation in the northeastern United States

    Justin Guilbert;Alan K. Betts;Donna M. Rizzo;Brian Beckage

  • Survival of tree seedlings across space and time: estimates from long-term count data

    Brian Beckage;Michael Lavine;James S. Clark

  • Projecting the distribution of forests in New England in response to climate change

    Guoping Tang;Brian Beckage

  • Effects of repeated burning on species richness in a Florida pine savanna: A test of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis

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  • Grass feedbacks on fire stabilize savannas

    Brian Beckage;Louis J. Gross;William J. Platt

  • Understanding the uncertainty in global forest carbon turnover

    Thomas A. M. Pugh;Tim T. Rademacher;Tim T. Rademacher;Sarah L. Shafer;Jörg Steinkamp

  • Fire feedbacks facilitate invasion of pine savannas by Brazilian pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius).

    Jens T. Stevens;Brian Beckage

  • Bayesian change-point analyses in ecology

    Brian Beckage;Lawrence Joseph;Patrick Belisle;David B. Wolfson

  • Effect of Climate on Wildfire Size: A Cross-Scale Analysis

    Matthew G. Slocum;Brian Beckage;William J. Platt;Steve L. Orzell

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Platt
William J. Platt Louisiana State University
James S. Clark
James S. Clark Duke University
Radley M. Horton
Radley M. Horton Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Forrest M. Hoffman
Forrest M. Hoffman Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Ann P. Kinzig
Ann P. Kinzig Arizona State University
Nicholas J. Gotelli
Nicholas J. Gotelli University of Vermont
Stuart A. Kauffman
Stuart A. Kauffman University of Vermont
Alan K. Betts
Alan K. Betts Colorado State University
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University

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