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Overview

Catherine H. Graham is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental and biological sciences, focusing primarily on ecology, species distribution, and climate change impacts on biodiversity.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • CHELSA-TraCE21k - high-resolution (1 km) downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the Last Glacial Maximum, 2023, Climate of the Past
  • The geography of climate and the global patterns of species diversity, 2023, Nature
  • Landscape dynamics and diversification of the megadiverse South American freshwater fish fauna, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Presence-only and Presence-absence Data for Comparing Species Distribution Modeling Methods, 2020, Biodiversity Informatics
  • Climate change shifts the timing of nutritional flux from aquatic insects, 2022, Current Biology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Niklaus E. Zimmermann
  • Elisa Barreto
  • Rafael O. Wüest
  • Loïc Pellissier
  • Esteban A. Guevara

Catherine H. Graham publishes frequently in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Ecology Letters
  • Nature Communications

Their main fields of study are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, the subfields of study they focus on include:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Plant Science

The main topics of their work cover:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations

Best Publications

  • Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data

    Jane Elith;Catherine H. Graham;Robert P. Anderson;Miroslav Dudík

  • Sample selection bias and presence-only distribution models: implications for background and pseudo-absence data

    Steven J. Phillips;Miroslav Dudík;Jane Elith;Catherine H. Graham

  • The effect of sample size and species characteristics on performance of different species distribution modeling methods

    Pilar A. Hernandez;Catherine H. Graham;Lawrence L. Master;Deborah L. Albert

  • Niche Conservatism: Integrating Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation Biology

    John J. Wiens;Catherine H. Graham

  • Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models

    Mary Wisz;R. J. Hijmans;J. Li;A. T. Peterson

  • Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data

    Olivier Broennimann;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Peter B. Pearman;Blaise Petitpierre

  • Spatial genetic structure of a tropical understory shrub, PSYCHOTRIA OFFICINALIS (RuBIACEAE)

    Bette A. Loiselle;Victoria L. Sork;John Nason;Catherine Graham

  • New developments in museum-based informatics and applications in biodiversity analysis

    Catherine H. Graham;Catherine H. Graham;Simon Ferrier;Falk Huettman;Craig Moritz

  • An Update of Wallace’s Zoogeographic Regions of the World

    Ben G. Holt;Jean-Philippe Lessard;Michael K. Borregaard;Susanne A. Fritz

  • The ability of climate envelope models to predict the effect of climate change on species distributions

    Robert J. Hijmans;Catherine H. Graham

  • Do they? How do they? WHY do they differ? On finding reasons for differing performances of species distribution models

    Jane Elith;Catherine H. Graham

  • Selecting pseudo-absence data for presence-only distribution modeling: How far should you stray from what you know?

    Jeremy VanDerWal;Luke P. Shoo;Catherine Graham;Stephen E. Williams

  • Integrating phylogenetics and environmental niche models to explore speciation mechanisms in dendrobatid frogs.

    Catherine H. Graham;Santiago R. Ron;Santiago R. Ron;Juan C. Santos;Juan C. Santos;Christopher J. Schneider

  • Phylogeography's past, present, and future: 10 years after Avise, 2000

    M. J. Hickerson;B. C. Carstens;Jeannine M Cavender-Bares;K. A. Crandall

  • Correlation and process in species distribution models: bridging a dichotomy

    Carsten F. Dormann;Carsten F. Dormann;Stanislaus J. Schymanski;Juliano Cabral;Isabelle Chuine

  • Phylogenetic beta diversity: linking ecological and evolutionary processes across space in time

    Catherine H. Graham;Paul V. A. Fine

  • Sensitivity of predictive species distribution models to change in grain size

    Antoine Guisan;Catherine H. Graham;Jane Elith;Falk Huettmann

  • Integrating GIS-based environmental data into evolutionary biology.

    Kenneth H. Kozak;Catherine H. Graham;John J. Wiens

  • Avoiding Pitfalls of Using Species-Distribution Models in Conservation Planning

    Bette A. Loiselle;Christine A. Howell;Catherine H. Graham;Jaqueline M. Goerck

  • The influence of spatial errors in species occurrence data used in distribution models

    Catherine H Graham;Jane Elith;Robert J Hijmans;Antoine Guisan

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas M. Brooks
Thomas M. Brooks International Union for Conservation of Nature
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Ana D. Davidson
Ana D. Davidson Colorado State University
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Craig Moritz
Craig Moritz Australian National University
Gabriel C. Costa
Gabriel C. Costa Auburn University at Montgomery
Bret W. Tobalske
Bret W. Tobalske University of Montana
Volker C. Radeloff
Volker C. Radeloff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert J. Hijmans
Robert J. Hijmans University of California, Davis
Bette A. Loiselle
Bette A. Loiselle University of Florida

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