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1798

Overview

Craig Loehle is affiliated with Argonne National Laboratory in the United States. Their research contributions span several aspects of environmental science, with a focus on topics related to forest management, ecology, and environmental change.

Their recent research publications include:

  • Hurricane trend detection (2020), published in Natural Hazards
  • Quantifying species' geographic range changes: conceptual and statistical issues (2020), published in Ecosphere
  • Preventing the Perfect Storm of Forest Mortality in the United States Caused by Invasive Species (2022), published in Journal of Forestry

Though not a direct coauthor, Craig Loehle is connected within networks involving authors such as Angela L. Larsen-Gray, Holly L. Munro, Kevin A. Solarik, Darren A. Miller, and Jake Verschuyl, who frequently collaborate in related subject areas.

Frequent venues in which Loehle publishes include:

  • Forests (3 publications)
  • Journal of Forestry (2 publications)
  • The Forestry Chronicle (2 publications)
  • Forest Science (2 publications)
  • Natural Hazards (1 publication)

The scientist's main field of study is Environmental Science, supported by a total of 37 publications. Their subfields of focus are:

  • Global and Planetary Change (17 publications)
  • Ecology (8 publications)
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation (8 publications)
  • Atmospheric Science (4 publications)
  • Environmental Engineering (3 publications)

Their primary topics of research include:

  • Forest Management and Policy (14 publications)
  • Fire effects on ecosystems (14 publications)
  • Forest ecology and management (10 publications)
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management (6 publications)
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability (6 publications)
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation (6 publications)
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • Forecasting the Effects of Global Warming on Biodiversity

    Daniel B. Botkin;Henrik Saxe;Miguel B. Araújo;Richard Betts

  • Social barriers to pathogen transmission in wild animal populations

    Craig Loehle

  • On the relationship between r/K selection and environmental carrying capacity: a new habitat templet for plant life history strategies.

    Douglas R. Taylor;Lonnie W. Aarssen;Craig Loehle

  • Tree life history strategies: the role of defenses

    Craig Loehle

  • Model-based assessments of climate change effects on forests: a critical review

    Craig Loehle;David LeBlanc

  • Height growth rate tradeoffs determine northern and southern range limits for trees

    Craig Loehle

  • Hypothesis Testing in Ecology: Psychological Aspects and the Importance of Theory Maturation

    Craig Loehle

  • Strategy space and the disturbance spectrum: a life-history model for tree species coexistence.

    Craig Loehle

  • Applying landscape principles to fire hazard reduction

    Craig Loehle

  • Historical bird and terrestrial mammal extinction rates and causes

    Craig Loehle;Willis Eschenbach

  • Partitioning of reproductive effort in clonal plants: a benefit-cost

    Craig Loehle;C. Loehle

  • Habitat Destruction and the Extinction Debt Revisited

    Craig Loehle;Bai-Lian Li

  • Correction to: A 2000-Year Global Temperature Reconstruction Based on Non-Tree Ring Proxies

    Craig Loehle;J. Huston McCulloch

  • Forest ecotone response to climate change: sensitivity to temperature response functional forms

    Craig Loehle

  • A 2000-Year Global Temperature Reconstruction Based on Non-Treering Proxies:

    Craig Loehle

  • Relationships between avian richness and landscape structure at multiple scales using multiple landscapes

    Michael S. Mitchell;Scott H. Rutzmoser;T. Bently Wigley;Craig Loehle

  • Forest spread and phase transitions at forest-prairie ecotones in Kansas, U.S.A.

    Craig Loehle;Bai-Lian Li;Ronald C. Sundell

  • Anomalous responses of plants to CO2 enrichment

    Craig Loehle

  • Landscape habitat diversity: a multiscale information theory approach

    Craig Loehle;Gary Wein

  • A hypothesis testing framework for evaluating ecosystem model performance

    Craig Loehle

  • RESEARCH Historical bird and terrestrial mammal extinction rates and causes

    Craig Loehle;Willis Eschenbach

  • Habitat destruction and the extinction debt revisited

    C. Loehle

Frequent Co-Authors

Bai-Lian Li
Bai-Lian Li University of California, Riverside
Michael S. Mitchell
Michael S. Mitchell University of Montana
Eric J. Gustafson
Eric J. Gustafson US Forest Service
Stanley F. Fox
Stanley F. Fox Oklahoma State University
Peter Chesson
Peter Chesson University of Arizona
Chris Margules
Chris Margules James Cook University
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Scott G. Leibowitz
Scott G. Leibowitz Environmental Protection Agency
Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter

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