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  • 2015 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Craig W. Osenberg is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's research addresses multiple main topics in environmental and marine sciences. These include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews

Craig W. Osenberg has published numerous papers in several well-known scientific journals. Frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

  • Ecology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Coral Reefs
  • Current Biology

Some of their recent papers are:

  • An assessment of statistical methods for nonindependent data in ecological meta-analyses, 2020, Ecology
  • Reproductive phenology across the lunar cycle: parental decisions, offspring responses, and consequences for reef fish, 2020, Ecology
  • Lunar rhythms in growth of larval fish, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Comparing traditional and Bayesian approaches to ecological meta-analysis, 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • An assessment of statistical methods for non-independent data in ecological meta-analyses: Reply, 2021, Ecology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Jeffrey Shima
  • James R. Bence
  • Elizabeth Hamman
  • Adrian C. Stier
  • Chao Song

Craig W. Osenberg was awarded Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Marine reserves: size and age do matter

    Joachim Claudet;Craig W. Osenberg;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Paolo Domenici

  • Fertilization effects on species density and primary productivity in herbaceous plant communities

    Laura Gough;Craig W. Osenberg;Katherine L. Gross;Scott L. Collins

  • Increased soil emissions of potent greenhouse gases under increased atmospheric CO2

    Kees Jan van Groenigen;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Craig W. Osenberg;Bruce A. Hungate

  • Are Plant Populations Seed Limited? A Critique and Meta‐Analysis of Seed Addition Experiments

    C. J. Clark;J. R. Poulsen;D. J. Levey;C. W. Osenberg

  • RESOLVING ECOLOGICAL QUESTIONS THROUGH META‐ANALYSIS: GOALS, METRICS, AND MODELS

    Craig W. Osenberg;Orlando Sarnelle;Scott D. Cooper;Robert D. Holt

  • Faster Decomposition Under Increased Atmospheric CO2 Limits Soil Carbon Storage

    Kees Jan van Groenigen;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Xuan Qi;Craig W. Osenberg;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo

  • Detection of Environmental Impacts: Natural Variability, Effect Size, and Power Analysis

    Craig W. Osenberg;Russell J. Schmitt;Sally J. Holbrook;Khalil E. Abu-Saba

  • Assessing Effects of Unreplicated Perturbations: No Simple Solutions

    Allan Stewart-Oaten;James R. Bence;Craig W. Osenberg

  • Marine reserves: fish life history and ecological traits matter.

    J Claudet;J Claudet;C W Osenberg;P Domenici;F Badalamenti

  • Effects of Body Size on the Predator‐Prey Interaction Between Pumpkinseed Sunfish and Gastropods

    Craig W. Osenberg;Gary G. Mittelbach

  • Species richness, species-area curves and Simpson's paradox

    Samuel M. Scheiner;Stephen B. Cox;Michael Willig;Gary G. Mittelbach

  • The influence of intraguild predation on prey suppression and prey release: a meta-analysis

    Heather D. Vance-Chalcraft;Jay A. Rosenheim;James R. Vonesh;Craig W. Osenberg

  • Effect size in ecological experiments: the application of biological models in meta-analysis.

    Craig W. Osenberg;Orlando Sarnelle;Scott D. Cooper

  • Perturbation and Resilience: A Long-Term, Whole-Lake Study of Predator Extinction and Reintroduction

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Andrew M. Turner;Andrew M. Turner;Donald J. Hall;Jessica E. Rettig

  • Sinks for nitrogen inputs in terrestrial ecosystems: a meta‐analysis of 15N tracer field studies

    P. H. Templer;M. C. Mack;F. S. Chapin;L. M. Christenson

  • Competition between Predator and Prey: Resource‐Based Mechanisms and Implications for Stage‐Structured Dynamics

    Mark H. Olson;G. G. Mittelbach;C. W. Osenberg

  • Two-Stage Life Histories in Fish: The Interaction Between Juvenile Competition and Adult Performance

    Craig W. Osenberg;Gary G. Mittelbach;Peter C. Wainwright

  • Size correction: comparing morphological traits among populations and environments

    Michael W. McCoy;Benjamin M. Bolker;Craig W. Osenberg;Benjamin G. Miner;Benjamin G. Miner

  • Growth Patterns in Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) and Pumpkinseed (L. gibbosus) Sunfish: Environmental Variation and the Importance of Ontogenetic Niche Shifts

    Craig W. Osenberg;Earl E. Werner;Gary G. Mittelbach;Donald J. Hall

  • Assessing the effect of elevated carbon dioxide on soil carbon: a comparison of four meta-analyses

    Bruce A. Hungate;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Johan Six;Julie D. Jastrow

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell J. Schmitt
Russell J. Schmitt University of California, Santa Barbara
Bruce A. Hungate
Bruce A. Hungate Northern Arizona University
Gary G. Mittelbach
Gary G. Mittelbach Michigan State University
Adrian C. Stier
Adrian C. Stier University of California, Santa Barbara
Kees Jan van Groenigen
Kees Jan van Groenigen University of Exeter
Sally J. Holbrook
Sally J. Holbrook University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas K. Frazer
Thomas K. Frazer University of Florida
Joachim Claudet
Joachim Claudet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
James R. Vonesh
James R. Vonesh Virginia Commonwealth University
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University

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