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Elizabeth M. Wolkovich

Elizabeth M. Wolkovich

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
9153
World Ranking
5012
National Ranking
329

Overview

Elizabeth M. Wolkovich is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with notable contributions in ecological modeling, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, and plant science.

The main research topics covered by Wolkovich include:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Horticultural and Viticultural Research
  • Wine Industry and Tourism

The scientist has contributed papers to several publication venues over their career with a significant number of publications in:

  • New Phytologist
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among recent selected papers authored or coauthored by Wolkovich are:

  • "Diversity buffers winegrowing regions from climate change losses," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Disconnects between ecological theory and data in phenological mismatch research," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Winter temperatures predominate in spring phenological responses to warming," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "A simple explanation for declining temperature sensitivity with warming," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Differences between flower and leaf phenological responses to environmental variation drive shifts in spring phenological sequences of temperate woody plants," 2021, Journal of Ecology

Frequent collaborators in Wolkovich's research include:

  • Ignacio Morales-Castilla
  • C. J. Chamberlain
  • D. M. Buonaiuto
  • Ailene K. Ettinger
  • T. Jonathan Davies

Best Publications

  • Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

    E. M. Wolkovich;B. I. Cook;B. I. Cook;J. M. Allen;T. M. Crimmins

  • Scavenging: how carnivores and carrion structure communities.

    Erin E. Wilson;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich

  • Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science

    Stephanie Pau;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Benjamin I. Cook;T. Jonathan Davies

  • The phenology of plant invasions: a community ecology perspective

    Elizabeth M Wolkovich;Elsa E Cleland

  • Global shifts in the phenological synchrony of species interactions over recent decades.

    Heather M. Kharouba;Johan Ehrlén;Andrew Gelman;Kjell Bolmgren

  • Divergent responses to spring and winter warming drive community level flowering trends

    Benjamin I. Cook;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Camille Parmesan

  • Phenological tracking enables positive species responses to climate change

    Elsa E. Cleland;Jenica M. Allen;Theresa M. Crimmins;Jennifer A. Dunne

  • Temperature and photoperiod drive spring phenology across all species in a temperate forest community

    D. F. B. Flynn;E. M. Wolkovich

  • Temporal Ecology in the Anthropocene

    E.M. Wolkovich;B. I. Cook;B. I. Cook;K. K. McLauchlan;K. K. McLauchlan;T. J. Davies;T. J. Davies

  • Phylogenetic conservatism in plant phenology

    T. Jonathan Davies;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Nicolas Salamin;Nicolas Salamin

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Diversity buffers winegrowing regions from climate change losses

    Ignacio Morales-Castilla;Ignacio Morales-Castilla;Iñaki García de Cortázar-Atauri;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook;Thierry Lacombe

  • Temperature-dependent shifts in phenology contribute to the success of exotic species with climate change

    Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;T. Jonathan Davies;Hanno Schaefer;Hanno Schaefer;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Progress Towards an Interdisciplinary Science of Plant Phenology: Building Predictions Across Space, Time and Species Diversity

    Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook;T. Jonathan Davies

  • Seasonal priority effects: implications for invasion and restoration in a semi-arid system.

    Claire E. Wainwright;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Elsa E. Cleland

  • From Pinot to Xinomavro in the world's future wine-growing regions

    E. M. Wolkovich;I. García de Cortázar-Atauri;I. Morales-Castilla;K. A. Nicholas

  • Phenological niches and the future of invaded ecosystems with climate change

    Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Grass invasion causes rapid increases in ecosystem carbon and nitrogen storage in a semiarid shrubland

    Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;David A. Lipson;Ross A. Virginia;Kathryn L. Cottingham

  • Flowering phenology as a functional trait in a tallgrass prairie

    Joseph M. Craine;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;E. Gene Towne;Steven W. Kembel

  • Sensitivity of Spring Phenology to Warming Across Temporal and Spatial Climate Gradients in Two Independent Databases

    Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;T. Jonathan Davies;Toby R. Ault

  • Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

    E. Wolkovich;B. Cook

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin I. Cook
Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Elsa E. Cleland
Elsa E. Cleland University of California, San Diego
Nicolas Salamin
Nicolas Salamin University of Lausanne
Camille Parmesan
Camille Parmesan The University of Texas at Austin
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Yvonne M. Buckley
Yvonne M. Buckley Trinity College Dublin
T. Jonathan Davies
T. Jonathan Davies University of British Columbia
Kathryn L. Cottingham
Kathryn L. Cottingham Dartmouth College

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