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  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Eric Post is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions across subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics such as Climate change and permafrost, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Tree-ring climate responses, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Rangeland and Wildlife Management.

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Eric Post include:

  • "Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic" (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • "Demographic Consequences of Phenological Shifts in Response to Climate Change" (2021, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics)
  • "Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Divergence of Arctic shrub growth associated with sea ice decline" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Large herbivore diversity slows sea ice-associated decline in arctic tundra diversity" (2023, Science)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Eric Post include Christian John, Jeffrey T. Kerby, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Robert D. Hollister, and Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir.

Their publications appear regularly in venues such as Scientific Reports, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, and Ecography.

Eric Post holds the distinction of being a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Ecological responses to recent climate change.

    Gian Reto Walther;Eric Post;Peter Convey;Annette Menzel

  • Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change

    Eric Post;Eric Post;Mads C. Forchhammer;M. Syndonia Bret-Harte;Terry V. Callaghan;Terry V. Callaghan

  • Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time.

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H. R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Robert G. Bjork

  • Ecological effects of the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Geir Ottersen;Benjamin Planque;Andrea Belgrano;Eric S Post

  • Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Jeffrey T. Kerby;Gareth K. Phoenix;Jarle W. Bjerke

  • CLIMATIC VARIABILITY, PLANT PHENOLOGY, AND NORTHERN UNGULATES

    Eric Post;Nils Chr. Stenseth

  • Climate change reduces reproductive success of an Arctic herbivore through trophic mismatch.

    Eric Post;Mads C Forchhammer

  • The effects of phenological mismatches on demography

    Abraham J. Miller-Rushing;Toke Thomas Høye;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye;Eric Post

  • Ecological Consequences of Sea-Ice Decline

    Eric Post;Uma S. Bhatt;Cecilia M. Bitz;Jedediah F. Brodie

  • Filling key gaps in population and community ecology

    Anurag A. Agrawal;David D. Ackerly;Fred Adler;A. Elizabeth Arnold

  • Opposing plant community responses to warming with and without herbivores

    Eric Post;Christian Pedersen

  • Ecosystem consequences of wolf behavioural response to climate

    Eric S Post;Rolf O. Peterson;Nils Chr Stenseth;Brian E. McLaren

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world

    Eric Post;Richard B. Alley;Torben R. Christensen;Marc Macias-Fauria

  • Breeding phenology and climate⃛

    Mads C. Forchhammer;Eric Post;Nils Chr. Stenseth

  • Synchronization of animal population dynamics by large-scale climate

    Eric Post;Mads C. Forchhammer

  • Rapid advancement of spring in the High Arctic

    Toke T. Høye;Toke T. Høye;Eric Post;Hans Meltofte;Niels M. Schmidt

  • Population dynamics of Norwegian red deer: density-dependence and climatic variation.

    M C Forchhammer;N C Stenseth;E Post;R Langvatn

  • Climate change and the ecology and evolution of Arctic vertebrates

    Olivier Gilg;Olivier Gilg;Kit M. Kovacs;Jon Aars;Jérôme Fort

  • Global climate change and phenotypic variation among red deer cohorts

    Eric Post;Nils Chr. Stenseth;Rolf Langvatn;Jean-Marc Fromentin

  • North Atlantic Oscillation timing of long‐ and short‐distance migration

    Mads C. Forchhammer;Eric Post;Nils Chr. Stenseth

Frequent Co-Authors

Mads C. Forchhammer
Mads C. Forchhammer University of Copenhagen
Nils Chr. Stenseth
Nils Chr. Stenseth University of Oslo
Jeffrey M. Welker
Jeffrey M. Welker University of Oulu
Toke T. Høye
Toke T. Høye Aarhus University
Niels Martin Schmidt
Niels Martin Schmidt Aarhus University
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir University of Iceland
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of Alaska Anchorage
Jedediah F. Brodie
Jedediah F. Brodie University of Montana
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg

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