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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

F. Stuart Chapin is affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within Environmental Science, with a particular focus on the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers several main research topics including Ecosystem dynamics and resilience, Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Disaster Management and Resilience, and Climate change and permafrost.

F. Stuart Chapin has published extensively, with notable frequent publication venues including Ecosphere, AMBIO, Nature Sustainability, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Ecology and Society.

Recent papers authored by or associated with them include:

  • Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere, 2021, AMBIO
  • Reconciling well-being and resilience for sustainable development, 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset, 2022, Scientific Data
  • Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change, 2020, One Earth

The scientist collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, including Debra P. C. Peters, David D. Breshears, Laurel Hartley, Lucas Joppa, and Shannon L. LaDeau.

Awards received by F. Stuart Chapin include being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2000.

Best Publications

  • A safe operating space for humanity

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Kevin Noone;Åsa Persson;Åsa Persson

  • Global Consequences of Land Use

    Jonathan A. Foley;Ruth DeFries;Gregory P. Asner;Carol Barford

  • Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100.

    O E Sala;F S Chapin;J J Armesto;E Berlow

  • Planetary boundaries: Exploring the safe operating space for humanity

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Kevin Noone;Åsa Persson;Åsa Persson

  • Plant Physiological Ecology

    Hans Lambers;F. Stuart Chapin;Thijs L. Pons

  • Consequences of changing biodiversity

    F. Stuart Chapin Iii;Erika S. Zavaleta;Valerie T. Eviner;Rosamond L. Naylor

  • Resource Availability and Plant Antiherbivore Defense

    Phyllis D. Coley;John P. Bryant;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology

    F. Stuart Chapin;Pamela A. Matson;Peter M. Vitousek

  • The Mineral Nutrition of Wild Plants Revisited: A Re-evaluation of Processes and Patterns

    R. Aerts;F.S. Chapin

  • Carbon/nutrient balance of boreal plants in relation to vertebrate herbivory

    John P. Bryant;F. Stuart Chapin;David R. Klein

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • The Ecology and Economics of Storage in Plants

    F. Stuart Chapin;Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Harold A. Mooney

  • Biodiversity loss threatens human well-being.

    Sandra Díaz;Joseph E Fargione;F. Stuart Chapin;David Tilman

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Plant Responses to Multiple Environmental FactorsPhysiological ecology provides tools for studying how interacting environmental resources control plant growth

    F. Stuart Chapin;Arnold J. Bloom;Christopher B. Field;Richard H. Waring

  • Responses of Arctic Tundra to Experimental and Observed Changes in Climate

    F. Stuart Chapin;Gaius R. Shaver;Anne E. Giblin;Knute J. Nadelhoffer

  • On the Economy of Plant Form and Function.

    F. Stuart Chapin;T. J. Givinish

  • Evidence and implications of recent climate change in northern Alaska and other arctic regions.

    Larry D. Hinzman;Neil D. Bettez;W. Robert Bolton;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming

    F. S. Chapin;M. Sturm;Mark C. Serreze;J.P. McFadden

  • Biotic Control over the Functioning of Ecosystems

    F. Stuart Chapin;Brian H. Walker;Richard J. Hobbs;David U. Hooper

  • Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge: Ecological Monog

    David Hooper;F. Stuart Chapin;John J. Ewel;Andy Hector

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Lambers
Hans Lambers University of Western Australia
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Thijs L. Pons
Thijs L. Pons Utrecht University
Gaius R. Shaver
Gaius R. Shaver Marine Biological Laboratory
Jill F. Johnstone
Jill F. Johnstone University of Saskatchewan
Peter M. Vitousek
Peter M. Vitousek Stanford University
Pamela A. Matson
Pamela A. Matson Stanford University
Henry P. Huntington
Henry P. Huntington Ocean Conservancy
A. David McGuire
A. David McGuire University of Alaska Fairbanks
Michelle C. Mack
Michelle C. Mack Northern Arizona University

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