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Overview

George E. Host is affiliated with the University of Minnesota, Duluth in the United States. Their research work spans several fields with a focus on environmental science and ecology. The scientist's expertise covers multiple subfields including ecology, plant science, and oceanography.

The main topics addressed in Host's work include:

  • Ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Botany and plant ecology studies
  • Peatlands and wetlands ecology
  • Aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Marine biology and ecology research

Host has contributed to the publication of several research papers, two notable recent works are:

  • Relics of beavers past: time and population density drive scale-dependent patterns of ecosystem engineering, published in 2021 in Ecography
  • Macroinvertebrate and Fish Community Metrics: Confounding Effects and Consistency over Time, published in 2020 in Wetlands

Frequent collaborators in Host's research include:

  • Sean Johnson-Bice
  • Thomas D. Gable
  • Steve K. Windels
  • Katya E. Kovalenko
  • Valerie Brady

Host's publications appear in scientific venues such as:

  • Ecography
  • Wetlands

The scientist's research interests reflect an integration of ecological dynamics across multiple environments, including freshwater and marine ecosystems, with a strong emphasis on species interactions and community metrics in aquatic habitats.

Best Publications

  • Landscape influences on water chemistry in Midwestern stream ecosystems

    Lucinda B Johnson;Carl Richards;George E Host;John W. Arthur

  • Landscape-scale influences on stream habitats and biota

    Carl Richards;Lucinda B. Johnson;George E. Host

  • Catchment and reach‐scale properties as indicators of macroinvertebrate species traits

    Carl Richards;Roger J. Haro;Lucinda B Johnson;George E Host

  • Improved forest classification in the northern Lake States using multi-temporal Landsat imagery

    Peter T. Wolter;David J. Mladenoff;George E. Host;Thomas R. Crow

  • Identification of predominant environmental factors structuring stream macroinvertebrate communities within a large agricultural catchment

    Carl Richards;George E. Host;John W. Arthur

  • Tropospheric O3 moderates responses of temperate hardwood forests to elevated CO2: a synthesis of molecular to ecosystem results from the Aspen FACE project

    D. F. Karnosky;D. R. Zak;K. S. Pregitzer;K. S. Pregitzer;C. S. Awmack

  • EXAMINING LAND USE INFLUENCES ON STREAM HABITATS AND MACROINVERTEBRATES: A GIS APPROACH

    Carl Richards;George E Host

  • Integrated Measures of Anthropogenic Stress in the U.S. Great Lakes Basin

    Nicholas P. Danz;Gerald J Niemi;Ronald R. Regal;Tom Hollenhorst

  • Regional variability in nitrogen mineralization, nitrification, and overstory biomass in northern Lower Michigan

    Donald R. Zak;George E. Host;Kurt S. Pregitzer

  • Recent developments in landscape approaches for the study of aquatic ecosystems

    Lucinda B. Johnson;George E. Host

  • A Quantitative Approach to Developing Regional Ecosystem Classifications

    George E. Host;Philip L. Polzer;David J. Mladenoff;Mark A. White

  • Landscape variation in nitrogen mineralization and nitrification

    Donald R. Zak;Kurt S. Pregitzer;George E. Host

  • Environmentally stratified sampling design for the development of Great Lakes environmental indicators.

    Nicholas P. Danz;Ronald R. Regal;Gerald J Niemi;Gerald J Niemi;Valerie J Brady

  • ECOPHYS: An ecophysiological growth process model for juvenile poplar.

    H. M. Rauscher;J. G. Isebrands;G. E. Host;R. E. Dickson

  • Landform-mediated differences in successional pathways among upland forest ecosystems in northwestern Lower Michigan.

    George E. Host;Kurt S. Pregitzer;Carl W. Ramm;James B. Hart

  • Variation in overstory biomass among glacial landforms and ecological land units in northwestern Lower Michigan

    George E. Host;Kurt S. Pregitzer;Carl W. Ramm;David P. Lusch

  • Ownership and ecosystem as sources of spatial heterogeneity in a forested landscape, Wisconsin, USA

    Thomas R. Crow;George E. Host;David J. Mladenoff

  • Targets for boreal forest biodiversity conservation - a rationale for macroecological research and adaptive management

    Per Angelstam;Stan Boutin;Fiona Schmiegelow;Marc-André Villard

  • Geomorphic influences on ground-flora and overstory composition in upland forests of northwestern lower Michigan

    George E. Host;Kurt S. Pregitzer

  • Harvesting impacts on soil and understory vegetation: the influence of season of harvest and within-site disturbance patterns on clear-cut aspen stands in Minnesota

    Alaina L. Berger;Klaus J. Puettmann;George E. Host

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucinda B. Johnson
Lucinda B. Johnson University of Minnesota, Duluth
Gerald J. Niemi
Gerald J. Niemi University of Minnesota, Duluth
Jan J. H. Ciborowski
Jan J. H. Ciborowski University of Windsor
Kurt S. Pregitzer
Kurt S. Pregitzer University of Idaho
Thomas R. Crow
Thomas R. Crow US Forest Service
Robert W. Howe
Robert W. Howe University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
David J. Mladenoff
David J. Mladenoff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Euan D. Reavie
Euan D. Reavie University of Minnesota, Duluth
Carol A. Johnston
Carol A. Johnston South Dakota State University
Donald R. Zak
Donald R. Zak University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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