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164

Overview

James B. Grace is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States and focuses primarily on research within Environmental Science.

Their work spans several subfields including:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

James B. Grace has contributed to multiple scientific articles in various journals. Some recent publications are:

  • "Migration and transformation of coastal wetlands in response to rising seas," 2022, Science Advances
  • "Climate and local environment structure asynchrony and the stability of primary production in grasslands," 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Instrumental variable methods in structural equation models," 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "A 'Weight of Evidence' approach to evaluating structural equation models," 2020, One Ecosystem
  • "Hurricane Sandy Effects on Coastal Marsh Elevation Change," 2020, Estuaries and Coasts

Frequent coauthors with whom James B. Grace has collaborated include:

  • Michael J. Osland
  • Glenn R. Guntenspergen
  • Karen M. Thorne
  • Bogdan Chivoiu
  • Nicholas M. Enwright

Regarding publication venues, James B. Grace has multiple works published in:

  • One Ecosystem
  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • Ecology Letters
  • Ecosphere
  • Journal of Ecology

Best Publications

  • Analysis of Ecological Communities

    Bruce McCune;James B. Grace

  • Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

    Bradley J. Cardinale;J. Emmett Duffy;Andrew Gonzalez;David U. Hooper

  • Structural Equation Modeling and Natural Systems

    James B. Grace

  • Effects of Invasive Alien Plants on Fire Regimes

    Matthew L. Brooks;Carla M. D'antonio;David M. Richardson;James B. Grace

  • Perspectives on Plant Competition

    James B. Grace;David Tilman

  • On the specification of structural equation models for ecological systems.

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Han Olff;Samuel M. Scheiner

  • Components of resource competition in plant communities.

    D. E. Goldberg;J.B. Grace;D. Tilman

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • The factors controlling species density in herbaceous plant communities: an assessment

    James B. Grace

  • Guidelines for a graph‐theoretic implementation of structural equation modeling

    James B. Grace;Donald R. Schoolmaster;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Amanda M. Little

  • Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Melinda D. Smith;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Habitat Partitioning and Competitive Displacement in Cattails (Typha): Experimental Field Studies

    James B. Grace;Robert G. Wetzel

  • Resilience to Stress and Disturbance, and Resistance to Bromus tectorum L. Invasion in Cold Desert Shrublands of Western North America

    Jeanne C. Chambers;Bethany A. Bradley;Cynthia S. Brown;Carla D'Antonio

  • Interpreting the Results from Multiple Regression and Structural Equation Models

    James B. Grace;Kenneth A. Bollen

  • Environmental and plant community determinants of species loss following nitrogen enrichment.

    Chris M. Clark;Elsa E. Cleland;Scott L. Collins;Joseph E. Fargione

  • From patterns to causal understanding: Structural equation modeling (SEM) in soil ecology

    Nico Eisenhauer;Matthew A. Bowker;James B. Grace;Jeff R. Powell

  • The relationship between species richness and community biomass: the importance of environmental variables.

    Laura Gough;James B. Grace;Katherine L. Taylor

  • The adaptive significance of clonal reproduction in angiosperms: an aquatic perspective

    James B. Grace

  • Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

    Claire de Mazancourt;Claire de Mazancourt;Forest Isbell;Forest Isbell;Allen Larocque;Frank Berendse

  • The incidence and effects of hybridization between cultivated rice and its related weed red rice (Oryza sativa L.).

    Susan A. Langevin;Keith Clay;James B. Grace

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Andersen;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Harrison
Susan Harrison University of California, Davis
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Ellen I. Damschen
Ellen I. Damschen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Glenn R. Guntenspergen
Glenn R. Guntenspergen United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
David A. Pyke
David A. Pyke United States Geological Survey
Jonathan D. Bakker
Jonathan D. Bakker University of Washington
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph

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