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James F. Cahill

James F. Cahill

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
50
Citations
9462
World Ranking
2133
National Ranking
92

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
9912
World Ranking
3649
National Ranking
252

Overview

James F. Cahill is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions across several related subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics addressed in Cahill's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

Frequent collaborations have been established with several co-authors, notably Charlotte Brown, Edward W. Bork, Amgaa Batbaatar, Cameron N. Carlyle, and Scott X. Chang.

The scholar has published extensively in respected scientific journals and environments. The publication venues with the highest number of contributions include New Phytologist, Oikos, Functional Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, and Science.

Some of the notable recent papers authored by or involving James F. Cahill include:

  • The effects of livestock grazing on biodiversity are multi-trophic: a meta-analysis, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover, 2022, Science
  • Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Discontinuation versus continuation of hypertonic saline or dornase alfa in modulator treated people with cystic fibrosis (SIMPLIFY): results from two parallel, multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trials, 2022, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better)

    Pille Gerhold;James F. Cahill;Marten Winter;Igor V. Bartish

  • Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Jason Pither;Anke Jentsch;Marcelo Sternberg

  • Does phylogenetic relatedness influence the strength of competition among vascular plants

    James F. Cahill;Steven W. Kembel;Eric G. Lamb;Paul A. Keddy

  • Plants Integrate Information About Nutrients and Neighbors

    James F. Cahill;Gordon G. McNickle;Joshua J. Haag;Eric G. Lamb

  • Coordinated distributed experiments: An emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Hugh Al Henry;Cameron N. Carlyle;Cameron N. Carlyle;Shannon R. White

  • Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Zheng Shi;Laureano A. Gherardi;Nathan P. Lemoine

  • Fertilization effects on interactions between above-and belowground competition in an old field

    James F. Cahill

  • The effects of livestock grazing on biodiversity are multi-trophic: a meta-analysis

    Alessandro Filazzola;Charlotte Brown;Margarete A. Dettlaff;Amgaa Batbaatar

  • Plant Phenotypic Plasticity Belowground: A Phylogenetic Perspective on Root Foraging Trade-Offs

    Steven W. Kembel;James F. Cahill

  • The Behavioral Ecology of Nutrient Foraging by Plants

    James F. Cahill;Gordon G. McNickle

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    John Davison;Mari Moora;Marina Semchenko;Marina Semchenko;Sakeenah Binte Adenan

  • Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover.

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  • Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Andrew T. Tredennick;Sally E. Koerner;Emily Grman

  • Lack of relationship between below-ground competition and allocation to roots in 10 grassland species

    James F. Cahill

  • Shoot, but not root, competition reduces community diversity in experimental mesocosms

    Eric G. Lamb;Steven W. Kembel;James F. Cahill

  • Independent Evolution of Leaf and Root Traits within and among Temperate Grassland Plant Communities

    Steven W. Kembel;Steven W. Kembel;James F. Cahill

  • Improving the Scale and Precision of Hypotheses to Explain Root Foraging Ability

    Steven W. Kembel;Hans De Kroon;James F. Cahill;Liesje Mommer;Liesje Mommer

  • Differential genetic influences on competitive effect and response in Arabidopsis thaliana

    James F. Cahill;Steven W. Kembel;Danny J. Gustafson;Danny J. Gustafson

  • When Competition Does Not Matter: Grassland Diversity and Community Composition

    Eric G. Lamb;James F. Cahill

  • DISRUPTION OF A BELOWGROUND MUTUALISM ALTERS INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PLANTS AND THEIR FLORAL VISITORS

    James F. Cahill;Elizabeth Elle;Glen R. Smith;Bryon H. Shore

  • Are competitive effect and response two sides of the same coin, or fundamentally different

    Ping Wang;Ping Wang;Tara Stieglitz;Dao Wei Zhou;James F Cahill

  • Focusing the metaphor: plant root foraging behaviour.

    Gordon G. McNickle;Colleen Cassady St. Clair;James F. Cahill

  • The herbivory uncertainty principle : Visiting plants can alter herbivory

    James F. Cahill;Jeffrey P. Castelli;Brenda B. Casper

  • Plant root growth and the marginal value theorem

    Gordon G. McNickle;James F. Cahill

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward W. Bork
Edward W. Bork University of Alberta
Lauchlan H. Fraser
Lauchlan H. Fraser Thompson Rivers University
Brenda B. Casper
Brenda B. Casper University of Pennsylvania
Carl Beierkuhnlein
Carl Beierkuhnlein University of Bayreuth
Ernesto Gianoli
Ernesto Gianoli Tarleton State University
Hugh A. L. Henry
Hugh A. L. Henry University of Western Ontario
Anke Jentsch
Anke Jentsch University of Bayreuth
Steven W. Kembel
Steven W. Kembel University of Quebec at Montreal
Suzanne W. Simard
Suzanne W. Simard University of British Columbia
Marcelo Cabido
Marcelo Cabido National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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