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Jeannine Cavender-Bares

Jeannine Cavender-Bares

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
87
Citations
42566
World Ranking
539
National Ranking
190

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jeannine Cavender-Bares is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research predominantly spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these main fields, their work extends into subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Plant Science.

The scientist's research topics focus on ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, remote sensing in agriculture, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, land use and ecosystem services, and plant and animal studies.

Recent publications include:

  • Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!, 2021, Conservation Letters
  • Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability, 2020, Science
  • Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Foliar functional traits from imaging spectroscopy across biomes in eastern North America, 2020, New Phytologist

Frequent co-authors in Cavender-Bares' work are:

  • Peter B. Reich (21 collaborations)
  • Sarah E. Hobbie (21 collaborations)
  • Jesús N. Pinto-Ledezma (19 collaborations)
  • Philip A. Townsend (17 collaborations)
  • J. Antonio Guzmán Q. (14 collaborations)

Common publication venues for this researcher include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 14 publications, New Phytologist with 11, Nature Ecology & Evolution and Ecological Applications both with 7, and Remote Sensing of Environment with 6 publications.

An award received by Jeannine Cavender-Bares is the fellow status of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, granted in 2020.

Best Publications

  • The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

    Ian J. Wright;Peter B. Reich;Mark Westoby;David D. Ackerly

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

  • The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

    Jeannine M Cavender-Bares;Kenneth H Kozak;Paul V.A. Fine;Steven W. Kembel

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • The evolution of plant functional variation: traits, spectra, and strategies

    P. B. Reich;I. J. Wright;J. Cavender-Bares;J. M. Craine

  • Phylogenetic Overdispersion in Floridian Oak Communities

    J. Cavender-Bares;D. D. Ackerly;D. A. Baum;F. A. Bazzaz

  • Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

    Jennifer L. Funk;Julie E. Larson;Gregory M. Ames;Bradley J. Butterfield

  • Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

    Marc W. Cadotte;Jeannine M Cavender-Bares;David Tilman;Todd H. Oakley

  • Phylogeography's past, present, and future: 10 years after Avise, 2000

    M. J. Hickerson;B. C. Carstens;Jeannine M Cavender-Bares;K. A. Crandall

  • Phylogenetic structure of Floridian plant communities depends on taxonomic and spatial scale

    Jeannine M Cavender-Bares;Adrienne Keen;Brianna Miles

  • Ecological Homogenization of Urban USA

    Peter M. Groffman;Jeannine M Cavender-Bares;Neil D. Bettez;J. Morgan Grove

  • Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

    Angela T. Moles;Sarah E. Perkins;Shawn W. Laffan;Habacuc Flores-Moreno

  • Changes in drought response strategies with ontogeny in Quercus rubra: implications for scaling from seedlings to mature trees.

    J. Cavender-Bares;F. A. Bazzaz

  • Spatial complementarity in tree crowns explains overyielding in species mixtures

    Laura J. Williams;Alain Paquette;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Christian Messier;Christian Messier

  • The evolution of seed dormancy: environmental cues, evolutionary hubs, and diversification of the seed plants

    Charles G. Willis;Charles G. Willis;Carol C. Baskin;Jerry M. Baskin;Josh R. Auld

  • MULTIPLE TRAIT ASSOCIATIONS IN RELATION TO HABITAT DIFFERENTIATION AMONG 17 FLORIDIAN OAK SPECIES

    Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Kaoru Kitajima;F. A. Bazzaz

  • Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

    Walter Jetz;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Ryan Pavlick;David Schimel

  • Erratum: Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

    Walter Jetz;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Ryan Pavlick;David Schimel

  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!

    Christian Messier;Christian Messier;Jürgen Bauhus;Rita Sousa-Silva;Harald Auge

  • Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

    Sandra Díaz;Noelia Zafra-Calvo;Andy Purvis;Peter H. Verburg

  • Why are evergreen leaves so contrary about shade

    Christopher H. Lusk;Peter B Reich;Rebecca A Montgomery;David D. Ackerly

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Sarah E. Hobbie
Sarah E. Hobbie University of Minnesota
John A. Gamon
John A. Gamon University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Philip A. Townsend
Philip A. Townsend University of Wisconsin–Madison
Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York
Andrew L. Hipp
Andrew L. Hipp Morton Arboretum
Diane E. Pataki
Diane E. Pataki Arizona State University
Antonio González-Rodríguez
Antonio González-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
James B. Heffernan
James B. Heffernan Duke University
Rebecca A. Montgomery
Rebecca A. Montgomery University of Minnesota

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