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Jeffrey M. Diez is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. This work spans several connected subfields, including plant science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, and ecology.

The overarching topics addressed in their publications include ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, species distribution and climate change, tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

The scientist's recent published papers cover a range of ecological and environmental themes. Notable publications include:

  • "Changing Climate Drives Divergent and Nonlinear Shifts in Flowering Phenology across Elevations" (2020) in Current Biology
  • "Belowground impacts of alpine woody encroachment are determined by plant traits, local climate, and soil conditions" (2020) in Global Change Biology
  • "Tree resistance and recovery from drought mediated by multiple abiotic and biotic processes across a large geographic gradient" (2021) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Altitudinal upwards shifts in fungal fruiting in the Alps" (2020) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Beyond resource limitation: an expanded test of the niche dimension hypothesis for multiple types of niche axes" (2020) in Oecologia

The scientist frequently publishes in several specialized journals, including:

  • Ecology
  • Current Biology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Global Change Biology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Jeffrey M. Diez has collaborated on multiple occasions with several researchers, including:

  • Courtney G. Collins
  • Marko J. Spasojevic
  • Nuttapon Pombubpa
  • Evelyn M. Beaury
  • Regan Early

Best Publications

  • Novel competitors shape species/' responses to climate change

    Jake M. Alexander;Jeffrey M. Diez;Jonathan M. Levine

  • Will Extreme Climatic Events Facilitate Biological Invasions

    Jeffrey M Diez;Carla M D'Antonio;Jeffrey S Dukes;Edwin D Grosholz

  • Poised to prosper? A cross-system comparison of climate change effects on native and non-native species performance.

    Cascade J. B. Sorte;Ines Ibáñez;Dana M. Blumenthal;Nicole A. Molinari

  • Global change, global trade, and the next wave of plant invasions

    Bethany A. Bradley;Dana M. Blumenthal;Regan Early;Edwin D. Grosholz

  • Negative soil feedbacks accumulate over time for non-native plant species

    Jeffrey M. Diez;Ian Dickie;Grant Edwards;Philip E. Hulme

  • Darwin's naturalization conundrum: dissecting taxonomic patterns of species invasions.

    Jeffrey M. Diez;Jon J. Sullivan;Philip E. Hulme;Grant Edwards

  • Forecasting phenology: from species variability to community patterns.

    Jeffrey M. Diez;Inés Ibáñez;Abraham J. Miller-Rushing;Susan J. Mazer

  • Disentangling the abundance-impact relationship for invasive species.

    Bethany A Bradley;Brittany B Laginhas;Raj Whitlock;Jenica M Allen

  • When Climate Reshuffles Competitors: A Call for Experimental Macroecology

    Jake M. Alexander;Jake M. Alexander;Jeffrey M. Diez;Jeffrey M. Diez;Simon P. Hart;Jonathan M. Levine

  • Hierarchical patterns of symbiotic orchid germination linked to adult proximity and environmental gradients

    Jeffrey M. Diez

  • Scales of association: hierarchical linear models and the measurement of ecological systems

    Sean M. McMahon;Jeffrey M. Diez

  • Plant invasions are context-dependent: multiscale effects of climate, human activity and habitat

    Pablo González-Moreno;Jeffrey M. Diez;Inés Ibáñez;Xavier Font

  • Learning from failures: testing broad taxonomic hypotheses about plant naturalization

    Jeffrey M. Diez;Peter A. Williams;Rod P. Randall;Jon J. Sullivan

  • The Plant Phenology Monitoring Design for the National Ecological Observatory Network

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Katherine D. Jones;Benjamin I. Cook;Jeffrey M. Diez

  • Hierarchical analysis of species distributions and abundance across environmental gradients

    Jeffrey M. Diez;H. Ronald Pulliam

  • Changing Climate Drives Divergent and Nonlinear Shifts in Flowering Phenology across Elevations

    Nicole E. Rafferty;Nicole E. Rafferty;Jeffrey M. Diez;C. David Bertelsen

  • Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to multiple coinciding global change drivers

    Sören Eliot Weber;Jeffrey M. Diez;Lela V. Andrews;Michael L. Goulden

  • Beyond climate: disturbance niche shifts in invasive species

    Pablo González-Moreno;Jeffrey M. Diez;Jeffrey M. Diez;David M. Richardson;Montserrat Vilà

  • Safe sites, seed supply, and the recruitment function in plant populations.

    Richard P. Duncan;Jeffrey M. Diez;Jon J. Sullivan;Steven Wangen

  • Disentangling the paradox of insect phenology: are temporal trends reflecting the response to warming?

    Elizabeth R. Ellwood;Jeffrey M. Diez;Inés Ibáñez;Richard B. Primack

  • multiscale effects of climate, human activity and habitat

    Pablo Gonzalez-Moreno;Jeffrey M. Diez;Xavier Font;Montserrat Vila

Frequent Co-Authors

Inés Ibáñez
Inés Ibáñez University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Richard P. Duncan
Richard P. Duncan University of Canberra
Håvard Kauserud
Håvard Kauserud University of Oslo
Einar Heegaard
Einar Heegaard Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Claus Bässler
Claus Bässler Goethe University Frankfurt
Cascade J. B. Sorte
Cascade J. B. Sorte University of California, Irvine
Alan C. Gange
Alan C. Gange Royal Holloway University of London
Lynne Boddy
Lynne Boddy Cardiff University
Thomas W. Kuyper
Thomas W. Kuyper Wageningen University & Research

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