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Overview

Jill T. Anderson is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, contributing extensively to these fields with a strong emphasis on ecology, evolution, and plant science.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broad disciplines, Anderson has contributed to several subfields such as:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Plant Science
  • Genetics

Their research topics are focused on areas like:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management

Anderson has published in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • New Phytologist
  • American Journal of Botany
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science
  • Evolution

Recent publications include:

  • Plant adaptation to climate change-Where are we?, 2020, Journal of Systematics and Evolution
  • Climate change alters plant-herbivore interactions, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover, 2022, Science
  • Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems, 2022, Arctic Science
  • Local Adaptation: Causal Agents of Selection and Adaptive Trait Divergence, 2022, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Anderson collaborates frequently with several researchers including:

  • M. Inam Jameel
  • Derek Denney
  • Elena Hamann
  • Susana M. Wadgymar
  • Seema N. Sheth

Best Publications

  • Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution contribute to advancing flowering phenology in response to climate change

    Jill T. Anderson;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye;Amy M. McKinney;Amy M. McKinney;Robert I. Colautti

  • Evolutionary genetics of plant adaptation

    Jill T. Anderson;John H. Willis;Thomas Mitchell-Olds

  • 3D phenotyping and quantitative trait locus mapping identify core regions of the rice genome controlling root architecture

    Christopher N. Topp;Anjali S. Iyer-Pascuzzi;Jill T. Anderson;Cheng Ruei Lee

  • Climate change alters plant-herbivore interactions.

    Elena Hamann;Elena Hamann;Cameron Blevins;Steven J. Franks;M. Inam Jameel

  • Genetic trade-offs and conditional neutrality contribute to local adaptation.

    Jill T. Anderson;Cheng-Ruei Lee;Catherine A. Rushworth;Robert I. Colautti

  • Migratory Fishes as Material and Process Subsidies in Riverine Ecosystems

    Alexander S. Flecker;Peter B. McIntyre;Jonathan W. Moore

  • Plant adaptation to climate change—Where are we?

    Jill T. Anderson;Bao‐Hua Song

  • Evolutionary and ecological responses to anthropogenic climate change: update on anthropogenic climate change.

    Jill T. Anderson;Anne Marie Panetta;Thomas Mitchell-Olds

  • Examining plant physiological responses to climate change through an evolutionary lens.

    Katie M. Becklin;Jill T. Anderson;Laci M. Gerhart;Susana M. Wadgymar

  • Plant fitness in a rapidly changing world.

    Jill T. Anderson

  • Climate change disrupts local adaptation and favours upslope migration.

    Jill T. Anderson;Susana M. Wadgymar

  • Seed dispersal by fishes in tropical and temperate fresh waters: The growing evidence

    Michael H. Horn;Sandra Bibiana Correa;Pia Parolin;B.J.A. Pollux

  • The evolution of quantitative traits in complex environments.

    J T Anderson;M R Wagner;C A Rushworth;K V S K Prasad;K V S K Prasad

  • Extremely long-distance seed dispersal by an overfished Amazonian frugivore.

    Jill T. Anderson;Tim Nuttle;Joe S. Saldaña Rojas;Thomas H. Pendergast

  • High-quality seed dispersal by fruit-eating fishes in Amazonian floodplain habitats

    Jill T. Anderson;Jill T. Anderson;Joe Saldaña Rojas;Alexander S. Flecker

  • Life-history QTLS and natural selection on flowering time in Boechera stricta, a perennial relative of Arabidopsis.

    Jill T. Anderson;Cheng-Ruei Lee;Thomas Mitchell-Olds

  • Local adaptation: Causal agents of selection and adaptive trait divergence.

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  • Phenological responses to multiple environmental drivers under climate change: insights from a long-term observational study and a manipulative field experiment

    Susana M. Wadgymar;Susana M. Wadgymar;Jane E. Ogilvie;Jane E. Ogilvie;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye;Arthur E. Weis

  • Plasticity in functional traits in the context of climate change: a case study of the subalpine forb Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae)

    Jill T. Anderson;Zachariah J. Gezon;Zachariah J. Gezon

  • Control of flower size

    Beth A. Krizek;Jill T. Anderson

  • Neotropical fish-fruit interactions: eco-evolutionary dynamics and conservation.

    Sandra Bibiana Correa;Raul Costa-Pereira;Theodore Fleming;Michael Goulding

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Mitchell-Olds
Thomas Mitchell-Olds Duke University
Monica A. Geber
Monica A. Geber Cornell University
David W. Inouye
David W. Inouye University of Maryland, College Park
Alexander S. Flecker
Alexander S. Flecker Cornell University
Mauro Galetti
Mauro Galetti Sao Paulo State University
Jon Ågren
Jon Ågren Uppsala University
Arthur E. Weis
Arthur E. Weis University of Toronto
Lara M. Kueppers
Lara M. Kueppers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jonathan Gershenzon
Jonathan Gershenzon Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
M. Eric Schranz
M. Eric Schranz Wageningen University & Research

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