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19394
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2140
National Ranking
768

Overview

John A. Silander is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with particular attention to Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology. Additional interests include Statistics and Probability, as well as Global and Planetary Change.

Throughout their career, Silander has contributed to a range of research topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference, Primate Behavior and Ecology, and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

Silander's publication record includes articles in several scholarly venues, reflecting the scope of their work. Frequent publication outlets include arXiv (Cornell University), Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics, and Plants People Planet.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Silander include:

  • "Plant spectral diversity as a surrogate for species, functional and phylogenetic diversity across a hyper-diverse biogeographic region" (2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • "Madagascar's grassy biomes are ancient and there is much to learn about their ecology and evolution" (2022, Journal of Biogeography)
  • "Zero-Inflated Beta Distribution Regression Modeling" (2022, Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics)
  • "The grassy ecosystems of Madagascar in context: Ecology, evolution, and conservation" (2023, Plants People Planet)
  • "Spatial functional data modeling of plant reflectances" (2022, The Annals of Applied Statistics)

Frequent collaborators in Silander's research include Henry Frye, Alan E. Gelfand, Philip A. White, Michael F. Christensen, and Becky Tang, with several joint publications across various topics related to ecology and statistical modeling.

Best Publications

  • A practical guide to MaxEnt for modeling species' distributions: what it does, and why inputs and settings matter

    Cory Merow;Cory Merow;Matthew J. Smith;John A. Silander

  • Forest models defined by field measurements : Estimation, error analysis and dynamics

    Stephen W. Pacala;Charles D. Canham;John Saponara;John A. Silander

  • A wavelet transform method to merge Landsat TM and SPOT panchromatic data

    J. Zhou;D. L. Civco;J. A. Silander

  • Juvenile Tree Survivorship as a Component of Shade Tolerance

    Richard K. Kobe;Stephen W. Pacala;John A. Silander;Charles D. Canham

  • SEEDLING RECRUITMENT IN FORESTS: CALIBRATING MODELS TO PREDICT PATTERNS OF TREE SEEDLING DISPERSION'

    Eric Ribbens;John A. Silander;Stephen W. Pacala

  • Forest models defined by field measurements: I. The design of a northeastern forest simulator

    Stephen W. Pacala;Charles D. Canham;J. A. Silander

  • Sapling growth as a function of resources in a north temperate forest

    Stephen W. Pacala;Charles D. Canham;John A. Silander;Richard K. Kobe

  • Building Statistical Models To Analyze Species Distributions

    Andrew M. Latimer;Shanshan Wu;Alan E. Gelfand;John A. Silander

  • Neighborhood Models of Plant Population Dynamics. I. Single-Species Models of Annuals

    Stephen W. Pacala;J. A. Silander

  • Forecasting phenology under global warming

    Inés Ibáñez;Richard B. Primack;Abraham J. Miller-Rushing;Elizabeth Ellwood

  • Spatial and interspecific variability in phenological responses to warming temperatures

    Richard B. Primack;Inés Ibáñez;Hiroyoshi Higuchi;Sang Don Lee

  • Statistical Downscaling and Bias Correction of Climate Model Outputs for Climate Change Impact Assessment in the U.S. Northeast

    Kazi Farzan Ahmed;Guiling Wang;John Silander;Adam M. Wilson

  • Neighborhood predictors of plant performance.

    John A. Silander;Stephen Wilson Pacala

  • Deciduous forest responses to temperature, precipitation, and drought imply complex climate change impacts.

    Yingying Xie;Xiaojing Wang;John A. Silander

  • Field Tests of Neighborhood Population Dynamic Models of Two Annual Weed Species

    Stephen W. Pacala;J. A. Silander

  • Ten Principles for Biocultural Conservation at the Southern Tip of the Americas: The approach of the Omora Ethnobotanical Park

    Ricardo Rozzi;Francisca Massardo;Christopher B. Anderson;Kurt Heidinger

  • Measuring the relative importance of different pollinators to plants

    Richard B. Primack;John A. Silander

  • The Invasion Ecology of Japanese Barberry (Berberis thunbergii) in the New England Landscape

    John A. Silander;Debra M. Klepeis

  • The antiquity of Madagascar’s grasslands and the rise of C4 grassy biomes

    William J. Bond;John A. Silander;Jeannin Ranaivonasy;Joelisoa Ratsirarson

  • On using integral projection models to generate demographically driven predictions of species' distributions: development and validation using sparse data

    Cory Merow;Cory Merow;Andrew M. Latimer;Adam M. Wilson;Sean M. McMahon

  • Analysis of interspecific interactions in a coastal plant community—a perturbation approach

    J. A. Silander;J. A. Silander;J. Antonovics;J. Antonovics

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew M. Latimer
Andrew M. Latimer University of California, Davis
Alan E. Gelfand
Alan E. Gelfand Duke University
Cory Merow
Cory Merow University of Connecticut
Stephen W. Pacala
Stephen W. Pacala Princeton University
Inés Ibáñez
Inés Ibáñez University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ricardo Rozzi
Ricardo Rozzi University of North Texas
Charles D. Canham
Charles D. Canham Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Anthony G. Rebelo
Anthony G. Rebelo South African National Biodiversity Institute
William J. Bond
William J. Bond University of Cape Town
Richard B. Primack
Richard B. Primack Boston University

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