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72
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26956
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1222
National Ranking
454

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1993 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1988 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the interface between physics and ecology, including development of understanding of climate codification due to nuclear winter and to the impact of acid rain on aquatic ecosystems

Overview

John Harte is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

Among the notable recent papers associated with their work are:

  • "Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future" (2021), published in Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • "Scientists' warning on climate change and insects" (2022), published in Ecological Monographs
  • "Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems" (2022), published in Arctic Science
  • "Information theory: A foundation for complexity science" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Disturbance macroecology: a comparative study of community structure metrics in a high-severity disturbance regime" (2020), published in Ecosphere

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Micah Brush
  • Thomas J. Matthews
  • Erica A. Newman
  • Kaito Umemura
  • William J. Ripple

John Harte has published multiple papers in recurring venues including:

  • Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecosphere
  • Ecography
  • Ecological Monographs

In addition to journal articles, Harte has authored books, including The Species-Area Relationship (2021), published by Cambridge University Press.

The scientist has been recognized with several fellowships, including:

  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2019
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1993
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) in 1988, cited for contributions to understanding climate codification due to nuclear winter and the impact of acid rain on aquatic ecosystems

Best Publications

  • Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Jordi Bascompte;Eric L. Berlow

  • Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

    Travis E. Huxman;Melinda D. Smith;Melinda D. Smith;Philip A. Fay;Alan K. Knapp

  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

    Thomas W. Crowther;Katherine E.O. Todd-Brown;Clara W. Rowe;William R. Wieder

  • Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time.

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H. R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Robert G. Bjork

  • Assessing the Response of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Potential Changes in Precipitation

    Jake F. Weltzin;Michael E. Loik;Susanne Schwinning;David G. Williams

  • Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming.

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H.R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Robert G. Björk

  • Global Warming and Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis

    Gaius R. Shaver;Josep Canadell;F. S. Chapin;Jessica Gurevitch

  • Experimental warming causes large and rapid species loss, dampened by simulated grazing, on the Tibetan Plateau

    Julia A. Klein;John Harte;Xin-Quan Zhao

  • Shifting dominance within a montane vegetation community: Results of a climate-warming experiment

    John Harte;Rebecca Shaw

  • SUBALPINE MEADOW FLOWERING PHENOLOGY RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE: INTEGRATING EXPERIMENTAL AND GRADIENT METHODS

    Jennifer A. Dunne;Jennifer A. Dunne;John Harte;John Harte;Kevin J. Taylor

  • Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

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  • The Significance of the Erosion-induced Terrestrial Carbon Sink

    Asmeret Asefaw Berhe;John Harte;Jennifer W. Harden;Margaret S. Torn

  • Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future

    Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Paul R. Ehrlich;Andrew Beattie;Gerardo Ceballos

  • Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming

    Joanna C. Carey;Jianwu Tang;Pamela H. Templer;Kevin D. Kroeger

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Self-similarity in the distribution and abundance of species

    John Harte;Ann Kinzig;Jessica Green

  • EXPERIMENTAL WARMING, NOT GRAZING, DECREASES RANGELAND QUALITY ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU

    Julia A. Klein;John Harte;Xin-Quan Zhao

  • Global Warming and Soil Microclimate: Results from a Meadow-Warming Experiment

    John Harte;Margaret S. Torn;Fang-Ru Chang;Brian Feifarek

  • INTEGRATING EXPERIMENTAL AND GRADIENT METHODS IN ECOLOGICAL CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH

    Jennifer A. Dunne;Jennifer A. Dunne;Scott R. Saleska;Marc L. Fischer;John Harte;John Harte

  • Maximum Entropy and Ecology: A Theory of Abundance, Distribution, and Energetics

    John Harte

  • Toxics A to Z: A Guide to Everyday Pollution Hazards

    John Harte;Cheryl Holdren;Richard Schneider;Christine Shirley

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret S. Torn
Margaret S. Torn Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ann P. Kinzig
Ann P. Kinzig Arizona State University
Jessica L. Green
Jessica L. Green University of Oregon
Julia Klein
Julia Klein Colorado State University
Jennifer A. Dunne
Jennifer A. Dunne Santa Fe Institute
Adam Smith
Adam Smith Boston University
Scott R. Saleska
Scott R. Saleska University of Arizona
Gaius R. Shaver
Gaius R. Shaver Marine Biological Laboratory
Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul R. Ehrlich Stanford University
Michael E. Loik
Michael E. Loik University of California, Santa Cruz

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