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1025

Overview

Joshua J. Tewksbury is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with particular attention to subfields such as global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, and plant science.

Their scholarly work addresses a variety of topics, including conservation, biodiversity, and resource management; sustainability and climate change governance; land use and ecosystem services; plant and animal studies; ecology and vegetation dynamics; and plant parasitism and resistance.

Recent publications by Joshua J. Tewksbury include the following:

  • Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability, 2020, published in Science
  • Habitat edges decrease plant reproductive output in fragmented landscapes, 2024, published in Journal of Ecology

They have collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Sandra Díaz
  • Noelia Zafra-Calvo
  • Andy Purvis
  • Peter H. Verburg
  • David Obura

Joshua J. Tewksbury's work has been published primarily in the journals Science and Journal of Ecology, each accounting for at least one publication.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude.

    Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Raymond B. Huey;Kimberly S. Sheldon

  • A framework for community interactions under climate change

    Sarah E. Gilman;Sarah E. Gilman;Mark C. Urban;Joshua Tewksbury;George W. Gilchrist;George W. Gilchrist

  • Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate

    Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Michelle Tigchelaar;David S. Battisti

  • Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals

    Joshua J. Tewksbury;Raymond B. Huey;Curtis A. Deutsch

  • Why tropical forest lizards are vulnerable to climate warming

    Raymond B. Huey;Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Laurie J. Vitt

  • Big data and the future of ecology

    Stephanie E Hampton;Carly A Strasser;Joshua J Tewksbury;Wendy K Gram

  • Are mountain passes higher in the tropics? Janzen's hypothesis revisited

    Cameron K. Ghalambor;Raymond B. Huey;Paul R. Martin;Joshua J. Tewksbury

  • Global change and local solutions: Tapping the unrealized potential of citizen science for biodiversity research

    E.J. Theobald;A.K. Ettinger;H.K. Burgess;L.B. DeBey

  • Corridors affect plants, animals, and their interactions in fragmented landscapes.

    Joshua J. Tewksbury;Douglas J. Levey;Nick M. Haddad;Sarah Sargent

  • Do species’ traits predict recent shifts at expanding range edges?

    Amy L. Angert;Lisa G. Crozier;Leslie J. Rissler;Sarah E. Gilman

  • Corridors increase plant species richness at large scales

    Ellen I. Damschen;Nick M. Haddad;John L. Orrock;Joshua J. Tewksbury

  • On a collision course: competition and dispersal differences create no-analogue communities and cause extinctions during climate change

    Mark C. Urban;Josh J. Tewksbury;Kimberly S. Sheldon

  • Effects of Landscape Corridors on Seed Dispersal by Birds

    Douglas J. Levey;Benjamin M. Bolker;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Sarah Sargent

  • The science of citizen science: Exploring barriers to use as a primary research tool

    H.K. Burgess;L.B. DeBey;H.E. Froehlich;N. Schmidt

  • Positive interactions under nurse-plants: spatial scale, stress gradients and benefactor size.

    Joshua J. Tewksbury;John D. Lloyd

  • BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY DOES NOT DECLINE WITH INCREASING FRAGMENTATION IN A WESTERN LANDSCAPE

    Joshua J. Tewksbury;Sallie J. Hejl;Thomas E. Martin

  • Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

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

  • Natural History's Place in Science and Society

    Joshua J. Tewksbury;John G. T. Anderson;Jonathan D. Bakker;Timothy J. Billo

  • Ecological connectivity for a changing climate.

    Meade Krosby;Joshua Tewksbury;Nick M. Haddad;Jonathan Hoekstra

  • Seed dispersal: Directed deterrence by capsaicin in chillies

    Joshua J. Tewksbury;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Gary P. Nabhan

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas J. Levey
Douglas J. Levey National Science Foundation
Nick M. Haddad
Nick M. Haddad Michigan State University
Ellen I. Damschen
Ellen I. Damschen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lars A. Brudvig
Lars A. Brudvig Michigan State University
John L. Orrock
John L. Orrock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Curtis Deutsch
Curtis Deutsch Princeton University
Raymond B. Huey
Raymond B. Huey University of Washington
Stephanie E. Hampton
Stephanie E. Hampton Washington State University
Janneke HilleRisLambers
Janneke HilleRisLambers University of Washington
Thomas E. Martin
Thomas E. Martin University of Montana

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