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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
14727
World Ranking
5961
National Ranking
2025

Overview

Julia Klein is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work focuses on main topics such as Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Climate Change and Permafrost, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Recent papers by Julia Klein include:

  • "Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work," 2021, Global Environmental Change
  • "High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests," 2021, Nature
  • "Warming has a minor effect on surface soil organic carbon in alpine meadow ecosystems on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "A systematic review of participatory scenario planning to envision mountain social-ecological systems futures," 2020, Ecology and Society
  • "Linking model design and application for transdisciplinary approaches in social-ecological systems," 2020, Global Environmental Change

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Klein include:

  • Cara Steger
  • Catherine M. Tucker
  • Jessica Thorn
  • Rob Marchant
  • Aida Cuní-Sanchez

Klein's research has been published in several venues multiple times, notably:

  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences / Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (4 publications)
  • Global Environmental Change (3 publications)
  • Ecology and Society (2 publications)
  • Nature (1 publication)
  • Global Change Biology (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

    William K. Cornwell;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Kathryn Amatangelo;Ellen Dorrepaal

  • Plant community responses to experimental warming across the tundra biome

    Marilyn D Walker;C Henrik Wahren;Robert D Hollister;Greg H R Henry

  • 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

  • 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

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

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

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

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • Global negative vegetation feedback to climate warming responses of leaf litter decomposition rates in cold biomes

    Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Peter M. van Bodegom;Rien Aerts;Terry V. Callaghan

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

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

  • Plant functional traits mediate reproductive phenology and success in response to experimental warming and snow addition in Tibet

    Tsechoe Dorji;Ørjan Totland;Stein R. Moe;Kelly A. Hopping

  • African Wild Ungulates Compete with or Facilitate Cattle Depending on Season

    Wilfred O. Odadi;Moses K. Karachi;Shaukat A. Abdulrazak;Truman P. Young

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Hair Concentrations of Nicotine and Cotinine in Women and Their Newborn Infants

    Chrisoula Eliopoulos;Julia Klein;My Khanh Phan;Brenda Knie

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Phenological response of tundra plants to background climate variation tested using the International Tundra Experiment

    S F Oberbauer;S C Elmendorf;T G Troxler;R D Hollister

  • Dynamic and complex microclimate responses to warming and grazing manipulations

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

  • Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: Local and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer

    Julia A. Klein;Kelly A. Hopping;Emily T. Yeh;Yonten Nyima

  • Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work

    Cara Steger;Julia A. Klein;Robin S. Reid;Sandra Lavorel

  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests

    Aida Cuni-Sanchez;Aida Cuni-Sanchez;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Philip J. Platts;Philip J. Platts;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Placing Transdisciplinarity in Context: A Review of Approaches to Connect Scholars, Society and Action

    Corrine Nöel Knapp;Robin S. Reid;María E. Fernández-Giménez;Julia A. Klein

  • Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities

    Jennifer Firn;Joslin L. Moore;Andrew S. MacDougall;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Warming and land use change concurrently erode ecosystem services in Tibet

    Kelly A. Hopping;Alan K. Knapp;Tsechoe Dorji;Tsechoe Dorji;Julia A. Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Gideon Koren
Gideon Koren Brown University
Xinquan Zhao
Xinquan Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yvonne M. Buckley
Yvonne M. Buckley Trinity College Dublin
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Robin S. Reid
Robin S. Reid Colorado State University
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Kendi F. Davies
Kendi F. Davies University of Colorado Boulder
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky

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