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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2001 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climate variability in the American Southwest. Journal of Climate 11:3128–3147.

Overview

Julio L. Betancourt is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research spans across multiple fields, primarily Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these, they focus on subfields such as Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Anthropology.

The main topics of Betancourt's work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Betancourt has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Claudio Latorre, Carolyn A. F. Enquist, Camille A. Holmgren, Robert Harbert, and Joseph Braasch. Their work is published in various scientific venues, with notable publications appearing in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, One Earth, Science Advances, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and Scientific Reports.

Recent publications by Betancourt cover a range of ecological and environmental topics. These include:

  • "Unfamiliar Territory: Emerging Themes for Ecological Drought Research and Management" (2020, One Earth)
  • "Climate Dipoles as Continental Drivers of Plant and Animal Populations" (2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • "High- and low-latitude forcings drive Atacama Desert rainfall variations over the past 16,000 years" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "Grassification and Fast-Evolving Fire Connectivity and Risk in the Sonoran Desert, United States" (2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • "Recovery and analysis of ancient beetle DNA from subfossil packrat middens using high-throughput sequencing" (2021, Scientific Reports)

In addition to journal articles, Betancourt authored the book Requiem for the Santa Cruz, published by the University of Arizona Press in 2021.

Throughout their career, Betancourt has been recognized with several awards. In 2009, they became a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Earlier, they received the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2001 for their work on mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climate variability in the American Southwest.

Best Publications

  • Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management?

    P. C. D. Milly;Julio Betancourt;Malin Falkenmark;Robert M. Hirsch

  • APPLIED HISTORICAL ECOLOGY: USING THE PAST TO MANAGE FOR THE FUTURE

    Thomas W. Swetnam;Craig D. Allen;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Pacific and Atlantic Ocean influences on multidecadal drought frequency in the United States

    Gregory J. McCabe;Michael A. Palecki;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Mesoscale Disturbance and Ecological Response to Decadal Climatic Variability in the American Southwest

    Thomas W. Swetnam;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

    E. M. Wolkovich;B. I. Cook;B. I. Cook;J. M. Allen;T. M. Crimmins

  • Fire-southern oscillation relations in the southwestern United States.

    Thomas W. Swetnam;Julio L. Betancourt

  • A tree‐ring based reconstruction of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation since 1567 A.D.

    Stephen T. Gray;Lisa J. Graumlich;Julio L. Betancourt;Gregory T. Pederson

  • Packrat middens : the last 40,000 years of biotic change

    Julio L. Betancourt;Thomas R. Van Devender;Paul S. Martin

  • Ecology and the ratchet of events: climate variability, niche dimensions, and species distributions.

    Stephen T. Jackson;Julio L. Betancourt;Robert K. Booth;Stephen T. Gray

  • Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

    Michael C. Dietze;Andrew Fox;Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

    Connor Nolan;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Judy R.M. Allen;Patricia M. Anderson

  • Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science

    Stephanie Pau;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Benjamin I. Cook;T. Jonathan Davies

  • Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century

    Shelley D. Crausbay;Aaron R. Ramirez;Shawn L. Carter;Molly S. Cross

  • A 22,000-Year Record of Monsoonal Precipitation from Northern Chile's Atacama Desert.

    J.L. Betancourt;C. Latorre;J.A. Rech;Jay Quade

  • The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource

    John W. Williams;Eric C. Grimm;Jessica L. Blois;Donald F. Charles

  • The Unusual Nature of Recent Snowpack Declines in the North American Cordillera

    Gregory T. Pederson;Gregory T. Pederson;Stephen T. Gray;Stephen T. Gray;Connie A. Woodhouse;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Evolution of Body Size in the Woodrat over the Past 25,000 Years of Climate Change

    Felisa A. Smith;Julio L. Betancourt;James H. Brown

  • On Critiques of “Stationarity is Dead: Whither Water Management?”

    Paul C.D. Milly;Julio L. Betancourt;Malin Falkenmark;Robert M. Hirsch

  • Vegetation history of the deserts of southwestern North America; The nature and timing of the late Wisconsin-Holocene transition

    Thomas R. Van Devender;Robert S. Thompson;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Vegetation invasions into absolute desert: A 45;th000 yr rodent midden record from the Calama–Salar de Atacama basins, northern Chile (lat 22°–24°S)

    Claudio Latorre;Julio L. Betancourt;Kate A. Rylander;Jay Quade

  • Phylogenetic conservatism in plant phenology

    T. Jonathan Davies;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Nicolas Salamin;Nicolas Salamin

  • Climatic variability and flood frequency of the Santa Cruz River, Pima County, Arizona

    Robert H. Webb;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Trends in Stomatal Density and 13C/12C Ratios of Pinus flexilis Needles During Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle.

    P. K. Van de Water;S. W. Leavitt;J. L. Betancourt

  • Leaf δ13C variability with elevation, slope aspect, and precipitation in the southwest United States.

    Peter K. Van de Water;Steven W. Leavitt;Julio L. Betancourt

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudio Latorre
Claudio Latorre Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Jay Quade
Jay Quade University of Arizona
Stephen T. Jackson
Stephen T. Jackson United States Geological Survey
Thomas W. Swetnam
Thomas W. Swetnam University of Arizona
Mark D. Schwartz
Mark D. Schwartz University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Gregory J. McCabe
Gregory J. McCabe United States Geological Survey
Toby R. Ault
Toby R. Ault Cornell University
Steven W. Leavitt
Steven W. Leavitt University of Arizona
Benjamin I. Cook
Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Geoffrey M. Henebry
Geoffrey M. Henebry Michigan State University

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