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Overview

Karen H. Beard is a researcher primarily affiliated with Utah State University in the United States. Their work focuses extensively on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on ecology and related subfields.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science, with significant contributions across various subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Beard's research covers a range of key topics, including:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management

The scientist has coauthored numerous papers with frequent collaborators including Andrew Kulmatiski, Martin C. Holdrege, Matteo Petit Bon, Katharine C. Kelsey, and A. Joshua Leffler. These partnerships reflect a consistent engagement in collaborative ecological research.

Beard has published in several scientific venues, with repeated publications in:

  • Ecosystems
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Science Advances
  • Ecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • Herbivores at the highest risk of extinction among mammals, birds, and reptiles (2020), Science Advances
  • Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally (2024), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Acoustic metrics predict habitat type and vegetation structure in the Amazon (2020), Ecological Indicators
  • Woody plant growth increases with precipitation intensity in a cold semiarid system (2020), Ecology
  • Aridity drives the response of soil total and particulate organic carbon to drought in temperate grasslands and shrublands (2024), Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Random Forests for Classification in Ecology

    D. Richard Cutler;Thomas C. Edwards;Thomas C. Edwards;Karen H. Beard;Adele Cutler

  • Plant-Soil Feedbacks: A Meta-Analytical Review

    Andrew Kulmatiski;Karen H. Beard;John R. Stevens;Stephanie M. Cobbold

  • A Meta-Analytic Review of Corridor Effectiveness

    Lynne Gilbert-Norton;Ryan Wilson;John R. Stevens;Karen H. Beard

  • Competition and Coexistence in Plant Communities: Intraspecific Competition is Stronger Than Interspecific Competition

    Peter B. Adler;Danielle Smull;Karen H. Beard;Ryan T. Choi

  • Fully-sampled phylogenies of squamates reveal evolutionary patterns in threat status

    João Filipe Riva Tonini;Karen H. Beard;Rodrigo Barbosa Ferreira;Rodrigo Barbosa Ferreira;Walter Jetz

  • Woody plant encroachment facilitated by increased precipitation intensity

    Andrew Kulmatiski;Karen H. Beard

  • Behavioral reduction of infection risk

    Joseph M. Kiesecker;David K. Skelly;Karen H. Beard;Evan Preisser

  • Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity

    Sally E. Koerner;Melinda D. Smith;Deron E. Burkepile;Niall P. Hanan

  • Soil History as a Primary Control on Plant Invasion in Abandoned Agricultural Fields

    Andrew Kulmatiski;Karen H. Beard;John M. Stark

  • Top-down effects of a terrestrial frog on forest nutrient dynamics.

    Karen H. Beard;Kristiina A. Vogt;Andrew Kulmatiski

  • Root niche partitioning among grasses, saplings, and trees measured using a tracer technique.

    Andrew Kulmatiski;Andrew Kulmatiski;Karen H. Beard

  • A depth-controlled tracer technique measures vertical, horizontal and temporal patterns of water use by trees and grasses in a subtropical savanna.

    Andrew Kulmatiski;Karen H. Beard;Richard J. T. Verweij;Edmund C. February

  • Herbivores at the highest risk of extinction among mammals, birds, and reptiles.

    Trisha B. Atwood;Shaley A. Valentine;Shaley A. Valentine;Edd Hammill;Douglas J. McCauley

  • Structural and Functional Responses of a Subtropical Forest to 10 Years of Hurricanes and Droughts

    Karen H. Beard;Kristiina A. Vogt;Daniel J. Vogt;Frederick N. Scatena

  • Long-term plant growth legacies overwhelm short-term plant growth effects on soil microbial community structure

    Andrew Kulmatiski;Karen H. Beard

  • Plant–soil feedbacks provide an additional explanation for diversity–productivity relationships

    Andrew Kulmatiski;Karen H. Beard;Justin Heavilin

  • Infection of an invasive frog Eleutherodactylus coqui by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Hawaii

    Karen H. Beard;Eric M. O’Neill

  • The effects of the frog Eleutherodactylus coqui on invertebrates and ecosystem processes at two scales in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico

    Karen H. Beard;Anne K. Eschtruth;Kristiina A. Vogt;Daniel J. Vogt

  • Activated Carbon as a Restoration Tool: Potential for Control of Invasive Plants in Abandoned Agricultural Fields

    Andrew Kulmatiski;Karen H. Beard

  • Potential consequences of the coqui frog invasion in Hawaii

    Karen H. Beard;William C. Pitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Kulmatiski
Andrew Kulmatiski Utah State University
Jeffrey M. Welker
Jeffrey M. Welker University of Oulu
Joel A. Schmutz
Joel A. Schmutz United States Geological Survey
Kristiina A. Vogt
Kristiina A. Vogt University of Washington
John M. Stark
John M. Stark Utah State University
Frederick N. Scatena
Frederick N. Scatena University of Pennsylvania
Karen E. Mock
Karen E. Mock Utah State University
Michael E. Pfrender
Michael E. Pfrender University of Notre Dame
Íñigo Martínez-Solano
Íñigo Martínez-Solano Spanish National Research Council
Alan P. Covich
Alan P. Covich University of Georgia

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