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70
Citations
25167
World Ranking
1346
National Ranking
495

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Katharine N. Suding is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant number of publications in subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work spans several important topics, including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, and Cryospheric Studies and Observations.

Suding has contributed to peer-reviewed literature in notable venues, notably with multiple publications in journals such as Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and Ecology Letters.

  • Ecology
  • Restoration Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Ecology Letters

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Suding include:

  • Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Ancient grasslands guide ambitious goals in grassland restoration, 2022, Science
  • Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems, 2022, Arctic Science
  • The intervention continuum in restoration ecology: rethinking the active-passive dichotomy, 2021, Restoration Ecology
  • Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants, 2021, Nature Communications

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several peers, including Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita, Nancy Shackelford, Julie E. Larson, Sarah C. Elmendorf, and Steven K. Schmidt.

  • Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita
  • Nancy Shackelford
  • Julie E. Larson
  • Sarah C. Elmendorf
  • Steven K. Schmidt

Suding's work has been recognized through memberships in scientific organizations, holding fellowships such as:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018
  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), 2016

Best Publications

  • Alternative states and positive feedbacks in restoration ecology

    Katharine N. Suding;Katharine N. Suding;Katherine L. Gross;Gregory R. Houseman

  • Plant community responses to experimental warming across the tundra biome

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

  • Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

    Katharine N. Suding;Sandra Lavorel;F. S. Chapin;Johannes H. Cornelissen

  • Don't judge species on their origins

    Mark A. Davis;Matthew K. Chew;Richard J. Hobbs;Ariel E. Lugo

  • Functional- and abundance-based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to N fertilization.

    Katharine N. Suding;Scott L. Collins;Laura Gough;Christopher Clark

  • Toward an Era of Restoration in Ecology: Successes, Failures, and Opportunities Ahead

    Katharine N. Suding

  • Threshold models in restoration and conservation: a developing framework

    Katharine N. Suding;Richard J. Hobbs;Richard J. Hobbs

  • Management of novel ecosystems: are novel approaches required?

    Timothy R Seastedt;Richard J Hobbs;Katharine N Suding

  • 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

  • Niche width collapse in a resilient top predator following ecosystem fragmentation

    Craig A. Layman;John P. Quattrochi;Caroline M. Peyer;Jacob E. Allgeier

  • Committing to ecological restoration

    Katharine Suding;Eric Higgs;Margaret Palmer;J. Baird Callicott

  • Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

    Marko J. Spasojevic;Katharine N. Suding

  • Niche complementarity due to plasticity in resource use: plant partitioning of chemical N forms

    Isabel W. Ashton;Amy E. Miller;Amy E. Miller;William D. Bowman;William D. Bowman;Katharine N. Suding

  • Ecosystem responses to water and nitrogen amendment in a California grassland

    W. Stanley Harpole;Daniel L. Potts;Katharine N. Suding

  • Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States

    Samuel M. Simkin;Edith B. Allen;William D. Bowman;Christopher M. Clark

  • When and where plant-soil feedback may promote plant coexistence: a meta-analysis.

    Kerri M. Crawford;Jonathan T. Bauer;Liza S. Comita;Maarten B. Eppinga

  • Sensitivity of grassland plant community composition to spatial vs. temporal variation in precipitation

    Elsa E. Cleland;Scott L. Collins;Timothy L. Dickson;Emily C. Farrer

  • Ancient grasslands guide ambitious goals in grassland restoration

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  • Consequences of plant–soil feedbacks in invasion

    Katharine N. Suding;William Stanley Harpole;Tadashi Fukami;Andrew Kulmatiski

  • Within-Year Soil Legacies Contribute to Strong Priority Effects of Exotics on Native California Grassland Communities

    Emily Grman;Katharine N. Suding

  • Biotic mechanisms of community stability shift along a precipitation gradient

    Lauren M. Hallett;Joanna S. Hsu;Elsa E. Cleland;Scott L. Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

Lauren M. Hallett
Lauren M. Hallett University of Oregon
Marko J. Spasojevic
Marko J. Spasojevic University of California, Riverside
William D. Bowman
William D. Bowman University of Colorado Boulder
Timothy R. Seastedt
Timothy R. Seastedt University of Colorado Boulder
Richard J. Hobbs
Richard J. Hobbs University of Western Australia
Katherine L. Gross
Katherine L. Gross Michigan State University
Scott L. Collins
Scott L. Collins University of New Mexico
Steven K. Schmidt
Steven K. Schmidt University of Colorado Boulder
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Elsa E. Cleland
Elsa E. Cleland University of California, San Diego

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