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Kathryn L. Cottingham

Kathryn L. Cottingham

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
13345
World Ranking
2695
National Ranking
955

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Kathryn L. Cottingham is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily focused on environmental science, with significant contributions in subfields such as environmental chemistry, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, oceanography, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Heavy metal exposure and toxicity
  • Animal ecology and behavior studies
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies

Kathryn L. Cottingham has published in various scientific journals. Notable frequent publication venues are:

  • Ecology
  • Ecosphere
  • Exposure and Health
  • Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • "Current water quality guidelines across North America and Europe do not protect lakes from salinization," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The long and the short of it: Mechanisms of synchronous and compensatory dynamics across temporal scales," 2022, Ecology
  • "The spatial synchrony of species richness and its relationship to ecosystem stability," 2021, Ecology
  • "Differential Responses of Maximum Versus Median Chlorophyll-a to Air Temperature and Nutrient Loads in an Oligotrophic Lake Over 31 Years," 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "Predicting the effects of climate change on freshwater cyanobacterial blooms requires consideration of the complete cyanobacterial life cycle," 2020, Journal of Plankton Research

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include:

  • Kathleen C. Weathers
  • Shelley E. Arnott
  • Bethel G. Steele
  • Holly A. Ewing
  • Margaret R. Karagas

Kathryn L. Cottingham has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of multiple stressors on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: the role of species co‐tolerance

    Rolf D. Vinebrooke;Kathryn L. Cottingham;Jon Norberg;Marten Scheffer

  • TROPHIC CASCADES, NUTRIENTS, AND LAKE PRODUCTIVITY: WHOLE‐LAKE EXPERIMENTS

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Jonathan J. Cole;James R. Hodgson;James F. Kitchell

  • THE RELATIONSHIP IN LAKE COMMUNITIES BETWEEN PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY AND SPECIES RICHNESS

    Stanley I. Dodson;Shelley E. Arnott;Kathryn L. Cottingham

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

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

  • ESTIMATING COMMUNITY STABILITY AND ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS FROM TIME‐SERIES DATA

    A. R. Ives;A. R. Ives;B. Dennis;B. Dennis;K. L. Cottingham;K. L. Cottingham;S. R. Carpenter;S. R. Carpenter

  • Biodiversity may regulate the temporal variability of ecological systems

    K.L. Cottingham;B.L. Brown;J.T. Lennon

  • Knowing when to draw the line: designing more informative ecological experiments

    Kathryn L. Cottingham;Jay T. Lennon;Jay T. Lennon;Bryan L. Brown;Bryan L. Brown

  • Resilience and Restoration of Lakes

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Kathryn L. Cottingham

  • Rice consumption contributes to arsenic exposure in US women

    Diane Gilbert-Diamond;Kathryn L. Cottingham;Joann F. Gruber;Tracy Punshon

  • Parasites alter community structure

    Chelsea L. Wood;James E. Byers;Kathryn L. Cottingham;Irit Altman

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

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

  • Competition, seed limitation, disturbance, and reestablishment of California native annual forbs

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Virginia L. Boucher;Rebecca S. Burton

  • Cyanobacteria as biological drivers of lake nitrogen and phosphorus cycling

    Kathryn L. Cottingham;Holly A. Ewing;Meredith L. Greer;Cayelan C. Carey

  • Human exposure to dietary inorganic arsenic and other arsenic species: State of knowledge, gaps and uncertainties.

    Francesco Cubadda;Brian P. Jackson;Kathryn L. Cottingham;Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne

  • Food Web Structure and Phosphorus Cycling in Lakes

    Daniel E. Schindler;James F. Kitchell;Xi He;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • The dual nature of community variability

    Fiorenza Micheli;Kathryn L. Cottingham;Kathryn L. Cottingham;Jordi Bascompte;Ottar N. Bjørnstad

  • 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

  • Complexity in Ecology and Conservation: Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational Challenges

    Jessica L. Green;Alan Hastings;Peter Arzberger;Francisco J. Ayala

  • Biological Control of Eutrophication in Lakes

    Stephen R. Carpenter;David L. Christensen;Jonathan J. Cole;Kathryn L. Cottingham

  • Arsenic, organic foods, and brown rice syrup.

    Brian P. Jackson;Vivien F. Taylor;Margaret R. Karagas;Tracy Punshon

  • Benthic-Pelagic Links: Responses of Benthos to Water-Column Nutrient Enrichment

    S. C. Blumenshine;Yvonne Vadeboncoeur;D. M. Lodge;K. L. Cottingham

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret R. Karagas
Margaret R. Karagas Dartmouth College
Stephen R. Carpenter
Stephen R. Carpenter University of Wisconsin–Madison
Cayelan C. Carey
Cayelan C. Carey Virginia Tech
Kathleen C. Weathers
Kathleen C. Weathers Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Brian P. Jackson
Brian P. Jackson Dartmouth College
Daniel E. Schindler
Daniel E. Schindler University of Washington
Carol L. Folt
Carol L. Folt Dartmouth College
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota

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