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D-Index
58
Citations
11798
World Ranking
2578
National Ranking
915

Overview

Kenneth J. Feeley is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and biological sciences, with a substantial body of work in environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist's recent research contributions include papers across notable journals and diverse topics related to ecology and climate change. Key recent publications are:

  • Climate-driven changes in the composition of New World plant communities (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • Mountain Ecosystems as Natural Laboratories for Climate Change Experiments (2020, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change)
  • Montane species track rising temperatures better in the tropics than in the temperate zone (2021, Ecology Letters)
  • Photosynthetic heat tolerances and extreme leaf temperatures (2020, Functional Ecology)
  • Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network (2020, PLoS ONE)

Their frequent co-authors include Alyssa T. Kullberg, William Farfán-Ríos, Riley P. Fortier, Álvaro Duque, and Timothy M. Perez. These collaborations reflect ongoing research in ecological and environmental topics.

Feeley's work appears frequently in several publication venues, highlighting their engagement with specific scientific communities. These venues include Frontiers for Young Minds, Functional Ecology, Nature Communications, Biotropica, and Science.

The main fields of study for Feeley's research are environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Within these fields, subfields that feature prominently in their work are nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and plant science. The focus extends to topics such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, plant and animal studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, plant responses to elevated CO2, and plant diversity and evolution.

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

    Brian Machovina;Brian Machovina;Kenneth J. Feeley;Kenneth J. Feeley;William J. Ripple

  • Net primary productivity allocation and cycling of carbon along a tropical forest elevational transect in the Peruvian Andes.

    C. A. J. Girardin;Y. Malhi;L. E. O. C. Aragão;M. Mamani

  • Upslope migration of Andean trees

    Kenneth J. Feeley;Kenneth J. Feeley;Miles R. Silman;Mark B. Bush;William Farfan

  • Decelerating growth in tropical forest trees

    Kenneth J. Feeley;S. Joseph Wright;M. N. Nur Supardi;Abd Rahman Kassim

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • Widespread but heterogeneous responses of Andean forests to climate change

    Belén Fadrique;Selene Báez;Álvaro Duque;Agustina Malizia

  • Biodiversity conservation in human-modified Amazonian forest landscapes

    Carlos A. Peres;Toby A. Gardner;Jos Barlow;Jansen Zuanon

  • Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities

    Jérôme Chave;Richard Condit;Helene C Muller-Landau;Sean C Thomas

  • Keep collecting: accurate species distribution modelling requires more collections than previously thought

    Kenneth J. Feeley;Kenneth J. Feeley;Miles R. Silman

  • Predicting biodiversity change: outside the climate envelope, beyond the species-area curve.

    Inés Ibáñez;James S. Clark;Michael C. Dietze;Ken Feeley

  • Directional changes in the species composition of a tropical forest.

    Kenneth J. Feeley;Kenneth J. Feeley;Stuart J. Davies;Rolando Perez;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell

  • Land‐use and climate change effects on population size and extinction risk of Andean plants

    Kenneth J. Feeley;Kenneth J. Feeley;Kenneth J. Feeley;Miles R. Silman

  • Vegetation dynamics of predator-free land-bridge islands

    John Terborgh;Kenneth Feeley;Miles Silman;Percy Nuñez

  • Losing your edge: climate change and the conservation value of range-edge populations.

    Evan M. Rehm;Evan M. Rehm;Paulo Olivas;James Stroud;James Stroud;Kenneth J. Feeley;Kenneth J. Feeley

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • The data void in modeling current and future distributions of tropical species

    Kenneth J. Feeley;Kenneth J. Feeley;Kenneth J. Feeley;Miles R. Silman

  • Climate-driven changes in the composition of New World plant communities

    K. J. Feeley;K. J. Feeley;C. Bravo-Avila;C. Bravo-Avila;B. Fadrique;T. M. Perez;T. M. Perez

  • Thermophilization of adult and juvenile tree communities in the northern tropical Andes

    Alvaro Duque;Pablo R. Stevenson;Kenneth J. Feeley

  • Biotic attrition from tropical forests correcting for truncated temperature niches

    Kenneth J. Feeley;Miles R. Silman

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

Frequent Co-Authors

Miles R. Silman
Miles R. Silman Wake Forest University
Alvaro Duque
Alvaro Duque National University of Colombia
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Kyle G. Dexter
Kyle G. Dexter University of Edinburgh
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Susan G. Laurance
Susan G. Laurance James Cook University
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade National Institute of Amazonian Research
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado University of St Andrews

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