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Kevin R. Wilcox is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on the subfields of Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's work engages a variety of main topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Kevin R. Wilcox has contributed to numerous publications distributed across multiple venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Oecologia
  • Ecology Letters
  • Ecology
  • New Phytologist
  • Rangeland Ecology & Management

Frequent collaborators in their research include Sally E. Koerner, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Melinda D. Smith, Meghan L. Avolio, and Scott L. Collins.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kevin R. Wilcox are:

  • "Traits link drought resistance with herbivore defence and plant economics in semi-arid grasslands: The central roles of phenology and leaf dry matter content," 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • "General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Grazing-induced biodiversity loss impairs grassland ecosystem stability at multiple scales," 2021, Ecology Letters
  • "Rapid recovery of ecosystem function following extreme drought in a South African savanna grassland," 2020, Ecology
  • "Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data-model integration," 2020, Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments.

    Alan K. Knapp;David L. Hoover;Kevin R. Wilcox;Meghan L. Avolio

  • Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Zheng Shi;Laureano A. Gherardi;Nathan P. Lemoine

  • C:N:P stoichiometry in China's forests: From organs to ecosystems

    Jiahui Zhang;Ning Zhao;Congcong Liu;Hao Yang

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above-ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie

    Meghan L. Avolio;Sally E. Koerner;Kimberly J. La Pierre;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Andrew T. Tredennick;Sally E. Koerner;Emily Grman

  • Contrasting above‐ and belowground sensitivity of three Great Plains grasslands to altered rainfall regimes

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Joseph C. von Fischer;Jennifer M. Muscha;Mark K. Petersen

  • Traits link drought resistance with herbivore defence and plant economics in semi-arid grasslands: The central roles of phenology and leaf dry matter content

    Dana M. Blumenthal;Kevin E. Mueller;Julie A. Kray;Troy W. Ocheltree

  • Stoichiometric homeostasis predicts plant species dominance, temporal stability and responses to global change

    Qiang Yu;Qiang Yu;Kevin R. Wilcox;Kimberly J. La Pierre;Alan K. Knapp

  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

    Yann Hautier;Pengfei Zhang;Michel Loreau;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves

    Meghan L. Avolio;Ian T. Carroll;Scott L. Collins;Gregory R. Houseman

  • Grazing-induced biodiversity loss impairs grassland ecosystem stability at multiple scales.

    Maowei Liang;Maowei Liang;Cunzhu Liang;Yann Hautier;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • Dual mechanisms regulate ecosystem stability under decade-long warming and hay harvest

    Zheng Shi;Xia Xu;Lara Souza;Kevin Wilcox

  • Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands.

    Sally E. Koerner;Deron E. Burkepile;Richard W. S. Fynn;Catherine E. Burns

  • Rapid recovery of ecosystem function following extreme drought in a South African savanna grassland

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Sally E. Koerner;David L. Hoover;Andrea K. Borkenhagen

  • Does ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions?.

    Kevin R. Wilcox;John M. Blair;Melinda D. Smith;Alan K. Knapp

  • Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change

    Melinda D. Smith;Sally E. Koerner;Alan K. Knapp;Meghan L. Avolio

  • Plant traits related to precipitation sensitivity of species and communities in semiarid shortgrass prairie.

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Kevin R. Wilcox;Dana M. Blumenthal;Julie A. Kray;Kevin E. Mueller

  • Warming Effects on Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes Are Modulated by Plant Functional Types

    Ji Chen;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Jianyang Xia;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration

    Istem Fer;Anthony K. Gardella;Anthony K. Gardella;Alexey N. Shiklomanov;Eleanor E. Campbell

  • Asymmetric Responses of Primary Productivity to Altered Precipitation Simulated by Ecosystem Models across Three Long-term Grassland Sites

    Donghai Wu;Philippe Ciais;Nicolas Viovy;Alan K. Knapp

  • Responses to fire differ between South African and North American grassland communities

    Kevin P. Kirkman;Scott L. Collins;Melinda D. Smith;Alan K. Knapp

Frequent Co-Authors

Melinda D. Smith
Melinda D. Smith Colorado State University
Alan K. Knapp
Alan K. Knapp Colorado State University
Scott L. Collins
Scott L. Collins University of New Mexico
Sally E. Koerner
Sally E. Koerner University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Meghan L. Avolio
Meghan L. Avolio Johns Hopkins University
Forest Isbell
Forest Isbell University of Minnesota
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Deron E. Burkepile
Deron E. Burkepile University of California, Santa Barbara
Kevin P. Kirkman
Kevin P. Kirkman University of KwaZulu-Natal

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