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Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira is affiliated with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a substantial body of work spanning 102 publications in this field. Key subfields of study include Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their scientific contributions address multiple topics, notably Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Plant and Animal Studies, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, and Forest Management and Policy.

Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world, 2020, Science
  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth, 2020, Nature
  • Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth's ecosystems, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as New Phytologist, Global Change Biology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature, and Ecology Letters. The number of publications at these venues reflects ongoing engagement with prominent journals in ecology and environmental science.

Collaborations are an important aspect of their research. Frequent co-authors include Sean M. McMahon, Valentine Herrmann, Norman A. Bourg, James A. Lutz, and William J. McShea, evidencing a network of research partnerships that enhance interdisciplinary approaches in their field.

Best Publications

  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Brian H. Aukema

  • Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

    Amy C. Bennett;Amy C. Bennett;Nathan G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

    Susan C. Cook-Patton;Susan C. Cook-Patton;Sara M. Leavitt;David Gibbs;Nancy L. Harris

  • Drivers and Mechanisms of Tree Mortality in Moist Tropical Forests

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Paulo M. Brando

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Changes in soil organic carbon under biofuel crops.

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Sarah C. Davis;Michael D. Masters;Evan H. Delucia

  • Altered dynamics of forest recovery under a changing climate

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Adam D. Miller;Jacqueline E. Mohan;Tara W. Hudiburg

  • Life-cycle analysis and the ecology of biofuels.

    Sarah C. Davis;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Evan H. DeLucia

  • Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems

    Allie Goldstein;Will R. Turner;Seth A. Spawn;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira

  • Climate-regulation services of natural and agricultural ecoregions of the Americas

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Peter K. Snyder;Tracy E. Twine;Santiago V. Cuadra

  • Reduced nitrogen losses after conversion of row crop agriculture to perennial biofuel crops.

    Candice M. Smith;Mark B. David;Mark B. David;Corey A. Mitchell;Corey A. Mitchell;Michael D. Masters

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Differential responses of production and respiration to temperature and moisture drive the carbon balance across a climatic gradient in New Mexico

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;John P. Delong;John P. Delong;Andrew M. Fox;Daniel A. Brese

  • Vulnerability to forest loss through altered postfire recovery dynamics in a warming climate in the Klamath Mountains

    Alan J. Tepley;Jonathan R. Thompson;Howard E. Epstein;Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira

  • Altered belowground carbon cycling following land-use change to perennial bioenergy crops.

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Michael D. Masters;Christopher K. Black;Marcelo Zeri;Marcelo Zeri

  • Influences of fire–vegetation feedbacks and post-fire recovery rates on forest landscape vulnerability to altered fire regimes

    Alan J. Tepley;Enrique Thomann;Thomas T. Veblen;George L. W. Perry

  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

    Rafael Poyatos;Víctor Granda;Víctor Flo;Mark A. Adams;Mark A. Adams

  • Carbon exchange by establishing biofuel crops in Central Illinois

    Marcelo Zeri;Marcelo Zeri;Kristina Anderson-Teixeira;George Hickman;Michael Masters

  • Carbon dynamics of mature and regrowth tropical forests derived from a pantropical database (TropForC-db).

    Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira;Maria M H Wang;Jennifer C McGarvey;David S LeBauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Evan H. DeLucia
Evan H. DeLucia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sean M. McMahon
Sean M. McMahon Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Helene C. Muller-Landau
Helene C. Muller-Landau Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Matteo Detto
Matteo Detto Princeton University
William J. McShea
William J. McShea Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Carl J. Bernacchi
Carl J. Bernacchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lawren Sack
Lawren Sack University of California, Los Angeles
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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