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3638
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1271

Overview

Matthew G. Betts is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. They conduct research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Ecology and its related subfields.

The main subfields of study for Betts include:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling

Their research topics cover a range of ecological and environmental themes, such as:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Betts has contributed to numerous publications, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Forest degradation drives widespread avian habitat and population declines", 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity: integrating Triad and sharing-sparing approaches to inform forest landscape management", 2021, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "A forest loss report card for the world's protected areas", 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "The Rapid Rise of Next-Generation Natural History", 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Toward conciliation in the habitat fragmentation and biodiversity debate", 2023, Landscape Ecology

Betts frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • CATALOG OREGON STATE ARTHROPOD COLLECTION

Collaborations form a significant part of Betts' research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • James W. Rivers
  • Urs G. Kormann
  • Adam S. Hadley
  • Jake Verschuyl
  • Scott H. Harris

Best Publications

  • Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

    William J. Ripple;Katharine Abernethy;Matthew G. Betts;Guillaume Chapron

  • Global forest loss disproportionately erodes biodiversity in intact landscapes

    Matthew G. Betts;Christopher Wolf;William J. Ripple;Ben Phalan;Ben Phalan

  • Spatial models reveal the microclimatic buffering capacity of old-growth forests

    Sarah J. K. Frey;Adam S. Hadley;Sherri L. Johnson;Mark Schulze

  • Acoustic classification of multiple simultaneous bird species: A multi-instance multi-label approach

    Forrest Briggs;Balaji Lakshminarayanan;Lawrence Neal;Xiaoli Z. Fern

  • Occupancy estimation and the closure assumption

    Christopher T. Rota;Robert J. Fletcher;Robert M. Dorazio;Matthew G. Betts

  • The effects of landscape fragmentation on pollination dynamics: absence of evidence not evidence of absence.

    Adam S. Hadley;Matthew G. Betts

  • Lidar remote sensing variables predict breeding habitat of a Neotropical migrant bird

    Scott J. Goetz;Daniel Steinberg;Matthew G. Betts;Richard T. Holmes

  • Social information trumps vegetation structure in breeding-site selection by a migrant songbird

    Matthew G Betts;Adam S Hadley;Nicholas Rodenhouse;Joseph J Nocera

  • Thresholds in songbird occurrence in relation to landscape structure.

    Matthew G. Betts;Graham J. Forbes;Antony W. Diamond

  • Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals.

    Matthew G. Betts;Christopher Wolf;Marion Pfeifer;Cristina Banks-Leite

  • The importance of spatial autocorrelation, extent and resolution in predicting forest bird occurrence

    Matthew G. Betts;A.W. Diamond;G.J. Forbes;M.-A. Villard

  • Are we eating the world's megafauna to extinction?

    William J. Ripple;Christopher Wolf;Thomas M. Newsome;Thomas M. Newsome;Matthew G. Betts

  • Independent effects of fragmentation on forest songbirds: an organism-based approach.

    Matthew G. Betts;Graham J. Forbes;Antony W. Diamond;Philip D. Taylor

  • Tropical deforestation alters hummingbird movement patterns

    Adam S Hadley;Matthew G Betts

  • A species-centered approach for uncovering generalities in organism responses to habitat loss and fragmentation

    Matthew G. Betts;Lenore Fahrig;Adam S. Hadley;Katherine E. Halstead

  • Synergistic effects of climate and land-use change influence broad-scale avian population declines.

    Joseph M. Northrup;Joseph M. Northrup;James W. Rivers;Zhiqiang Yang;Zhiqiang Yang;Matthew G. Betts

  • Forest degradation drives widespread avian habitat and population declines

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  • Thresholds in forest bird occurrence as a function of the amount of early-seral broadleaf forest at landscape scales

    M. G. Betts;J. C. Hagar;J. W. Rivers;J. D. Alexander

  • Dynamic occupancy models reveal within-breeding season movement up a habitat quality gradient by a migratory songbird

    Matthew G. Betts;Nicholas L. Rodenhouse;T. Scott Sillett;Patrick J. Doran

  • Research Needs and Recommendations for the use of Conspecific-Attraction Methods in the Conservation of Migratory Songbirds

    Marissa A. Ahlering;Marissa A. Ahlering;Debora Arlt;Debora Arlt;Matthew G. Betts;Robert J. Fletcher

  • The 9th annual MLSP competition: New methods for acoustic classification of multiple simultaneous bird species in a noisy environment

    Forrest Briggs;Yonghong Huang;Raviv Raich;Konstantinos Eftaxias

  • Comment on ''Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review''

    Matthew G. Betts;Lisa M. Ganio;Manuela M. P. Huso;Nicholas A. Som

Frequent Co-Authors

Antony W. Diamond
Antony W. Diamond University of New Brunswick
W. Douglas Robinson
W. Douglas Robinson Oregon State University
William J. Ripple
William J. Ripple Oregon State University
Ben Phalan
Ben Phalan Parque das Aves
Taal Levi
Taal Levi Oregon State University
Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia
Robert J. Fletcher
Robert J. Fletcher University of Florida
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Christoph Scherber
Christoph Scherber Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
Thomas M. Newsome
Thomas M. Newsome University of Sydney

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