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44
Citations
9188
World Ranking
5009
National Ranking
1713

Overview

Morgan W. Tingley is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States and specializes in environmental science, with a focus on ecological research. Their scholarly contributions span multiple subfields including ecology, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's primary research topics include species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, avian ecology and behavior, fire effects on ecosystems, plant and animal studies, and rangeland and wildlife management.

Recent publications by Morgan W. Tingley explore various ecological and environmental issues. Notable papers are:

  • "Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene" (2020) in Science
  • "Standards and Best Practices for Monitoring and Benchmarking Insects" (2021) in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: A history, synthesis, and outlook" (2021) in Diversity and Distributions
  • "The challenge of novel abiotic conditions for species undergoing climate-induced range shifts" (2020) in Ecography
  • "Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales" (2021) in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Frequent collaborators include Casey Youngflesh, Graham A. Montgomery, Montague H. C. Neate-Clegg, Rodney B. Siegel, and Benjamin A. Tonelli.

Morgan W. Tingley regularly publishes in journals such as Global Change Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Diversity and Distributions, Ecography, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Best Publications

  • Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change

    Morgan W. Tingley;William B. Monahan;Steven R. Beissinger;Craig Moritz

  • Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

    Luke T. Kelly;Katherine M. Giljohann;Andrea Duane;Nuria Aquilue

  • Global mountain topography and the fate of montane species under climate change

    Paul R. Elsen;Morgan W. Tingley;Morgan W. Tingley

  • The push and pull of climate change causes heterogeneous shifts in avian elevational ranges

    Morgan W. Tingley;Morgan W. Tingley;Michelle S. Koo;Craig Moritz;Craig Moritz;Andrew C. Rush;Andrew C. Rush

  • Detecting range shifts from historical species occurrences: new perspectives on old data

    Morgan W. Tingley;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Detecting diversity: emerging methods to estimate species diversity

    Kelly J. Iknayan;Morgan W. Tingley;Brett J. Furnas;Brett J. Furnas;Steven R. Beissinger

  • An automated approach to identifying search terms for systematic reviews using keyword co-occurrence networks

    Eliza M. Grames;Andrew N. Stillman;Morgan W. Tingley;Chris S. Elphick

  • Avian response to removal of a forest dominant: consequences of hemlock woolly adelgid infestations

    Morgan W. Tingley;David A. Orwig;Rebecca Field;Rebecca Field;Glenn Motzkin

  • Is the insect apocalypse upon us? How to find out

    Graham A. Montgomery;Graham A. Montgomery;Robert R. Dunn;Richard Fox;Eelke Jongejans

  • Standards and Best Practices for Monitoring and Benchmarking Insects

    Graham A. Montgomery;Michael W. Belitz;Michael W. Belitz;Rob P. Guralnick;Morgan W. Tingley

  • Increasing phenological asynchrony between spring green-up and arrival of migratory birds

    Stephen J. Mayor;Robert P. Guralnick;Morgan W. Tingley;Javier Otegui

  • Spatially heterogeneous impact of climate change on small mammals of montane California.

    Kevin C. Rowe;Karen M. C. Rowe;Morgan W. Tingley;Michelle S. Koo

  • Phenological shifts conserve thermal niches in North American birds and reshape expectations for climate-driven range shifts.

    Jacob B. Socolar;Peter N. Epanchin;Steven R. Beissinger;Morgan W. Tingley

  • Pyrodiversity promotes avian diversity over the decade following forest fire.

    Morgan W. Tingley;Morgan W. Tingley;Viviana Ruiz-Gutiérrez;Robert L. Wilkerson;Christine A. Howell

  • Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: A history, synthesis, and outlook

    Gavin M. Jones;Morgan W. Tingley

  • Cryptic loss of montane avian richness and high community turnover over 100 years

    Morgan W. Tingley;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Measuring the impact of the pet trade on Indonesian birds

    J. Berton C. Harris;Morgan W. Tingley;Fangyuan Hua;Ding Li Yong

  • The challenge of novel abiotic conditions for species undergoing climate‐induced range shifts

    Austin R. Spence;Morgan W. Tingley

  • Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales

    Elise F Zipkin;Erin R Zylstra;Alexander D Wright;Sarah P Saunders;Sarah P Saunders

  • Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application

    Christine R Rollinson;Andrew O Finley;M Ross Alexander;Sudipto Banerjee

  • Biotic impacts of energy development from shale: research priorities and knowledge gaps

    Sara Souther;Morgan W Tingley;Viorel D Popescu;Viorel D Popescu;David Ts Hayman;David Ts Hayman;David Ts Hayman

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven R. Beissinger
Steven R. Beissinger University of California, Berkeley
David S. Wilcove
David S. Wilcove Princeton University
Craig Moritz
Craig Moritz Australian National University
Chris S. Elphick
Chris S. Elphick University of Connecticut
Robert P. Guralnick
Robert P. Guralnick Florida Museum of Natural History
Michael R. Cranfield
Michael R. Cranfield University of California, Davis
Allen H. Hurlbert
Allen H. Hurlbert University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
David T. S. Hayman
David T. S. Hayman Massey University
Catherine L. Parr
Catherine L. Parr University of Liverpool

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