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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
97
Citations
48708
World Ranking
318
National Ranking
128

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Nancy B. Grimm is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a notable focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's research encompasses multiple interdisciplinary topics, prominently featuring Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Urban Green Space and Health, Disaster Management and Resilience, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Complex Systems and Decision Making, and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

Recent scholarly publications by Nancy B. Grimm include:

  • Nature-based approaches to managing climate change impacts in cities, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services, 2022, One Earth
  • Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework in six US cities, 2021, Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene, 2021, npj Urban Sustainability

The scientist has frequently collaborated with the following researchers:

  • Elizabeth M. Cook
  • David M. Iwaniec
  • Marta Berbés-Blázquez
  • Timon McPhearson
  • Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson

Nancy B. Grimm has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Landscape and Urban Planning
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Earth's Future

The scientist also has a book publication titled Teaching English, released in 2022 through Gunter Narr Verlag eBooks.

Among the distinctions awarded to Nancy B. Grimm are:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2017
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2008

Best Publications

  • Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

    Nancy B. Grimm;Stanley H. Faeth;Nancy E. Golubiewski;Charles L. Redman

  • Biogeochemical Hot Spots and Hot Moments at the Interface of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems

    Michael E. McClain;Elizabeth W. Boyer;C. Lisa Dent;Sarah E. Gergel

  • Integrated approaches to long-term studies of urban ecological systems

    Nancy B. Grimm;J. Morgan Grove;Steward T.A. Pickett;Charles L. Redman

  • Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading

    Patrick J. Mulholland;Patrick J. Mulholland;Ashley M. Helton;Geoffrey C. Poole;Robert O. Hall

  • Integrated Approaches to Long-TermStudies of Urban Ecological Systems

    Nancy B. Grimm;J. Morgan Grove;Steward T. A. Pickett;Charles L. Redman

  • Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation

    Peter M. Vitousek;Ken Cassman;Cory Cleveland;Tim Crews

  • Socioeconomics drive urban plant diversity

    Diane Hope;Corinna Gries;Weixing Zhu;William F. Fagan

  • TEMPORAL SUCCESSION IN A DESERT STREAM ECOSYSTEM FOLLOWING FLASH FLOODING

    Stuart G. Fisher;Lawrence J. Gray;Nancy B. Grimm;David E. Busch

  • A distinct urban biogeochemistry

    Jason P. Kaye;Peter M. Groffman;Nancy B. Grimm;Lawrence A. Baker

  • The changing landscape : ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients

    Nancy B. Grimm;David R. Foster;Peter M. Groffman;J. Morgan Grove

  • Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks

    Jake J. Beaulieu;Jennifer L. Tank;Stephen K. Hamilton;Wilfred M. Wollheim

  • An integrated conceptual framework for long‐term social–ecological research

    Scott L Collins;Stephen R Carpenter;Scott M Swinton;Daniel E Orenstein

  • The impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure and function

    Nancy B Grimm;F Stuart Chapin;Britta Bierwagen;Patrick Gonzalez

  • Advancing Urban Ecology toward a Science of Cities

    Timon McPhearson;Steward T. A. Pickett;Nancy B. Grimm;Jari Niemela

  • Global change and freshwater ecosystems

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Stuart G. Fisher;Nancy B. Grimm;James F. Kitchell

  • Ecosystem Expansion and Contraction in Streams Desert streams vary in both space and time and fluctuate dramatically in size

    Emily H. Stanley;Stuart G. Fisher;Nancy B. Grimm

  • Inter‐biome comparison of factors controlling stream metabolism

    P. J. Mulholland;Christy Susan Fellows;J. L. Tank;N. B. Grimm

  • A New Urban Ecology

    James P. Collins;Ann Kinzig;Nancy B. Grimm;William F. Fagan

  • Stability of Periphyton and Macroinvertebrates to Disturbance by Flash Floods in a Desert Stream

    Nancy B. Grimm;Stuart G. Fisher

  • Exchange between interstitial and surface water: implications for stream metabolism and nutrient cycling

    Nancy B. Grimm;Stuart G. Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart G. Fisher
Stuart G. Fisher Arizona State University
Eugènia Martí
Eugènia Martí Spanish National Research Council
William H. McDowell
William H. McDowell University of New Hampshire
Patrick J. Mulholland
Patrick J. Mulholland Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jennifer L. Tank
Jennifer L. Tank University of Notre Dame
Walter K. Dodds
Walter K. Dodds Kansas State University
Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York
Diane Hope
Diane Hope Arizona State University
Stephen K. Hamilton
Stephen K. Hamilton Michigan State University

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