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D-Index
38
Citations
20747
World Ranking
6495
National Ranking
2193

Overview

Neil S. Cobb is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields primarily focused on biological and environmental sciences.

The main fields of study in their work include Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The core topics explored by Neil S. Cobb's research encompass Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology, and Lepidoptera Biology and Taxonomy.

Frequently appearing publication venues for their work include BioScience, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Ecography, Scientific Data, and Nature Sustainability.

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • From Bees to Flies: Global Shift in Pollinator Communities Along Elevation Gradients (2021), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Completeness analysis for over 3000 United States bee species identifies persistent data gap (2023), Ecography
  • A globally synthesised and flagged bee occurrence dataset and cleaning workflow (2023), Scientific Data
  • Impact of pesticide use on wild bee distributions across the United States (2024), Nature Sustainability
  • Regional Collections Are an Essential Component of Biodiversity Research Infrastructure (2020), BioScience

Their collaborative work often involves a core group of frequent co-authors, including Lindsie M. McCabe, Paige Chesshire, Erica E. Fischer, Michael C. Orr, and Laura Melissa Guzman, indicating a network of partnership in related fields.

Best Publications

  • A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

    Craig D. Allen;Alison K. Macalady;Haroun Chenchouni;Dominique Bachelet

  • Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

    Nate G. McDowell;William T. Pockman;Craig D. Allen;David D. Breshears

  • Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought

    David D. Breshears;Neil S. Cobb;Paul M. Rich;Kevin P. Price

  • The impact of plant stress on herbivore population dynamics

    Gwendolyn L. Waring;Neil S. Cobb

  • TREE-RING VARIATION IN PINYON PREDICTS LIKELIHOOD OF DEATH FOLLOWING SEVERE DROUGHT

    Kiona Ogle;Thomas G. Whitham;Neil S. Cobb

  • INSECT HERBIVORY INCREASES LITTER QUALITY AND DECOMPOSITION: AN EXTENSION OF THE ACCELERATION HYPOTHESIS

    Samantha K. Chapman;Stephen C. Hart;Neil S. Cobb;Thomas G. Whitham

  • The Extended Specimen Network: A Strategy to Enhance US Biodiversity Collections, Promote Research and Education.

    James Lendemer;Barbara Thiers;Anna K Monfils;Jennifer Zaspel

  • Insect Herbivore Population Dynamics on Trees and Shrubs: New Approaches Relevant to Latent and Eruptive Species and Life Table Development

    Peter W. Price;Neil S Cobb;Timothy P. Craig;G. Wilson Fernandes

  • Relationship of stand characteristics to drought-induced mortality in three Southwestern piñon–juniper woodlands

    M. Lisa Floyd;Michael Clifford;Neil S. Cobb;Dustin Hanna

  • Extreme climatic event-triggered overstorey vegetation loss increases understorey solar input regionally: primary and secondary ecological implications

    Patrick D. Royer;Neil S. Cobb;Michael J. Clifford;Cho Ying Huang

  • Increased moth herbivory associated with environmental stress of pinyon pine at local and regional levels.

    Neil S. Cobb;Susan Mopper;Catherine A. Gehring;Matt Caouette

  • Genetic differentiation and heterozygosity in pinyon pine associated with resistance to herbivory and environmental stress

    Susan Mopper;Jeffry B. Mitton;Thomas G. Whitham;Neil S. Cobb

  • Climate change and human activities: a case study in Xinjiang, China

    Zhuoting Wu;Hongjun Zhang;Crystal M. Krause;Neil S. Cobb

  • Resource Abundance and Insect Herbivore Diversity on Woody Fabaceous Desert Plants

    Evelyn Sodre De Alckmin Marques;Evelyn Sodre De Alckmin Marques;Peter Wilfrid Price;Neil Stanley Cobb

  • Decreased streamflow in semi-arid basins following drought-induced tree die-off: A counter-intuitive and indirect climate impact on hydrology

    M. Guardiola-Claramonte;Peter A. Troch;David D. Breshears;Travis E. Huxman

  • Three-way interactions among ectomycorrhizal mutualists, scale insects, and resistant and susceptible pinyon pines.

    Catherine A. Gehring;Neil S. Cobb;Thomas G. Whitham

  • Precipitation thresholds and drought‐induced tree die‐off: insights from patterns of Pinus edulis mortality along an environmental stress gradient

    Michael J. Clifford;Patrick D. Royer;Neil S. Cobb;David D. Breshears

  • A new look at habitat structure: consequences of herbivore-modified plant architecture

    S. Mopper;J. Maschinski;N. Cobb;T. G. Whitham

  • Long-Term Tree Cover Dynamics in a Pinyon-Juniper Woodland: Climate-Change-Type Drought Resets Successional Clock

    Michael J. Clifford;Neil S. Cobb;Michaela Buenemann

  • Arthropod community diversity and trophic structure: a comparison between extremes of plant stress

    R. Talbot Trotter;Neil S. Cobb;Thomas G. Whitham

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas G. Whitham
Thomas G. Whitham Northern Arizona University
David D. Breshears
David D. Breshears University of Arizona
Craig D. Allen
Craig D. Allen University of New Mexico
Stephen C. Hart
Stephen C. Hart University of California, Merced
Catherine A. Gehring
Catherine A. Gehring Northern Arizona University
Aimée T. Classen
Aimée T. Classen University of Vermont
Chris B. Zou
Chris B. Zou Oklahoma State University
Travis E. Huxman
Travis E. Huxman University of California, Irvine
Akito Y. Kawahara
Akito Y. Kawahara Florida Museum of Natural History
John B. Bradford
John B. Bradford United States Geological Survey

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