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35
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10231
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7246
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732

Overview

Regan Early is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and specializes in environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research encompasses a range of topics related to species distribution and climate change, ecology, and plant and animal studies.

Their work spans several subfields of study including ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and global and planetary change. This interdisciplinary approach supports investigations into both fundamental ecological processes and applied environmental challenges.

Key research topics addressed throughout their career cover:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance

They have contributed frequently to several publication venues, particularly:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Pest Management Science
  • People and Nature
  • Scientific Reports

Recent academic papers published by Regan Early include:

  • "Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts" (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • "Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change" (2023, Nature Climate Change)
  • "The problem of scale in predicting biological responses to climate" (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • "Understanding the combined impacts of weeds and climate change on crops" (2021, Environmental Research Letters)
  • "Climate change impacts on long-term forest productivity might be driven by species turnover rather than by changes in tree growth" (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)

Collaborations form a significant part of their research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Montserrat Vilà
  • Ilya M. D. Maclean
  • Evelyn M. Beaury
  • Dana M. Blumenthal
  • Bethany A. Bradley

Best Publications

  • Global threats from invasive alien species in the twenty-first century and national response capacities

    Regan Early;Bethany A. Bradley;Jeffrey S. Dukes;Joshua J. Lawler

  • Fall armyworm: impacts and implications for Africa.

    I. Rwomushana;M. Bateman;T. Beale;P. Beseh

  • Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments

    Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo;Robert P. Anderson;Robert P. Anderson;Robert P. Anderson;A. Marcia Barbosa;Colin Michael Beale

  • Prioritizing multiple-use landscapes for conservation: methods for large multi-species planning problems.

    Atte Moilanen;Aldina M.A Franco;Regan I Early;Richard Fox

  • Will Extreme Climatic Events Facilitate Biological Invasions

    Jeffrey M Diez;Carla M D'Antonio;Jeffrey S Dukes;Edwin D Grosholz

  • Multidimensional evaluation of managed relocation.

    David M. Richardson;Jessica J. Hellmann;Jason S. McLachlan;Dov F. Sax

  • The changing role of ornamental horticulture in alien plant invasions

    Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Franz Essl;Jan Pergl;Giuseppe Brundu

  • Forecasting the global extent of invasion of the cereal pest Spodoptera frugiperda, the fall armyworm

    Regan Early;Pablo González-Moreno;Sean T. Murphy;Roger Day

  • Climatic niche shifts between species' native and naturalized ranges raise concern for ecological forecasts during invasions and climate change

    Regan Early;Regan Early;Regan Early;Dov F. Sax

  • Global change, global trade, and the next wave of plant invasions

    Bethany A. Bradley;Dana M. Blumenthal;Regan Early;Edwin D. Grosholz

  • Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges

    Mark W. Schwartz;Jessica J. Hellmann;Jason M. McLachlan;Dov F. Sax

  • Disentangling the abundance-impact relationship for invasive species.

    Bethany A Bradley;Brittany B Laginhas;Raj Whitlock;Jenica M Allen

  • Prediction of migratory routes of the invasive fall armyworm in eastern China using a trajectory analytical approach

    Xi-Jie Li;Ming-Fei Wu;Jian Ma;Bo-Ya Gao;Bo-Ya Gao

  • Usefulness of Species Traits in Predicting Range Shifts

    Alba Estrada;Ignacio Morales-Castilla;Paul Caplat;Regan Early

  • Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts

    Piper D. Wallingford;Toni Lyn Morelli;Toni Lyn Morelli;Jenica M. Allen;Jenica M. Allen;Jenica M. Allen;Evelyn M. Beaury

  • Integrating invasive species policies across ornamental horticulture supply-chains to prevent plant invasions

    Philip E. Hulme;Giuseppe Brundu;Marta Carboni;Marta Carboni;Katharina Dehnen-schmutz

  • Niche syndromes, species extinction risks, and management under climate change

    Dov F. Sax;Regan Early;Regan Early;Jesse Bellemare

  • Minimum viable metapopulation size, extinction debt, and the conservation of a declining species.

    Caroline R. Bulman;Robert J. Wilson;Alison R. Holt;Lucía Gálvez Bravo

  • Analysis of climate paths reveals potential limitations on species range shifts

    Regan Early;Dov F. Sax

  • Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change

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  • How complex should models be? Comparing correlative and mechanistic range dynamics models

    Damien A. Fordham;Cleo Bertelsmeier;Cleo Bertelsmeier;Barry W. Brook;Regan Early

Frequent Co-Authors

Dov F. Sax
Dov F. Sax Brown University
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Bethany A. Bradley
Bethany A. Bradley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cascade J. B. Sorte
Cascade J. B. Sorte University of California, Irvine
Dana M. Blumenthal
Dana M. Blumenthal Agricultural Research Service
Jeffrey S. Dukes
Jeffrey S. Dukes Purdue University West Lafayette
Jeffrey M. Diez
Jeffrey M. Diez University of California, Riverside
Inés Ibáñez
Inés Ibáñez University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Chris D. Thomas
Chris D. Thomas University of York

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