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Robert J. Hijmans is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broad areas, their work encompasses several subfields including Ecology, Soil Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their recent scholarly contributions reflect a focus on topics such as Agricultural risk and resilience, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Climate change impacts on agriculture, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Frequent publication venues for their work include PLoS ONE, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Nature Food, and Remote Sensing.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Uniting remote sensing, crop modelling and economics for agricultural risk management (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • The environmental consequences of climate-driven agricultural frontiers (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Fertilizer and grain prices constrain food production in sub-Saharan Africa (2021, Nature Food)
  • Spatial variation in fertilizer prices in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Presence-only and Presence-absence Data for Comparing Species Distribution Modeling Methods (2020, Biodiversity Informatics)

They have frequently collaborated with researchers including Jordan Chamberlin, Aniruddha Ghosh, Camila Bonilla, Fernando Aramburu-Merlos, and Kate Tiedeman.

Best Publications

  • Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas.

    Robert J. Hijmans;Susan E. Cameron;Susan E. Cameron;Juan L. Parra;Peter G. Jones

  • WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

    Stephen E. Fick;Robert J. Hijmans

  • Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data

    Jane Elith;Catherine H. Graham;Robert P. Anderson;Miroslav Dudík

  • Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models

    Mary Wisz;R. J. Hijmans;J. Li;A. T. Peterson

  • Species distribution modeling with R

    Robert J. Hijmans;Jane Elith

  • The ability of climate envelope models to predict the effect of climate change on species distributions

    Robert J. Hijmans;Catherine H. Graham

  • Climate change, wine, and conservation

    Lee Hannah;Lee Hannah;Patrick R. Roehrdanz;Makihiko Ikegami;Anderson V. Shepard

  • Computer tools for spatial analysis of plant genetic resources data: 1. DIVA-GIS

    R. J. Hijmans;L. Guarino;M. Cruz;E. Rojas

  • Cross-validation of species distribution models: removing spatial sorting bias and calibration with a null model.

    Robert J. Hijmans

  • Aligning Conservation Priorities Across Taxa in Madagascar with High-Resolution Planning Tools

    C. Kremen;A. Cameron;A. Cameron;A. Moilanen;S. J. Phillips

  • The effect of climate change on global potato production

    Robert J. Hijmans

  • Locating pleistocene refugia: comparing phylogeographic and ecological niche model predictions.

    Eric Waltari;Robert J. Hijmans;A. Townsend Peterson;Árpád S. Nyári

  • The influence of spatial errors in species occurrence data used in distribution models

    Catherine H Graham;Jane Elith;Robert J Hijmans;Antoine Guisan

  • Increasing Rice Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

    V. Balasubramanian;M. Sie;R.J. Hijmans;K. Otsuka

  • Geographic distribution of wild potato species.

    Robert J. Hijmans;David M. Spooner

  • The effect of climate change on crop wild relatives

    Andy Jarvis;Andy Jarvis;Annie Lane;Robert J. Hijmans

  • A comparison of methods for mapping species ranges and species richness

    Catherine H. Graham;Robert J. Hijmans

  • A comparison of methods for mapping species ranges and species richness: Mapping species ranges and species richness

    Catherine H. Graham;Robert J. Hijmans

  • Multiple lines of evidence for the origin of domesticated chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, in Mexico.

    Kraig H. Kraft;Cecil H. Brown;Gary Paul Nabhan;Eike Luedeling

  • Assessing the Geographic Representativeness of Genebank Collections: the Case of Bolivian Wild Potatoes

    R. J. Hijmans;K. A. Garrett;Z. Huamán;D. P. Zhang

  • Supporting Online Material for Aligning Conservation Priorities Across Taxa in Madagascar with High- Resolution Planning Tools

    C. Kremen;A. Cameron;A. Moilanen;S. Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Spooner
David M. Spooner US Department of Agriculture
Catherine H. Graham
Catherine H. Graham Stony Brook University
Lee Hannah
Lee Hannah Conservation International
Jane Elith
Jane Elith University of Melbourne
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Brian L. Fisher
Brian L. Fisher California Academy of Sciences
Andy Jarvis
Andy Jarvis Bezos Earth Fund
Bruce A. Linquist
Bruce A. Linquist University of California, Davis
Claire Kremen
Claire Kremen University of British Columbia
Craig Moritz
Craig Moritz Australian National University

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