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Overview

Robert W. Howe is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on nature and landscape conservation. Other subfields of study include ecology, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and ecological modeling.

The main topics covered in Howe's work are diverse and include ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest ecology and management, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, fire effects on ecosystems, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and ecosystem dynamics and resilience.

Howe has contributed to a number of scientific publications. Some notable recent papers are:

  • "ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network" (2020) in Biological Conservation
  • "Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world" (2022) in New Phytologist
  • "Consequences of spatial patterns for coexistence in species-rich plant communities" (2021) in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity" (2023) in Communications Biology
  • "Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities" (2024) in Nature

Frequent co-authors working with Howe include:

  • Amy Wolf
  • Norman A. Bourg
  • Stuart J. Davies
  • Sisira Ediriweera
  • William J. McShea

Howe has published regularly in several venues, among the most frequent are:

  • Journal of Nannoplankton Research
  • Biological Conservation
  • Nature
  • Ecology Letters
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kassim Abdul Rahman;Daniel P. Bebber

  • The demographic significance of ‘sink’ populations

    Robert W. Howe;Gregory J. Davis;Vincent Mosca

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • A summary of estimates of optimal and minimal conditions for population increase of some stored products insects

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  • Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

    Nathan G. Swenson;David L. Erickson;Xiangcheng Mi;Norman Alan Bourg

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Local Dynamics of Bird Assemblages in Small Forest Habitat Islands in Australia and North America

    Robert W. Howe

  • Integrated Measures of Anthropogenic Stress in the U.S. Great Lakes Basin

    Nicholas P. Danz;Gerald J Niemi;Ronald R. Regal;Tom Hollenhorst

  • Evaluation of geographic, geomorphic and human influences on Great Lakes wetland indicators: A multi-assemblage approach

    J. C. Brazner;N. P. Danz;Gerald J Niemi;R. R. Regal

  • Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks

    M. Réjou-Méchain;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Matteo Detto;S. C. Thomas

  • Ecological Sustainability of Birds in Boreal Forests

    Gerald J Niemi;Joann Hanowski;Pekka Helle;Robert Howe

  • Standardized Measures of Coastal Wetland Condition: Implementation at a Laurentian Great Lakes Basin-Wide Scale

    Donald G. Uzarski;Valerie J. Brady;Matthew J. Cooper;Matthew J. Cooper;Douglas A. Wilcox

  • Spatial patterns of tree species richness in two temperate forests

    Xugao Wang;Thorsten Wiegand;Amy Wolf;Robert Howe

  • Conspecific negative density-dependent mortality and the structure of temperate forests

    Daniel J. Johnson;Norman Alan Bourg;Robert Howe;William J. McShea

  • The Importance of Spatial Scale for Conservation and Assessment of Anuran Populations in Coastal Wetlands of the Western Great Lakes, USA

    Steven J. Price;Steven J. Price;David R. Marks;David R. Marks;Robert W. Howe;Jo Ann M. Hanowski

  • Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach

    David L. Erickson;Frank A. Jones;Frank A. Jones;Nathan G. Swenson;Nancai Pei

  • Genetic diversity and population structure of the serpentine endemic Calystegia collina (Convolvulaceae) in northern California.

    Amy T. Wolf;Robert W. Howe;James L. Hamrick

  • Effects of Wind Turbines on Birds and Bats in Northeastern Wisconsin

    Robert W. Howe;William Evans;Amy T. Wolf

  • Responsiveness of Great Lakes Wetland Indicators to Human Disturbances at Multiple Spatial Scales: A Multi-Assemblage Assessment

    John C. Brazner;Nicolas P. Danz;Anett S. Trebitz;Gerald J. Niemi

Frequent Co-Authors

Amy Wolf
Amy Wolf University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
Gerald J. Niemi
Gerald J. Niemi University of Minnesota, Duluth
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Zhanqing Hao
Zhanqing Hao Northwestern Polytechnical University
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Keping Ma
Keping Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
William J. McShea
William J. McShea Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Lucinda B. Johnson
Lucinda B. Johnson University of Minnesota, Duluth
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
George B. Chuyong
George B. Chuyong University of Buea

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