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Sean T. Michaletz is a researcher affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecology.

The key topics addressed in their research cover a range of ecological and environmental sciences. These include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Responses to Elevated CO2, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and the Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

Sean T. Michaletz has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed papers. Some of their recent publications are:

  • Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Biogeographic patterns of microbial co-occurrence ecological networks in six American forests, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Leaf heat tolerance of 147 tropical forest species varies with elevation and leaf functional traits, but not with phylogeny, 2021, Plant Cell & Environment
  • Dimensions of invasiveness: Links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe's alien and native floras, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Multiscale mapping of plant functional groups and plant traits in the High Arctic using field spectroscopy, UAV imagery and Sentinel-2A data, 2021, Environmental Research Letters

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Michaletz include:

  • Brian J. Enquist (20 joint publications)
  • Brian Maitner (16 joint publications)
  • Aud H. Halbritter (12 joint publications)
  • Vigdis Vandvik (11 joint publications)
  • Richard J. Telford (10 joint publications)

Michaletz's publications have appeared predominantly in these venues:

  • New Phytologist (9 publications)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (8 publications)
  • Scientific Data (5 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Lina Shen;Chongqing Wen

  • Convergence of terrestrial plant production across global climate gradients

    Sean T. Michaletz;Dongliang Cheng;Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Brian J. Enquist

  • How forest fires kill trees: A review of the fundamental biophysical processes

    Sean T. Michaletz;Edward A. Johnson

  • Intraspecific trait variation and phenotypic plasticity mediate alpine plant species response to climate change

    Jonathan J. Henn;Vanessa Buzzard;Brian J. Enquist;Aud H. Halbritter;Aud H. Halbritter

  • The energetic and carbon economic origins of leaf thermoregulation

    Sean T. Michaletz;Sean T. Michaletz;Michael D. Weiser;Nate G. McDowell;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou

  • Climate shapes and shifts functional biodiversity in forests worldwide.

    Daniel J. Wieczynski;Brad Boyle;Vanessa Buzzard;Sandra M. Duran

  • Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

    Rachael V. Gallagher;Daniel S. Falster;Brian S. Maitner;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez

  • Plant Thermoregulation: Energetics, Trait-Environment Interactions, and Carbon Economics.

    Sean T. Michaletz;Sean T. Michaletz;Michael D. Weiser;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Michael Kaspari;Michael Kaspari

  • Moving beyond the cambium necrosis hypothesis of post‐fire tree mortality: cavitation and deformation of xylem in forest fires

    S. T. Michaletz;E. A. Johnson;M. T. Tyree;M. T. Tyree

  • Fire effects on tree physiology.

    Andreas Bär;Sean T. Michaletz;Stefan Mayr

  • Tree water dynamics in a drying and warming world.

    Charlotte Grossiord;Sanna Sevanto;Isaac Borrego;Allison M. Chan

  • Biogeographic patterns of microbial co-occurrence ecological networks in six American forests

    Qichao Tu;Qichao Tu;Qingyun Yan;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Sean T. Michaletz

  • The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx)

    Aud Helen Halbritter Rechsteiner;Hans J. De Boeck;Amy Elizabeth Eycott;Amy Elizabeth Eycott;Sabine Reinsch

  • Precipitation, not air temperature, drives functional responses of trees in semi-arid ecosystems

    Charlotte Grossiord;Sanna Sevanto;Henry D. Adams;Adam D. Collins

  • Leaf heat tolerance of 147 tropical forest species varies with elevation and leaf functional traits, but not with phylogeny

    Martijn Slot;Daniela Cala;Daniela Cala;Jorge Aranda;Aurelio Virgo

  • Fire and Biological Processes

    Sean T. Michaletz;Edward A. Johnson

  • Predicting Chronic Climate-Driven Disturbances and Their Mitigation

    Nate G. McDowell;Sean T. Michaletz;Katrina E. Bennett;Kurt C. Solander

  • Traits drive global wood decomposition rates more than climate.

    Zhenhong Hu;Zhenhong Hu;Zhenhong Hu;Sean T. Michaletz;Sean T. Michaletz;Daniel J. Johnson;Nate G. McDowell

  • Dimensions of invasiveness: Links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe's alien and native floras

    Trevor S. Fristoe;Milan Chytrý;Wayne Dawson;Franz Essl

  • Biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six forests in the North America

    Qichao Tu;Qichao Tu;Ye Deng;Qingyun Yan;Lina Shen

  • Predicting climate change effects on wildfires requires linking processes across scales

    Marc Macias Fauria;Sean T. Michaletz;Edward A. Johnson

  • A heat transfer model of crown scorch in forest fires

    S. T. Michaletz;E. A. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Michael Kaspari
Michael Kaspari University of Oklahoma
Vigdis Vandvik
Vigdis Vandvik University of Bergen
Richard J. Telford
Richard J. Telford University of Bergen
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Michael D. Weiser
Michael D. Weiser University of Oklahoma
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ye Deng
Ye Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Edward A. Johnson
Edward A. Johnson University of Calgary

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