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Ecology and Evolution

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80
Citations
23633
World Ranking
835
National Ranking
306

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Steven R. Beissinger is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several interconnected subfields including Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to species, ecosystems, and environmental dynamics. Key areas of study include:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences

Notable recent papers by Steven R. Beissinger and collaborators include:

  • Exposure to climate change drives stability or collapse of desert mammal and bird communities (2021, Science)
  • Why Are Species' Traits Weak Predictors of Range Shifts? (2021, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics)
  • Adult sex ratios: causes of variation and implications for animal and human societies (2022, Communications Biology)
  • The rescue effect and inference from isolation-extinction relationships (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • In transition: Avian biogeographic responses to a century of climate change across desert biomes (2020, Global Change Biology)

Steven R. Beissinger has frequently published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Communications Biology
  • Ecology Letters
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Heredity

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Steven R. Beissinger include:

  • Eric A. Riddell
  • Kelly J. Iknayan
  • Blair O. Wolf
  • Lori Hargrove
  • Scott Tremor

Among their recognitions, Steven R. Beissinger was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015 and Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • On the Use of Demographic Models of Population Viability in Endangered Species Management

    S. R. Beissinger;M. I. n Westphal

  • Impact of a Century of Climate Change on Small-Mammal Communities in Yosemite National Park, USA

    Craig Moritz;James L. Patton;Chris J. Conroy;Juan L. Parra

  • Limitations of Captive Breeding in Endangered Species Recovery

    Noel F.R. Snyder;Scott R. Derrickson;Steven R. Beissinger;James W. Wiley

  • Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

    William J. Sutherland;Robert P. Freckleton;H. Charles J. Godfray;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change

    Morgan W. Tingley;William B. Monahan;Steven R. Beissinger;Craig Moritz

  • Effects of Urbanization on Avian Community Organization

    Steven R. Beissinger;David R. Osborne

  • Population viability analysis

    Paul Beier;S. R. Beissinger;D. R. McCullough

  • Emerging Issues in Population Viability Analysis

    J. Michael Reed;L. Scott Mills;John B. Dunning;Eric S. Menges

  • Managing Climate Change Refugia for Climate Adaptation

    Toni Lyn Morelli;Toni Lyn Morelli;Christopher Daly;Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Deanna M. Dulen

  • Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

    Viktoriia Radchuk;Thomas Reed;Céline Teplitsky;Martijn van der Pol

  • The push and pull of climate change causes heterogeneous shifts in avian elevational ranges

    Morgan W. Tingley;Morgan W. Tingley;Michelle S. Koo;Craig Moritz;Craig Moritz;Andrew C. Rush;Andrew C. Rush

  • Detecting range shifts from historical species occurrences: new perspectives on old data

    Morgan W. Tingley;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Species' traits as predictors of range shifts under contemporary climate change: A review and meta-analysis.

    Sarah A. MacLean;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Detecting diversity: emerging methods to estimate species diversity

    Kelly J. Iknayan;Morgan W. Tingley;Brett J. Furnas;Brett J. Furnas;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Hatching Asynchrony and the Onset of Incubation in Birds, Revisited

    Scott H. Stoleson;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Two-species occupancy models: a new parameterization applied to co-occurrence of secretive rails.

    Orien M. W. Richmond;James E. Hines;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Minimum viable populations: is there a ‘magic number’ for conservation practitioners?

    Curtis H. Flather;Gregory D. Hayward;Gregory D. Hayward;Steven R. Beissinger;Philip A. Stephens

  • Nest poaching in Neotropical parrots

    Timothy F. Wright;Catherine A. Toft;Ernesto Enkerlin-Hoeflich;Jaime Gonzalez-Elizondo

  • Estimating abundance of unmarked animal populations: accounting for imperfect detection and other sources of zero inflation

    Francisco V. Dénes;Luís Fábio Silveira;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Polymorphic trinucleotide microsatellite loci for a neotropical parrot, the green-rumped parrotlet, Forpus passerinus.

    C R Hughes;R R Melland;S R Beissinger

  • Collapse of a desert bird community over the past century driven by climate change.

    Kelly J. Iknayan;Steven R. Beissinger

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Zachariah Peery
M. Zachariah Peery University of Wisconsin–Madison
Craig Moritz
Craig Moritz Australian National University
Scott H. Newman
Scott H. Newman Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Toni Lyn Morelli
Toni Lyn Morelli United States Geological Survey
Morgan W. Tingley
Morgan W. Tingley University of Connecticut
Per J. Palsbøll
Per J. Palsbøll University of Groningen
Martine Bérubé
Martine Bérubé University of Groningen
Brett K. Sandercock
Brett K. Sandercock Kansas State University
Curtis H. Flather
Curtis H. Flather US Forest Service
Mary K. Firestone
Mary K. Firestone University of California, Berkeley

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