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Ecology and Evolution
UK
2022

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
104
Citations
40899
World Ranking
222
National Ranking
29

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Terry V. Callaghan is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to atmospheric science and ecology. The work spans various subfields including global and planetary change, general health professions, and sociology and political science.

Their scholarly output addresses topics such as climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, Indigenous studies and ecology, peatlands and wetlands ecology, Arctic and Russian policy studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, and polar research and ecology.

Recent publications by Terry V. Callaghan include:

  • "Towards an increasingly biased view on Arctic change," 2024, Nature Climate Change
  • "Impacts of environmental change on biodiversity and vegetation dynamics in Siberia," 2021, AMBIO
  • "Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking," 2021, AMBIO
  • "Can bryophyte groups increase functional resolution in tundra ecosystems?", 2021, Arctic Science
  • "The need to understand the stability of arctic vegetation during rapid climate change: An assessment of imbalance in the literature," 2021, AMBIO

Callaghan frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Margareta Johansson, Gareth K. Phoenix, Sergey N. Kirpotin, Igor Volkov, and Irina I. Volkova. Their co-authorship records indicate multiple joint publications with these colleagues.

The University of Sheffield-based scientist has published extensively in venues such as AMBIO, Water, Nature Climate Change, Arctic Science, and PLOS Climate. AMBIO particularly stands out as a frequent publishing venue for Callaghan's work.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

    William K. Cornwell;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Kathryn Amatangelo;Ellen Dorrepaal

  • Plant community responses to experimental warming across the tundra biome

    Marilyn D Walker;C Henrik Wahren;Robert D Hollister;Greg H R Henry

  • Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change

    Eric Post;Eric Post;Mads C. Forchhammer;M. Syndonia Bret-Harte;Terry V. Callaghan;Terry V. Callaghan

  • Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time.

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H. R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Robert G. Bjork

  • The balance between positive and negative plant interactions and its relationship to environmental gradients : a model

    Rob W. Brooker;Terry V. Callaghan

  • Carbon respiration from subsurface peat accelerated by climate warming in the subarctic

    Ellen Dorrepaal;Sylvia Toet;Sylvia Toet;Richard S. P. van Logtestijn;Elferra Swart

  • Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic)

    O. Anisimov;David G. Vaughan;T.V. Callaghan;C. Fural

  • Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands

    L. Xu;R.B. Myneni;F.S. Chapin Iii;T.V. Callaghan

  • Global change and arctic ecosystems: is lichen decline a function of increases in vascular plant biomass?

    J. H.C. Cornelissen;J. H.C. Cornelissen;T. V. Callaghan;J. M. Alatalo;A. Michelsen

  • Arctic ecosystems in a changing climate : an ecophysiological perspective

    F.S. Chapin;R.L. Jefferies;J.F. Reynolds;G.R. Shaver

  • Global negative vegetation feedback to climate warming responses of leaf litter decomposition rates in cold biomes

    Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Peter M. van Bodegom;Rien Aerts;Terry V. Callaghan

  • Herbivores inhibit climate‐driven shrub expansion on the tundra

    Johan Olofsson;Lauri Oksanen;Lauri Oksanen;Terry Callaghan;Terry Callaghan;Philip E. Hulme

  • The Changing Face of Arctic Snow Cover: A Synthesis of Observed and Projected Changes

    Terry V. Callaghan;Margareta Johansson;Ross D. Brown;Pavel Ya. Groisman

  • Long‐term ecosystem level experiments at Toolik Lake, Alaska, and at Abisko, Northern Sweden: generalizations and differences in ecosystem and plant type responses to global change

    M. T. van Wijk;M. T. van Wijk;K. E. Clemmensen;G. R. Shaver;Mathew Williams

  • Differential Growth Responses of Cassiope tetragona, an Arctic Dwarf-Shrub, to Environmental Perturbations among Three Contrasting High- and Subarctic Sites

    Mats Havström;Terry V. Callaghan;Sven Jonasson

  • Microbial biomass C, N and P in two arctic soils and responses to addition of NPK fertilizer and sugar: implications for plant nutrient uptake.

    Sven Jonasson;Anders Michelsen;Inger K. Schmidt;Esben V. Nielsen

  • COMPARATIVE RESPONSES OF PHENOLOGY AND REPRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT TO SIMULATED ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE IN SUB-ARCTIC AND HIGH ARCTIC PLANTS

    Philip Wookey;Andrew N Parsons;Jeffery M Welker;Jacqueline A Potter

  • Biodiversity, distributions and adaptations of Arctic species in the context of environmental change.

    Terry V. Callaghan;Lars Olof Björn;Yuri Chernov;Terry Chapin

  • Responses of a subarctic dwarf shrub heath community to simulated environmental change

    M.C. Press;J.A. Potter;M.J.W. Burke;T.V. Callaghan

  • Positive plant interactions in tundra vegetation and the importance of shelter.

    Bengt A. Carlsson;Terry V. Callaghan

Frequent Co-Authors

Margareta Johansson
Margareta Johansson Lund University
Sven Jonasson
Sven Jonasson University of Copenhagen
Dylan Gwynn-Jones
Dylan Gwynn-Jones Aberystwyth University
Torben R. Christensen
Torben R. Christensen Aarhus University
Lars Olof Björn
Lars Olof Björn Lund University
John A. Lee
John A. Lee University of Sheffield
Gareth K. Phoenix
Gareth K. Phoenix University of Sheffield
Stef Bokhorst
Stef Bokhorst Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jarle W. Bjerke
Jarle W. Bjerke Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Rolf A. Ims
Rolf A. Ims University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

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