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Timothy H. Keitt is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States and has a research portfolio that focuses primarily on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields including ecology, genetics, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas related to species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, land use and ecosystem services, wildlife-road interactions and conservation, wildlife ecology and conservation, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, as well as genetic diversity and population structure.

Timothy H. Keitt's recent authored papers include:

  • Ecology in the age of automation, 2021, Science
  • Fine-scale monitoring and mapping of biodiversity and ecosystem services reveals multiple synergies and few tradeoffs in urban green space management, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Population status, connectivity, and conservation action for the endangered Baird's tapir, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Scale invariance in the spatial-dynamics of biological invasions, 2020, NeoBiota
  • Neutral processes and reduced dispersal across Amazonian rivers may explain how rivers maintain species diversity after secondary contact, 2022, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

The frequent co-authors working with Timothy H. Keitt include Nikunj Goel, Andrew M. Liebhold, Cléo Bertelsmeier, Brendan Allison, and Mevin B. Hooten.

Publication venues where Timothy H. Keitt has published multiple works include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Science, The Science of The Total Environment, Biological Conservation, and Genetics.

Best Publications

  • Using circuit theory to model connectivity in ecology, evolution, and conservation.

    Brad H. McRae;Brett G. Dickson;Timothy H. Keitt;Viral B. Shah

  • Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change.

    Claire Kremen;Neal M. Williams;Marcelo A. Aizen;Barbara Gemmill-Herren

  • LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY: A GRAPH‐THEORETIC PERSPECTIVE

    Dean Urban;Timothy Keitt

  • Bindings for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

    Roger Bivand;Tim Keitt;Barry Rowlingson

  • Landscape connectivity: A conservation application of graph theory

    Andrew G. Bunn;Andrew G. Bunn;Dean L. Urban;T. H. Keitt

  • Detecting Critical Scales in Fragmented Landscapes

    Timothy H. Keitt;Dean L. Urban;Bruce T. Milne

  • Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

    Michael C. Dietze;Andrew Fox;Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Allee effects, invasion pinning, and species' borders.

    Timothy H. Keitt;Mark A. Lewis;Robert D. Holt

  • Accounting for spatial pattern when modeling organism- environment interactions

    Timothy H. Keitt;Ottar N. Bjørnstad;Philip M. Dixon;Steve Citron-Pousty

  • The community context of species' borders: ecological and evolutionary perspectives

    Ted J. Case;Robert D. Holt;Mark A. McPeek;Timothy H. Keitt

  • Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales

    James B. Heffernan;James B. Heffernan;Patricia A. Soranno;Patricia A. Soranno;Michael J. Angilletta;Michael J. Angilletta;Lauren B. Buckley;Lauren B. Buckley

  • Theoretical models of species' borders: single species approaches

    Robert D. Holt;Timothy H. Keitt;Mark A. Lewis;Mark A. Lewis;Brian A. Maurer

  • Beyond the least-cost path: evaluating corridor redundancy using a graph-theoretic approach

    Naiara Pinto;Naiara Pinto;Timothy H. Keitt

  • Dispersal, environmental correlation, and spatial synchrony in population dynamics

    Bruce E. Kendall;Ottar N. Bjørnstad;Jordi Bascompte;Jordi Bascompte;Timothy H. Keitt

  • Species' borders: A unifying theme in ecology

    Robert D. Holt;Timothy H. Keitt

  • Alternative causes for range limits: a metapopulation perspective

    Robert D. Holt;Timothy H. Keitt

  • Resilience vs. historical contingency in microbial responses to environmental change.

    Christine Veronica Hawkes;Timothy H Keitt

  • Characterizing genomic variation of Arabidopsis thaliana: the roles of geography and climate.

    Jesse R. Lasky;David L. Des Marais;John K. McKAY;James H. Richards

  • The dual nature of community variability

    Fiorenza Micheli;Kathryn L. Cottingham;Kathryn L. Cottingham;Jordi Bascompte;Ottar N. Bjørnstad

  • Dynamics of North American breeding bird populations

    Timothy H. Keitt;Timothy H. Keitt;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Population dynamics in ecological space and time

    Timothy H. Keitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Lauren B. Buckley
Lauren B. Buckley University of Washington
Thomas E. Juenger
Thomas E. Juenger The University of Texas at Austin
Dean L. Urban
Dean L. Urban Duke University
Robert D. Holt
Robert D. Holt University of Florida
William F. Fagan
William F. Fagan University of Maryland, College Park
Michael J. Angilletta
Michael J. Angilletta Arizona State University
Christine V. Hawkes
Christine V. Hawkes North Carolina State University
Rodrigo Vargas
Rodrigo Vargas University of Delaware
Kathleen C. Weathers
Kathleen C. Weathers Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
James R. Kiniry
James R. Kiniry Agricultural Research Service

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