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97
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28840
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329
National Ranking
130

Overview

Timothy J. Fahey is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States, with a research portfolio primarily centered on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans various subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, soil science, ecology, and plant science.

Their research engages extensively with topics such as soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, forest ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, seedling growth and survival studies, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, and forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

Fahey has contributed to multiple publication venues, with frequent appearances in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Ecosystems, Nature Communications, Biogeochemistry, and Global Change Biology.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects, 2021, Nature Communications
  • North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East, 2022, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Microbial community shifts correspond with suppression of decomposition 25 years after liming of acidic forest soils, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Foliar nutrient concentrations of six northern hardwood species responded to nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization but did not predict tree growth, 2022, PeerJ

Fahey has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Ruth D. Yanai, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Charles T. Driscoll, Peter M. Groffman, and Michał Bogdziewicz, contributing to a body of work that spans across their primary fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes

    M. Luke McCormack;Ian A. Dickie;David M. Eissenstat;Timothy J. Fahey

  • Colder soils in a warmer world: A snow manipulation study in a northern hardwood forest ecosystem

    Peter M. Groffman;Charles T. Driscoll;Timothy J. Fahey;Janet P. Hardy

  • Belowground ectomycorrhizal fungal community change over a nitrogen deposition gradient in Alaska

    Erik A. Lilleskov;Timothy J. Fahey;Thomas R. Horton;Gary M. Lovett

  • The biogeochemistry of calcium at Hubbard Brook

    G.E. Likens;C.T. Driscoll;D.C. Buso;T.G. Siccama

  • Soil freezing alters fine root dynamics in a northern hardwood forest

    Geraldine L. Tierney;Timothy J. Fahey;Peter M. Groffman;Janet P. Hardy

  • Fine Root Dynamics in a Northern Hardwood Forest Ecosystem, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH

    Timothy J. Fahey;Jeffrey W. Hughes

  • Mycorrhizal weathering of apatite as an important calcium source in base-poor forest ecosystems

    Joel D. Blum;Andrea Klaue;Carmen A. Nezat;Charles T. Driscoll

  • Effects of soil freezing disturbance on soil solution nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon chemistry in a northern hardwood ecosystem

    Ross D. Fitzhugh;Charles T. Driscoll;Peter M. Groffman;Geraldine L. Tierney

  • Forest carbon storage: ecology, management, and policy

    Timothy J Fahey;Peter B Woodbury;John J Battles;Christine L Goodale

  • Effects of mild winter freezing on soil nitrogen and carbon dynamics in a northern hardwood forest

    Peter M. Groffman;Charles T. Driscoll;Timothy J. Fahey;Janet P. Hardy

  • Snow depth manipulation and its influence on soil frost and water dynamics in a northern hardwood forest

    Janet P. Hardy;Peter M. Groffman;Ross D. Fitzhugh;Karen S. Henry

  • TREE SPECIES AND MYCORRHIZAL ASSOCIATIONS INFLUENCE THE MAGNITUDE OF RHIZOSPHERE EFFECTS

    Richard P. Phillips;Richard P. Phillips;Timothy J. Fahey

  • Snow depth, soil freezing, and fluxes of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane in a northern hardwood forest

    Peter M. Groffman;Janet P. Hardy;Charles T. Driscoll;Timothy J. Fahey

  • The biogeochemistry of carbon at Hubbard Brook

    T. J. Fahey;T. G. Siccama;C. T. Driscoll;G. E. Likens

  • Root decomposition and nutrient flux following whole-tree harvest of northern hardwood forest

    Timothy J. Fahey;Jeffrey W. Hughes;Mou Pu;Mary A. Arthur

  • Ecosystem Consequences of Exotic Earthworm Invasion of North Temperate Forests

    Patrick J. Bohlen;Peter M. Groffman;Timothy J. Fahey;Melany C. Fisk;Melany C. Fisk

  • Response of sugar maple to calcium addition to northern hardwood forest

    Stephanie M. Juice;Timothy J. Fahey;Thomas G. Siccama;Charles T. Driscoll

  • Microbial biomass and nitrogen cycling responses to fertilization and litter removal in young northern hardwood forests

    Melany C. Fisk;Timothy J. Fahey

  • Fine root heterogeneity by branch order: exploring the discrepancy in root turnover estimates between minirhizotron and carbon isotopic methods.

    Dali Guo;Harbin Li;Robert J. Mitchell;Wenxuan Han

  • MERCURY CYCLING IN LITTER AND SOIL IN DIFFERENT FOREST TYPES IN THE ADIRONDACK REGION, NEW YORK, USA

    Jason D. Demers;Charles T. Driscoll;Timothy J. Fahey;Joseph B. Yavitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles T. Driscoll
Charles T. Driscoll Syracuse University
Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York
Melany C. Fisk
Melany C. Fisk Miami University
Joseph B. Yavitt
Joseph B. Yavitt Cornell University
John J. Battles
John J. Battles University of California, Berkeley
Thomas G. Siccama
Thomas G. Siccama Yale University
Chris E. Johnson
Chris E. Johnson Syracuse University
Gene E. Likens
Gene E. Likens University of Connecticut
Patrick J. Bohlen
Patrick J. Bohlen University of Central Florida
Janet P. Hardy
Janet P. Hardy Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

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