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Overview

Timothy R. Seastedt is a researcher affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research focuses on several main topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Polar Research and Ecology, Fire effects on ecosystems, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Tree-ring climate responses.

Selected recent publications authored or co-authored by Timothy R. Seastedt include:

  • Climate Change, Ecosystem Processes and Biological Diversity Responses in High Elevation Communities, 2021, Climate
  • Soil carbon and plant richness relationships differ among grassland types, disturbance history and plant functional groups, 2021, Oecologia
  • Connectivity: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network, 2021, Ecosphere
  • Soil moisture regime and canopy closure structure subalpine understory development during the first three decades following fire, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Invasive annual cheatgrass enhances the abundance of native microbial and microinvertebrate eukaryotes but reduces invasive earthworms, 2022, Plant and Soil

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Timothy R. Seastedt include Ming Hung Wong, Meagan F. Oldfather, Brian L. Anacker, Tracy Halward, and Ann L. Lezberg.

Their work has appeared multiple times in publication venues such as Ecosphere, Climate, Oecologia, Forest Ecology and Management, and Plant and Soil.

In addition to journal articles, Timothy R. Seastedt has contributed to book publications. Notably, they published a book titled Sustainable Management of Invasive Species in 2023 under WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Observations and modeling of biomass and soil organic matter dynamics for the grassland biome worldwide

    W. J. Parton;J. M. O. Scurlock;D. S. Ojima;T. G. Gilmanov

  • The Role of Microarthropods in Decomposition and Mineralization Processes

    T R Seastedt

  • Management of novel ecosystems: are novel approaches required?

    Timothy R Seastedt;Richard J Hobbs;Katharine N Suding

  • Detritus Accumulation Limits Productivity of Tallgrass PrairieThe effects of its plant litter on ecosystem function make the tallgrass prairie unique among North American biomes

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  • Directing research to reduce the impacts of nonindigenous species

    James E. Byers;Sarah Reichard;John M. Randall;Ingrid M. Parker

  • Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems

    Richard J Hobbs;Eric Higgs;Carol M Hall;Peter Bridgewater

  • SOIL FAUNA AND PLANT LITTER DECOMPOSITION IN TROPICAL AND SUBALPINE FORESTS

    Grizelle González;Timothy R. Seastedt

  • Relationships at the aboveground-belowground interface: plants, soil biota and soil processes

    Dorota L. Porazinska;Richard D. Bardgett;Maria B. Blaauw;H. William Hunt

  • The US Long Term Ecological Research Program

    John E. Hobbie;Stephen R. Carpenter;Nancy B. Grimm;James R. Gosz

  • TOPOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF ABOVE- AND BELOWGROUND PRODUCTION AND NITROGEN CYCLING IN ALPINE TUNDRA

    Melany C. Fisk;Steven K. Schmidt;Timothy R. Seastedt;Timothy R. Seastedt

  • Long-term experimental manipulation of winter snow regime and summer temperature in arctic and alpine tundra

    M. D. Walker;D. A. Walker;J. M. Welker;J. M. Welker;A. M. Arft

  • The Influence of Arthropods on Ecosystems

    T. R. Seastedt;D. A. Crossley

  • Controls of nitrogen limitation in tallgrass prairie

    T. R. Seastedt;J. M. Briggs;D. J. Gibson

  • Consequences of nonequilibrium resource availability across multiple time scales: the transient maxima hypothesis.

    T. R. Seastedt;A. K. Knapp

  • Physiological Interactions Along Resource Gradients in a Tallgrass Prairie

    David S. Schimel;Timothy G. F. Kittel;Alan K. Knapp;Timothy R. Seastedt

  • Effects of Soil Nitrogen Reduction on Nonnative Plants in Restored Grasslands

    K. J. Reever Morghan;T. R. Seastedt

  • Maximization of Aboveground Grassland Production: The Role of Defoliation Frequency, Intensity, and History.

    C. L. Turner;T. R. Seastedt;M. I. Dyer

  • Topographic controls on snow distribution, soil moisture, and species diversity of herbaceous alpine vegetation, Niwot Ridge, Colorado

    M. I. Litaor;M. Williams;T. R. Seastedt

  • Allelopathy and plant invasions: traditional, congeneric, and bio-geographical approaches

    Inderjit;Timothy R. Seastedt;Ragan M. Callaway;Jarrod L. Pollock

  • Competitive impacts and responses of an invasive weed: dependencies on nitrogen and phosphorus availability

    Katharine N. Suding;Katharine N. Suding;Katherine D. LeJeune;Timothy R. Seastedt

  • Landscape Patterns in Soil‐Plant Water Relations and Primary Production in Tallgrass Prairie

    A. K. Knapp;J. T. Fahnestock;S. P. Hamburg;L. B. Statland

  • The Decoupling of Terrestrial Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles

    Gregory P. Asner;Timothy R. Seastedt;Alan R. Townsend

Frequent Co-Authors

Katharine N. Suding
Katharine N. Suding University of Colorado Boulder
William D. Bowman
William D. Bowman University of Colorado Boulder
William J. Parton
William J. Parton Colorado State University
Alan K. Knapp
Alan K. Knapp Colorado State University
Mark W. Williams
Mark W. Williams Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Grizelle González
Grizelle González US Forest Service
Jesse B. Nippert
Jesse B. Nippert Kansas State University
David S. Schimel
David S. Schimel Jet Propulsion Lab
Alan R. Townsend
Alan R. Townsend University of Montana
David J. Gibson
David J. Gibson Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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