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William A. DiMichele

William A. DiMichele

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Earth Science

D-Index
61
Citations
13323
World Ranking
1794
National Ranking
790

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

William A. DiMichele is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Plant Science.

The main topics addressed in their work include Plant Diversity and Evolution, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological formations and processes, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies, and Fern and Epiphyte Biology.

DiMichele has contributed to numerous scientific publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • Journal of Paleontology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

The list of notable recent papers authored or coauthored by DiMichele includes:

  • The Artinskian Warming Event: an Euramerican change in climate and the terrestrial biota during the early Permian, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Influence of temporally varying weatherability on CO 2 -climate coupling and ecosystem change in the late Paleozoic, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Uplands, lowlands, and climate: Taphonomic megabiases and the apparent rise of a xeromorphic, drought-tolerant flora during the Pennsylvanian-Permian transition, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • The environmental implications of upper Paleozoic plant-fossil assemblages with mixtures of wetland and drought-tolerant taxa in tropical Pangea, 2021, Geobios
  • Facies variability within a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sea-floor fan (upper Wolfcamp Formation, Permian, Delaware Basin, New Mexico), 2020, AAPG Bulletin

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Spencer G. Lucas
  • Scott L. Wing
  • Richard K. Bambach
  • A. J. Boucot
  • Rodney Feldman

William A. DiMichele has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation

    Isabel P. Montañez;Neil J. Tabor;Deb Niemeier;William A. DiMichele

  • Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals

    Norton G. Miller;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;John D. Damuth;William A. DiMichele

  • Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time

    David Bartley;A.K. Behrensmeyer;J.D. Damuth;W.A. DiMichele

  • EARLY EVOLUTION OF LAND PLANTS: Phylogeny, Physiology, and Ecology of the Primary Terrestrial Radiation

    Richard M. Bateman;Peter R. Crane;William A. DiMichele;Paul R. Kenrick

  • Stratigraphic and interregional changes in Pennsylvanian coal-swamp vegetation: Environmental inferences

    Tom L. Phillips;Russel A. Peppers;William A. Dimichele

  • Paleobotanical and paleoecological constraints on models of peat formation in the Late Carboniferous of Euramerica

    William A. DiMichele;Tom L. Phillips

  • On the fundamental difference between coal rank and coal type

    Jennifer M.K. O'Keefe;Achim Bechtel;Kimon Christanis;Shifeng Dai

  • The Origins of Angiosperms and their Biological Consequences

    William A. DiMichele;Robyn J. Burnham;Hans-Dieter Sues;Else Marie Friis

  • Response Of Late Carboniferous And Early Permian Plant Communities To Climate Change

    William A DiMichele;Hermann W Pfefferkorn;Robert A Gastaldo

  • Climate, pCO2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial-interglacial cycles

    Isabel P. Montañez;Jennifer C. McElwain;Christopher J. Poulsen;Joseph D. White

  • Evolution and importance of wetlands in earth history

    Stephen F. Greb;William A. DiMichele;Robert A. Gastaldo

  • Out of the Icehouse into the Greenhouse: A Late Paleozoic Analogue for Modern Global Vegetational Change

    Robert A. Gastaldo;William A. DiMichele;H. W. Pfefferkorn

  • Climate and vegetational regime shifts in the late Paleozoic ice age earth

    William A. DiMichele;I. P. Montañez;C. J. Poulsen;Neil J. Tabor

  • Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

    S. Kathleen Lyons;Kathryn L. Amatangelo;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Antoine Bercovici

  • Wetland-Dryland Vegetational Dynamics in the Pennsylvanian Ice Age Tropics

    William A. DiMichele

  • THE PENNSYLVANIAN-PERMIAN VEGETATIONAL TRANSITION: A TERRESTRIAL ANALOGUE TO THE ONSHORE-OFFSHORE HYPOTHESIS

    William A. DiMichele;Richard B. Aronson

  • Experimental Cladistic Analysis of Anatomically Preserved Arborescent Lycopsids from the Carboniferous of Euramerica: An Essay on Paleobotanical Phylogenetics

    Richard M. Bateman;William A. DiMichele;Debra A. Willard

  • From wetlands to wet spots; environmental tracking and the fate of Carboniferous elements in Early Permian tropical floras

    William A. DiMichele;N. J. Tabor;Dan S. Chaney;W. J. Nelson

  • Cyclic changes in Pennsylvanian paleoclimate and effects on floristic dynamics in tropical Pangaea

    William A. DiMichele;C. Blaine Cecil;C. Blaine Cecil;Isabel P. Montañez;Howard J. Falcon-Lang

  • Long-Term Stasis in Ecological Assemblages: Evidence from the Fossil Record*

    William A. DiMichele;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;T. D. Olszewski;Conrad C. Labandeira

  • Climate Change, Plant Extinctions, and Vegetational Recovery during the Middle-Late Pennsylvanian Transition: The Case of Tropical Peat-Forming Environments in North America

    William A. DiMichele;Tom L. Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

Spencer G. Lucas
Spencer G. Lucas New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Cindy V. Looy
Cindy V. Looy University of California, Berkeley
Howard J. Falcon-Lang
Howard J. Falcon-Lang Royal Holloway University of London
Tom L. Phillips
Tom L. Phillips University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hans Kerp
Hans Kerp University of Münster
Robert A. Gastaldo
Robert A. Gastaldo Colby College
Isabel P. Montañez
Isabel P. Montañez University of California, Davis
Karl Krainer
Karl Krainer University of Innsbruck
Richard M. Bateman
Richard M. Bateman Royal Botanic Gardens
Cortland F. Eble
Cortland F. Eble University of Kentucky

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