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1039

Overview

William D. Bowman is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions across multiple subfields including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, and soil science.

William D. Bowman's published work covers a range of topics related to ecology and vegetation dynamics, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, and animal and plant science education.

The scientist has contributed frequently to several publication venues, including:

  • Ecology
  • Alpine Botany
  • Oecologia
  • Biological Invasions
  • Plant and Soil

Recent papers authored or co-authored by William D. Bowman include:

  • Temporal variability in production is not consistently affected by global change drivers across herbaceous-dominated ecosystems, 2020, Oecologia
  • Do trade-offs govern plant species' responses to different global change treatments?, 2021, Ecology
  • Testing invasion filters for the alpine: the roles of temperature, nitrogen deposition and soil, 2020, Biological Invasions
  • Early snowmelt advances flowering phenology and disrupts the drivers of pollinator visitation in an alpine ecosystem, 2024, Alpine Botany
  • Plant species' influence on rhizosphere microbial communities depends on N availability, 2023, Plant and Soil

William D. Bowman frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Sally D. Hacker
  • Katharine N. Suding
  • Teal S. Potter
  • Meghan L. Avolio
  • Kevin R. Wilcox

In addition to journal articles, Bowman has contributed to book publications. Notably, they have a book published by Oxford University Press titled Ecology (2023).

Best Publications

  • GENERALITY OF LEAF TRAIT RELATIONSHIPS: A TEST ACROSS SIX BIOMES

    Peter B. Reich;David S. Ellsworth;Michael B. Walters;James M. Vose

  • Variable effects of nitrogen additions on the stability and turnover of soil carbon

    Jason C. Neff;Alan R. Townsend;Gerd Gleixner;Scott J. Lehman

  • A temporal approach to linking aboveground and belowground ecology

    Richard D. Bardgett;William D. Bowman;Ruediger Kaufmann;Steve K. Schmidt

  • Ecological Effects of Nitrogen Deposition in the Western United States

    Mark E. Fenn;Jill S. Baron;Edith B. Allen;Heather M. Rueth

  • Negative impact of nitrogen deposition on soil buffering capacity

    William D. Bowman;Cory C. Cleveland;Ĺuboš Halada;Juraj Hreško

  • Relationships of leaf dark respiration to leaf nitrogen, specific leaf area and leaf life-span: a test across biomes and functional groups.

    Peter B. Reich;Michael B. Walters;David S. Ellsworth;James M. Vose

  • Effects of nitrogen deposition and empirical nitrogen critical loads for ecoregions of the United States

    Linda H. Pardo;Mike E. Fenn;Christine L. Goodale;Linda. H. Geiser

  • CONSTRAINTS OF NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY ON PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN TWO ALPINE TUNDRA COMMUNITIES

    William D. Bowman;Theresa A. Theodose;James C. Schardt;Richard T. Conant

  • Niche complementarity due to plasticity in resource use: plant partitioning of chemical N forms

    Isabel W. Ashton;Amy E. Miller;Amy E. Miller;William D. Bowman;William D. Bowman;Katharine N. Suding

  • Links between plant litter chemistry, species diversity, and below-ground ecosystem function

    Courtney L. Meier;William D. Bowman

  • Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States

    Samuel M. Simkin;Edith B. Allen;William D. Bowman;Christopher M. Clark

  • The effects of chronic nitrogen fertilization on alpine tundra soil microbial communities: implications for carbon and nitrogen cycling

    Diana R. Nemergut;Alan R. Townsend;Sarah R. Sattin;Kristen R. Freeman

  • The relationship between leaf water status, gas exchange, and spectral reflectance in cotton leaves

    William D. Bowman

  • Nitrogen critical loads for alpine vegetation and terrestrial ecosystem response : are we there yet?

    William D. Bowman;Julia R. Gartner;Keri Holland;Magdalena Wiedermann

  • Nutrient availability, plant abundance, and species diversity in two alpine tundra communities.

    Theresa A. Theodose;William D. Bowman

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Inputs and Storage of Nitrogen in Winter Snowpack in an Alpine Ecosystem

    William D. Bowman

  • Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Andrew T. Tredennick;Sally E. Koerner;Emily Grman

  • Variation in nitrogen-15 natural abundance and nitrogen uptake traits among co-occurring alpine species: do species partition by nitrogen form?

    Amy E. Miller;William D. Bowman

  • The Landscape Continuum: A Model for High-Elevation Ecosystems

    Tim R. Seastedt;William D. Bowman;T. Nelson Caine;Diane McKNIGHT

Frequent Co-Authors

Katharine N. Suding
Katharine N. Suding University of Colorado Boulder
Jill S. Baron
Jill S. Baron United States Geological Survey
Timothy R. Seastedt
Timothy R. Seastedt University of Colorado Boulder
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Scott L. Collins
Scott L. Collins University of New Mexico
Edith B. Allen
Edith B. Allen University of California, Riverside
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Frank S. Gilliam
Frank S. Gilliam University of West Florida
Mark E. Fenn
Mark E. Fenn US Forest Service
Harald Sverdrup
Harald Sverdrup Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

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