Heidi Steltzer
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German-born American arctic and alpine ecologist
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Heidi Steltzer's Degrees
- PhD Ecology University of Colorado Boulder
- Masters Environmental Science University of Colorado Boulder
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Heidi Steltzer is a German-born American scientist of arctic and alpine ecology and professor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado teaching Biology and Environment and Sustainability. Steltzer is known for her work on snow melt and how it affects ecosystems in the surrounding areas.
Heidi Steltzer's Published Works
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Published Works
- Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in forests (2009) (428)
- High Mountain Areas (2019) (286)
- Predicted responses of arctic and alpine ecosystems to altered seasonality under climate change (2014) (260)
- Soil biota accelerate decomposition in high‐elevation forests by specializing in the breakdown of litter produced by the plant species above them (2009) (193)
- Using phenocams to monitor our changing Earth: toward a global phenocam network (2016) (182)
- Inference of allelopathy is complicated by effects of activated carbon on plant growth. (2008) (157)
- Elevated CO2 further lengthens growing season under warming conditions (2014) (139)
- Terrestrial ecosystem processes of Victoria Land, Antarctica (2006) (132)
- Biological consequences of earlier snowmelt from desert dust deposition in alpine landscapes (2009) (109)
- Seasons and Life Cycles (2009) (108)
- The temperature responses of soil respiration in deserts: a seven desert synthesis (2011) (107)
- Litter chemistry changes more rapidly when decomposed at home but converges during decomposition–transformation (2013) (107)
- The East River, Colorado, Watershed: A Mountainous Community Testbed for Improving Predictive Understanding of Multiscale Hydrological–Biogeochemical Dynamics (2018) (106)
- Tree Species Traits Influence Soil Physical, Chemical, and Biological Properties in High Elevation Forests (2009) (102)
- Moisture availability influences the effect of ultraviolet‐B radiation on leaf litter decomposition (2010) (91)
- Modeling the effect of photosynthetic vegetation properties on the NDVI--LAI relationship. (2006) (78)
- Complex carbon cycle responses to multi‐level warming and supplemental summer rain in the high Arctic (2013) (60)
- Earlier snowmelt and warming lead to earlier but not necessarily more plant growth (2016) (57)
- Decomposition of aspen leaf litter results in unique metabolomes when decomposed under different tree species (2010) (55)
- Greater deciduous shrub abundance extends tundra peak season and increases modeled net CO2 uptake (2015) (44)
- Frequent sexual reproduction and high intraspecific variation in Salix arctica: Implications for a terrestrial feedback to climate change in the High Arctic (2008) (35)
- Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants (2021) (32)
- Energy and water additions give rise to simple responses in plant canopy and soil microclimates of a high arctic ecosystem (2008) (28)
- Plant phenology changes and drivers on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (2022) (24)
- Litter N retention over winter for a low and a high phenolic species in the alpine tundra (2005) (23)
- Satellite-derived foresummer drought sensitivity of plant productivity in Rocky Mountain headwater catchments: spatial heterogeneity and geological-geomorphological control (2020) (21)
- Soil temperature, moisture, and carbon and nitrogen mineralization at a taiga-tundra ecotone, Noatak National Preserve, northwestern Alaska (2003) (21)
- Investigating Microtopographic and Soil Controls on a Mountainous Meadow Plant Community Using High‐Resolution Remote Sensing and Surface Geophysical Data (2019) (21)
- Integrating airborne remote sensing and field campaigns for ecology and Earth system science (2020) (21)
- Soil carbon sequestration with forest expansion in an arctic forest-tundra landscape (2004) (20)
- Highly individualistic rates of plant phenological advance associated with arctic sea ice dynamics (2016) (19)
- The Snowmelt Niche Differentiates Three Microbial Life Strategies That Influence Soil Nitrogen Availability During and After Winter (2020) (18)
- Challenges in Building an End-to-End System for Acquisition, Management, and Integration of Diverse Data From Sensor Networks in Watersheds: Lessons From a Mountainous Community Observatory in East River, Colorado (2019) (17)
- Limited effects of early snowmelt on plants, decomposers, and soil nutrients in Arctic tundra soils (2019) (14)
- Current and future impacts of ultraviolet radiation on the terrestrial carbon balance (2009) (10)
- Implications of observed changes in high mountain snow water storage, snowmelt timing and melt window (2021) (9)
- Experimentally warmer and drier conditions in an Arctic plant community reveal microclimatic controls on senescence (2019) (8)
- Inclusive scientific meetings: Where to start (2019) (6)
- Don't Sell Social Science Short (2006) (5)
- Five years of phenology observations from a mixed-grass prairie exposed to warming and elevated CO2 (2016) (5)
- Moisture availability influences the effect of ultraviolet-B radiation on leaf litter decomposition (2009) (4)
- Publisher Correction: Plant phenology changes and drivers on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (2022) (3)
- Can flowers affect land surface albedo and soil microclimates? (2021) (3)
- Accelerated Snowmelt Protocol to Simulate Climate Change Induced Impacts on Snowpack Dependent Ecosystems. (2020) (2)
- Diverse values, philosophies and ideas beget innovation and resilience in ecology and for our world. (2021) (2)
- Treeline biogeochemistry and dynamics, Noatak National Preserve, northwestern Alaska (2002) (1)
- Biocomplexity in the High Arctic: Linearity's, interactions and hidden secrets in surface processes (2006) (1)
- Quantifying Temperature Effects on Snow, Plant and Streamflow Dynamics in Headwater Catchments (2017) (1)
- Greater deciduous shrub abundance extends the annual period of maximum tundra greenness and increases modeled net CO 2 uptake (2014) (1)
- Climate Literacy: The Arts as an Ally in Understanding Earth and Invoking Change II Posters (2017) (0)
- Data-model integration to interpret connectivity between biogeochemical cycling, and vegetation phenology and productivity in mountainous ecosystems under changing hydrologic regimes (2017) (0)
- The Arctic Plant Phenology Learning through Engaged Science (APPLES) program supports K-12 teachers to integrate science practices into climate science curriculum. (2018) (0)
- Seeing Orange, Feeling Blue: Sound Art as an Approach to Bridge the Gap Between Public Perception and Scientific Understanding of Risk (2017) (0)
- DON'T JUDGE A RIVER BY ITS COLOR (2016) (0)
- Changes in Gross Primary Productivity and Biogeochemical Fluxes in a Mountainous Watershed as Affected by Warming in Recent Decades (2019) (0)
- We Need to Direct More Science Research Dollars to Rural America (2020) (0)
- Mapping Drought Sensitivity of Ecosystem Functioning in Mountainous Watersheds: Spatial Heterogeneity and Geological-Geomorphological Control (2016) (0)
- Remote Sensing of Microbial Metabolism from Genomes to Ecosystems (2021) (0)
- Poster #21-75 Integrated Imaging of Above and Below Ground Properties and their Interactions (2018) (0)
- When Snow Melts Early: The Unusual Alpine Plant Life Histories During the Summer of 2012 (2012) (0)
- From Spring to Fall: Life Cycle Responses of Plant Species and Communities to Climate Change (2013) (0)
- Predicting Mountainous Watershed Biogeochemical Dynamics, Including Response to Droughts and Early Snowmelt (2016) (0)
- Multiple climate drivers accelerate Arctic plant community senescence (2015) (0)
- Steltzer Receives 2013 Sulzman Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring: Response (2014) (0)
- Hydrologic variability controls summer nitrate export: A multi-scale measurement and modeling approach (2011) (0)
- Seasonal primary pollinator abundance and resource usein a subalpine meadow, San Juan Mountains, CO (2012) (0)
- Plant trait, vegetation, ecosystem, and landscape responses to earlier snowmelt and foresummer drought: long-term monitoring and experiments reveal the drivers of carbon exchange in a Colorado watershed (2018) (0)
- Lepidoptera Larvae as an Indicator of Multi-Trophic Level Responses to Changing Seasonality in an Arctic Tundra Ecosystem (2011) (0)
- Early Snow Melt Effects on Soil Nitrogen Availability in the Alpine of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado (2013) (0)
- Understanding Phenology across Scales and Improving Linkages to Ecosystem Functions III (2015) (0)
- The effects of soil moisture availability on nectar production in three subalpine plant species of the Family Ranunculaceae (2014) (0)
- Laboratory Experiments to Unravel Inner Secrets of Continents (2018) (0)
- The response of aboveground plant productivity to earlier snowmelt and summer warming in an Arctic ecosystem (2012) (0)
- Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to Strengthen the Geoscience Community (2018) (0)
- Changing the seasonality of an Arctic tundra ecosystem: earlier snowmelt and warmer temperatures (2010) (0)
- Multi-scale Investigations of the Impact of (Early) Snowmelt on Water and Nitrogen Cycles at the mountainous East River Watershed, CO (2018) (0)
- Earth and Water: Landcover and River Health on the Missouri River (2015) (0)
- The Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area: elucidating controls on water, carbon, and elemental export within a mountainous watershed (2019) (0)
- Soil Biogeochemical and Microbial Feedbacks along a Snowmelt-Dominated Hillslope-to-Floodplain Transect in Colorado. (2017) (0)
- Linking Snowmelt and Nitrogen Cycling to Vegetation Community Dynamics along a Hillslope Transect (2022) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Highly individualistic rates of plant phenological advance associated with arctic sea ice dynamics" (2016) (0)
- Seasonal patterns in soil N availability in the arctic tundra in response to accelerated snowmelt and warming (2010) (0)
- The East River, Colorado Community Watershed: Hydrobiogeochemical Studies Spanning Scales and Disciplines (2017) (0)
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