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David Tilman

1976 …2025
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Research interests

  • biodiversity
  • ecosystem functioning
  • biofuel
  • health
  • global agriculture
  • sustainability
  • environment
  • food security
  • resource competition
  • diet
  • stability
  • ecosystem services

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Ecosystem Medicine & Life Sciences
Biodiversity Medicine & Life Sciences
grasslands Agriculture & Biology
grassland Earth & Environmental Sciences
nitrogen Earth & Environmental Sciences
ecosystems Agriculture & Biology
species diversity Agriculture & Biology
biodiversity Agriculture & Biology

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Projects 2005 2025

LTER: Multi-decadal responses of prairie, savanna, and forest ecosystems to interacting environmental changes: insights from experiments, observations, and models

Seabloom, E., Borer, E., Cavender-Bares, J. M., Hobbie, S. E., Isbell, F., Kennedy, P. G., Kinkel, L. L., Montgomery, R. A., Potter, C., Reich, P. B. & Tilman, D.

National Science Foundation

2/15/19 → 1/31/25

Project: Research project

savanna
prairie
forest ecosystem
environmental change
experiment

Assessing the Use of Bison Grazing for Restoration of Sa

Isbell, F. & Tilman, D.

LEGISLATIVE-CITIZEN COMMISSION ON MN RES

7/1/17 → 6/30/20

Project: Research project

savanna
grazing
biodiversity
restoration

Sustainable Transportation Energy with Net Negative Carb

Lehman, C. & Tilman, D.

Stanford University

6/1/15 → 8/31/18

Project: Research project

carbon emission
systems analysis
engineering
energy

LTER: Biodiversity, Multiple Drivers of Environmental Ch

Seabloom, E., Hobbie, S. E., Reich, P. B., Tilman, D., Isbell, F. & Tilman, D.

National Science Foundation

1/1/13 → 12/31/19

Project: Research project

prairie
environmental change
biodiversity
ecosystem
border

Prairie management for wildlife and bioenergy: Phase II

Lehman, C., Arnold, T. W., Moon, R. D., Tilman, D. & Wyse, D. L.

LEGISLATIVE-CITIZEN COMMISSION ON MN RES

7/1/11 → 6/30/14

Project: Research project

soil surveys
small mammals
prairies
wildlife
insects

Research Output 1976 2020

Limited evidence for spatial resource partitioning across temperate grassland biodiversity experiments

Barry, K. E., van Ruijven, J., Mommer, L., Bai, Y., Beierkuhnlein, C., Buchmann, N., de Kroon, H., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Guimarães-Steinicke, C., Hildebrandt, A., Isbell, F., Milcu, A., Neßhöver, C., Reich, P. B., Roscher, C., Sauheitl, L., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Tilman, D. & 2 others, von Felten, S. & Weigelt, A., Jan 1 2020, In : Ecology. 101, 1, e02905.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
niche partitioning
grasslands
grassland
biodiversity
biomass production
5 Citations (Scopus)

Air-quality-related health damages of maize

Hill, J. D., Goodkind, A., Tessum, C. M., Thakrar, S., Tilman, D., Polasky, S., Smith, T., Hunt, N. D., Mullins, K., Clark, M. & Marshall, J., May 1 2019, In : Nature Sustainability. 2, 5, p. 397-403 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

air quality
Air quality
Zea mays
damages
maize

Author Correction: Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems (Nature Ecology & Evolution, (2017), 1, 11, (1639-1642), 10.1038/s41559-017-0325-1)

Guerrero-Ramírez, N. R., Craven, D., Reich, P. B., Ewel, J. J., Isbell, F., Koricheva, J., Parrotta, J. A., Auge, H., Erickson, H. E., Forrester, D. I., Hector, A., Joshi, J., Montagnini, F., Palmborg, C., Piotto, D., Potvin, C., Roscher, C., van Ruijven, J., Tilman, D., Wilsey, B. & 1 others, Eisenhauer, N., Sep 1 2019, In : Nature Ecology and Evolution. 3, 9, p. 1365-1366 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

Open Access
divergence
ecology
ecosystems
ecosystem

Broadly inflicted stressors can cause ecosystem thinning

Burgess, M. G., Fredston-Hermann, A., Tilman, D., Loreau, M. & Gaines, S. D., Jun 15 2019, In : Theoretical Ecology. 12, 2, p. 207-223 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

thinning
ecosystem
productivity
local extinction
ecosystem function
5 Citations (Scopus)

Contingent factors explain average divergence in functional composition over 88 years of old field succession

Clark, A. T., Knops, J. M. H. & Tilman, D., Mar 1 2019, In : Journal of Ecology. 107, 2, p. 545-558 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

old field
stochasticity
divergence
colonization
trajectory