Amanda Koltz

Ellis-Soto, D., Chapman, M. and A.M. Koltz. 2024. Addressing data disparities is critical for biodiversity assessments. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 39(12), 1066-1069. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.10.005

Koltz*, A.M., Koyama*, A, and M.D. Wallenstein. 2024. Warming alters cascading effects of a dominant arthropod predator on fungal community composition in the Arctic. mBio, 0:e00590-24.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00590-24
*contributed equally

Manlick, P.J., Perryman, N.L., Koltz, A.M., Cook, J.A. and S.D. Newsome. 2024. Climate warming restructures food webs and carbon flow in high-latitude ecosystems. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01893-0

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Bieber, B., Vyas, D., Koltz, A.M., Burkle, L., Bey, K., Guzinski, C., Murphy, S., and M. Vidal. 2022. Increasing prevalence of severe fires change the structure of arthropod communities: evidence from a meta-analysis. Functional Ecology. 

Koltz, A.M., Gough, L. and J. McLaren. 2022. Herbivores in Arctic ecosystems: Effects of climate change and implications for carbon and nutrient cycling. Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences, 1516, 28– 47.

Koltz, A.M., Civitello, D.J., Becker, D.J., Deem, S.L., Classen, A.T., Barton, B., Brenn-White, M., Johnson, Z.E., Kutz, S., Malishev, M.,  Preston, D.L., Vannatta, J.T., Penczykowski, R. and V.O. Ezenwa. 2022. Sublethal effects of parasitism on ruminants can have cascading consequences for ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(20), p.e2117381119.

Dunn, R.R., Burger, J.R., Carlen, E.J., Koltz, A.M., Light, J.E., Martin, R.A., Munshi-South, J., Nichols, L.M., Vargo, E.L., Yitbarek, S., Zhao, Y., and A. Cibrian-Jaramillo. 2022. A Theory of City Biogeography and the Origin of Urban Species. Frontiers in Conservation Science, p.22. 

Soininen, E., Barrio, I., Bjørkås, R., Björnsdóttir, K., Ehrich, D., Hopping, K., Kaarlejärvi, E., Kolstad, A., Sokovina, S., Björk, R., Bueno, G., Eischeid, I., Finger-Higgens, R., Forbey, J., Gignac, C., Gilg, O., den Herder, M., Holm, H., Hwang, B., Jepsen, J., Kamenova, S., Kater, I., Koltz, A.M., Kristensen, J., Little, C., Macek, P., Mathisen, K., Metcalfe, D., Mosbacher, J., Mörsdorf, M., Park, T., Propster, J., Roberts, A., Serrano, E., Spiegel, M., Tamayo, M., Tuomi, M., Verma, M., Vuorinen, K., Väisänen, M., van der Wal, R., Wilcots, M., Yoccoz, N., and J. Speed. 2021. Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegetation: A systematic map. Environmental Evidence, 10(1), 1-21.

Koltz, AM and LC Culler. 2021. Biting insects in a rapidly changing Arctic. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 47:75-81.

Ezenwa, V, Civitello, D, Classen, AT, Barton, BT, Becker, D, Brenn-White, M, Deem, SL, Kutz, S, Malishev, M, Penczykowski, RM, Preston, D, Vannatta, JT, and AM Koltz. 2021. Response to Charlier et al.: Climate-disease feedbacks mediated by livestock methane emissions are plausible. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, S0169-5347. 

Høye, T.T., Loboda, S., Koltz, A.M., Gillespie, M.A., Bowden, J.J. and Schmidt, N.M. 2021. Nonlinear trends in abundance and diversity and complex responses to climate change in Arctic arthropods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(2).

Barrio, IC, Ehrich, D, Soininen, EM, Ravolainen, V, Bueno, CG, Gilg, O, Koltz, AM, Speed, JDM, Hik, DS, Mörsdorf, M, Alatalo, J, Angerbjörn, A, Bêty, J, Bollache, L, Boulanger-Lapointe, N, Brown, GS, Eischeid, I, Giroux, MA, Hájek, T, Hansen, BB, Hofhuis, SP, Lamarre, JF, Lang, J, Latty, C, Lecompte, N, Macek, P, McKinnon, L, Myers-Smith, IH, Pedersen, AØ, Prévey, J, Roth, J, Saalfeld, S, Schmidt, NM, Smith, P, Sokolov, A, Sokolova, N, Stolz, C, Van Bemmelen, R, Varpe, Ø, Woodard, P, and IS Jónsdóttir. 2021. Developing common protocols to measure tundra herbivory across spatial scales. Arctic Science (Just-In).
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Borer, E. T., W. S. Harpole, P. B. Adler, C. A. Arnillas, M. N. Bugalho, M. W. Cadotte, M. C. Caldeira, S. Campana, C. R. Dickman, T. L. Dickson, I. Donohue, A. Eskelinen, J. L. Firn, P. Graff, D. S. Gruner, R. W. Heckman, A. M. Koltz, K. J. Komatsu, L. S. Lannes, A. S. MacDougall, J. P. Martina, J. L. Moore, B. Mortensen, R. Ochoa-Hueso, H. Olde Venterink, S. A. Power, J. N. Price, A. C. Risch, M. Sankaran, M. Schütz, J. Sitters, C. J. Stevens, R. Virtanen, P. A. Wilfahrt, and E. W. Seabloom. 2020. Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory. Nature Communications 11:6036.

Ezenwa, V, Civitello, D, Barton, BT, Becker, D, Brenn-White, M, Classen, AT, Deem, SL, Johnson, ZE, Kutz, S, Malishev, M, Penczykowski, RM, Preston, D, Vannatta, JT, and AM Koltz. 2020. Infectious diseases, livestock, and methane: an impending vicious cycle? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35:959-962.

Høye, TT, Kresse, JC, Koltz, AM and J Bowden. 2020. Earlier springs enable High-Arctic wolf spiders to produce a second clutch. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287: 20200982. 

Koltz, A.M. and Wright, J.P., 2020. Impacts of female body size on cannibalism and juvenile abundance in a dominant arctic spider. Journal of Animal Ecology, 00: 1-11.

Gillespie, M.A., Alfredsson, M., Barrio, I.C., Bowden, J.J., Convey, P., Culler, L.E., Coulson, S.J., Krogh, P.H., Koltz, A.M., Koponen, S. and Loboda, S., 2020. Status and trends of terrestrial arthropod abundance and diversity in the North Atlantic region of the Arctic. Ambio, 49(3), pp.718-731.

Koltz, A.M., Culler, L.E., Bowden, J.J., Post, E. and Høye, T.T., 2019. Dominant arctic predator is free of major parasitoid at northern edge of its range. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, p.250.

Darrouzet‐Nardi, A., Steltzer, H., Sullivan, P.F., Segal, A., Koltz, A.M., Livensperger, C., Schimel, J.P. and Weintraub, M.N., 2019. Limited effects of early snowmelt on plants, decomposers, and soil nutrients in Arctic tundra soils. Ecology and Evolution, 9(4), pp.1820-1844.

Koltz, A.M., Burkle, L.A., Pressler, Y., Dell, J.E., Vidal, M.C., Richards, L.A. and Murphy, S.M., 2018. Global change and the importance of fire for the ecology and evolution of insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 29, pp.110-116.

Koltz, A.M., Classen, A.T. and Wright, J.P., 2018. Warming reverses top-down effects of predators on belowground ecosystem function in Arctic tundra. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(32), pp.E7541-E7549.

Koltz, A.M., Schmidt, N.M. and Høye, T.T., 2018. Differential arthropod responses to warming are altering the structure of Arctic communities. Royal Society Open Science, 5(4), p.171503.

Koltz, A.M., Asmus, A., Gough, L., Pressler, Y. and Moore, J.C., 2018. The detritus-based microbial-invertebrate food web contributes disproportionately to carbon and nitrogen cycling in the Arctic. Polar Biology, 41(8), pp.1531-1545.

Ramirez, K.S., Berhe, A.A., Burt, J., Gil-Romera, G., Johnson, R.F., Koltz, A.M., Lacher, I., McGlynn, T., Nielsen, K.J., Schmidt, R. and Simonis, J.L., 2018. The future of ecology is collaborative, inclusive and deconstructs biases. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(2), pp.200-200.

Asmus, A., Koltz, A.M., McLaren, J., Shaver, G.R. and Gough, L., 2018. Long‐term nutrient addition alters arthropod community composition but does not increase total biomass or abundance. Oikos, 127(3), pp.460-471.

Beasley, D.E., Koltz, A.M., Lambert, J.E., Fierer, N. and Dunn, R.R., 2015. The evolution of stomach acidity and its relevance to the human microbiome. PloS one, 10(7), p.e0134116.

van de Crommenacker, J., Richardson, D.S., Koltz, A.M., Hutchings, K. and Komdeur, J., 2012. Parasitic infection and oxidative status are associated and vary with breeding activity in the Seychelles warbler. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1733), pp.1466-1476.

Botero, C.A., Mudge, A.E., Koltz, A.M., Hochachka, W.M. and Vehrencamp, S.L., 2008. How reliable are the methods for estimating repertoire size?. Ethology, 114(12), pp.1227-1238.