Publications
2017 - 2025
Publications
Last updated: June 15, 2025
Summary
H-index: 13; Total Citations: 1835; Google Scholar
*Corresponding/senior author; +Undergraduate mentee
2025
(21) Klinges, D.H.*, Maclean, I.M.D, Scheffers, B.R.
Re-drawing Köppen-Geiger classes using microclimate impacts agriculture, the environment and society.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Abstract
Scientists have long categorized the planet’s climate using the Köppen-Geiger (KG) classification to research climate-change impacts, biogeographical realms, agricultural suitability, and conservation. However, global KG maps primarily rely on macroclimate data collected by weather stations, which may not represent microclimatic conditions experienced by most life on Earth. Few studies have explored microclimate at broad scales, largely due to data and computational constraints. Here, we predicted KG classes separately from macroclimate and microclimate for more than 32 million locations across six continents. As compared to macroclimate, microclimate had 14-fold lower error and reclassified 38% of the total area. Microclimate-derived KG classes were not only more spatially variable but also encompassed a broader range of latitudes, relative to macroclimate-derived KG classes. By redrawing the lines of climate classes, our study prompts a reevaluation of the importance of meteorological drivers of ecology across scales, shedding light on how natural, agricultural, and social systems experience and respond to global change.
(21) Klinges, D.H.*, Martin, C. W., & Roberts, B. J.
Ecological associations of the coastal marsh periwinkle snail Littoraria irrorata: Field and laboratory evidence of vegetation habitat preferences.
PeerJ
2024
(20) Klinges, D.H.*
Microclimate regulates when autumn leaves fall.
Nature Climate Change, Invited perspective
Abstract
Climate influences when leaves change colour and fall, but not all trees lose their leaves at the same time. Combining field data, mathematical models and remote sensing, researchers show how local-scale variation in tree canopies and understory temperatures alters the start and duration of autumn leaf colouration and forecast reduced autumn delays under climate change.
(19) Klinges, D.H.*, Randriambololona, T., Lange, Z., Laterza-Barbosa, J., Randrianandrasana, H., Scheffers, B.R. Vertical and diel niches modulate thermal selection by rainforest frogs. In Press at Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1497
(18) Klinges, D.H.*, Baecher, J.A., Lembrechts, J.J., Maclean, I.M.D., Lenoir, J., Greiser, C., Ashcroft, M., Evans, L.J…. Scheffers, B.R. 30 total co-authors. Proximal microclimate: Moving beyond spatiotemporal resolution improves ecological predictions. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33, e13884. DOI: 10.1111/geb.13884
• Demonstrated via a global synthesis that relevant “microclimate” has more to do with representing the proximal microhabitats for a species than the spatial or temporal resolution of climate data.
(17) Trew, B.T., Edwards, D.P., Lees, A.C., Klinges, D.H., Early, R., Svátek, M., Plichta, R., Matula, R., Okello, J., Niessner, A., Barthel, M., Six, J., Maclean, I. M. D. Novel climates are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies. Nature Climate Change, 14, 753–759. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-024-02031-0
(16) Malmborg, C., Willson, A.M., Beatty, M., Bradley, L. M., Klinges, D.H., Lewis, A.S.L., Oshinubi, K., Woelmer, W., Koren, G. Defining Model Complexity: An Ecological Perspective. Meteorological Applications 31, e2202 DOI: 10.1002/met.2202
(15) Kemppinen, Julia… Klinges, D.H… et al., 98 total co-authors. Microclimate, an inseparable part of ecology and biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography e13834 DOI: 10.1111/geb.13834
(14) Holmquist, J.R., Klinges, D.H….Megonigal, J.P. 20 total co-authors. The Coastal Carbon Library and Atlas: Open Source Soil Data and Tools Supporting Blue Carbon Research and Policy. Global Change Biology 30:e17098. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17098
2023
(13) Price, F.+, Randriamiharisoa, L., Klinges, D.H.* (2023) Enhancing demographic diversity of scientist-community collaborations improves wildlife monitoring in Madagascar. Biological Conservation 288:110377. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110377
• In several years of community and scientist observations across six parks in Madagascar, we show that 1) women perform better than men at biodiversity surveys, and 2) amount of formal education is not a strong predictor of success. We discuss how to co-design projects with diverse community partners in an effort towards decoloniality. Klinges senior author.
(12) Basham, E.W., Baecher, J.A., Klinges, D.H., Scheffers, B.R. (2023) Vertical stratification patterns of tropical forest vertebrates: a meta-analysis. Biological Reviews 98:99-114. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12896
2022
(11) Klinges, D.H.*, Duffy. J., Kearney, M.R., Maclean, I.M.D. (2022) mcera5: driving microclimate models with ERA5 global gridded climate data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13:1402–1411 DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13877
• Motivation, description, & validation of an R package to download and process ERA5 data for ecology.
(10) Rixen, C… Klinges, D. H… et al., 68 total co-authors (2022). Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra. Arctic Science, 8:572–608. DOI: 10.1139/as-2020-0058
(9) Lembrechts, J. J., van den Hoogen, J., Aalto, J., Ashcroft, M. B., De Frenne, P., Kemppinen, J., Kopecký, M., Luoto, M., Maclean, I. M. D., Crowther, T. W., Bailey, J. J., Haesen, S., Klinges, D. H…et al., 272 total co-authors (2022) Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology 00:1-35. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16060
(8) Todd-Brown, K.E.O., Abromoff, R.Z., Beem-Miller, J., Blair, H.K., Earl, S., Frederick, K.J., Fuka, D.R., Santamaria, M.G., Harden, J.W., Heckman, K., Heran, L.J., Holmquist, J.R., Hoyt, A.M., Klinges, D.H., LeBauer, D.S., Malhotra, A., McClelland, S.C., Nave, L.E., Rocci, K.S., Schaeffer, S.M., Stoner, S., Nvan Gestel, N., von Fromm, S.F., and Younger, M.L. (2022). Reviews and syntheses: The promise of big diverse soil data, moving current practices towards future potential. Biogeosciences 19:3505–3522. DOI: 10.5194/bg-19-3505-2022
(7) De Lombaerde, E., Vangansbeke, P., Lenoir, J., Van Meerbeek, K., Lembrechts, J., Rodríguez-Sánchez, F., Luoto, M., Scheffers, B., Haesen, S., Aalto, J., Christiansen, D.M., De Pauw, K., Depauw, L., Govaert, S., Greiser, C., Hampe, A., Hylander, K., Klinges, D. H., Koelemeijer, I., Meeussen, C., Ogée, J., Sanczuk, P., Vanneste, T., Zellweger, F., Baeten, L. & De Frenne, P. (2022) Maintaining forest cover to enhance temperature buffering under future climate change. Science of The Total Environment 151338. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151338
2021
(6) Maclean, I.M.D., Klinges, D. H. (2021) Microclimc: an R package for estimating above, below and within-canopy microclimate. Ecological Modelling 451:109567. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109567
(5) Woelmer, W.M., Bradley, L.M., Haber, L.T., Klinges, D.H., Lewis, A.S.L., Mohr, E.J., Torrens, C.L., Wheeler, K.I. & Willson, A.M. (2021) Ten simple rules for training yourself in an emerging field. PLOS Computational Biology, 17:e1009440. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009440
(4) Frenne, P.D., Lenoir, J., Luoto, M., Scheffers, B.R., Zellweger, F., Aalto, J., Ashcroft, M.B., Christiansen, D.M., Decocq, G., Pauw, K.D., Govaert, S., Greiser, C., Gril, E., Hampe, A., Jucker, T., Klinges, D.H., Koelemeijer, I.A., Lembrechts, J.J., Marrec, R., Meeussen, C., Ogée, J., Tyystjärvi, V., Vangansbeke, P. & Hylander, K. (2021) Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda. Global Change Biology, 00:1–19. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15569
(3) Klinges, D.H.* & Scheffers, B.R. (2021) Microgeography, not just latitude, drives climate overlap on mountains from tropical to polar ecosystems. The American Naturalist, 197:75–92. Top 4 Most Read Articles of Autumn 2020. DOI: 10.1086/711873
• Revised Janzen (1967)’s classic “Mountain Passes” hypothesis with a global synthesis (29 mountains) and showed that a mountain’s latitude (tropical vs. temperate) was not important for determining its strength as a climatic barrier; rather local vegetation, snow, and microhabitats were more important.
2020
(2) Lembrechts, J.J., … Klinges, D. H…et al., 179 total co-authors (2020) SoilTemp: a global database of near-surface temperature. Global Change Biology, 00:1–14. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15123
2017
(1) Reinke, B. A., Klinges, D. H. (2017) Chelydra serpentina (Snapping Turtle) behavior. Herpetological Review Natural History Notes 48(2):423. Full text available here.
Manuscripts in Review
Fredston, A.L., Tingley, M.W., Neate-Clegg, M.H.C., Evans, L.J., Antão, L.H., Ban, N.C., Chen, I.C., Chen, Y.W., Comte, L., Edwards, D.P., Evengard, B., Fadrique, B., Falkeis, S.H., Guralnick, R., Klinges, D.H., Lembrechts, J.J., Lenoir, J., Palacios-Abrantes, J., Pauchard, A., Pecl, G., Pinsky, M.L., Senior, R.A., Smith, J.E., Soifer, L.D., Sunday, J.M., Tape, K.D., Washam, P., Scheffers, B.R. Reimagining species on the move across space and time. In review at Trends in Ecology and Evolution Preprint available
Klinges, D.H.*, Lembrechts, J.J., Van de Vondel, S., Greenlee, E., Hayles-Cotton, K., Senior, R. A workflow for microclimate sensor networks: integrating geographic tools, statistics, and local knowledge. In review at Ecological Indicators Preprint available
Klinges, D.H., Martin, C.W., Roberts, B.J. Ecological associations of the coastal marsh periwinkle Littoraria irrorata: field and laboratory evidence of vegetation habitat preferences. Submitted to PeerJ
Rambinintsoa, M., Klinges, D.H., Ratsirarson, J. Effects of seasonal and interannual climate variability on the endangered tortoise Astrochelys radiata in southwestern Madagascar. Submitted to Journal of Herpetology
Soifer, L., Klinges, D.H.*, Randriamiharisoa, L., Scheffers, B.R. Quantifying the values of community-based biodiversity monitoring in Madagascar using structured-decision analysis. In review at Biological Conservation Preprint available
De Frenne, P., Beugnon, R., Klinges, D.H. , Lenoir, J.…et al., 26 total co-authors. Ten practical guidelines for microclimate monitoring in terrestrial ecosystems. In revision at Methods in Ecology and the Environment
Baecher, J.A., Klinges, D.H., Evans, L.J., Romagosa, C.M., Fletcher Jr., R.J., Scheffers, B.R. Jointly evaluating management, climate, and land use shows diffuse spread of an invading predatory snake. In revision at Journal of Applied Ecology Preprint available
Randriamiharisoa, L., Klinges, D.H., Razafindranaivo, S. Scheffers, B.R Community-sourced knowledge improves biodiversity monitoring in Madagascar’s National Parks. In Revision at Discover Conservation
Greenlee, E., Cabral., A., Klinges, D.H., Zegura, E., Hester, J. Opportunities and insights on sensor-based technology for biodiversity conservation in Madagascar. In review at Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Holmquist, J., Belshe, E. F., Boyd, B…..Klinges, D.H., et al. 29 total co-authors. Probabilistic forecasting of coastal wetland soil carbon response to sea-level rise. In review at Ecological Monographs