Nathalie is an Australian Research Council Fellow. Her work is concerned with the interactions between biodiversity and climate/climate change, previously focussing on forests in tropical South America and temperate Europe, and now including Australian forests and ecosystems. She is currently working on global-scale analyses of climate and human impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem function and processes, and species' and ecosystem vulnerability to climate change.
Recent publications:
Schwartz MW, N Butt, CR Dolanc, A Holguin, MA Moritz, MP North, HD Safford, N Stephenson, JH Thorne and P van Mantgem (year) Increasing elevation of fire in the Sierra Nevada and implications forest change. Ecosphere 6:121
Butt N, H Overman, J Fragoso and K Epps (2015) Amazonian indigenous groups' carbon stock assessments. Forest Ecology & Management 388:191-199.
Butt N, LM Seabrook, M Maron, B Law, TP Dawson and C McAlpine (2015) The impact of changing climate extremes on tree flowering phenology and dependent vertebrate fauna. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12869
Butt N, HL Beyer, JR Bennett, D Biggs, R Maggini, M Mills, AR Renwick, LM Seabrook and HP Possingham (2013) Biodiversity risks from fossil fuel extraction. 2013. Science, 342:425-426.
Watson JEM, T Iwamura and N Butt (2013) Mapping vulnerability and conservation adaptation strategies in a time of climate change. Nature Climate Change, 3:989-994. doi:10.1038/nclimate2007.