Standout Papers

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning 2011 2026 2016 2021 1.3k
  1. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2014)
    David Tilman, Forest Isbell et al. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  2. High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services (2011)
    Forest Isbell, Vincent Calcagno et al. Nature
  3. Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades (2012)
    Peter B. Reich, David Tilman et al. Science
  4. Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity (2015)
    Yann Hautier, David Tilman et al. Science
  5. Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats (2015)
    Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes et al. Nature Communications
  6. Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity (2013)
    Forest Isbell, Peter B. Reich et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  7. Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales (2017)
    Forest Isbell, Andrew Gonzalez et al. Nature
  8. β-Diversity, Community Assembly, and Ecosystem Functioning (2018)
    Akira Mori, Forest Isbell et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  9. Benefits of increasing plant diversity in sustainable agroecosystems (2017)
    Forest Isbell, Paul R. Adler et al. Journal of Ecology
  10. Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory (2012)
    David Tilman, Peter B. Reich et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  11. Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research (2020)
    Andrew Gonzalez, Rachel M. Germain et al. Ecology Letters
  12. The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences (2018)
    Kathryn E. Barry, Liesje Mommer et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  13. Diversifying livestock promotes multidiversity and multifunctionality in managed grasslands (2019)
    Ling Wang, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  14. Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application (2021)
    Michel Loreau, Matthieu Barbier et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  15. Experimental impacts of grazing on grassland biodiversity and function are explained by aridity (2023)
    Minna Zhang, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo et al. Nature Communications
  16. Biodiversity loss reduces global terrestrial carbon storage (2024)
    Sarah R. Weiskopf, Forest Isbell et al. Nature Communications

Immediate Impact

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Citing Papers

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39 intermediate papers

Works of Forest Isbell being referenced

Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales
2017 StandoutNature
Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity
2016
and 23 more

Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Forest Isbell 6065 4039 2906 4168 93 11.8k
Martı́n Oesterheld 5807 4063 2686 5884 99 12.6k
John J. Ewel 5739 3584 2661 4285 60 11.1k
Mark E. Ritchie 5922 2492 3153 5353 96 11.1k
Jan Bengtsson 5661 4361 3615 4398 128 12.8k
Pablo Inchausti 5839 3725 3170 5807 60 12.2k
Diane S. Srivastava 6831 3968 4359 6957 114 15.7k
W. Stanley Harpole 5731 2811 2863 5639 82 14.5k
David A. Wedin 6925 3909 3020 4873 81 13.9k
Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen 6231 3772 2296 2650 152 10.8k
Lawrence R. Walker 7135 3290 3443 4780 128 12.6k

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