Standout Papers
Citation Impact
Citing Papers
Dispersal in microbes: fungi in indoor air are dominated by outdoor air and show dispersal limitation at short distances
2013
Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs
2008
Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity
2007
Intensive agriculture erodes β‐diversity at large scales
2012
Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores
2014 StandoutScience
The biomass distribution on Earth
2018 Standout
The Application of Ecological Theory Toward an Understanding of the Human Microbiome
2012 Science
Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects
2015
Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food security
2014 Standout
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
2015 StandoutScience
Functional Extinction of Birds Drives Rapid Evolutionary Changes in Seed Size
2013 StandoutScience
Microbial biogeography of wine grapes is conditioned by cultivar, vintage, and climate
2013 Standout
Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss
2014 Science
Disentangling mechanisms that mediate the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes in microbial succession
2015
Mutual Feedbacks Maintain Both Genetic and Species Diversity in a Plant Community
2007 Science
Effect of habitat area and isolation on fragmented animal populations
2008
Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems
2012
Ecosystem service bundles for analyzing tradeoffs in diverse landscapes
2010 Standout
Patterns and Processes of Microbial Community Assembly
2013
Accelerating extinction risk from climate change
2015 StandoutScience
Biodiversity and the functioning of seagrass ecosystems
2006
Stochastic and deterministic assembly processes in subsurface microbial communities
2012
PERMANOVA, ANOSIM, and the Mantel test in the face of heterogeneous dispersions: What null hypothesis are you testing?
2013
Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome
2017 Standout
The Stabilizing Effect of Intraspecific Genetic Variation on Population Dynamics in Novel and Ancestral Habitats
2009
Changes in Community Size Affect the Outcome of Competition
2005
Biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality
2007 Nature
High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities
2016
Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services
2006 Standout
Molecular evidence for glacial refugia of mountain plants in the European Alps
2005 Standout
An emerging synthesis between community ecology and evolutionary biology
2007
Human Genetics Shape the Gut Microbiome
2014 Standout
Inventory, differentiation, and proportional diversity: a consistent terminology for quantifying species diversity
2008
Coupling Spatiotemporal Community Assembly Processes to Changes in Microbial Metabolism
2016
Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
2012 StandoutNature
Estimating and mapping ecological processes influencing microbial community assembly
2015
POPULATION DYNAMICS DETERMINE GENETIC ADAPTATION TO TEMPERATURE INDAPHNIA
2009
Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture
2012 StandoutNature
Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities?
2007
Genetic Variation Promotes Long‐Term Coexistence of Brassica nigra and Its Competitors
2009
The Misuse of BLUP in Ecology and Evolution
2009
The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities
2008
Coral reefs in the Anthropocene
2017 StandoutNature
The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography at Age Ten
2011
Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology
2011 Standout
No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research sites
2020
Managing nitrogen for sustainable development
2015 StandoutNature
Measurement of biological information with applications from genes to landscapes
2006
Community and ecosystem effects of intraspecific genetic diversity in grassland microcosms of varying species diversity
2010
Biodiversity in a complex world: consolidation and progress in functional biodiversity research
2009
Inferring Ecological Processes from Taxonomic, Phylogenetic and Functional Trait β-Diversity
2011
Biodiversity and ecosystem services: a multilayered relationship
2011 Standout
The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems
2011
The scaling laws of human travel
2006 StandoutNature
ANALYZING OR EXPLAINING BETA DIVERSITY? UNDERSTANDING THE TARGETS OF DIFFERENT METHODS OF ANALYSIS
2006
Beyond biogeographic patterns: processes shaping the microbial landscape
2012
Diet–microbiota interactions as moderators of human metabolism
2016 StandoutNature
A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change
2012 StandoutNature
Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity
2011 StandoutNature
Reducing horizontal and vertical diversity in a foodweb triggers extinctions and impacts functions
2009
Climate change and evolutionary adaptation
2011 StandoutNature
Morphological and physiological variation among seagrass (Zostera marina) genotypes
2009
Organic agriculture promotes evenness and natural pest control
2010 Nature
Emerging horizons in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research
2009
The Gut Microbiota of Rural Papua New Guineans: Composition, Diversity Patterns, and Ecological Processes
2015
Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales
2017 Nature
The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity
2007
Diversity has stronger top‐down than bottom‐up effects on decomposition
2009
Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation
2009
Self-Organization, Layered Structure, and Aggregation Enhance Persistence of a Synthetic Biofilm Consortium
2011 StandoutNobel
Proposing a resolution to debates on diversity partitioning
2012
Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems
2006 Nature
Clustered versus catastrophic global vertebrate declines
2020 Nature
Adaptive Radiation, Ecological Opportunity, and Evolutionary Determinism
2010
Conservation Planning for Ecosystem Services
2006
Balancing biodiversity in a changing environment: extinction debt, immigration credit and species turnover
2009
Rare and common vertebrates span a wide spectrum of population trends
2020
Null model approaches to evaluating the relative role of different assembly processes in shaping ecological communities
2014
EVOLVING METACOMMUNITIES: TOWARD AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON METACOMMUNITIES
2006
The case for ecological neutral theory
2012
Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases
2010 StandoutNature
China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency
2018 StandoutNature
Effects of dispersal and selection on stochastic assembly in microbial communities
2016
Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity
2014
The transition between the niche and neutral regimes in ecology
2014
Why biodiversity is important to the functioning of real‐world ecosystems
2008
Prevailing Myths About Agricultural Abandonment and Forest Regrowth in the United States
2010
Patterns of plant carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentration in relation to productivity in China’s terrestrial ecosystems
2018 Standout
Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality
2014 Standout
The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals
2011 StandoutScience
The relationship between species replacement, dissimilarity derived from nestedness, and nestedness
2012
GenAlEx 6.5: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research—an update
2012 Standout
A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 1. Defining beta diversity as a function of alpha and gamma diversity
2010
Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity
2011 Standout
The Ecology and Evolution of Seed Dispersal: A Theoretical Perspective
2003
Interactions Between the Microbiota and the Immune System
2012 StandoutScience
Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability
2012
Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better)
2015
Effect of Diversity of Large Wildlife Species on Financial Benefits to Local Communities in Northwest Namibia
2010
Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
2009 Standout
Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome
2016 StandoutScience
The movement ecology and dynamics of plant communities in fragmented landscapes
2008
Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Species Gains and Losses
2011 Science
Random Sampling Process Leads to Overestimation of β-Diversity of Microbial Communities
2013
Quantifying community assembly processes and identifying features that impose them
2013 Standout
How many dimensions of biodiversity do we need?
2012
Accelerating loss of seagrasses across the globe threatens coastal ecosystems
2009 Standout
The influence of time, soil characteristics, and land‐use history on soil phosphorus legacies: a global meta‐analysis
2012
Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing
2009
Eco-evolutionary dynamics
2009
Beta‐diversity in temperate and tropical forests reflects dissimilar mechanisms of community assembly
2012
Multiple Stressors and the Functioning of Coral Reefs
2016
Plant diversity enhances provision of ecosystem services: A new synthesis
2010
Quantifying the relative roles of selective and neutral processes in defining eukaryotic microbial communities
2015
Moving forward: dispersal and species interactions determine biotic responses to climate change
2013
Changes in assembly processes in soil bacterial communities following a wildfire disturbance
2013
Species and genotype diversity drive community and ecosystem properties in experimental microcosms
2010
Ecological consequences of intraspecific variation in lake Daphnia
2009
A novel genealogical approach to neutral biodiversity theory
2004
Effects of gut passage on seed germination: do experiments answer the questions they ask?
2005
Community assembly of ectomycorrhizal fungi along a subtropical secondary forest succession
2014
The modularity of pollination networks
2007 Standout
An Operational Framework for Defining and Monitoring Forest Degradation
2013
Resource Heterogeneity Moderates the Biodiversity-Function Relationship in Real World Ecosystems
2008
Stochastic distribution of small soil eukaryotes resulting from high dispersal and drift in a local environment
2015
Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem
2014
Understanding the Effects of Marine Biodiversity on Communities and Ecosystems
2007
The First Microbial Colonizers of the Human Gut: Composition, Activities, and Health Implications of the Infant Gut Microbiota
2017 Standout
Experimental design and the outcome and interpretation of diversity–stability relations
2010
Stochastic Community Assembly: Does It Matter in Microbial Ecology?
2017 Standout
The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability
2007 Standout
Human-induced grassland degradation/restoration in the central Tibetan Plateau: The effects of ecological protection and restoration projects
2015
The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability
2015 StandoutScience
Classifying drivers of global forest loss
2018 StandoutScience
Do community-weighted mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies?
2016
Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts
2021 Standout
Defaunation in the Anthropocene
2014 StandoutScience
The Functions of Biological Diversity in an Age of Extinction
2012 Science
Ecosystem services, targets, and indicators for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
2011
Environmental changes affect the assembly of soil bacterial community primarily by mediating stochastic processes
2015
Assessing the effects of spatial contingency and environmental filtering on metacommunity phylogenetics
2012
Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles
2008 Standout
Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales
2011
betapart: an R package for the study of beta diversity
2012 Standout
A new modeling approach estimates the relative importance of different community assembly processes
2014
Long-Distance Dispersal of Plants
2006 Science
A movement ecology paradigm for unifying organismal movement research
2008 Standout
Whose conservation?
2014 StandoutScience
A new habitat availability index to integrate connectivity in landscape conservation planning: Comparison with existing indices and application to a case study
2007 Standout
Neutrality, niches, and dispersal in a temperate forest understory
2004
RangeS hifter: a platform for modelling spatial eco‐evolutionary dynamics and species' responses to environmental changes
2014
Phylogenetic beta diversity in bacterial assemblages across ecosystems: deterministic versus stochastic processes
2013
Environmental filtering decreases with fish development for the assembly of gut microbiota
2016
Dispersal scales up the biodiversity–productivity relationship in an experimental source-sink metacommunity
2010
Cryptic biodiversity loss linked to global climate change
2011
Works of Mark Vellend being referenced
Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time
2013
Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny
2016
Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology
2010 Standout
A crucial step toward realism: responses to climate change from an evolving metacommunity perspective
2011
Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist
2010 Standout
EXTINCTION DEBT OF FOREST PLANTS PERSISTS FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY FOLLOWING HABITAT FRAGMENTATION
2006
Effects of exotic species on evolutionary diversification
2007
Seed dispersal by white-tailed deer: implications for long-distance dispersal, invasion, and migration of plants in eastern North America
2004
Species Diversity and Genetic Diversity: Parallel Processes and Correlated Patterns
2005
Ecological consequences of genetic diversity
2008
THE CONSEQUENCES OF GENETIC DIVERSITY IN COMPETITIVE COMMUNITIES
2006
Island Biogeography of Genes and Species
2003
Connections between species diversity and genetic diversity
2005
Do commonly used indices of β‐diversity measure species turnover?
2001
Homogenization of forest plant communities and weakening of species–environment relationships via agricultural land use
2007
Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities
2014
Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation?
2005
Environmental causes and consequences of forest clearance and agricultural abandonment in central New York, USA
2005
Sex and space destabilize intransitive competition within and between species
2008
Eco-evolutionary responses of biodiversity to climate change
2012
DISPERSAL OF TRILLIUM SEEDS BY DEER: IMPLICATIONS FOR LONG-DISTANCE MIGRATION OF FOREST HERBS
2003
Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients
2011 Science
Human-induced edges alter grassland community composition
2012
Garden plants get a head start on climate change
2007
Effects of diversity on diversity: consequences of competition and facilitation
2008
METAPOPULATION DYNAMICS IN CHANGING LANDSCAPES: A NEW SPATIALLY REALISTIC MODEL FOR FOREST PLANTS
2004
PARALLEL EFFECTS OF LAND-USE HISTORY ON SPECIES DIVERSITY AND GENETIC DIVERSITY OF FOREST HERBS
2004
Evolution in plant populations as a driver of ecological changes in arthropod communities
2009
Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities
2012
Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity
2011