Standout Papers

Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics 1976 2026 1992 2009 4.2k
  1. Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics (1976)
    Robert M. May Nature
  2. Evolutionary games and spatial chaos (1992)
    Martin A. Nowak, Robert M. May Nature
  3. Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems (2001)
    Robert M. May Princeton University Press eBooks
  4. Population biology of infectious diseases: Part I (1979)
    Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May Nature
  5. Habitat destruction and the extinction debt (1994)
    David Tilman, Robert M. May et al. Nature
  6. Will a Large Complex System be Stable? (1972)
    Robert M. May Nature
  7. Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems (2012)
    George Sugihara, Robert M. May et al. Science
  8. Regulation and Stability of Host-Parasite Population Interactions: I. Regulatory Processes (1978)
    Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May Journal of Animal Ecology
  9. Nonlinear forecasting as a way of distinguishing chaos from measurement error in time series (1990)
    George Sugihara, Robert M. May Nature
  10. Coevolution of hosts and parasites (1982)
    Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May Parasitology
  11. Thresholds and breakpoints in ecosystems with a multiplicity of stable states (1977)
    Robert M. May Nature
  12. Biological Populations with Nonoverlapping Generations: Stable Points, Stable Cycles, and Chaos (1974)
    Robert M. May Science
  13. Dispersal in stable habitats (1977)
    W D Hamilton, Robert M. May Nature
  14. Patterns of species abundance and diversity (1975)
    Robert M. May Medical Entomology and Zoology
  15. The population dynamics of microparasites and their invertebrate hosts (1981)
    Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
  16. Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications (1982)
    J. M. Elliott, Robert M. May Journal of Animal Ecology
  17. Bifurcations and Dynamic Complexity in Simple Ecological Models (1976)
    Robert M. May, George Oster The American Naturalist
  18. How Many Species Are There on Earth? (1988)
    Robert M. May Science
  19. Nonlinear Aspects of Competition Between Three Species (1975)
    Robert M. May, Warren J. Leonard SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
  20. Systemic risk in banking ecosystems (2011)
    Andrew Haldane, Robert M. May Nature
  21. Stability in Insect Host-Parasite Models (1973)
    M. P. Hassell, Robert M. May Journal of Animal Ecology
  22. Virus dynamics: Mathematical principles of immunology and virology (2001)
    Martin A. Nowak, Robert M. May Medical Entomology and Zoology
  23. Population biology of infectious diseases: Part II (1979)
    Robert M. May, Roy M. Anderson Nature
  24. Epidemiology and genetics in the coevolution of parasites and hosts (1983)
    Robert M. May, Roy M. Anderson Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
  25. The reconstructed evolutionary process (1994)
    Sean Nee, Robert M. May et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  26. Coinfection and the evolution of parasite virulence (1995)
    Robert M. May, Martin A. Nowak Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  27. The invasion, persistence and spread of infectious diseases within animal and plant communities (1986)
    Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
  28. Transmission dynamics of HIV infection (1987)
    Robert M. May, Roy M. Anderson Nature
  29. Why fishing magnifies fluctuations in fish abundance (2008)
    Christian N. K. Anderson, Chih‐hao Hsieh et al. Nature
  30. Aggregation of Predators and Insect Parasites and its Effect on Stability (1974)
    M. P. Hassell, Robert M. May Journal of Animal Ecology
  31. Ecology for bankers (2008)
    Robert M. May, Simon A. Levin et al. Nature
  32. Niche Overlap as a Function of Environmental Variability (1972)
    Robert M. May et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  33. Infection dynamics on scale-free networks (2001)
    Robert M. May, Alun L. Lloyd Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics
  34. Harvesting Natural Populations in a Randomly Fluctuating Environment (1977)
    J. R. Beddington, Robert M. May Science
  35. Vaccination and herd immunity to infectious diseases (1985)
    Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May Nature
  36. Regulation and Stability of Host-Parasite Population Interactions: II. Destabilizing Processes (1978)
    Robert M. May, Roy M. Anderson Journal of Animal Ecology
  37. THE SPATIAL DILEMMAS OF EVOLUTION (1993)
    Martin A. Nowak, Robert M. May International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
  38. Management of Multispecies Fisheries (1979)
    Robert M. May, J. R. Beddington et al. Science
  39. Helminth Infections of Humans: Mathematical Models, Population Dynamics, and Control (1985)
    Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May Advances in Parasitology
  40. Patterns of Dynamical Behaviour in Single-Species Populations (1976)
    M. P. Hassell, John H. Lawton et al. Journal of Animal Ecology
  41. Directly Transmitted Infections Diseases: Control by Vaccination (1982)
    Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May Science
  42. Limit Cycles in Predator-Prey Communities (1972)
    Robert M. May Science
  43. Can We Name Earth's Species Before They Go Extinct? (2013)
    Mark J. Costello, Robert M. May et al. Science
  44. Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications (1977)
    Joshua Elliott, Robert M. May Journal of Animal Ecology
  45. Host-Parasitoid Systems in Patchy Environments: A Phenomenological Model (1978)
    Robert M. May Journal of Animal Ecology
  46. Biological populations obeying difference equations: Stable points, stable cycles, and chaos (1975)
    Robert M. May Journal of Theoretical Biology
  47. Complexity theory and financial regulation (2016)
    Stefano Battiston, J. Doyne Farmer et al. Science

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Works of Robert M. May being referenced

Habitat destruction and the extinction debt
1994 StandoutNature
Ecological Aspects of the Geographical Distribution and Diversity of Mammalian Species
1991
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Robert M. May 20110 17388 17438 457 72.5k
Simon A. Levin 9891 8072 15835 581 63.2k
Trevor Hastie 10587 3012 12491 272 152.2k
John Maynard Smith 17574 4822 5655 220 44.8k
Martin A. Nowak 23495 13590 2401 474 77.0k
Benjamin M. Bolker 8451 4048 19559 130 75.1k
Robert Tibshirani 13748 3676 6490 380 181.1k
Alan Hastings 6035 4021 11712 312 24.6k
Andrew Gelman 3907 1833 8702 334 70.9k
C. S. Holling 3969 4318 11062 100 48.2k
Robert D. Holt 10151 4942 20603 288 43.8k

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