Anita Narwani

9.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Anita Narwani is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Anita Narwani has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 16 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Anita Narwani's work include Plant and animal studies (14 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (8 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers). Anita Narwani is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (14 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (8 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers). Anita Narwani collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Canada. Anita Narwani's co-authors include Bradley J. Cardinale, Patrick Venail, David Tilman, Georgina M. Mace, Anne Larigauderie, Shahid Naeem, J. Emmett Duffy, Ann P. Kinzig, Michel Loreau and David U. Hooper and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Anita Narwani

40 papers receiving 6.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

2012 4.9k citations Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anita Narwani Switzerland	22	2.4k	2.3k	2.0k	1.5k	890	43	6.2k
Patrick Venail Switzerland	18	2.5k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	27	6.3k
Valerie T. Eviner United States	27	2.6k 1.1×	2.8k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	671 0.8×	59	6.9k
Lars Gamfeldt Sweden	26	3.3k 1.3×	2.8k 1.2×	2.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.0×	735 0.8×	39	7.1k
Julian Reid Australia	17	2.4k 1.0×	2.7k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	732 0.8×	30	6.1k
Jarrett E. K. Byrnes United States	27	2.6k 1.1×	3.3k 1.4×	2.5k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	802 0.9×	59	7.1k
Justin P. Wright United States	37	3.6k 1.5×	3.5k 1.5×	1.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	753 0.8×	81	8.1k
Amy J. Symstad United States	22	4.2k 1.7×	3.2k 1.4×	2.6k 1.3×	2.2k 1.5×	859 1.0×	50	7.8k
Anne Larigauderie United States	22	2.7k 1.1×	2.6k 1.2×	3.6k 1.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	30	8.0k
William G. Lee New Zealand	34	3.1k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	680 0.8×	117	5.6k
Mahesh Sankaran India	32	3.2k 1.3×	2.2k 1.0×	2.6k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	584 0.7×	86	5.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anita Narwani

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Ghosh, Shyamolina, Blake Matthews, Sarah R. Supp, et al.. (2025). Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(3).

Suter, Marc J.‐F., et al.. (2025). Light and nutrients modulate the temperature‐sensitivity of growth in phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 10(1). 91–100. 1 indexed citations

Ladd, S. Nemiah, Daniel B. Nelson, Blake Matthews, et al.. (2024). Taxon-specific hydrogen isotope signals in cultures and mesocosms facilitate ecosystem and hydroclimate reconstruction. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 390. 199–210. 2 indexed citations

Khaliq, Imran, Christian Rixen, Florian Zellweger, et al.. (2024). Warming underpins community turnover in temperate freshwater and terrestrial communities. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1921–1921. 15 indexed citations

Hudson, Cameron M., Maria Cuenca Cambronero, Anita Narwani, et al.. (2023). Environmentally independent selection for hybrids between divergent freshwater stickleback lineages in semi-natural ponds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36(8). 1166–1184. 1 indexed citations

Moorsel, Sofia J. van, Élisa Thébault, Viktoriia Radchuk, et al.. (2022). Predicting effects of multiple interacting global change drivers across trophic levels. Global Change Biology. 29(5). 1223–1238. 21 indexed citations

Lürig, Moritz, et al.. (2021). Non‐additive effects of foundation species determine the response of aquatic ecosystems to nutrient perturbation. Ecology. 102(7). e03371–e03371. 8 indexed citations

Bernhardt, Joey R., et al.. (2020). The evolution of competitive ability for essential resources. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1798). 20190247–20190247. 35 indexed citations

Harmon, Luke J., Cecilia S. Andreazzi, Florence Débarre, et al.. (2019). Detecting the macroevolutionary signal of species interactions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32(8). 769–782. 63 indexed citations

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Tamminen, Manu, et al.. (2018). Proteome evolution under non-substitutable resource limitation. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4650–4650. 7 indexed citations

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Jackrel, Sara L., Anita Narwani, Bastian Bentlage, et al.. (2018). Ecological Engineering Helps Maximize Function in Algal Oil Production. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(15). 5 indexed citations

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Godwin, Casey M., et al.. (2017). Ecological Stoichiometry Meets Ecological Engineering: Using Polycultures to Enhance the Multifunctionality of Algal Biocrude Systems. Environmental Science & Technology. 51(19). 11450–11458. 21 indexed citations

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Narwani, Anita, Bastian Bentlage, Markos A. Alexandrou, et al.. (2017). Ecological interactions and coexistence are predicted by gene expression similarity in freshwater green algae. Journal of Ecology. 105(3). 580–591. 21 indexed citations

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Godwin, Casey M., et al.. (2016). Algal polycultures enhance coproduct recycling from hydrothermal liquefaction. Bioresource Technology. 224. 630–638. 46 indexed citations

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Narwani, Anita, et al.. (2016). Power of Plankton: Effects of Algal Biodiversity on Biocrude Production and Stability. Environmental Science & Technology. 50(23). 13142–13150. 29 indexed citations

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Krismer, Jasmin, Manu Tamminen, Simone Fontana, Renato Zenobi, & Anita Narwani. (2016). Single-cell mass spectrometry reveals the importance of genetic diversity and plasticity for phenotypic variation in nitrogen-limited Chlamydomonas. The ISME Journal. 11(4). 988–998. 23 indexed citations

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Cardinale, Bradley J., J. Emmett Duffy, Andrew Gonzalez, et al.. (2012). Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature. 486(7401). 59–67. 4891 indexed citations breakdown →

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Narwani, Anita & Asit Mazumder. (2012). Bottom‐up effects of species diversity on the functioning and stability of food webs. Journal of Animal Ecology. 81(3). 701–713. 27 indexed citations

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Matthews, Blake, Anita Narwani, Stephen Hausch, et al.. (2011). Toward an integration of evolutionary biology and ecosystem science. Ecology Letters. 14(7). 690–701. 161 indexed citations

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Narwani, Anita & Asit Mazumder. (2010). Community composition and consumer identity determine the effect of resource species diversity on rates of consumption. Ecology. 91(12). 3441–3447. 23 indexed citations

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