Daniel I. Bolnick

27.1k total citations · 11 hit papers
165 papers, 19.2k citations indexed

About

Daniel I. Bolnick is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel I. Bolnick has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 19.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Genetics, 71 papers in Ecology and 57 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Daniel I. Bolnick's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (55 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (45 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (38 papers). Daniel I. Bolnick is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (55 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (45 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (38 papers). Daniel I. Bolnick collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Daniel I. Bolnick's co-authors include Richard Svanbäck, Evan L. Preisser, Márcio S. Araújo, Michael F. Benard, James A. Fordyce, Louie H. Yang, Jeremy M. Davis, C. Darrin Hulsey, Matthew L. Forister and Mark C. Urban and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniel I. Bolnick

160 papers receiving 18.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Ecology of Individuals: Incidence and Implications of... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2003 2011 2005 2011 2006 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. The Ecology of Individuals: Incidence and Implications of Individual Specialization
    2003 2.2k citations Daniel I. Bolnick et al. The American Naturalist profile →
  2. Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology
    2011 1.7k citations Daniel I. Bolnick, Mark C. Urban et al. profile →
  3. SCARED TO DEATH? THE EFFECTS OF INTIMIDATION AND CONSUMPTION IN PREDATOR–PREY INTERACTIONS
    2005 1.4k citations Daniel I. Bolnick et al. profile →
  4. The ecological causes of individual specialisation
    2011 819 citations Daniel I. Bolnick et al. profile →
  5. Intraspecific competition drives increased resource use diversity within a natural population
    2006 708 citations Daniel I. Bolnick et al. profile →
  6. Predator–prey naïveté, antipredator behavior, and the ecology of predator invasions
    2010 576 citations Daniel I. Bolnick et al. profile →
  7. Sympatric Speciation: Models and Empirical Evidence
    2007 559 citations Daniel I. Bolnick et al. profile →
  8. MEASURING INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL RESOURCE SPECIALIZATION
    2002 519 citations Daniel I. Bolnick et al. profile →
  9. Individual diet has sex-dependent effects on vertebrate gut microbiota
    2014 411 citations Daniel I. Bolnick et al. profile →
  10. Microgeographic adaptation and the spatial scale of evolution
    2014 394 citations Mark C. Urban, Daniel I. Bolnick et al. profile →
  11. An evolutionary ecology of individual differences
    2012 382 citations Daniel I. Bolnick et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel I. Bolnick United States 56 9.5k 6.9k 6.2k 5.7k 3.7k 165 19.2k
Andrew P. Hendry Canada 80 9.3k 1.0× 7.7k 1.1× 10.4k 1.7× 10.2k 1.8× 4.8k 1.3× 266 23.4k
David N. Reznick United States 71 8.8k 0.9× 10.7k 1.5× 9.2k 1.5× 6.8k 1.2× 5.3k 1.4× 229 22.7k
Mark A. McPeek United States 57 6.4k 0.7× 6.4k 0.9× 6.7k 1.1× 3.3k 0.6× 2.5k 0.7× 129 15.9k
Cameron K. Ghalambor United States 45 7.1k 0.8× 6.6k 1.0× 3.8k 0.6× 3.9k 0.7× 2.9k 0.8× 125 13.9k
Loeske E. B. Kruuk United Kingdom 68 8.6k 0.9× 9.6k 1.4× 2.9k 0.5× 8.2k 1.4× 1.8k 0.5× 165 18.9k
Ilkka Hanski Finland 73 10.4k 1.1× 6.8k 1.0× 9.3k 1.5× 4.0k 0.7× 3.5k 1.0× 173 20.8k
Ilkka Hanski Finland 57 7.5k 0.8× 5.6k 0.8× 6.9k 1.1× 3.9k 0.7× 2.5k 0.7× 111 15.3k
Juha Merilä Finland 77 9.3k 1.0× 10.4k 1.5× 6.0k 1.0× 10.4k 1.8× 6.2k 1.7× 456 23.9k
Anthony R. Ives United States 74 8.6k 0.9× 10.1k 1.5× 7.7k 1.3× 4.2k 0.7× 4.9k 1.3× 243 23.8k
Trevor D. Price United States 60 6.0k 0.6× 8.6k 1.2× 3.2k 0.5× 5.7k 1.0× 1.5k 0.4× 176 14.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Urban, Mark C., Chris S. Elphick, & Daniel I. Bolnick. (2026). Conservation should assume realistic adaptive capacities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 123(4). e2415291123–e2415291123.
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Reid, Noah M., et al.. (2024). Winter break? The effect of overwintering on immune gene expression in wood frogs. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D Genomics and Proteomics. 52. 101296–101296. 1 indexed citations
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Lisle, Stephen P. De, Daniel I. Bolnick, & Yoel E. Stuart. (2024). Predictable and Divergent Change in the Multivariate P Matrix during Parallel Adaptation. The American Naturalist. 204(1). 15–29. 3 indexed citations
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Fuess, Lauren E. & Daniel I. Bolnick. (2023). Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Microevolution of the Stickleback Immune System. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15(4). 10 indexed citations
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Lisle, Stephen P. De, et al.. (2022). Complex community‐wide consequences of consumer sexual dimorphism. Journal of Animal Ecology. 91(5). 958–969. 5 indexed citations
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Hund, Amanda K., et al.. (2022). Population-level variation in parasite resistance due to differences in immune initiation and rate of response. Evolution Letters. 6(2). 162–177. 8 indexed citations
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Peng, Foen, et al.. (2021). What evolutionary processes maintain MHC IIꞵ diversity within and among populations of stickleback?. Molecular Ecology. 30(7). 1659–1671. 10 indexed citations
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Lisle, Stephen P. De & Daniel I. Bolnick. (2021). Male and female reproductive fitness costs of an immune response in natural populations *. Evolution. 75(10). 2509–2523. 11 indexed citations
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Vrtílek, Milan & Daniel I. Bolnick. (2021). Macroevolutionary foundations of a recently evolved innate immune defense. Evolution. 75(10). 2600–2612. 10 indexed citations
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Fuess, Lauren E., et al.. (2021). Between‐population differences in constitutive and infection‐induced gene expression in threespine stickleback. Molecular Ecology. 30(24). 6791–6805. 16 indexed citations
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Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty, et al.. (2020). Trends and Transitions in 150 Years of The American Naturalist. The American Naturalist. 196(6). 663–678. 1 indexed citations
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Bolnick, Daniel I., et al.. (2020). Host patch traits have scale‐dependent effects on diversity in a stickleback parasite metacommunity. Ecography. 43(7). 990–1002. 15 indexed citations
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Paccard, Antoine, Dieta Hanson, Yoel E. Stuart, et al.. (2019). Repeatability of Adaptive Radiation Depends on Spatial Scale: Regional Versus Global Replicates of Stickleback in Lake Versus Stream Habitats. Journal of Heredity. 111(1). 43–56. 10 indexed citations
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Brady, Steven P., Daniel I. Bolnick, Amy L. Angert, et al.. (2019). Causes of maladaptation. Evolutionary Applications. 12(7). 1229–1242. 83 indexed citations
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Weber, Jesse N., et al.. (2017). Recent evolution of extreme cestode growth suppression by a vertebrate host. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(25). 6575–6580. 32 indexed citations
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Lohman, Brian K., William E. Stutz, & Daniel I. Bolnick. (2017). Gene expression stasis and plasticity following migration into a foreign environment. Molecular Ecology. 26(18). 4657–4670. 16 indexed citations
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Stutz, William E. & Daniel I. Bolnick. (2017). Natural selection on MHC IIβ in parapatric lake and stream stickleback: Balancing, divergent, both or neither?. Molecular Ecology. 26(18). 4772–4786. 21 indexed citations
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Lohman, Brian K., Jesse N. Weber, & Daniel I. Bolnick. (2016). Evaluation of TagSeq, a reliable low‐cost alternative for RNA seq. Molecular Ecology Resources. 16(6). 1315–1321. 121 indexed citations
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Bolnick, Daniel I.. (2011). Sympatric Speciation in Threespine Stickleback: Why Not?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2011. 1–15. 36 indexed citations
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Bolnick, Daniel I., et al.. (2009). Morphological and dietary differences between individuals are weakly but positively correlated within a population of threespine stickleback. Evolutionary ecology research. 11(8). 1217–1233. 43 indexed citations

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