David Tilman

202.6k total citations · 77 hit papers
306 papers, 125.0k citations indexed

About

David Tilman is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Tilman has authored 306 papers receiving a total of 125.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 169 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 110 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 100 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David Tilman's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (161 papers), Plant and animal studies (107 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (53 papers). David Tilman is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (161 papers), Plant and animal studies (107 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (53 papers). David Tilman collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. David Tilman's co-authors include Jason Hill, David A. Wedin, Johannes M. H. Knops, Stephen Polasky, Clarence Lehman, Peter B. Reich, Michael Clark, M. P. Hassell, John L. Harper and Joseph Fargione and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Tilman

303 papers receiving 116.8k citations

Hit Papers

Agricultural sustainability and intensive ... 1977 2026 1993 2009 2002 2011 2012 2004 1984 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Tilman United States 149 49.1k 45.5k 29.4k 27.8k 27.1k 306 125.0k
F. Stuart Chapin United States 137 30.1k 0.6× 33.8k 0.7× 16.1k 0.5× 36.2k 1.3× 22.3k 0.8× 509 101.2k
Peter B. Reich United States 158 49.4k 1.0× 25.4k 0.6× 22.2k 0.8× 42.2k 1.5× 36.4k 1.3× 772 99.8k
Peter M. Vitousek United States 122 23.8k 0.5× 30.7k 0.7× 11.0k 0.4× 22.0k 0.8× 19.3k 0.7× 353 83.2k
David A. Wardle Sweden 103 25.4k 0.5× 23.1k 0.5× 15.3k 0.5× 13.8k 0.5× 17.1k 0.6× 414 61.9k
Josep Peñuelas Spain 142 17.7k 0.4× 29.6k 0.7× 10.7k 0.4× 32.9k 1.2× 30.7k 1.1× 1.4k 87.1k
Harold A. Mooney United States 107 23.2k 0.5× 23.2k 0.5× 12.1k 0.4× 32.3k 1.2× 19.6k 0.7× 376 73.1k
Pierre Legendre Canada 92 29.7k 0.6× 32.8k 0.7× 15.0k 0.5× 15.0k 0.5× 9.7k 0.4× 411 71.4k
Michel Loreau France 88 24.6k 0.5× 20.9k 0.5× 14.5k 0.5× 14.2k 0.5× 6.6k 0.2× 289 49.5k
Robert B. Jackson United States 131 16.2k 0.3× 23.4k 0.5× 5.8k 0.2× 34.1k 1.2× 17.4k 0.6× 460 84.9k
Christopher B. Field United States 120 10.5k 0.2× 21.8k 0.5× 7.1k 0.2× 37.6k 1.4× 17.3k 0.6× 354 72.9k

Countries citing papers authored by David Tilman

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Tilman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Tilman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Tilman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Tilman based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Tilman. David Tilman is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liang, Maowei, Qi Yang, Jonathan M. Chase, et al.. (2025). Unifying spatial scaling laws of biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Science. 387(6740). eadl2373–eadl2373. 5 indexed citations
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Hallett, Lauren M., Daniel C. Reuman, Lauren G. Shoemaker, et al.. (2025). Short time series obscure compensatory dynamics in ecological communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(8). 1405–1413.
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Ladouceur, Emma, Forest Isbell, Adam Thomas Clark, et al.. (2023). The recovery of plant community composition following passive restoration across spatial scales. Journal of Ecology. 111(4). 814–829. 17 indexed citations
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Tilman, David. (2022). Extinction, climate change and the ecology of Homo sapiens. Journal of Ecology. 110(4). 744–750. 8 indexed citations
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Clark, Michael, Marco Springmann, Mike Rayner, et al.. (2022). Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(33). e2120584119–e2120584119. 189 indexed citations breakdown →
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Furey, George N. & David Tilman. (2021). Plant biodiversity and the regeneration of soil fertility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(49). 132 indexed citations breakdown →
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Clark, Michael, Sumil K Thakrar, David Tilman, et al.. (2020). Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets. Science. 370(6517). 705–708. 690 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kimmel, Kaitlin, George N. Furey, Sarah E. Hobbie, et al.. (2020). Diversity‐dependent soil acidification under nitrogen enrichment constrains biomass productivity. Global Change Biology. 26(11). 6594–6603. 43 indexed citations
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Clark, Michael, Marco Springmann, Jason Hill, & David Tilman. (2019). Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(46). 23357–23362. 545 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thakur, Madhav P., David Tilman, Oliver Purschke, et al.. (2017). Climate warming promotes species diversity, but with greater taxonomic redundancy, in complex environments. Science Advances. 3(7). e1700866–e1700866. 58 indexed citations
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Tilman, David. (2016). Biodiversity: From evolutionary origins to ecosystem functioning. 11(1). 11–20. 2 indexed citations
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Isbell, Forest, Peter B. Reich, David Tilman, et al.. (2013). Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(29). 11911–11916. 511 indexed citations breakdown →
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Isbell, Forest, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, Seth Binder, & Peter Hawthorne. (2013). Low biodiversity state persists two decades after cessation of nutrient enrichment. Ecology Letters. 16(4). 454–460. 146 indexed citations
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Reich, Peter B., David Tilman, Forest Isbell, et al.. (2012). Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades. Science. 336(6081). 589–592. 605 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zavaleta, Erika S., Jae R. Pasari, Kristin B. Hulvey, & David Tilman. (2010). Sustaining multiple ecosystem functions in grassland communities requires higher biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(4). 1443–1446. 385 indexed citations
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Fargione, Joseph, Jason Hill, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, & Peter Hawthorne. (2008). Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt. Science. 319(5867). 1235–1238. 2746 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hill, Jason, et al.. (2006). ethanol biofuels From the Cover: Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and. 2 indexed citations
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Hill, Jason, Erik Nelson, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, & Douglas G. Tiffany. (2006). Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(30). 11206–11210. 2017 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tilman, David, Jason Hill, & Clarence Lehman. (2006). Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass. Science. 314(5805). 1598–1600. 1329 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leibold, Mathew A., Marcel Holyoak, Nicolas Mouquet, et al.. (2004). The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology. Ecology Letters. 7(7). 601–613. 3866 indexed citations breakdown →

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