Diane S. Srivastava

23.7k total citations · 12 hit papers
116 papers, 16.3k citations indexed

About

Diane S. Srivastava is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Diane S. Srivastava has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 16.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 72 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 45 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Diane S. Srivastava's work include Plant and animal studies (74 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (68 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (36 papers). Diane S. Srivastava is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (74 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (68 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (36 papers). Diane S. Srivastava collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Brazil and United States. Diane S. Srivastava's co-authors include Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy, Michel Loreau, Justin P. Wright, Andrew Gonzalez, Amy L. Downing, John H. Lawton, Georgina M. Mace, Anne Larigauderie and Shahid Naeem and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Diane S. Srivastava

112 papers receiving 15.6k citations

Hit Papers

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity 1998 2026 2007 2016 2012 2006 2018 2007 1998 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
What are hit papers?

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. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
    2012 4.9k citations Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy et al. Nature profile →
  2. Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems
    2006 1.4k citations Bradley J. Cardinale, Diane S. Srivastava et al. Nature profile →
  3. Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems
    2018 1.2k citations Stilianos Louca, Martin F. Polz et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
  4. Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity
    2007 1.1k citations Bradley J. Cardinale, Justin P. Wright et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Biodiversity inventories, indicator taxa and effects of habitat modification in tropical forest
    1998 887 citations John H. Lawton, Diane S. Srivastava et al. Nature profile →
  6. Extinction and Ecosystem Function in the Marine Benthos
    2004 602 citations Bradley J. Cardinale, Amy L. Downing et al. profile →
  7. Why More Productive Sites Have More Species: An Experimental Test of Theory Using Tree‐Hole Communities
    1998 512 citations Diane S. Srivastava, John H. Lawton The American Naturalist profile →
  8. Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation?
    2005 511 citations Diane S. Srivastava et al. profile →
  9. Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems
    2012 460 citations Diane S. Srivastava, Marc W. Cadotte et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  10. High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities
    2016 384 citations Stilianos Louca, Diane S. Srivastava et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
  11. Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities
    2014 329 citations Diane S. Srivastava et al. Oikos profile →
  12. Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research
    2020 301 citations Andrew Gonzalez, Rachel M. Germain et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Diane S. Srivastava Canada 40 7.2k 7.0k 4.5k 4.1k 2.5k 116 16.3k
Daniel Borcard Canada 29 8.2k 1.1× 7.5k 1.1× 3.6k 0.8× 3.0k 0.7× 2.4k 1.0× 50 16.1k
Mark Vellend Canada 52 7.1k 1.0× 8.5k 1.2× 5.6k 1.3× 3.3k 0.8× 3.5k 1.4× 132 16.2k
Nicolas Mouquet France 54 8.2k 1.1× 7.8k 1.1× 5.3k 1.2× 3.0k 0.7× 3.4k 1.4× 117 15.6k
Bradley J. Cardinale United States 57 9.4k 1.3× 9.8k 1.4× 5.5k 1.2× 6.3k 1.5× 2.5k 1.0× 132 23.5k
Owen L. Petchey Switzerland 54 6.7k 0.9× 6.5k 0.9× 4.6k 1.0× 3.9k 0.9× 2.8k 1.1× 146 14.4k
Elsa E. Cleland United States 47 7.2k 1.0× 7.1k 1.0× 4.4k 1.0× 4.8k 1.2× 3.1k 1.2× 79 17.4k
Marc W. Cadotte Canada 58 5.9k 0.8× 9.7k 1.4× 6.4k 1.4× 3.4k 0.8× 3.5k 1.4× 215 16.0k
Brian J. McGill United States 52 7.0k 1.0× 9.3k 1.3× 5.9k 1.3× 4.1k 1.0× 5.3k 2.1× 122 16.7k
Mathew A. Leibold United States 46 8.2k 1.1× 7.1k 1.0× 4.4k 1.0× 2.1k 0.5× 2.5k 1.0× 87 14.7k
Eric W. Seabloom United States 56 7.9k 1.1× 6.6k 1.0× 3.7k 0.8× 2.9k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 176 17.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Diane S. Srivastava

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gauzens, Benoît, Lise Thouvenot, Diane S. Srivastava, et al.. (2025). Tailoring interaction network types to answer different ecological questions. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1(7). 480–489.
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Srivastava, Diane S., et al.. (2024). Editors are biased too: An extension of Fox et al. (2023)'s analysis makes the case for triple‐blind review. Functional Ecology. 38(2). 278–283. 3 indexed citations
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Srivastava, Diane S., et al.. (2023). Insects in the city: Determinants of a contained aquatic microecosystem across an urbanized landscape. Ecology. 105(1). e4204–e4204. 1 indexed citations
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Roche, Dominique G., Sandra A. Binning, Kerri Finlay, et al.. (2022). Data rescue: saving environmental data from extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1979). 20220938–20220938. 11 indexed citations
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Smith, M. Alex, et al.. (2022). Do bromeliads affect the arboreal ant communities on orange trees in northwestern Costa Rica?. PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0271040–e0271040. 1 indexed citations
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Tseng, Michelle, Rana W. El‐Sabaawi, Michael B. Kantar, et al.. (2020). Strategies and support for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in ecology and evolutionary biology. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(10). 1288–1290. 35 indexed citations
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Céréghino, Régis, Jean‐François Carrias, Arthur Compin, et al.. (2020). In situ resistance, not immigration, supports invertebrate community resilience to drought intensification in a Neotropical ecosystem. Journal of Animal Ecology. 90(9). 2015–2026. 6 indexed citations
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Gonzalez, Andrew, Rachel M. Germain, Diane S. Srivastava, et al.. (2020). Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research. Ecology Letters. 23(4). 757–776. 301 indexed citations breakdown →
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Amundrud, Sarah L., et al.. (2019). Drought alters the trophic role of an opportunistic generalist in an aquatic ecosystem. Oecologia. 189(3). 733–744. 9 indexed citations
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Guzman, Laura Melissa, Rachel M. Germain, Mary I. O’Connor, et al.. (2018). Towards a multi‐trophic extension of metacommunity ecology. Ecology Letters. 22(1). 19–33. 70 indexed citations
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Louca, Stilianos, Martin F. Polz, Florent Mazel, et al.. (2018). Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(6). 936–943. 1178 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kratina, Pavel, et al.. (2014). Food web complexity and stability across habitat connectivity gradients. Oecologia. 176(4). 903–915. 22 indexed citations
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Srivastava, Diane S., Marc W. Cadotte, A. Andrew M. MacDonald, Robin G. Marushia, & Nicholas Mirotchnick. (2012). Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems. Ecology Letters. 15(7). 637–648. 460 indexed citations breakdown →
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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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Srivastava, Diane S., Bradley J. Cardinale, Amy L. Downing, et al.. (2009). Diversity has stronger top‐down than bottom‐up effects on decomposition. Ecology. 90(4). 1073–1083. 180 indexed citations
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Starzomski, Brian M., et al.. (2008). ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REGIONAL AND LOCAL SPECIES RICHNESS: A TEST OF SATURATION THEORY. Ecology. 89(7). 1921–1930. 35 indexed citations
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Cardinale, Bradley J., Justin P. Wright, Marc W. Cadotte, et al.. (2007). Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(46). 18123–18128. 1107 indexed citations breakdown →
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Srivastava, Diane S., Jurek Kolasa, Jan Bengtsson, et al.. (2004). Are natural microcosms useful model systems for ecology?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 19(7). 379–384. 287 indexed citations
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Srivastava, Diane S.. (2002). The role of conservation in expanding biodiversity research. Oikos. 98(2). 351–360. 37 indexed citations
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Srivastava, Diane S. & John H. Lawton. (1998). Why More Productive Sites Have More Species: An Experimental Test of Theory Using Tree‐Hole Communities. The American Naturalist. 152(4). 510–529. 512 indexed citations breakdown →

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