Forest Isbell

26.8k total citations · 18 hit papers
99 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

About

Forest Isbell is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Forest Isbell has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 44 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 39 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Forest Isbell's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (68 papers), Plant and animal studies (36 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers). Forest Isbell is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (68 papers), Plant and animal studies (36 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers). Forest Isbell collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Forest Isbell's co-authors include David Tilman, Peter B. Reich, Jane Cowles, Brian J. Wilsey, Michel Loreau, Andy Hector, Akira Mori, H. Wayne Polley, Nico Eisenhauer and Laura E. Dee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Forest Isbell

98 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning 2011 2026 2016 2021 2014 2011 2014 2012 2015 400 800 1.2k
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 and Ecosystem Functioning
    2014 1.4k citations David Tilman, Forest Isbell et al. profile →
  2. High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services
    2011 1.1k citations Forest Isbell, John Connolly et al. profile →
  3. Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions
    2014 662 citations Forest Isbell, Laura E. Dee et al. profile →
  4. Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades
    2012 605 citations Peter B. Reich, David Tilman et al. Science profile →
  5. Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity
    2015 570 citations Yann Hautier, David Tilman et al. Science profile →
  6. Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats
    2015 548 citations Forest Isbell, Nico Eisenhauer et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity
    2013 511 citations Forest Isbell, Peter B. Reich et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  8. Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales
    2017 490 citations Forest Isbell, Andrew Gonzalez et al. profile →
  9. β-Diversity, Community Assembly, and Ecosystem Functioning
    2018 460 citations Akira Mori, Forest Isbell et al. profile →
  10. Benefits of increasing plant diversity in sustainable agroecosystems
    2017 401 citations Forest Isbell, Nico Eisenhauer et al. profile →
  11. Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory
    2012 377 citations David Tilman, Peter B. Reich et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  12. Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research
    2020 301 citations Andrew Gonzalez, Rachel M. Germain et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  13. The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences
    2018 296 citations Kathryn E. Barry, John Connolly et al. profile →
  14. Diversifying livestock promotes multidiversity and multifunctionality in managed grasslands
    2019 281 citations Forest Isbell et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  15. When Do Ecosystem Services Depend on Rare Species?
    2019 191 citations Laura E. Dee, Jane Cowles et al. profile →
  16. Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application
    2021 173 citations Michel Loreau, Matthieu Barbier et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →
  17. Experimental impacts of grazing on grassland biodiversity and function are explained by aridity
    2023 92 citations Forest Isbell, Yann Hautier et al. Nature Communications profile →
  18. Biodiversity loss reduces global terrestrial carbon storage
    2024 54 citations Sarah R. Weiskopf, Forest Isbell et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Forest Isbell United States 51 6.6k 4.6k 4.4k 3.2k 2.5k 99 13.0k
Martı́n Oesterheld Argentina 41 5.9k 0.9× 6.1k 1.3× 4.2k 0.9× 2.8k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 103 13.1k
Katharine N. Suding United States 59 9.4k 1.4× 6.4k 1.4× 5.0k 1.1× 4.4k 1.4× 4.8k 1.9× 193 16.6k
Melinda D. Smith United States 64 8.3k 1.3× 6.5k 1.4× 8.4k 1.9× 3.4k 1.1× 3.8k 1.5× 199 17.7k
W. Stanley Harpole United States 39 5.9k 0.9× 5.8k 1.3× 2.9k 0.7× 2.9k 0.9× 3.5k 1.4× 83 15.0k
Mark E. Ritchie United States 43 6.0k 0.9× 5.5k 1.2× 2.6k 0.6× 3.2k 1.0× 2.1k 0.8× 103 11.5k
Diane S. Srivastava Canada 40 7.0k 1.1× 7.2k 1.6× 4.1k 0.9× 4.5k 1.4× 2.1k 0.9× 116 16.3k
Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen Germany 55 6.4k 1.0× 2.7k 0.6× 3.9k 0.9× 2.4k 0.7× 2.7k 1.1× 162 11.2k
Pablo Inchausti France 29 6.0k 0.9× 6.0k 1.3× 3.9k 0.9× 3.3k 1.0× 1.6k 0.7× 61 12.6k
Eric W. Seabloom United States 56 6.6k 1.0× 7.9k 1.7× 2.9k 0.7× 3.7k 1.2× 4.5k 1.8× 176 17.5k
Jan Bengtsson Sweden 51 5.8k 0.9× 4.6k 1.0× 4.5k 1.0× 3.7k 1.2× 2.4k 1.0× 143 13.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Forest Isbell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Forest Isbell

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Forest Isbell. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Forest Isbell 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 Forest Isbell. Forest Isbell 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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Huang, Mengjiao, Peter B. Reich, Shaopeng Wang, et al.. (2025). Nitrogen and CO2 enrichment interact to decrease biodiversity impact on complementarity and selection effects. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7445–7445.
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Churchill, Amber C., Haiyang Zhang, Gil Won Kim, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen niche partitioning between tropical legumes and grasses conditionally weakens under elevated CO 2. Functional Ecology. 38(8). 1708–1725. 2 indexed citations
3.
Weiskopf, Sarah R., Susannah B. Lerman, Forest Isbell, & Toni Lyn Morelli. (2024). Biodiversity promotes urban ecosystem functioning. Ecography. 2024(9). 11 indexed citations
4.
Wilsey, Brian J., Leanne M. Martin, Xia Xu, Forest Isbell, & H. Wayne Polley. (2023). Biodiversity: Net primary productivity relationships are eliminated by invasive species dominance. Ecology Letters. 27(1). e14342–e14342. 7 indexed citations
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Mori, Akira, Forest Isbell, & Marc W. Cadotte. (2023). Assessing the importance of species and their assemblages for the biodiversity‐ecosystem multifunctionality relationship. Ecology. 104(8). e4104–e4104. 25 indexed citations
6.
Avolio, Meghan L., Kimberly J. Komatsu, Sally E. Koerner, et al.. (2022). Making sense of multivariate community responses in global change experiments. Ecosphere. 13(10). 3 indexed citations
7.
Wan, Nian‐Feng, Liwan Fu, Matteo Dainese, et al.. (2022). Plant genetic diversity affects multiple trophic levels and trophic interactions. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7312–7312. 39 indexed citations
8.
Tatsumi, Shinichi, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Saori Fujii, et al.. (2021). Prolonged impacts of past agriculture and ungulate overabundance on soil fungal communities in restored forests. Environmental DNA. 3(5). 930–939. 4 indexed citations
9.
Jungers, Jacob M., Yi Yang, Christopher W. Fernandez, et al.. (2021). Diversifying bioenergy crops increases yield and yield stability by reducing weed abundance. Science Advances. 7(44). eabg8531–eabg8531. 12 indexed citations
10.
Loreau, Michel, Matthieu Barbier, Élise Filotas, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 96(5). 2333–2354. 173 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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Barnes, Andrew D., Christoph Scherber, Ulrich Brose, et al.. (2020). Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory. Science Advances. 6(45). 89 indexed citations
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Kimmel, Kaitlin, Laura E. Dee, David Tilman, et al.. (2019). Chronic fertilization and irrigation gradually and increasingly restructure grassland communities. Ecosphere. 10(3). 7 indexed citations
14.
Avolio, Meghan L., Ian T. Carroll, Scott L. Collins, et al.. (2019). A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves. Ecosphere. 10(10). 101 indexed citations
15.
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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Keeler, Bonnie, Jesse D. Gourevitch, Stephen Polasky, et al.. (2016). The social costs of nitrogen. Science Advances. 2(10). e1600219–e1600219. 128 indexed citations
17.
Isbell, Forest, et al.. (2015). Testing the effects of diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality using a multivariate model. Ecology Letters. 18(11). 1242–1251. 73 indexed citations
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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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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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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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