Jake M. Alexander

9.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
72 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Jake M. Alexander is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jake M. Alexander has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Ecological Modeling, 45 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 45 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Jake M. Alexander's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (48 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (44 papers) and Plant and animal studies (38 papers). Jake M. Alexander is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (48 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (44 papers) and Plant and animal studies (38 papers). Jake M. Alexander collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Jake M. Alexander's co-authors include Peter J. Edwards, Jonathan M. Levine, Jeffrey M. Diez, Christoph Kueffer, Sylvia Haider, Aníbal Pauchard, Keith L. McDougall, Emily Moran, Lisa J. Rew and Doron Lancet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jake M. Alexander

70 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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2010 1.5k citations Jake M. Alexander et al. profile →
Novel competitors shape species’ responses to climate change

2015 504 citations Jake M. Alexander, Jeffrey M. Diez et al. profile →
Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change

2017 308 citations Jake M. Alexander, Loïc Chalmandrier et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jake M. Alexander Switzerland	33	2.5k	2.0k	1.8k	1.4k	1.1k	72	5.7k
János Podani Hungary	34	2.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	859 0.5×	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	133	5.3k
Chris Humphries United Kingdom	31	2.5k 1.0×	2.5k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	95	6.5k
Hong Qian United States	50	5.2k 2.1×	4.6k 2.3×	2.2k 1.2×	2.1k 1.5×	1.8k 1.6×	207	9.2k
Charles H. Cannon United States	37	1.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	516 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	83	5.1k
Félix Forest United Kingdom	47	1.6k 0.6×	5.0k 2.5×	733 0.4×	726 0.5×	2.6k 2.3×	205	8.0k
Jesús Muñoz Spain	31	859 0.3×	2.2k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	142	3.9k
Silvia Fineschi Italy	33	851 0.3×	1.9k 1.0×	561 0.3×	830 0.6×	2.0k 1.8×	83	5.8k
Xiaoyong Chen China	34	960 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	243 0.1×	964 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	224	4.5k
John C. Manning South Africa	35	1.7k 0.7×	3.7k 1.9×	408 0.2×	421 0.3×	2.3k 2.1×	292	5.1k
Da‐Yong Zhang China	35	735 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	225 0.1×	549 0.4×	1.4k 1.3×	155	3.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Alexander, Jake M., et al.. (2025). Early detection of plant community responses to climate warming along mountain roads. Journal of Ecology. 113(9). 2575–2589.

Mayzlish‐Gati, Einav, et al.. (2025). Genomic Signatures of Adaptation Across a Precipitation Gradient From Niche Centre to Niche Edge. Molecular Ecology. 34(6). e17696–e17696. 2 indexed citations

Svoboda, Jan, Christoph Marty, Yann Vitasse, et al.. (2025). Snow Height Sensors Reveal Phenological Advance in Alpine Grasslands. Global Change Biology. 31(5). e70195–e70195. 2 indexed citations

Vries, Jorad de, et al.. (2024). Unravelling drivers of local adaptation through evolutionary functional–structural plant modelling. New Phytologist. 244(3). 1101–1113. 3 indexed citations

Trunschke, Judith, et al.. (2024). Effects of climate change on plant-pollinator interactions and its multitrophic consequences. Alpine Botany. 134(2). 115–121. 11 indexed citations

Alexander, Jake M., et al.. (2024). Functional Traits Predict Outcomes of Current and Novel Competition Under Warmer Climate. Global Change Biology. 30(11). e17551–e17551. 1 indexed citations

Alexander, Jake M., et al.. (2023). Connecting higher‐order interactions with ecological stability in experimental aquatic food webs. Ecology and Evolution. 13(9). e10502–e10502. 5 indexed citations

Piccardi, Philippe, et al.. (2022). Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves. The ISME Journal. 16(12). 2644–2652. 17 indexed citations

Backes, Amanda Ratier, Christine Römermann, Jake M. Alexander, et al.. (2022). Mechanisms behind elevational plant species richness patterns revealed by a trait‐based approach. Journal of Vegetation Science. 34(1). 10 indexed citations

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Döetterl, Sebastian, Jake M. Alexander, Simone Fior, et al.. (2021). Will accelerated soil development be a driver of Arctic Greening in the late 21st century?^#. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. 185(1). 19–23. 10 indexed citations

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Alexander, Jake M., et al.. (2021). Positive species interactions shape species' range limits. Oikos. 130(10). 1611–1625. 26 indexed citations

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Lembrechts, Jonas J., Jake M. Alexander, Sylvia Haider, et al.. (2020). The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in nonnative plant invasion along mountain roads. New Phytologist. 230(3). 1156–1168. 21 indexed citations

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Wüest, Rafael O., Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Damaris Zurell, et al.. (2019). Macroecology in the age of Big Data – Where to go from here?. Journal of Biogeography. 47(1). 1–12. 103 indexed citations

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Alexander, Jake M., Loïc Chalmandrier, Jonathan Lenoir, et al.. (2017). Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change. Global Change Biology. 24(2). 563–579. 308 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alexander, Jake M., Jeffrey M. Diez, Simon P. Hart, & Jonathan M. Levine. (2016). When Climate Reshuffles Competitors: A Call for Experimental Macroecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 31(11). 831–841. 130 indexed citations

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Moran, Emily & Jake M. Alexander. (2014). Evolutionary responses to global change: lessons from invasive species. Ecology Letters. 17(5). 637–649. 228 indexed citations

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McDougall, Keith L., Jake M. Alexander, Sylvia Haider, et al.. (2010). Alien flora of mountains: global comparisons for the development of local preventive measures against plant invasions. Diversity and Distributions. 17(1). 103–111. 106 indexed citations

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Alexander, Jake M., et al.. (2009). Contrasting patterns of genetic variation and structure in plant invasions of mountains. Diversity and Distributions. 15(3). 502–512. 30 indexed citations

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Pauchard, Aníbal, Christoph Kueffer, Keith L. McDougall, & Jake M. Alexander. (2009). Global networks: a reply to Khuroo et al.. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 7(10). 518–518. 1 indexed citations

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Naylor, Bridgett J., et al.. (2008). Seedling establishment of Asteraceae forbs along altitudinal gradients: a comparison of transplant experiments in the native and introduced ranges. Diversity and Distributions. 15(2). 254–265. 34 indexed citations

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