James D. Bever

27.2k total citations · 13 hit papers
204 papers, 19.2k citations indexed

About

James D. Bever is a scholar working on Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, James D. Bever has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 19.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Plant Science, 83 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 76 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in James D. Bever's work include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (120 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (83 papers) and Plant and animal studies (64 papers). James D. Bever is often cited by papers focused on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (120 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (83 papers) and Plant and animal studies (64 papers). James D. Bever collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and China. James D. Bever's co-authors include Janis Antonovics, Peggy A. Schultz, Keith Clay, John N. Klironomos, Liz Koziol, Kristi M. Westover, Joseph B. Morton, Heather L. Reynolds, Peter H. Thrall and Anne Pringle and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

James D. Bever

199 papers receiving 18.7k citations

Hit Papers

Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, th... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2013 1997 2010 2010 2003 400 800 1.2k
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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. Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges
    2013 1.3k citations James D. Bever, Paul Kardol et al. Journal of Ecology profile →
  2. Incorporating the Soil Community into Plant Population Dynamics: The Utility of the Feedback Approach
    1997 895 citations James D. Bever et al. Journal of Ecology profile →
  3. A meta‐analysis of context‐dependency in plant response to inoculation with mycorrhizal fungi
    2010 871 citations James D. Bever, Gail W. T. Wilson et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  4. Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest
    2010 789 citations Scott A. Mangan, Edward Allen Herre et al. profile →
  5. Soil community feedback and the coexistence of competitors: conceptual frameworks and empirical tests
    2003 660 citations James D. Bever profile →
  6. Biotic interactions and plant invasions
    2006 624 citations James D. Bever et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  7. Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions
    2010 594 citations James D. Bever et al. profile →
  8. GRASSROOTS ECOLOGY: PLANT–MICROBE–SOIL INTERACTIONS AS DRIVERS OF PLANT COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS
    2003 586 citations James D. Bever et al. Ecology profile →
  9. Feeback between Plants and Their Soil Communities in an Old Field Community
    1994 575 citations James D. Bever Ecology profile →
  10. Host-Dependent Sporulation and Species Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in a Mown Grassland
    1996 482 citations James D. Bever, Joseph B. Morton et al. Journal of Ecology profile →
  11. Microbial Population and Community Dynamics on Plant Roots and Their Feedbacks on Plant Communities
    2012 402 citations James D. Bever et al. profile →
  12. Maintenance of Plant Species Diversity by Pathogens
    2015 321 citations James D. Bever, Scott A. Mangan et al. profile →
  13. When and where plant‐soil feedback may promote plant coexistence: a meta‐analysis
    2019 229 citations Kerri M. Crawford, Jonathan T. Bauer 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
James D. Bever United States 65 14.4k 7.8k 6.2k 3.6k 2.7k 204 19.2k
Martin Zobel Estonia 69 9.8k 0.7× 10.5k 1.4× 6.6k 1.1× 4.3k 1.2× 5.9k 2.2× 220 19.9k
Nancy Collins Johnson United States 46 8.3k 0.6× 3.4k 0.4× 2.4k 0.4× 2.9k 0.8× 1.9k 0.7× 101 11.4k
Mari Moora Estonia 47 6.6k 0.5× 3.6k 0.5× 2.5k 0.4× 3.0k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 120 8.8k
Keith Clay United States 64 7.2k 0.5× 3.3k 0.4× 8.5k 1.4× 2.0k 0.5× 1.8k 0.7× 240 14.6k
Jan Stenlid Sweden 64 11.4k 0.8× 1.8k 0.2× 3.4k 0.6× 6.0k 1.7× 4.2k 1.5× 313 16.1k
Olivier Honnay Belgium 64 5.6k 0.4× 6.7k 0.9× 5.3k 0.9× 2.0k 0.6× 3.7k 1.4× 319 14.0k
Ian A. Dickie New Zealand 46 5.2k 0.4× 3.1k 0.4× 2.1k 0.3× 2.4k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 129 8.3k
Kabir Peay United States 43 6.2k 0.4× 1.8k 0.2× 2.4k 0.4× 3.3k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 98 8.5k
Thomas G. Whitham United States 77 6.3k 0.4× 8.6k 1.1× 8.2k 1.3× 4.7k 1.3× 6.3k 2.3× 284 18.9k
Catherine A. Gehring United States 43 4.4k 0.3× 3.4k 0.4× 2.3k 0.4× 2.0k 0.6× 1.7k 0.6× 134 7.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Jiang, Yuan Ge, James D. Bever, et al.. (2025). Shift in relative importance of complementarity and selection drives different effects of community evenness on richness–invasibility relationships. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2050). 20250496–20250496. 1 indexed citations
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Stürmer, Sidney Luiz, et al.. (2025). Synonymization of three species of Rhizophagus based on morphological and molecular evidence and biogeography of Rhizophagus clarus. Mycorrhiza. 35(2). 16–16. 1 indexed citations
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Xue, Wei, Lin Huang, James D. Bever, et al.. (2024). Number of global change factors alters plant-soil feedbacks via its effect on soil fungal communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 194. 109443–109443. 7 indexed citations
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Delavaux, Camille S., et al.. (2024). An updated LSU database and pipeline for environmental DNA identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Mycorrhiza. 34(4). 369–373. 6 indexed citations
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Delavaux, Camille S., John W. Schroeder, Kirk Broders, et al.. (2023). Fungal community dissimilarity predicts plant–soil feedback strength in a lowland tropical forest. Ecology. 105(1). e4200–e4200. 6 indexed citations
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Bever, James D., et al.. (2023). Role of plant relatedness in plant–soil feedback dynamics of sympatric Asclepias species. Ecology and Evolution. 13(1). e9763–e9763. 5 indexed citations
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Koziol, Liz, et al.. (2023). Native Microbes Amplify Native Seedling Establishment and Diversity While Inhibiting a Non-Native Grass. Plants. 12(5). 1184–1184. 8 indexed citations
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Eppinga, Maarten B., et al.. (2023). Introducing desirable patches to initiate ecosystem transitions and accelerate ecosystem restoration. Ecological Applications. 33(8). e2910–e2910. 6 indexed citations
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Koziol, Liz, et al.. (2022). Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Taxa Show Variable Patterns of Micro-Scale Dispersal in Prairie Restorations. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 827293–827293. 10 indexed citations
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Wang, Guangzhou, Liz Koziol, Bryan L. Foster, & James D. Bever. (2022). Microbial mediators of plant community response to long‐term N and P fertilization: Evidence of a role of plant responsiveness to mycorrhizal fungi. Global Change Biology. 28(8). 2721–2735. 21 indexed citations
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Abbott, Karen C., Maarten B. Eppinga, James Umbanhowar, Mara Baudena, & James D. Bever. (2021). Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host–microbe theory. Ecology Letters. 24(12). 2796–2811. 27 indexed citations
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Wang, Guangzhou, Shuikuan Bei, Jianpeng Li, et al.. (2020). Soil microbial legacy drives crop diversity advantage: Linking ecological plant–soil feedback with agricultural intercropping. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(3). 496–506. 84 indexed citations
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Tian, Qiuying, Liuyi Yang, Pengfei Ma, et al.. (2020). Below‐ground‐mediated and phase‐dependent processes drive nitrogen‐evoked community changes in grasslands. Journal of Ecology. 108(5). 1874–1887. 46 indexed citations
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Koziol, Liz, Timothy E. Crews, & James D. Bever. (2020). Native plant abundance, diversity, and richness increases in prairie restoration with field inoculation density of native mycorrhizal amendments. Restoration Ecology. 28(S4). 29 indexed citations
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Crawford, Kerri M., Jonathan T. Bauer, Liza S. Comita, et al.. (2019). When and where plant‐soil feedback may promote plant coexistence: a meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters. 22(8). 1274–1284. 229 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schütte, Ursel M. E., Jeremiah A. Henning, Yuzhen Ye, et al.. (2019). Effect of permafrost thaw on plant and soil fungal community in a boreal forest: Does fungal community change mediate plant productivity response?. Journal of Ecology. 107(4). 1737–1752. 36 indexed citations
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Schultz, Peggy A., James D. Bever, & Joseph B. Morton. (1999). Acaulospora colossica sp. nov. from an old field in North Carolina and morphological comparisons with similar species, A. laevis and A. koskei. Mycologia. 91(4). 676–683. 18 indexed citations

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