John J. Stachowicz

20.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
104 papers, 14.0k citations indexed

About

John J. Stachowicz is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, John J. Stachowicz has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 14.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Oceanography, 67 papers in Ecology and 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in John J. Stachowicz's work include Marine and coastal plant biology (62 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (36 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (28 papers). John J. Stachowicz is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal plant biology (62 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (36 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (28 papers). John J. Stachowicz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. John J. Stachowicz's co-authors include John F. Bruno, Mark D. Bertness, A. Randall Hughes, Robert B. Whitlatch, Richard W. Osman, J. Emmett Duffy, Stephen R. Palumbi, Benjamin S. Halpern, Jeremy B. C. Jackson and Edward B. Barbier and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

John J. Stachowicz

104 papers receiving 13.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services

2006 3.1k citations Boris Worm, Edward B. Barbier et al. Science profile →
Inclusion of facilitation into ecological theory

2003 2.2k citations John J. Stachowicz et al. profile →
Mutualism, Facilitation, and the Structure of Ecological Communities

2001 844 citations John J. Stachowicz profile →
THE INVASION PARADOX: RECONCILING PATTERN AND PROCESS IN SPECIES INVASIONS

2007 738 citations Jason D. Fridley, John J. Stachowicz et al. Ecology profile →
Linking climate change and biological invasions: Ocean warming facilitates nonindigenous species invasions

2002 623 citations John J. Stachowicz et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Genetic diversity enhances the resistance of a seagrass ecosystem to disturbance

2004 616 citations A. Randall Hughes, John J. Stachowicz Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Species Diversity and Invasion Resistance in a Marine Ecosystem

1999 547 citations John J. Stachowicz et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John J. Stachowicz United States	43	7.8k	5.4k	5.1k	3.9k	2.9k	104	14.0k
Mary I. O’Connor Canada	43	7.5k 1.0×	5.2k 1.0×	3.4k 0.7×	3.6k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	110	13.8k
James T. Carlton United States	65	11.4k 1.5×	10.5k 1.9×	6.1k 1.2×	3.8k 1.0×	1.8k 0.6×	203	18.6k
Hugh J. MacIsaac Canada	66	10.3k 1.3×	4.9k 0.9×	2.3k 0.5×	5.6k 1.4×	2.0k 0.7×	246	15.2k
Jonathan B. Shurin United States	46	9.0k 1.2×	2.8k 0.5×	3.2k 0.6×	6.6k 1.7×	3.1k 1.1×	116	16.3k
Pablo Inchausti France	29	6.0k 0.8×	3.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.3×	6.0k 1.5×	3.3k 1.1×	61	12.6k
Andrew R. Watkinson United Kingdom	65	7.5k 1.0×	4.2k 0.8×	2.2k 0.4×	5.5k 1.4×	3.5k 1.2×	172	15.2k
Bruce A. Menge United States	68	10.7k 1.4×	8.3k 1.5×	12.1k 2.4×	3.1k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	152	19.2k
Richard M. Warwick United Kingdom	46	10.9k 1.4×	7.4k 1.4×	9.8k 1.9×	3.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	130	18.7k
Mark D. Bertness United States	78	17.1k 2.2×	6.5k 1.2×	9.6k 1.9×	6.8k 1.7×	3.9k 1.3×	193	24.2k
Jean‐Marc Fromentin France	43	6.8k 0.9×	7.1k 1.3×	1.9k 0.4×	4.4k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	141	13.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John J. Stachowicz

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Lohan, Katrina M. Pagenkopp, A. Randall Hughes, Bradley J. Peterson, et al.. (2025). Phylogeography of Labyrinthula species and strains shows high connectivity and low genetic variation across seagrass hosts and geographic locations in North America. Frontiers in Marine Science. 11. 1 indexed citations

Stachowicz, John J., et al.. (2024). Herbivores can benefit both plants and their pathogens through selective herbivory on diseased tissue. Journal of Ecology. 112(6). 1413–1424. 2 indexed citations

Stachowicz, John J., et al.. (2024). Extending trait dispersion across trophic levels: Predator assemblages act as top‐down filters on prey communities. Ecology. 105(7). e4320–e4320. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Lei, Agata Burian, Till Bayer, et al.. (2024). A somatic genetic clock for clonal species. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(7). 1327–1336. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhilin, Lei Yu, Rashmi R. Hazarika, et al.. (2023). An evolutionary epigenetic clock in plants. Science. 381(6665). 1440–1445. 30 indexed citations

Yang, Bo, Timothy L. Hawthorne, Lillian R. Aoki, et al.. (2023). Low‐Altitude UAV Imaging Accurately Quantifies Eelgrass Wasting Disease From Alaska to California. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(4). 6 indexed citations

Stachowicz, John J., et al.. (2023). Northeast Pacific eelgrass fish communities characterized by environmental DNA represent local diversity and show habitat specificity. Environmental DNA. 5(4). 706–722. 2 indexed citations

Kardish, Melissa R. & John J. Stachowicz. (2023). Local environment drives rapid shifts in composition and phylogenetic clustering of seagrass microbiomes. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 3673–3673. 8 indexed citations

Stachowicz, John J., et al.. (2022). Sodium molybdate does not inhibit sulfate-reducing bacteria but increases shell growth in the Pacific oyster Magallana gigas. PLoS ONE. 17(2). e0262939–e0262939. 4 indexed citations

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Grosberg, Richard K., et al.. (2018). Genetic distance predicts trait differentiation at the subpopulation but not the individual level in eelgrass,Zostera marina. Ecology and Evolution. 8(15). 7476–7489. 18 indexed citations

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Fahimipour, Ashkaan K., Melissa R. Kardish, Jenna Lang, et al.. (2017). Global-Scale Structure of the Eelgrass Microbiome. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 83(12). 113 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Laura K., et al.. (2016). Temporal stability in patterns of genetic diversity and structure of a marine foundation species (Zostera marina). Heredity. 118(4). 404–412. 38 indexed citations

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Best, Rebecca J., et al.. (2015). Predicting consequences of climate change for ecosystem functioning: variation across trophic levels, species and individuals. Diversity and Distributions. 21(12). 1364–1374. 17 indexed citations

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Hughes, A. Randall, John J. Stachowicz, & Susan L. Williams. (2009). Morphological and physiological variation among seagrass (Zostera marina) genotypes. Oecologia. 159(4). 725–733. 79 indexed citations

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Edwards, Kyle F., et al.. (2009). Prey diversity is associated with weaker consumer effects in a meta‐analysis of benthic marine experiments. Ecology Letters. 13(2). 194–201. 51 indexed citations

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Byrnes, Jarrett E. K. & John J. Stachowicz. (2009). The consequences of consumer diversity loss: different answers from different experimental designs. Ecology. 90(10). 2879–2888. 69 indexed citations

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Worm, Boris, Edward B. Barbier, Nicola Beaumont, et al.. (2007). Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Fridley, Jason D., John J. Stachowicz, Shahid Naeem, et al.. (2007). THE INVASION PARADOX: RECONCILING PATTERN AND PROCESS IN SPECIES INVASIONS. Ecology. 88(1). 3–17. 738 indexed citations breakdown →

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Worm, Boris, Edward B. Barbier, Nicola Beaumont, et al.. (2006). Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services. Science. 314(5800). 787–790. 3141 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hughes, A. Randall & John J. Stachowicz. (2004). Genetic diversity enhances the resistance of a seagrass ecosystem to disturbance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(24). 8998–9002. 616 indexed citations breakdown →

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