Jonathan A. Myers

10.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Jonathan A. Myers is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan A. Myers has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 28 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jonathan A. Myers's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (44 papers), Plant and animal studies (27 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers). Jonathan A. Myers is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (44 papers), Plant and animal studies (27 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers). Jonathan A. Myers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Panama and Bolivia. Jonathan A. Myers's co-authors include Jonathan M. Chase, Kyle E. Harms, Kaoru Kitajima, Mark Vellend, Sana Gardescu, P. L. Marks, Iván Jiménez, Joseph A. LaManna, Laura A. Burkle and R. Travis Belote and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan A. Myers

53 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales

2011 1.2k citations Jonathan A. Myers et al. profile →
Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

2011 580 citations Mark Vellend, Jonathan A. Myers et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan A. Myers United States	29	3.1k	2.2k	1.8k	1.0k	1.0k	53	4.9k
Qinfeng Guo United States	43	3.0k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	716 0.7×	170	5.0k
Jill Thompson United States	37	3.5k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	2.0k 1.9×	833 0.8×	97	5.9k
William G. Lee New Zealand	34	3.1k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	680 0.7×	117	5.6k
Amy L. Freestone United States	18	2.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	887 0.8×	892 0.9×	34	4.4k
Claire Fortunel France	24	3.8k 1.3×	1.7k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	1.9k 1.8×	1.0k 1.0×	53	5.9k
Jason D. Fridley United States	39	3.7k 1.2×	1.9k 0.8×	2.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	93	5.5k
Óscar Godoy Spain	29	3.1k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	2.4k 1.3×	906 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	82	4.8k
Renato Valencia Ecuador	30	4.5k 1.5×	1.6k 0.7×	3.0k 1.7×	1.4k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	81	6.2k
Brian J. Wilsey United States	40	4.1k 1.3×	2.8k 1.3×	2.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.7×	758 0.7×	107	6.9k
Sharon Lawler United States	35	2.0k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	657 0.6×	79	4.9k

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Myers, Jonathan A., et al.. (2025). Pawpaws prevent predictability: A locally dominant tree alters understory beta‐diversity and community assembly. Ecosphere. 16(1). 2 indexed citations

Henn, Jonathan J., Brian E. Sedio, Christopher P. Catano, et al.. (2024). Metabolomic and morphological trait diversity display contrasting patterns in temperate forest tree communities. Ecosphere. 15(12). 1 indexed citations

Myers, Jonathan A., Christine E. Edwards, Amy E. Zanne, et al.. (2021). The evolutionary assembly of forest communities along environmental gradients: recent diversification or sorting of pre‐adapted clades?. New Phytologist. 232(6). 2506–2519. 6 indexed citations

LaManna, Joseph A., Laura A. Burkle, R. Travis Belote, & Jonathan A. Myers. (2020). Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant–pollinator community assembly across wildfire gradients. Journal of Ecology. 109(2). 1000–1013. 16 indexed citations

Díaz, Dilys M. Vela, et al.. (2020). Untangling the importance of niche breadth and niche position as drivers of tree species abundance and occupancy across biogeographic regions. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(9). 1542–1553. 31 indexed citations

Oberle, Brad, Marissa R. Lee, Jonathan A. Myers, et al.. (2019). Accurate forest projections require long‐term wood decay experiments because plant trait effects change through time. Global Change Biology. 26(2). 864–875. 46 indexed citations

Ellison, Aaron M., Hannah L. Buckley, Bradley S. Case, et al.. (2019). Species Diversity Associated with Foundation Species in Temperate and Tropical Forests. Forests. 10(2). 128–128. 23 indexed citations

Burkle, Laura A., et al.. (2019). Wildfires Influence Abundance, Diversity, and Intraspecific and Interspecific Trait Variation of Native Bees and Flowering Plants Across Burned and Unburned Landscapes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7. 45 indexed citations

Spasojevic, Marko J., et al.. (2019). Landscape context mediates the relationship between plant functional traits and decomposition. Plant and Soil. 438(1-2). 377–391. 3 indexed citations

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Spasojevic, Marko J., Christopher P. Catano, Joseph A. LaManna, & Jonathan A. Myers. (2018). Integrating species traits into species pools. Ecology. 99(6). 1265–1276. 41 indexed citations

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Catano, Christopher P., Timothy L. Dickson, & Jonathan A. Myers. (2017). Dispersal and neutral sampling mediate contingent effects of disturbance on plant beta‐diversity: a meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters. 20(3). 347–356. 72 indexed citations

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LaManna, Joseph A., R. Travis Belote, Laura A. Burkle, Christopher P. Catano, & Jonathan A. Myers. (2017). Negative density dependence mediates biodiversity–productivity relationships across scales. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(8). 1107–1115. 24 indexed citations

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Harms, Kyle E., Paul R. Gagnon, Heather A. Passmore, Jonathan A. Myers, & William Platt. (2017). Groundcover community assembly in high‐diversity pine savannas: seed arrival and fire‐generated environmental filtering. Ecosphere. 8(3). 12 indexed citations

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Fisher, Joshua B., Sean Sweeney, Edward Brzostek, et al.. (2016). Tree‐mycorrhizal associations detected remotely from canopy spectral properties. Global Change Biology. 22(7). 2596–2607. 30 indexed citations

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Oberle, Brad, Amy M. Milo, Jonathan A. Myers, et al.. (2015). Direct estimates of downslope deadwood movement over 30 years in a temperature forest illustrate impacts of treefall on forest ecosystem dynamics. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 46(3). 351–361. 8 indexed citations

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Gagnon, Paul R., Heather A. Passmore, William Platt, et al.. (2010). Does pyrogenicity protect burning plants?. Ecology. 91(12). 3481–3486. 78 indexed citations

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Myers, Jonathan A. & Kyle E. Harms. (2010). Seed arrival and ecological filters interact to assemble high-diversity plant communities. Ecology. 92(3). 676–686. 105 indexed citations

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Myers, Jonathan A. & Kyle E. Harms. (2009). Local immigration, competition from dominant guilds, and the ecological assembly of high‐diversity pine savannas. Ecology. 90(10). 2745–2754. 59 indexed citations

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Myers, Jonathan A. & Kaoru Kitajima. (2007). Carbohydrate storage enhances seedling shade and stress tolerance in a neotropical forest. Journal of Ecology. 95(2). 383–395. 312 indexed citations

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Vellend, Mark, Sana Gardescu, P. L. Marks, & Jonathan A. Myers. (2004). Seed dispersal by white-tailed deer: implications for long-distance dispersal, invasion, and migration of plants in eastern North America. Oecologia. 139(1). 35–44. 248 indexed citations

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