Jonathan M. Chase

40.3k total citations · 18 hit papers
192 papers, 26.9k citations indexed

About

Jonathan M. Chase is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan M. Chase has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 26.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 85 papers in Ecology and 72 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Jonathan M. Chase's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (113 papers), Plant and animal studies (71 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (62 papers). Jonathan M. Chase is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (113 papers), Plant and animal studies (71 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (62 papers). Jonathan M. Chase collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Jonathan M. Chase's co-authors include Mathew A. Leibold, Jonathan A. Myers, Tiffany M. Knight, Jonathan B. Shurin, Robert D. Holt, Jamie M. Kneitel, Andrew Gonzalez, Mark Vellend, Martha F. Hoopes and Priyanga Amarasekare and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan M. Chase

184 papers receiving 26.1k citations

Hit Papers

The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale co... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2004 2010 2003 2011 2003 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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. The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology
    2004 3.9k citations Mathew A. Leibold, Marcel Holyoak et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  2. Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist
    2010 1.9k citations Jonathan M. Chase et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  3. Ecological Niches
    2003 1.4k citations Jonathan M. Chase, Mathew A. Leibold profile →
  4. Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales
    2011 1.2k citations Jonathan M. Chase et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  5. Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches
    2003 1.1k citations Jonathan M. Chase, Mathew A. Leibold profile →
  6. Stochastic Community Assembly Causes Higher Biodiversity in More Productive Environments
    2010 852 citations Jonathan M. Chase Science profile →
  7. Drought mediates the importance of stochastic community assembly
    2007 823 citations Jonathan M. Chase Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  8. Community assembly: when should history matter?
    2003 802 citations Jonathan M. Chase Oecologia profile →
  9. Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity
    2011 749 citations Jonathan M. Chase et al. profile →
  10. Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances
    2020 697 citations Jonathan M. Chase et al. Science profile →
  11. Spatial scale dictates the productivity–biodiversity relationship
    2002 650 citations Jonathan M. Chase, Mathew A. Leibold Nature profile →
  12. Trade‐offs in community ecology: linking spatial scales and species coexistence
    2003 608 citations Jonathan M. Chase et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  13. Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients
    2011 580 citations Jonathan M. Chase et al. Science profile →
  14. The interaction between predation and competition: a review and synthesis
    2002 573 citations Jonathan M. Chase, Robert D. Holt et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  15. Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring
    2017 483 citations Helmut Hillebrand, Jonathan M. Chase et al. profile →
  16. Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss
    2020 310 citations Jonathan M. Chase, Shane A. Blowes et al. Nature profile →
  17. A process‐based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology
    2020 204 citations Patrick L. Thompson, Laura Melissa Guzman et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  18. Disproportionate declines of formerly abundant species underlie insect loss
    2023 75 citations Jonathan M. Chase et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jonathan M. Chase United States 68 14.0k 13.3k 8.5k 5.2k 4.5k 192 26.9k
Nicholas J. Gotelli United States 71 12.8k 0.9× 13.9k 1.0× 11.7k 1.4× 6.7k 1.3× 5.2k 1.1× 222 29.4k
Andrew Gonzalez Canada 63 10.4k 0.7× 10.0k 0.8× 6.6k 0.8× 3.8k 0.7× 7.2k 1.6× 181 23.9k
David U. Hooper United States 31 11.0k 0.8× 13.0k 1.0× 6.7k 0.8× 3.3k 0.6× 8.4k 1.9× 41 27.0k
Jonathan M. Levine United States 61 8.7k 0.6× 13.2k 1.0× 10.2k 1.2× 4.1k 0.8× 3.9k 0.9× 151 22.4k
Robert K. Colwell United States 66 16.5k 1.2× 15.7k 1.2× 13.2k 1.5× 9.3k 1.8× 6.2k 1.4× 136 37.2k
Bradley J. Cardinale United States 57 9.4k 0.7× 9.8k 0.7× 5.5k 0.7× 2.5k 0.5× 6.3k 1.4× 132 23.5k
David Mouillot France 67 12.2k 0.9× 9.6k 0.7× 4.6k 0.5× 3.3k 0.6× 7.0k 1.5× 260 21.3k
Diana H. Wall United States 69 15.5k 1.1× 8.1k 0.6× 5.5k 0.7× 2.3k 0.4× 5.4k 1.2× 194 29.4k
Andy Hector United Kingdom 50 9.1k 0.6× 14.1k 1.1× 7.2k 0.8× 2.6k 0.5× 8.3k 1.8× 105 26.1k
Nicolas Mouquet France 54 8.2k 0.6× 7.8k 0.6× 5.3k 0.6× 3.4k 0.6× 3.0k 0.7× 117 15.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liang, Maowei, Qi Yang, Jonathan M. Chase, et al.. (2025). Unifying spatial scaling laws of biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Science. 387(6740). eadl2373–eadl2373. 5 indexed citations
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Pinsky, Malin L., Helmut Hillebrand, Jonathan M. Chase, et al.. (2025). Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity. Nature. 638(8052). 995–999. 6 indexed citations
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Hagen, Oskar, Duarte S. Viana, Thorsten Wiegand, Jonathan M. Chase, & Renske E. Onstein. (2024). The macro-eco-evolutionary interplay between dispersal, competition and landscape structure in generating biodiversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1907). 20230140–20230140. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qun, Rui‐Ting Ju, Bo Li, et al.. (2024). Genotype diversity enhances invasion resistance of native plants via soil biotic feedbacks. Ecology Letters. 27(3). e14384–e14384. 11 indexed citations
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Rozzi, Roberto, Mark V. Lomolino, Alexandra van der Geer, et al.. (2023). Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands. Science. 379(6636). 1054–1059. 27 indexed citations
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Ladouceur, Emma, Forest Isbell, Adam Thomas Clark, et al.. (2023). The recovery of plant community composition following passive restoration across spatial scales. Journal of Ecology. 111(4). 814–829. 17 indexed citations
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Gooriah, Leana, Priya Davidar, & Jonathan M. Chase. (2020). Species–area relationships in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands emerge because rarer species are disproportionately favored on larger islands. Ecology and Evolution. 10(14). 7551–7559. 13 indexed citations
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Thompson, Patrick L., Laura Melissa Guzman, Luc De Meester, et al.. (2020). A process‐based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology. Ecology Letters. 23(9). 1314–1329. 204 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mentges, Andrea, Shane A. Blowes, Dorothee Hodapp, Helmut Hillebrand, & Jonathan M. Chase. (2020). Effects of site‐selection bias on estimates of biodiversity change. Conservation Biology. 35(2). 688–698. 34 indexed citations
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Craven, Dylan, Tiffany M. Knight, Kasey E. Barton, Lalasia Bialic‐Murphy, & Jonathan M. Chase. (2019). Dissecting macroecological and macroevolutionary patterns of forest biodiversity across the Hawaiian archipelago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(33). 16436–16441. 26 indexed citations
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Gooriah, Leana & Jonathan M. Chase. (2019). Sampling effects drive the species–area relationship in lake zooplankton. Oikos. 129(1). 124–132. 19 indexed citations
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McGlinn, Daniel J., Xiao Xiao, Felix May, et al.. (2018). Measurement of Biodiversity (MoB): A method to separate the scale‐dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(2). 258–269. 94 indexed citations
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May, Felix, Katharina Gerstner, Daniel J. McGlinn, Xiao Xiao, & Jonathan M. Chase. (2018). mobsim: An r package for the simulation and measurement of biodiversity across spatial scales. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(6). 1401–1408. 32 indexed citations
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Chase, Jonathan M., Brian J. McGill, Daniel J. McGlinn, et al.. (2018). Embracing scale‐dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities. Ecology Letters. 21(11). 1737–1751. 207 indexed citations
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Craven, Dylan, Tiffany M. Knight, Kasey E. Barton, et al.. (2018). OpenNahele: the open Hawaiian forest plot database. Biodiversity Data Journal. 6(6). e28406–e28406. 11 indexed citations
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Chase, Jonathan M.. (2010). Stochastic Community Assembly Causes Higher Biodiversity in More Productive Environments. Science. 328(5984). 1388–1391. 852 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chase, Jonathan M.. (2007). Drought mediates the importance of stochastic community assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(44). 17430–17434. 823 indexed citations breakdown →
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Johnson, Pieter T. J., et al.. (2007). Aquatic eutrophication promotes pathogenic infection in amphibians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(40). 15781–15786. 300 indexed citations
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Leibold, Mathew A., Marcel Holyoak, Nicolas Mouquet, et al.. (2004). The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology. Ecology Letters. 7(7). 601–613. 3866 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chase, Jonathan M.. (2003). Community assembly: when should history matter?. Oecologia. 136(4). 489–498. 802 indexed citations breakdown →

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