Jonathan S. Lefcheck

13.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
72 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Jonathan S. Lefcheck is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan S. Lefcheck has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Ecology, 32 papers in Oceanography and 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Jonathan S. Lefcheck's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (35 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (26 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (25 papers). Jonathan S. Lefcheck is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (35 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (26 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (25 papers). Jonathan S. Lefcheck collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Jonathan S. Lefcheck's co-authors include J. Emmett Duffy, John N. Griffin, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Bradley J. Cardinale, Lars Gamfeldt, Robert J. Orth, Forest Isbell, Andy Hector, Rick D. Stuart‐Smith and Graham J. Edgar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan S. Lefcheck

68 papers receiving 8.3k 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.

piecewiseSEM: Piecewise structural equation modelling inr for ecology, evolution, and systematics

2015 3.3k citations Jonathan S. Lefcheck Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

2014 662 citations Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Lars Gamfeldt et al. W&M Publish (College of William & Mary) profile →
Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

2015 548 citations Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes et al. Nature Communications profile →
Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity

2013 458 citations Rick D. Stuart‐Smith, Amanda E. Bates et al. profile →
Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets

2013 375 citations Amanda E. Bates, Jonathan S. Lefcheck et al. profile →
Coral reef ecosystem functioning: eight core processes and the role of biodiversity

2019 236 citations Simon J. Brandl, Douglas B. Rasher et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment profile →
Are coastal habitats important nurseries? A meta‐analysis

2019 221 citations Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Douglas B. Rasher et al. profile →
Restoration of seagrass habitat leads to rapid recovery of coastal ecosystem services

2020 212 citations Robert J. Orth, Jonathan S. Lefcheck et al. Science Advances profile →
Coastal wetland resilience through local, regional and global conservation

2025 26 citations Qiang He, Pedro Daleo 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 S. Lefcheck United States	30	4.5k	2.8k	2.8k	1.7k	1.6k	72	8.5k
Lars Gamfeldt Sweden	26	2.8k 0.6×	3.3k 1.2×	2.7k 1.0×	927 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	39	7.1k
Amy J. Symstad United States	22	3.2k 0.7×	4.2k 1.5×	2.6k 0.9×	749 0.4×	2.2k 1.4×	50	7.8k
Craig W. Osenberg United States	42	3.7k 0.8×	3.0k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	776 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	111	7.1k
Eric L. Berlow United States	24	5.7k 1.3×	4.8k 1.7×	3.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	3.3k 2.1×	40	11.6k
Pablo Inchausti France	29	6.0k 1.3×	6.0k 2.1×	3.9k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	3.3k 2.1×	61	12.6k
Dave Raffaelli United Kingdom	40	4.2k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.0×	2.8k 1.6×	1.6k 1.0×	78	8.5k
Guy Woodward United Kingdom	54	6.7k 1.5×	4.9k 1.7×	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	125	10.9k
Gerry P. Quinn Australia	9	5.4k 1.2×	3.6k 1.3×	3.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	2.8k 1.8×	18	11.4k
Shahid Naeem United States	16	3.7k 0.8×	4.9k 1.7×	3.0k 1.1×	843 0.5×	2.6k 1.7×	25	9.7k
Laura Gough United States	41	4.4k 1.0×	4.1k 1.5×	1.8k 0.7×	456 0.3×	2.2k 1.4×	97	9.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan S. Lefcheck

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He, Qiang, Pedro Daleo, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, et al.. (2025). Coastal wetland resilience through local, regional and global conservation. 1(1). 50–67. 26 indexed citations breakdown →

Canty, Steven W. J., Miguel Cifuentes, Jorge A. Herrera‐Silveira, et al.. (2025). Implications of improved remote sensing capabilities on blue carbon quantification. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 319. 109275–109275. 1 indexed citations

Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Maowei Liang, Y. Stacy Zhang, et al.. (2025). Seasonal asynchrony and harvest diversification contribute to demersal finfish fisheries stability in Chesapeake Bay. Ecological Applications. 35(6). e70097–e70097. 1 indexed citations

Eklöf, Johan, et al.. (2025). Submersed Aquatic Vegetation Enhances Density and Diversity of Epifaunal Invertebrates Compared to Filamentous Mats in the Central Baltic Sea. Ecology and Evolution. 15(6). e71498–e71498.

Canty, Steven W. J., A. Justin Nowakowski, Courtney Cox, et al.. (2024). Interplay of management and environmental drivers shifts size structure of reef fish communities. Global Change Biology. 30(4). e17257–e17257. 4 indexed citations

Tian, Amy Wei, et al.. (2023). Media myopia distorts public interest in US invasive plants. Biological Invasions. 25(10). 3193–3205. 5 indexed citations

Li, Xincheng, Hanchen Wang, Douglas J. McCauley, et al.. (2023). A wide megafauna gap undermines China’s expanding coastal ecosystem conservation. Science Advances. 9(32). eadg3800–eadg3800. 5 indexed citations

Malerba, Martino E., Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa, Daniel A. Friess, et al.. (2023). Remote sensing for cost-effective blue carbon accounting. Earth-Science Reviews. 238. 104337–104337. 30 indexed citations

Quimbayo, Juan P., et al.. (2022). The COVID-19 pandemic has altered illegal fishing activities inside and outside a marine protected area. Current Biology. 32(14). R765–R766. 13 indexed citations

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Haynes, Kyle J., Andrew M. Liebhold, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Randall S. Morin, & Guiming Wang. (2022). Climate affects the outbreaks of a forest defoliator indirectly through its tree hosts. Oecologia. 198(2). 407–418. 10 indexed citations

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Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Graham J. Edgar, Rick D. Stuart‐Smith, et al.. (2021). Species richness and identity both determine the biomass of global reef fish communities. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6875–6875. 25 indexed citations

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Montes, Enrique, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Edlin Guerra‐Castro, et al.. (2021). Optimizing Large-Scale Biodiversity Sampling Effort: Toward an Unbalanced Survey Design. Oceanography. 34(2). 14 indexed citations

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Rasher, Douglas B., Robert S. Steneck, Jochen Halfar, et al.. (2020). Keystone predators govern the pathway and pace of climate impacts in a subarctic marine ecosystem. Science. 369(6509). 1351–1354. 43 indexed citations

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Brandl, Simon J., Douglas B. Rasher, Isabelle M. Côté, et al.. (2019). Coral reef ecosystem functioning: eight core processes and the role of biodiversity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 17(8). 445–454. 236 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gauzens, Benoît, Andrew D. Barnes, Darren P. Giling, et al.. (2018). fluxweb : An R package to easily estimate energy fluxes in food webs. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(2). 270–279. 73 indexed citations

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Barnes, Andrew D., Malte Jochum, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, et al.. (2018). Energy Flux: The Link between Multitrophic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 33(3). 186–197. 230 indexed citations

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Bornbusch, Sally L., Jonathan S. Lefcheck, & J. Emmett Duffy. (2018). Allometry of individual reproduction and defense in eusocial colonies: A comparative approach to trade-offs in social sponge-dwelling Synalpheus shrimps. PLoS ONE. 13(3). e0193305–e0193305. 3 indexed citations

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Lefcheck, Jonathan S., David J. Wilcox, Rebecca R. Murphy, Scott R. Marion, & Robert J. Orth. (2017). Multiple stressors threaten the imperiled coastal foundation species eelgrass (Zostera marina) in Chesapeake Bay,USA. Global Change Biology. 23(9). 3474–3483. 140 indexed citations

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Duffy, J. Emmett, et al.. (2015). Squidpops: A Simple Tool to Crowdsource a Global Map of Marine Predation Intensity. PLoS ONE. 10(11). e0142994–e0142994. 43 indexed citations

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Byrnes, Jarrett E. K., Lars Gamfeldt, Forest Isbell, et al.. (2014). Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions. W&M Publish (College of William & Mary). 662 indexed citations breakdown →

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