Justin D. Yeakel

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Justin D. Yeakel is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Justin D. Yeakel has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Ecology, 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 10 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Justin D. Yeakel's work include Isotope Analysis in Ecology (12 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (10 papers) and Plant and animal studies (9 papers). Justin D. Yeakel is often cited by papers focused on Isotope Analysis in Ecology (12 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (10 papers) and Plant and animal studies (9 papers). Justin D. Yeakel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Brazil. Justin D. Yeakel's co-authors include Nathaniel J. Dominy, Paulo R. Guimarães, Seth D. Newsome, Paul L. Koch, Jonathan W. Moore, Mathias M. Pires, Patrick V. Wheatley, M. Tim Tinker, Peter W. Lucas and Dominique Gravel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Justin D. Yeakel

41 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Analysing ecological networks of species interactions

2018 371 citations Eva Delmas, Marie‐Hélène Brice et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Justin D. Yeakel United States	20	954	552	482	321	259	41	1.8k
Sebastián Abades Chile	16	615 0.6×	440 0.8×	353 0.7×	324 1.0×	140 0.5×	54	1.3k
Tim R. B. Davenport United Kingdom	21	936 1.0×	563 1.0×	399 0.8×	531 1.7×	213 0.8×	53	1.8k
John P. Haskell United States	11	1.1k 1.2×	686 1.2×	505 1.0×	313 1.0×	184 0.7×	11	1.8k
Lyn C. Branch United States	33	1.7k 1.8×	803 1.5×	462 1.0×	671 2.1×	385 1.5×	83	2.6k
Térese B. Hart United States	13	415 0.4×	427 0.8×	305 0.6×	208 0.6×	89 0.3×	30	1.2k
Thomas H. G. Ezard United Kingdom	24	958 1.0×	435 0.8×	545 1.1×	226 0.7×	411 1.6×	70	2.0k
Camilla Fløjgaard Denmark	19	1.4k 1.4×	758 1.4×	698 1.4×	342 1.1×	581 2.2×	38	2.4k
Marcelo F. Tognelli Argentina	18	903 0.9×	615 1.1×	265 0.5×	354 1.1×	134 0.5×	35	1.5k
Levi Carina Terribile Brazil	26	581 0.6×	594 1.1×	663 1.4×	370 1.2×	479 1.8×	73	1.7k
Manuela González‐Suárez United Kingdom	23	1.2k 1.3×	604 1.1×	437 0.9×	357 1.1×	172 0.7×	75	1.8k

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Seyoum, Chalachew, Vivek V. Venkataraman, Justin D. Yeakel, et al.. (2025). Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution. Science. 389(6759). 488–493. 2 indexed citations

Kempes, Christopher P., et al.. (2024). On the Dynamics of Mortality and the Ephemeral Nature of Mammalian Megafauna. The American Naturalist. 204(3). 274–288. 2 indexed citations

Yeakel, Justin D., et al.. (2024). Food-washing monkeys recognize the law of diminishing returns. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations

Gopinathan, Ajay, et al.. (2024). Beyond the kill: The allometry of predation behaviours among large carnivores. Journal of Animal Ecology. 93(5). 554–566. 1 indexed citations

Valdovinos, Fernanda S., Paul Glaum, Kevin S. McCann, et al.. (2022). A bioenergetic framework for aboveground terrestrial food webs. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38(3). 301–312. 7 indexed citations

Yeakel, Justin D., Vivek V. Venkataraman, Chalachew Seyoum, et al.. (2021). Carbon and strontium isotope ratios shed new light on the paleobiology and collapse of Theropithecus, a primate experiment in graminivory. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 572. 110393–110393. 10 indexed citations

Groß, Thilo, Bernd Blasius, Ulrich Brose, et al.. (2020). Modern models of trophic meta-communities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1814). 20190455–20190455. 30 indexed citations

Bhat, U. Narayan, Christopher P. Kempes, & Justin D. Yeakel. (2020). Scaling the risk landscape drives optimal life-history strategies and the evolution of grazing. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 18 indexed citations

Yeakel, Justin D., Mathias M. Pires, Marcus A. M. de Aguiar, et al.. (2020). Diverse interactions and ecosystem engineering can stabilize community assembly. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3307–3307. 34 indexed citations

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Pires, Mathias M., James L. O’Donnell, Laura A. Burkle, et al.. (2020). The indirect paths to cascading effects of extinctions in mutualistic networks. Ecology. 101(7). e03080–e03080. 36 indexed citations

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Aguiar, Marcus A. M. de, Erica A. Newman, Mathias M. Pires, et al.. (2019). Revealing biases in the sampling of ecological interaction networks. PeerJ. 7. e7566–e7566. 18 indexed citations

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Gibert, Jean P. & Justin D. Yeakel. (2019). Laplacian matrices and Turing bifurcations: revisiting Levin 1974 and the consequences of spatial structure and movement for ecological dynamics. Theoretical Ecology. 12(3). 265–281. 14 indexed citations

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Baiser, Benjamin, Dominique Gravel, Alyssa R. Cirtwill, et al.. (2019). Ecogeographical rules and the macroecology of food webs. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(9). 1204–1218. 34 indexed citations

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Delmas, Eva, Marie‐Hélène Brice, Laura A. Burkle, et al.. (2018). Analysing ecological networks of species interactions. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 94(1). 16–36. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yeakel, Justin D., Jean P. Gibert, Thilo Groß, Peter A. H. Westley, & Jonathan W. Moore. (2018). Eco-evolutionary dynamics, density-dependent dispersal and collective behaviour: implications for salmon metapopulation robustness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1746). 20170018–20170018. 30 indexed citations

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Dominy, Nathaniel J., Justin D. Yeakel, U. Narayan Bhat, et al.. (2016). How chimpanzees integrate sensory information to select figs. Interface Focus. 6(3). 20160001–20160001. 30 indexed citations

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Yeakel, Justin D., Mathias M. Pires, Lars Rudolf, et al.. (2014). Collapse of an ecological network in Ancient Egypt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(40). 14472–14477. 81 indexed citations

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Yeakel, Justin D., Paulo R. Guimarães, Hervé Bocherens, & Paul L. Koch. (2013). The impact of climate change on the structure of Pleistocene food webs across the mammoth steppe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 280(1762). 20130239–20130239. 51 indexed citations

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Yeakel, Justin D., Paulo R. Guimarães, Márk Novák, Kena Fox‐Dobbs, & Paul L. Koch. (2012). Probabilistic patterns of interaction: the effects of link-strength variability on food web structure. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 9(77). 3219–3228. 13 indexed citations

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Yeakel, Justin D., et al.. (2010). Generalized modeling of ecological population dynamics. 21 indexed citations

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