Karl Cottenie

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Karl Cottenie is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Karl Cottenie has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Ecology, 46 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 21 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Karl Cottenie's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (27 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (15 papers). Karl Cottenie is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (27 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (15 papers). Karl Cottenie collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Belgium. Karl Cottenie's co-authors include Luc De Meester, Shubha N. Pandit, Jurek Kolasa, Erik Michels, Nele Nuytten, Jonathan B. Shurin, Helmut Hillebrand, John N. Klironomos, Benjamin A. Sikes and Astrid N. Schwalb and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Karl Cottenie

86 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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Contrasts between habitat generalists and specialists: an empirical extension to the basic metacommunity framework

2009 532 citations Shubha N. Pandit, Jurek Kolasa et al. profile →

Peers

Karl Cottenie

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Jane C. Marks United States

Christopher M. Swan United States

Klaus Schwenk Germany

Régis Céréghino France

Diego Fontaneto Italy

Matt R. Whiles United States

Christoph D. Matthaei New Zealand

Michael T. Monaghan Germany

Patrick L. Thompson Canada

Adriano S. Melo Brazil

Jane C. Marks United States

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1.3k ×0.7

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292 ×0.4

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661 ×0.9

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karl Cottenie

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20 of 20 papers shown

Webber, Quinn M. R., et al.. (2025). Social structuring of the gut microbiome in communally roosting bats. PLoS ONE. 20(7). e0325710–e0325710.

Brito, Joás Silva, Karl Cottenie, Lenize Batista Calvão, et al.. (2024). Odonata responses to dispersal and niche processes differ across Amazonian endemism regions. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 17(6). 988–1000. 1 indexed citations

Brito, Joás Silva, Karl Cottenie, Leandro Schlemmer Brasil, et al.. (2024). Main drivers of dragonflies and damselflies (Insecta; Odonata) metacommunities in streams inside protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 196(3). 281–281. 1 indexed citations

Rocha, Mariana Perez, et al.. (2024). Using a Nested Sampling Design Across Spatial Scales to Gain Insights Into Distribution Patterns of Fishes, Mussels and Macroinvertebrates in a Riverine System. Journal of Biogeography. 51(12). 2456–2468.

Petrullo, Lauren, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, et al.. (2023). Consistent spatial patterns in microbial taxa of red squirrel gut microbiomes. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 16(1). e13209–e13209. 2 indexed citations

Mitchell, Zachary A., Karl Cottenie, & Astrid N. Schwalb. (2023). Trait‐based and multi‐scale approach provides insight on responses of freshwater mussels to environmental heterogeneity. Ecosphere. 14(7). 6 indexed citations

Jacobs, Shoshanah, Karl Cottenie, William J. Bettger, et al.. (2023). Evaluating and Improving the Formative Use of Student Evaluation of Teaching. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 14(1). 1 indexed citations

Hanner, Robert, et al.. (2023). Hidden diversity: DNA metabarcoding reveals hyper-diverse benthic invertebrate communities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 23(1). 19–19. 7 indexed citations

Cottenie, Karl, et al.. (2021). Ethanol eDNA Reveals Unique Community Composition of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Compared to Bulk Tissue Metabarcoding in a Biomonitoring Sampling Scheme. Diversity. 13(1). 34–34. 13 indexed citations

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Dunck, Bárbara, et al.. (2021). Priority effects of stream eutrophication and assembly history on beta diversity across aquatic consumers, decomposers and producers. The Science of The Total Environment. 797. 149106–149106. 11 indexed citations

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Bartley, Timothy, et al.. (2020). Into the wild: microbiome transplant studies need broader ecological reality. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1921). 20192834–20192834. 28 indexed citations

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Elbrecht, Vasco, et al.. (2020). Assessment of stream macroinvertebrate communities with eDNA is not congruent with tissue‐based metabarcoding. Molecular Ecology. 30(13). 3239–3251. 52 indexed citations

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Cottenie, Karl, et al.. (2019). Quantifying the Scientific Cost of Ambiguous Terminology in Community Ecology. Philosophical Topics. 47(1). 203–218. 6 indexed citations

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Germain, Rachel M., Laura T. Johnson, Stefan Schneider, et al.. (2013). Spatial Variability in Plant Predation Determines the Strength of Stochastic Community Assembly. The American Naturalist. 182(2). 169–179. 47 indexed citations

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Frisch, Dagmar, Karl Cottenie, Anna Badosa, & Andy J. Green. (2012). Strong Spatial Influence on Colonization Rates in a Pioneer Zooplankton Metacommunity. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e40205–e40205. 87 indexed citations

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Pandit, Shubha N., Jurek Kolasa, & Karl Cottenie. (2012). Population synchrony decreases with richness and increases with environmental fluctuations in an experimental metacommunity. Oecologia. 171(1). 237–247. 17 indexed citations

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Siqueira, Tadeu, Luis Maurício Bini, Fábio de Oliveira Roque, & Karl Cottenie. (2012). A Metacommunity Framework for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Biological Monitoring Strategies. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e43626–e43626. 74 indexed citations

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Houlahan, Jeff E., David J. Currie, Karl Cottenie, et al.. (2007). Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural ecological communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(9). 3273–3277. 238 indexed citations

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Forró, L., Luc De Meester, Karl Cottenie, & Henri J. Dumont. (2003). An update on the inland cladoceran and copepod fauna of Belgium, with a note on the importance of temporary waters. Belgian journal of zoology. 133(1). 31–36. 9 indexed citations

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Cottenie, Karl & Luc De Meester. (2003). Comment to Oksanen (2001): reconciling Oksanen (2001) and Hurlbert (1984). Oikos. 100(2). 394–396. 56 indexed citations

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