Marc W. Cadotte

29.3k total citations · 10 hit papers
215 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

Marc W. Cadotte is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marc W. Cadotte has authored 215 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 112 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 62 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Marc W. Cadotte's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (147 papers), Plant and animal studies (104 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (58 papers). Marc W. Cadotte is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (147 papers), Plant and animal studies (104 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (58 papers). Marc W. Cadotte collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. Marc W. Cadotte's co-authors include Nicholas Mirotchnick, Kelly A. Carscadden, Caroline M. Tucker, T. Jonathan Davies, Todd H. Oakley, Bradley J. Cardinale, David Tilman, Danuta M. Bennett, Helmut Hillebrand and Diane S. Srivastava and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Marc W. Cadotte

210 papers receiving 15.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

2011 1.7k citations Marc W. Cadotte, Nicholas Mirotchnick et al. profile →
Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity

2007 1.1k citations Bradley J. Cardinale, Justin P. Wright et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
CONSEQUENCES OF DOMINANCE: A REVIEW OF EVENNESS EFFECTS ON LOCAL AND REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES

2008 751 citations Marc W. Cadotte et al. Ecology profile →
A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology

2016 597 citations Marc W. Cadotte et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →
Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

2009 523 citations Marc W. Cadotte, Todd H. Oakley et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Should Environmental Filtering be Abandoned?

2017 517 citations Marc W. Cadotte et al. profile →
Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity

2008 485 citations Marc W. Cadotte, Bradley J. Cardinale et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems

2012 460 citations Diane S. Srivastava, Marc W. Cadotte et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability

2012 378 citations Marc W. Cadotte et al. Ecology profile →
Functional Rarity: The Ecology of Outliers

2017 278 citations Nicolas Mouquet, Marc W. Cadotte et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marc W. Cadotte Canada	58	9.7k	6.4k	5.9k	3.5k	3.4k	215	16.0k
Nathan J. B. Kraft United States	46	9.0k 0.9×	6.0k 0.9×	5.1k 0.9×	4.0k 1.1×	3.4k 1.0×	78	14.3k
William K. Cornwell Australia	50	7.8k 0.8×	5.6k 0.9×	5.3k 0.9×	3.5k 1.0×	3.7k 1.1×	154	16.1k
Cyrille Violle France	55	9.0k 0.9×	6.1k 1.0×	4.5k 0.8×	3.4k 1.0×	3.5k 1.0×	191	15.4k
Francesco de Bello Czechia	67	11.5k 1.2×	7.5k 1.2×	5.4k 0.9×	4.3k 1.2×	4.3k 1.3×	182	17.0k
Mark Vellend Canada	52	8.5k 0.9×	5.6k 0.9×	7.1k 1.2×	3.5k 1.0×	3.3k 1.0×	132	16.2k
Brian J. McGill United States	52	9.3k 1.0×	5.9k 0.9×	7.0k 1.2×	5.3k 1.5×	4.1k 1.2×	122	16.7k
Nathan G. Swenson United States	53	10.4k 1.1×	6.1k 1.0×	4.1k 0.7×	3.4k 1.0×	4.2k 1.2×	161	15.7k
Jan Lepš Czechia	59	10.8k 1.1×	7.2k 1.1×	7.1k 1.2×	2.7k 0.8×	3.2k 0.9×	232	18.8k
Holger Kreft Germany	57	8.0k 0.8×	6.9k 1.1×	5.3k 0.9×	5.6k 1.6×	3.5k 1.0×	224	17.2k
Nathan J. Sanders United States	57	6.9k 0.7×	6.7k 1.0×	5.2k 0.9×	3.9k 1.1×	2.3k 0.7×	193	14.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marc W. Cadotte

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Xiao, Jing, et al.. (2025). The proportion of low abundance species is a key predictor of plant β‐diversity across the latitudinal gradient. Journal of Ecology. 113(4). 795–805. 2 indexed citations

Cadotte, Marc W. & Shinichi Tatsumi. (2025). Uncovering the mechanisms underpinning divergent environmental change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Ecology. 106(2). e70040–e70040. 1 indexed citations

Liao, Huixuan, Lakhvinder Kaur, Petr Pyšek, et al.. (2025). Invasive Prosopis associated with large, but idiosyncratic, ecosystem changes and loss of native biodiversity across India. Plant Ecology. 226(11-12). 1315–1333.

Potgieter, Luke J., Marc W. Cadotte, Francois Roets, & David M. Richardson. (2024). Monitoring urban biological invasions using citizen science: the polyphagous shot hole borer (Euwallacea fornicatus). Journal of Pest Science. 97(4). 2073–2085. 11 indexed citations

MacIvor, J. Scott, et al.. (2024). Tree species-dependent effects of urbanization and plant invasion on deadwood biota and decomposition rates. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 201. 109650–109650. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Zeng‐Yuan, Mark A. Chapman, Jie Liu, et al.. (2024). Genomic variation, environmental adaptation, and feralization in ramie, an ancient fiber crop. Plant Communications. 5(8). 100942–100942. 3 indexed citations

Luo, Ya‐Huang, Marc W. Cadotte, Sebastian Seibold, et al.. (2024). Testing the ectomycorrhizal‐dominance hypothesis for ecosystem multifunctionality in a subtropical mountain forest. New Phytologist. 243(6). 2401–2415. 8 indexed citations

Dakhil, Mohammed A., Marwa Waseem A. Halmy, Marc W. Cadotte, et al.. (2023). Potential extinction risk of Juniperus phoenicea under global climate change: Towards conservation planning. Global Ecology and Conservation. 46. e02541–e02541. 8 indexed citations

Avelino, Jacques, et al.. (2023). Leaf functional traits and pathogens: Linking coffee leaf rust with intraspecific trait variation in diversified agroecosystems. PLoS ONE. 18(4). e0284203–e0284203. 2 indexed citations

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Romanelli, João Paulo, Max R. Piana, Valentin H. Klaus, et al.. (2023). Convergence and divergence in science and practice of urban and rural forest restoration. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 99(1). 295–312. 5 indexed citations

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Cadotte, Marc W., et al.. (2022). The latitudinal gradient in plant community assembly processes: A meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters. 25(7). 1711–1724. 37 indexed citations

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Tatsumi, Shinichi, Ryosuke Iritani, & Marc W. Cadotte. (2022). Partitioning the temporal changes in abundance‐based beta diversity into loss and gain components. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(9). 2042–2048. 13 indexed citations

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Tatsumi, Shinichi, Ryosuke Iritani, & Marc W. Cadotte. (2021). Temporal changes in spatial variation: partitioning the extinction and colonisation components of beta diversity. Ecology Letters. 24(5). 1063–1072. 51 indexed citations

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Zhang, Bingwei, Yann Hautier, Xingru Tan, et al.. (2020). Species responses to changing precipitation depend on trait plasticity rather than trait means and intraspecific variation. Functional Ecology. 34(12). 2622–2633. 33 indexed citations

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Meiners, Scott J., Marc W. Cadotte, Jason D. Fridley, Steward T. A. Pickett, & Lawrence R. Walker. (2014). Is successional research nearing its climax? New approaches for understanding dynamic communities. Functional Ecology. 29(2). 154–164. 165 indexed citations

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Cadotte, Marc W., et al.. (2013). The ecology of differences: assessing community assembly with trait and evolutionary distances. Ecology Letters. 16(10). 1234–1244. 288 indexed citations

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Srivastava, Diane S., Marc W. Cadotte, A. Andrew M. MacDonald, Robin G. Marushia, & Nicholas Mirotchnick. (2012). Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems. Ecology Letters. 15(7). 637–648. 460 indexed citations breakdown →

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Massol, François, Dominique Gravel, Nicolas Mouquet, et al.. (2011). Linking community and ecosystem dynamics through spatial ecology. Ecology Letters. 14(3). 313–323. 189 indexed citations

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Cadotte, Marc W., Bradley J. Cardinale, & Todd H. Oakley. (2008). Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(44). 17012–17017. 485 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cardinale, Bradley J., Justin P. Wright, Marc W. Cadotte, et al.. (2007). Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(46). 18123–18128. 1107 indexed citations breakdown →

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