Mark Vellend

29.7k total citations · 10 hit papers
132 papers, 16.2k citations indexed

About

Mark Vellend is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Vellend has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 16.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 62 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 50 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Mark Vellend's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (88 papers), Plant and animal studies (54 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (50 papers). Mark Vellend is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (88 papers), Plant and animal studies (54 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (50 papers). Mark Vellend collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Belgium. Mark Vellend's co-authors include Brian D. Inouye, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Jonathan M. Chase, Marc T. J. Johnson, Diane S. Srivastava, A. Randall Hughes, Nora Underwood, Kathryn M. Flinn, Kris Verheyen and Monica A. Geber and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mark Vellend

129 papers receiving 15.8k citations

Hit Papers

Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadma... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2010 2010 2008 2011 2011 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist
    2010 1.9k citations Jonathan M. Chase, Mark Vellend et al. profile →
  2. Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology
    2010 1.9k citations Mark Vellend The Quarterly Review of Biology profile →
  3. Ecological consequences of genetic diversity
    2008 1.3k citations Mark Vellend et al. profile →
  4. Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity
    2011 749 citations Jonathan M. Chase, Mark Vellend et al. profile →
  5. Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients
    2011 580 citations Jonathan M. Chase, Mark Vellend et al. profile →
  6. Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation?
    2005 511 citations Mark Vellend et al. profile →
  7. Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies
    2019 485 citations Pieter De Frenne, Mark Vellend et al. profile →
  8. Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time
    2013 387 citations Mark Vellend, Lander Baeten et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. The Theory of Ecological Communities (MPB-57)
    2016 368 citations Mark Vellend profile →
  10. Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities
    2014 329 citations Mark Vellend, Carissa D. Brown et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mark Vellend Canada 52 8.5k 7.1k 5.6k 3.5k 3.3k 132 16.2k
Marc W. Cadotte Canada 58 9.7k 1.1× 5.9k 0.8× 6.4k 1.1× 3.5k 1.0× 3.4k 1.0× 215 16.0k
Diane S. Srivastava Canada 40 7.0k 0.8× 7.2k 1.0× 4.5k 0.8× 2.5k 0.7× 4.1k 1.2× 116 16.3k
Nicolas Mouquet France 54 7.8k 0.9× 8.2k 1.2× 5.3k 0.9× 3.4k 1.0× 3.0k 0.9× 117 15.6k
William K. Cornwell Australia 50 7.8k 0.9× 5.3k 0.7× 5.6k 1.0× 3.5k 1.0× 3.7k 1.1× 154 16.1k
Brian J. McGill United States 52 9.3k 1.1× 7.0k 1.0× 5.9k 1.1× 5.3k 1.5× 4.1k 1.2× 122 16.7k
Nathan J. Sanders United States 57 6.9k 0.8× 5.2k 0.7× 6.7k 1.2× 3.9k 1.1× 2.3k 0.7× 193 14.4k
Peter Chesson United States 47 8.9k 1.0× 6.5k 0.9× 7.1k 1.3× 2.2k 0.6× 3.3k 1.0× 117 16.1k
Nathan J. B. Kraft United States 46 9.0k 1.1× 5.1k 0.7× 6.0k 1.1× 4.0k 1.1× 3.4k 1.0× 78 14.3k
Campbell O. Webb United States 29 10.8k 1.3× 5.5k 0.8× 9.2k 1.6× 3.5k 1.0× 2.6k 0.8× 45 19.0k
Daniel Borcard Canada 29 7.5k 0.9× 8.2k 1.2× 3.6k 0.7× 2.4k 0.7× 3.0k 0.9× 50 16.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Vellend

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All Works

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Laliberté, Étienne, Alexis Carteron, Anna K. Schweiger, et al.. (2023). Evolutionary history explains foliar spectral differences between arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal plant species. New Phytologist. 238(6). 2651–2667. 5 indexed citations
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Kothari, Shan, Anna K. Schweiger, Anne Bruneau, et al.. (2023). Predicting leaf traits across functional groups using reflectance spectroscopy. New Phytologist. 238(2). 549–566. 30 indexed citations
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Ni, Ming & Mark Vellend. (2023). Soil properties constrain predicted poleward migration of plants under climate change. New Phytologist. 241(1). 131–141. 26 indexed citations
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Dornelas, María, Jonathan M. Chase, Nicholas J. Gotelli, et al.. (2023). Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1881). 20220199–20220199. 45 indexed citations
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Cardou, Françoise, et al.. (2023). Biodiversity change under adaptive community dynamics. Global Change Biology. 29(13). 3525–3538. 10 indexed citations
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Becker‐Scarpitta, Antoine, et al.. (2022). Different temporal trends in vascular plant and bryophyte communities along elevational gradients over four decades. Ecology and Evolution. 12(8). e9102–e9102. 4 indexed citations
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Vellend, Mark, et al.. (2022). Tree biodiversity in northern forests shows temporal stability over 35 years at different scales, levels and dimensions. Journal of Ecology. 110(10). 2388–2403. 4 indexed citations
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Béguin, Julien, Steeve D. Côté, & Mark Vellend. (2022). Large herbivores trigger spatiotemporal changes in forest plant diversity. Ecology. 103(9). e3739–e3739. 10 indexed citations
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Danneyrolles, Victor, Mark Vellend, Sébastien Dupuis, et al.. (2020). Scale‐dependent changes in tree diversity over more than a century in eastern Canada: Landscape diversification and regional homogenization. Journal of Ecology. 109(1). 273–283. 22 indexed citations
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Carteron, Alexis, et al.. (2020). Soil abiotic and biotic properties constrain the establishment of a dominant temperate tree into boreal forests. Journal of Ecology. 108(3). 931–944. 48 indexed citations
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Vellend, Mark, et al.. (2020). Changes in landscape‐scale tree biodiversity in the north‐eastern USA since European settlement. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(3). 666–673. 8 indexed citations
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Lajoie, Geneviève & Mark Vellend. (2018). Characterizing the contribution of plasticity and genetic differentiation to community‐level trait responses to environmental change. Ecology and Evolution. 8(8). 3895–3907. 34 indexed citations
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Becker‐Scarpitta, Antoine, et al.. (2017). Long‐term community change: bryophytes are more responsive than vascular plants to nitrogen deposition and warming. Journal of Vegetation Science. 28(6). 1220–1229. 42 indexed citations
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Vellend, Mark, et al.. (2017). Herbivory and pollen limitation at the upper elevational range limit of two forest understory plants of eastern North America. Ecology and Evolution. 8(2). 892–903. 14 indexed citations
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Vellend, Mark, Lander Baeten, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, et al.. (2013). Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(48). 19456–19459. 387 indexed citations breakdown →
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Williams, John W., Heather M. Kharouba, Sam Veloz, et al.. (2012). The ice age ecologist: testing methods for reserve prioritization during the last global warming. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 22(3). 289–301. 47 indexed citations
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Vellend, Mark. (2010). Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 85(2). 183–206. 1856 indexed citations breakdown →
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Verheyen, Kris, Mark Vellend, Hans Van Calster, G. F. Peterken, & Martin Hermy. (2004). Metapopulation dynamics in a fragmented and dynamic landscape: forest plants in central Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 5 indexed citations
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Vellend, Mark. (2002). A pest and an invader: white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Zimm.) as a seed dispersal agent for honeysuckle shrubs (Lonicera L.).. Natural Areas Journal. 22(3). 230–234. 52 indexed citations

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