Nicholas Mirotchnick

4.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
8 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Mirotchnick is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Mirotchnick has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 4 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 3 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Mirotchnick's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers), Plant and animal studies (4 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (3 papers). Nicholas Mirotchnick is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers), Plant and animal studies (4 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (3 papers). Nicholas Mirotchnick collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Nicholas Mirotchnick's co-authors include Marc W. Cadotte, Kelly A. Carscadden, Meha Jain, Matthew I. Palmer, Dan F. B. Flynn, Shahid Naeem, A. Andrew M. MacDonald, Robin G. Marushia, Diane S. Srivastava and Brian Leung and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, New Phytologist and Ecology Letters.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Mirotchnick

8 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

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

2011 1.7k citations Marc W. Cadotte, Kelly A. Carscadden et al. Journal of Applied Ecology profile →
Functional and phylogenetic diversity as predictors of biodiversity–ecosystem-function relationships

2011 632 citations Dan F. B. Flynn, Nicholas Mirotchnick et al. Ecology profile →
Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems

2012 460 citations Diane S. Srivastava, Marc W. Cadotte et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Nicholas Mirotchnick

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicholas Mirotchnick

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Mirotchnick

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nicholas Mirotchnick. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nicholas Mirotchnick based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nicholas Mirotchnick. Nicholas Mirotchnick is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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8 of 8 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Leaf nonstructural carbohydrate residence time, not concentration, correlates with leaf functional traits following the leaf economic spectrum in woody plants 2024 ·New Phytologist ·Shinichi Asao, Danielle A. Way, Matthew H. Turnbull, Mark Stitt, Nate G. McDowell, Peter B. Reich, Keith J. Bloomfield, Joana Zaragoza‐Castells, Danielle Creek, Odhran S. O’Sullivan, Kristine Y. Crous, John J. G. Egerton, Nicholas Mirotchnick, Lasantha K. Weerasinghe, Kevin L. Griffin, Vaughan Hurry, Patrick Meir, Stephen Sitch, Owen K. Atkin	6
2	Fertilization decreases species diversity but increases functional diversity: A three-year experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow 2013 ·Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Kechang Niu, Philippe Choler, Francesco de Bello, Nicholas Mirotchnick, Guozhen Du, Shucun Sun	88
3	Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems breakdown → 2012 ·Ecology Letters ·Diane S. Srivastava, Marc W. Cadotte, A. Andrew M. MacDonald, Robin G. Marushia, Nicholas Mirotchnick	460
4	Functional and phylogenetic diversity as predictors of biodiversity–ecosystem-function relationships breakdown → 2011 ·Ecology ·Dan F. B. Flynn, Nicholas Mirotchnick, Meha Jain, Matthew I. Palmer, Shahid Naeem	632
5	Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services breakdown → 2011 ·Journal of Applied Ecology ·Marc W. Cadotte, Kelly A. Carscadden, Nicholas Mirotchnick	1665
6	Fire and grazing in a mesic tallgrass prairie: impacts on plant species and functional traits 2010 ·Ecology ·Marko J. Spasojevic, (unknown), Gregory R. Koch, (unknown), Nicholas Mirotchnick, Tiffany G. Troxler, Scott L. Collins	59
7	Thousands introduced annually: the aquarium pathway for non-indigenous plants to the St Lawrence Seaway 2007 ·Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ·(unknown), Nicholas Mirotchnick, Brian Leung	56
8	Thousands introduced annually: the aquarium pathway for non-indigenous plants to the St Lawrence Seaway 2007 ·Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ·(unknown), Nicholas Mirotchnick, Brian Leung	1

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