Steven W. Kembel

21.5k citations

95 papers · 14.8k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 41

Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.05%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.05%
Ecology top 0.2%
Plant Science top 0.5%
Molecular Biology top 2%

Co-authors: David D. Ackerly Campbell O. Webb Hélène Morlon Peter D. Cowan Matthew R. Helmus William K. Cornwell Simon P. Blomberg Paul V. A. Fine
Topics: Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (33 papers)Plant and animal studies (24 papers)Gut microbiota and health (16 papers)
Cited by: Ecological Modeling Nature and Landscape Conservation Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Journals: Nature Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Bioinformatics
Partner nations: Canada United States France

In The Last Decade

Steven W. Kembel

93 papers receiving 14.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

2010 4.6k citations Steven W. Kembel et al. profile →
The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

2009 1.7k citations Steven W. Kembel et al. profile →
Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

2008 1.5k citations Steven W. Kembel et al. profile →
Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest

2014 428 citations Steven W. Kembel, Timothy K. O’Connor et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Leaf bacterial diversity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem function relationships

2017 265 citations Steven W. Kembel et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Contrasting microbial assembly patterns in the woody endosphere of hybrid and non-hybrid Populus trees 2025 ·PeerJ ·(unknown),Steven W. Kembel,(unknown),Selvadurai Dayanandan	1
2	Conifer epiphytic phyllosphere bacterial communities respond more strongly to rain exclusion and host species identity than to soil water content 2025 ·Forest Ecology and Management ·(unknown),(unknown),Daniel Houle,Loïc D’Orangeville,Louis Duchesne,Steven W. Kembel	1
3	Deep learning‐ and image processing‐based methods for automatic estimation of leaf herbivore damage 2024 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Zihui Wang,Yuan Jiang,Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo,Steven W. Kembel	3
4	Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Influence Soil Nematode Taxonomic Composition and the Soil Microbial Cooccurrence Networks 2023 ·Phytobiomes Journal ·(unknown),Steven W. Kembel,Benjamin Mimee	1
5	A single range‐expanding species reshapes alpine ecosystems and their belowground diversity 2023 ·Oikos ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Steven W. Kembel,J. LESSARD,Martín A. Núñez	2
6	Historical and contemporary processes drive global phylogenetic structure across geographical scales: Insights from bat communities 2023 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·(unknown),Steven W. Kembel,Pedro R. Peres‐Neto	3
7	Drivers of contrasting boreal understory vegetation in coniferous and broadleaf deciduous alternative states 2023 ·Ecological Monographs ·(unknown),Nicole J. Fenton,Steven W. Kembel,(unknown),Mélanie Jean,Yves Bergeron	9
8	Comprehensive Phylogenomics of Methylobacterium Reveals Four Evolutionary Distinct Groups and Underappreciated Phyllosphere Diversity 2022 ·Genome Biology and Evolution ·Jean‐Baptiste Leducq,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Geneviève Bourret,N. Cecilia Martínez-Gómez,Jessica A. Lee,James A. Foster,Sergey Stolyar,B. Jesse Shapiro,Steven W. Kembel,Jack Sullivan,Christopher J. Marx	17
9	Fine-Scale Adaptations to Environmental Variation and Growth Strategies Drive Phyllosphere Methylobacterium Diversity 2022 ·mBio ·Jean‐Baptiste Leducq,(unknown),(unknown),Geneviève Bourret,(unknown),James A. Foster,Christopher J. Marx,Jack Sullivan,B. Jesse Shapiro,Steven W. Kembel	9
10	Phylogenetic dependence of plant–soil feedback promotes rare species in a subtropical forest 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·Yuan Jiang,Zihui Wang,Chengjin Chu,Steven W. Kembel,Fangliang He	9
11	Interplay between the Lung Microbiome, Pulmonary Immunity and Viral Reservoirs in People Living with HIV under Antiretroviral Therapy 2022 ·Viruses ·Zihui Wang,Mohammad‐Ali Jenabian,(unknown),Amélie Pagliuzza,Ron Olivenstein,Suzanne Samarani,Nicolas Chomont,Steven W. Kembel,Cecilia T. Costiniuk	3
12	Winter Rye Cover Cropping Changes Squash ( Cucurbita pepo ) Phyllosphere Microbiota and Reduces Pseudomonas syringae Symptoms 2021 ·Phytobiomes Journal ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Martin Laforest,Steven W. Kembel	3
13	Adaptive matching between phyllosphere bacteria and their tree hosts in a neotropical forest 2020 ·Microbiome ·Geneviève Lajoie,(unknown),Steven W. Kembel	53
14	Experimental evaluation of the importance of colonization history in early-life gut microbiota assembly 2018 ·eLife ·Inés Martínez,María X. Maldonado-Gómez,João Carlos Gomes‐Neto,Hatem Kittana,Hua Ding,Robert Schmaltz,Payal Joglekar,(unknown),(unknown),Steven W. Kembel,Andrew K. Benson,Daniel A. Peterson,Amanda E. Ramer‐Tait,Jens Walter	146
15	Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forestbreakdown → 2014 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Steven W. Kembel,Timothy K. O’Connor,Holly K. Arnold,Stephen P. Hubbell,S. Joseph Wright‬,Jessica L. Green	428
16	Architectural Design Drives the Biogeography of Indoor Bacterial Communities 2014 ·PLoS ONE ·Steven W. Kembel,James Meadow,Timothy K. O’Connor,Gwynne Mhuireach,Dale Northcutt,Jeff Kline,(unknown),G. Z. Brown,Brendan J. M. Bohannan,Jessica L. Green	156
17	Bacterial communities on classroom surfaces vary with human contact 2014 ·Microbiome ·James Meadow,Adam Altrichter,Steven W. Kembel,(unknown),Timothy K. O’Connor,A. M. Womack,G. Z. Brown,Jessica L. Green,Brendan J. M. Bohannan	126
18	PhylOTU: A High-Throughput Procedure Quantifies Microbial Community Diversity and Resolves Novel Taxa from Metagenomic Data 2011 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Thomas J. Sharpton,Samantha J. Riesenfeld,Steven W. Kembel,Joshua Ladau,James P. O’Dwyer,Jessica L. Green,Jonathan A. Eisen,Katherine S. Pollard	57
19	Relationship between cystic fibrosis respiratory tract bacterial communities and age, genotype, antibiotics and Pseudomonas aeruginosa 2010 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Vanja Klepac‐Ceraj,Katherine P. Lemon,Thomas R. Martin,Martin Allgaier,Steven W. Kembel,Alixandra A. Knapp,Stephen Lory,Eoin Brodie,Susan V. Lynch,Brendan J. M. Bohannan,Jessica L. Green,Brian A. Maurer,Roberto Kolter	170
20	THE PHYLOGENETIC STRUCTURE OF A NEOTROPICAL FOREST TREE COMMUNITY 2006 ·Ecology ·Steven W. Kembel,Stephen P. Hubbell	355

About Steven W. Kembel

Steven W. Kembel is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, having authored 95 papers that have together received 14.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (33 papers), Plant and animal studies (24 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (2.2k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (5.9k citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (5.4k citations). Steven W. Kembel has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Frequent co-authors include David D. Ackerly, Campbell O. Webb, Hélène Morlon, Peter D. Cowan, Matthew R. Helmus, William K. Cornwell, Simon P. Blomberg, Paul V. A. Fine, Kenneth H. Kozak and Jeannine Cavender‐Bares. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Bioinformatics.

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