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Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Muhammad Umair Shafique
Army Medical College
2
Gaëtane Le Provost
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
3
Camille Magneville
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4
Cassandra M. Allsup
University of Wisconsin–Madison
5
Julia Joswig
Leipzig University
6
Brittany T. Trew
University of Exeter
7
Ting-Shuai Shi
Lanzhou University
8
Lirong Cai
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
9
Elisabeth Prangel
University of Tartu
10
Yongzhi Yan
Inner Mongolia University

Papers

1
A global meta-analysis on the effects of organic and inorganic fertilization on grasslands and croplands
Nature Communications|2024
150 cit.
2
Publication in Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (2024) [39 citations, W4400605252]
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment|2024
39 cit.
3
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies
Nature Climate Change|2024
30 cit.
4
Publication in Journal of Ecology (2025) [12 citations, W4409407364]
Journal of Ecology|2025
12 cit.
5
Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2024
9 cit.
6
Publication in eLife (2024) [8 citations, W4392911958]
eLife|2024
8 cit.
7
Identifying climate‐smart tropical Key Biodiversity Areas for protection in response to widespread temperature novelty
Conservation Letters|2024
5 cit.
8
A new framework for estimating abundance of animals using a network of cameras
Limnology and Oceanography Methods|2024
4 cit.
9
Publication in Global Change Biology (2025) [3 citations, W4414291527]
Global Change Biology|2025
3 cit.
10
Detecting benefits of protection level on diversity facets in a sea of temporal scarcity
Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems|2024
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Stephanie G. Yelenik
Rocky Mountain Research Station
2
Gurutzeta Guillera‐Arroita
The University of Melbourne
3
A. Carla Staver
Yale University
4
Hervé Jactel
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
5
Noam Ross
EcoHealth Alliance
6
Nerea Abrego
University of Jyväskylä
7
Caroline M. Tucker
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8
Florent Mazel
University of Lausanne
9
Pierre Liancourt
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
10
Cory Merow
University of Connecticut

Papers

1
The history and challenge of grassy biomes
Science|2022
96 cit.
2
Limited increases in savanna carbon stocks over decades of fire suppression
Nature|2022
93 cit.
3
Airborne DNA reveals predictable spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi
Nature|2024
70 cit.
4
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data
Global Ecology and Biogeography|2023
68 cit.
5
Soil carbon in tropical savannas mostly derived from grasses
Nature Geoscience|2023
54 cit.
6
AI chatbots can boost scientific coding
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2023
48 cit.
7
Reduced global fire activity due to human demography slows global warming by enhanced land carbon uptake
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2022
47 cit.
8
Disentangling the effects of biomass and productivity in plant competition
Ecology|2022
45 cit.
9
Quantifying the environmental limits to fire spread in grassy ecosystems
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2022
30 cit.
10
Nonlinear rainfall effects on savanna fire activity across the African Humid Period
Quaternary Science Reviews|2023
29 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Jennifer Kent
The University of Sydney
2
Mark Westoby
Macquarie University
3
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
4
Kevin J. Gaston
University of Exeter
5
Pierre Legendre
Université de Montréal
6
Antoine Guisan
University of Lausanne
7
David M. Richardson
Stellenbosch University
8
David A. Wardle
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
9
Peter B. Reich
Health Sciences North
10
David Tilman
University of Minnesota System

Papers

1
Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
Nature|2000
31.2k cit.
2
Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data
Ecography|2006
9.1k cit.
3
EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE
Ecological Monographs|2005
7.9k cit.
4
Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2011
7.5k cit.
5
SPECIES ASSEMBLAGES AND INDICATOR SPECIES:THE NEED FOR A FLEXIBLE ASYMMETRICAL APPROACH
Ecological Monographs|1997
7.4k cit.
6
Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology
Ecological Modelling|2000
7.3k cit.
7
Ecologically meaningful transformations for ordination of species data
Oecologia|2001
5.4k cit.
8
Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits
Trends in Ecology & Evolution|2006
4.6k cit.
9
Resource Competition and Community Structure
Journal of Animal Ecology|1984
4.3k cit.
10
A distance‐based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits
Ecology|2010
4.2k cit.

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