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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
103
Citations
45097
World Ranking
236
National Ranking
100

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 - SIAM Fellow For leadership in theoretical ecology, helping to lay the foundation for scientifically-based agriculture and resource management.
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Alan Hastings is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a substantive volume of work spanning multiple subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work extensively covers a range of topics including ecosystem dynamics and resilience, evolution and genetic dynamics, animal ecology and behavior studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, mathematical and theoretical epidemiology and ecology models, and plant and animal studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Alan Hastings include Karen C. Abbott, Ying-Cheng Lai, Jonathan Machta, Marissa L. Baskett, and Kim Cuddington.

Alan Hastings has published research in multiple venues, with a notable number of papers appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), Theoretical Ecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Representative recent papers include:

  • "Seasonality in ecology: Progress and prospects in theory" (2020), Ecological Complexity
  • "Management implications of long transients in ecological systems" (2021), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Interspecific competition slows range expansion and shapes range boundaries" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Mutualistic networks emerging from adaptive niche-based interactions" (2020), Nature Communications
  • "Effects of stochasticity on the length and behaviour of ecological transients" (2021), Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Their scientific contributions have been recognized with several honors, including election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015. Hastings was named a SIAM Fellow in 2013 for leadership in theoretical ecology and contributions to scientifically based agriculture and resource management. They were also elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Jordi Bascompte;Eric L. Berlow

  • Weak trophic interactions and the balance of nature

    Kevin McCann;Alan Hastings;Gary R. Huxel

  • Detritus, trophic dynamics and biodiversity

    John C. Moore;Eric L. Berlow;David C. Coleman;Quan Dong

  • Chaos in a Three-Species Food Chain

    Alan Hastings;Thomas Powell

  • Thresholds and the resilience of Caribbean coral reefs

    Peter J. Mumby;Alan Hastings;Helen J. Edwards

  • Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions

    Dov F. Sax;John J. Stachowicz;James H. Brown;John F. Bruno

  • The spatial spread of invasions: new developments in theory and evidence

    Alan Hastings;Kim Cuddington;Kendi F. Davies;Christopher J. Dugaw

  • Allee effects in biological invasions

    Caz M. Taylor;Alan Hastings

  • Chaos in Ecology: Is Mother Nature a Strange Attractor?*

    Alan Hastings;Carole L. Hom;Stephen Ellner;Peter Turchin

  • Ecosystem engineering in space and time.

    Alan Hastings;James E. Byers;Jeffrey A. Crooks;Kim Cuddington

  • Disturbance, coexistence, history, and competition for space

    Alan Hastings

  • Can spatial variation alone lead to selection for dispersal

    Alan Hastings

  • Extinction risk depends strongly on factors contributing to stochasticity

    Brett A. Melbourne;Alan Hastings

  • Transients: the key to long-term ecological understanding?

    Alan Hastings

  • Dispersal strategies in patchy environments

    Simon Asher Levin;Dan Cohen;Alan Hastings

  • Complex interactions between dispersal and dynamics: Lessons from coupled logistic equations

    Alan Hastings

  • PRINCIPLES FOR THE DESIGN OF MARINE RESERVES

    Louis W. Botsford;Fiorenza Micheli;Alan Hastings

  • Using ecosystem engineers to restore ecological systems

    James E. Byers;Kim Cuddington;Clive G. Jones;Theresa S. Talley

  • Metapopulation Dynamics and Genetics

    Alan Hastings;Susan Harrison

  • Transient phenomena in ecology.

    Alan Hastings;Karen C. Abbott;Kim Cuddington;Tessa Francis

  • Population Biology: Concepts and Models

    Alan Hastings

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis W. Botsford
Louis W. Botsford University of California, Davis
Kevin S. McCann
Kevin S. McCann University of Guelph
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Susan Harrison
Susan Harrison University of California, Davis
Sergey Gavrilets
Sergey Gavrilets University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Peter J. Mumby
Peter J. Mumby University of Queensland
James N. Sanchirico
James N. Sanchirico University of California, Davis
Brett A. Melbourne
Brett A. Melbourne University of Colorado Boulder
Marissa Leanne Baskett
Marissa Leanne Baskett University of California, Davis
Ying-Ping Wang
Ying-Ping Wang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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