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Andrew S. MacDougall

Andrew S. MacDougall

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
14280
World Ranking
3401
National Ranking
233

Overview

Andrew S. MacDougall is affiliated with the University of Guelph in Canada and specializes in environmental and ecological research. Their work spans multiple fields, with a primary focus on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their main research areas include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

They have contributed extensively to various subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Soil Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Andrew S. MacDougall frequently publishes in venues including:

  • Nature Communications
  • Global Change Biology
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Ecology Letters
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their collaborations involve several recurrent coauthors, notably:

  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Carly J. Stevens
  • Anita C. Risch
  • Joslin L. Moore

A selection of recent papers exemplifies their research focus and publication record:

  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time (2020, Ecology)
  • Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Nutrient availability controls the impact of mammalian herbivores on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in grasslands (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Climate and local environment structure asynchrony and the stability of primary production in grasslands (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)

Best Publications

  • ARE INVASIVE SPECIES THE DRIVERS OR PASSENGERS OF CHANGE IN DEGRADED ECOSYSTEMS

    Andrew S. MacDougall;Roy Turkington

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

    Suzanne M. Prober;Jonathan W. Leff;Scott T. Bates;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

    W. Stanley Harpole;W. Stanley Harpole;Lauren L. Sullivan;Eric M. Lind;Jennifer Firn

  • Plant invasions and the niche

    Andrew S. MacDougall;Benjamin Gilbert;Jonathan M. Levine

  • Diversity loss with persistent human disturbance increases vulnerability to ecosystem collapse

    A. S. MacDougall;K. S. McCann;G. Gellner;R. Turkington

  • Food web rewiring in a changing world.

    Timothy J. Bartley;Timothy J. Bartley;Kevin S. McCann;Carling Bieg;Kevin Cazelles

  • African Wild Ungulates Compete with or Facilitate Cattle Depending on Season

    Wilfred O. Odadi;Moses K. Karachi;Shaukat A. Abdulrazak;Truman P. Young

  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

    Yann Hautier;Forest Isbell;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Consequences of plant–soil feedbacks in invasion

    Katharine N. Suding;William Stanley Harpole;Tadashi Fukami;Andrew Kulmatiski

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

    Carly J. Stevens;Eric M. Lind;Yann Hautier;Yann Hautier;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

    A.C. Risch;S. Zimmermann;R. Ochoa-Hueso;M. Schütz

  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

    Yann Hautier;Pengfei Zhang;Michel Loreau;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • Riparian habitats as tropical forest refugia

    Jorge Arturo Meave del Castillo;M Kellman;A MacDougall;J Rosales

  • A decade of insights into grassland ecosystem responses to global environmental change

    Elizabeth T. Borer;James B. Grace;W. Stanley Harpole;W. Stanley Harpole;Andrew S. MacDougall

  • Defining Conservation Strategies with Historical Perspectives: a Case Study from a Degraded Oak Grassland Ecosystem

    Andrew S. MacDOUGALL;Brenda R. Beckwith;Carrina Y. Maslovat

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Andersen;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • PLANT-SOIL FEEDBACKS IN A CHANGING WORLD Consequences of plant-soil feedbacks in invasion

    Katharine N. Suding;William Stanley Harpole;Tadashi Fukami;Andrew Kulmatiski

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Jonathan D. Bakker
Jonathan D. Bakker University of Washington
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky
Peter B. Adler
Peter B. Adler Utah State University
Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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