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Benjamin Gilbert

Benjamin Gilbert

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
41
Citations
8204
World Ranking
5758
National Ranking
369

Overview

Benjamin Gilbert is a researcher affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada, specializing in environmental and biological sciences. Their work primarily focuses on understanding ecological systems, species interactions, and ecosystem dynamics through various analytical and modeling approaches.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable contributions in the subfields of Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

Research topics addressed in Gilbert's publications cover a range of ecological and biological subjects such as:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
  • Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience

Gilbert has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Lúcio Ferreira Alves and Rita de Fátima Favoreto (each with 10 joint publications), Joseph Bennett (5 publications), Alice J. Kenney (4 publications), and Rudy Boonstra (4 publications).

Their research has been published in multiple venues, with repeated publications in:

  • The American Naturalist (5 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (3 publications)
  • Global Change Biology (2 publications)
  • Journal of Ecology (2 publications)

Several recent papers authored by Benjamin Gilbert are as follows:

  • Climate and local environment structure asynchrony and the stability of primary production in grasslands (2020), Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Species Differences in Phenology Shape Coexistence (2020), The American Naturalist
  • Does coat colour influence survival? A test in a cyclic population of snowshoe hares (2023), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Application of modern coexistence theory to rare plant restoration provides early indication of restoration trajectories (2022), Ecological Applications
  • Restoration ecology through the lens of coexistence theory (2023), Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Best Publications

  • Increased temperature variation poses a greater risk to species than climate warming

    David A. Vasseur;John P. DeLong;Benjamin Gilbert;Hamish S. Greig;Hamish S. Greig

  • Neutrality, niches, and dispersal in a temperate forest understory.

    Benjamin Gilbert;Martin J. Lechowicz

  • Plant invasions and the niche

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

  • Partitioning variation in ecological communities: do the numbers add up?

    Benjamin Gilbert;Joseph R. Bennett

  • A bioenergetic framework for the temperature dependence of trophic interactions.

    Benjamin Gilbert;Tyler D. Tunney;Kevin S. McCann;John P. DeLong

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • Population biology of snowshoe hares. I: Demography of food-supplemented populations in the southern Yukon, 1976-1984

    Charles J. Krebs;B. S. Gilbert;S. Boutin;A. R. E. Sinclair

  • INVASIBILITY AND ABIOTIC GRADIENTS: THE POSITIVE CORRELATION BETWEEN NATIVE AND EXOTIC PLANT DIVERSITY

    Benjamin Gilbert;Martin J. Lechowicz

  • FERN COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY: THE ROLES OF CHANCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT AT LOCAL AND INTERMEDIATE SCALES

    J. Karst;B. Gilbert;M. J. Lechowicz

  • Plant invasions and extinction debts

    Benjamin Gilbert;Jonathan M. Levine;Jonathan M. Levine

  • Theoretical Predictions for How Temperature Affects the Dynamics of Interacting Herbivores and Plants

    Mary I. O’Connor;Benjamin Gilbert;Christopher J. Brown

  • The Invasion Criterion: A Common Currency for Ecological Research.

    Tess Nahanni Grainger;Jonathan M. Levine;Benjamin Gilbert

  • Ecological drift and the distribution of species diversity

    Benjamin Gilbert;Jonathan M. Levine

  • Life History Trade-Offs in Tropical Trees and Lianas

    Benjamin Gilbert;S. Joseph Wright;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kaoru Kitajima

  • Effects of extra food on Peromyscus and Clethrionomys populations in the southern Yukon.

    B. S. Gilbert;C. J. Krebs

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

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

  • The Body Size Dependence of Trophic Cascades

    John P. DeLong;Benjamin Gilbert;Jonathan B. Shurin;Van M. Savage

  • Applying modern coexistence theory to priority effects.

    Tess Nahanni Grainger;Andrew D Letten;Benjamin Gilbert;Tadashi Fukami

  • Dispersal and diversity in experimental metacommunities: linking theory and practice

    Tess Nahanni Grainger;Benjamin Gilbert

  • Species coexistence: macroevolutionary relationships and the contingency of historical interactions.

    Rachel M. Germain;Jason T. Weir;Benjamin Gilbert

  • Do Clethrionomys rutilus females suppress maturation of juvenile females

    B. S. Gilbert;C. J. Krebs;D. Talarico;D. B. Cichowski

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles J. Krebs
Charles J. Krebs University of British Columbia
Diane S. Srivastava
Diane S. Srivastava University of British Columbia
Margaret M. Mayfield
Margaret M. Mayfield University of Queensland
Matt W. Hayward
Matt W. Hayward University of Newcastle Australia
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Pavel Kratina
Pavel Kratina Queen Mary University of London
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Ingo Grass
Ingo Grass University of Hohenheim
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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